Yeahpad Pillbox7 tablet on Android ICS

[rcjordan]

http://www.redferret.net/?p=35262&all=1

Bought one, it just arrived.  Seems OK for $55 (I got the now-expired $10 discount)

It's going to be slow loading most pages but I really bought it for off-web stuff. If anybody sees a  bluetooth dongle compatible with cheap Chinese android tablets, let me know.

[Drastic]

Yeah, at 55 bucks it's good enough if it just works at all.

[ergophobe]

Sounded pretty good as an offline ebook reader, but the battery life seemed rather short. I'll be curious for a followup

[rcjordan]

Well, it boots, Dras. And it came rooted.

It gets surprisingly decent reviews overall, even in the modder forums (http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/35314-a13-generic-tablet/) ...with weak battery, lack of an available backup disk image, and lack of bluetooth being the common complaints.

Some are putting a 4000ma battery in it, but at $55 screw that.

[rcjordan]

I'm posting from the CheaPad. Using Opera mini the page rendering is slightly slow but not bad. I did get directly into the Play app site to download Opera, but it hung on the 2nd visit.

[rcjordan]

Runs about 2.5 hours while heavy browsing, no video.

Android/Opera mini defaults to the damn "app look" on gmail.  I hate that.

[littleman]

Looks like a great device for kids at that price.

[rcjordan]

Yeah. To that end, I tested some mp3s on its media player. The speaker is crap but it works.  If my son-in-law approves, I'm going to field test this on an 8 yr old.

[littleman]

Is there an earphone jack RC?

[rcjordan]

>jack

Yeah, though I haven't tried it.

Better specs here:
http://www.focalprice.com/CE0105B/YEAHPAD_PILLBOX7_70_Capacitive_5point_TFT_Touch_Screen_Android.html

[littleman]

I just got a couple of these for the kids.