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Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet
MojoKid writes "A small company out of Palo Alto, CA — Cherrypal — made headlines recently with the announcement of their dirt-cheap $188 CherryPad tablet. The CherryPad is a 7-inch slate that comes preloaded with the Android 2.1 operating system and is driven by an 800MHz ARM11-based processor by Samsung, backed by a meager 256MB of DDR2 system memory. The device is also based on a resistive touch display, so it takes a bit of getting used to, if you've been working with devices like the iPhone or similar, where capacitive touch displays are ubiquitous. Just what does $188 buy you in an Android tablet? In short, the CherryPad falls down a bit where Cherrypal decided to cut corners from a cost perspective. The device needs another 256MB of RAM (for 512MB total) and a higher quality touch screen (perhaps a 1GHz CPU?) and that would have likely pushed its price northward a bit to be sure."
Thats scam for sure.
Western Magazine reports
The important question is, can it view this site correctly
from the stocking-stuffers dept.
I stuffed your mother's pink stocking with my coal-black surprise. It pulled her stocking inside out with it.
Oh, fuck. No, no, NO I forgot to check 'post anonymously' !!!1!!!!
coal-black
Nigger spotted!
Are you 6?
I wish that I were a 6 year old girl. That would make me so happy.
I wouldn't trust Cherrypal either, but if I were to get a shitty Android 1.6 tablet I would buy it from DealExtreme (warning: referral links, you know what to do if you don't like it) where you can pick one up under a bill shipped, say this little POS for $95.50. Note that in spite of my self-serving promotion of DealExtreme I did not and would not buy any of these little "gems" because none of them can handle Android 2.1... They have one listed but it's "sold out" with no reviews, suspicious. I'm not willing to send them more than a few bucks at a time in any case :)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"