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May 13, 2010

Look at What You Get for $499 in an Android Tablet

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT — William_T_Goodall @ 22:25

A piece of crap. Three pounds, slow, poor battery life, 4 GB of built-in storage, doesn’t work with YouTube, and no support for Android Marketplace apps. All for the same price as a 16 GB iPad.

Or, you could pay just $199 and get the 7-inch Archos 7 Android tablet. It too is slow (“most apps take four to five seconds to open”), it too does not support apps from the Android Marketplace, it doesn’t have an accelerometer, it uses a resistive (rather than capacitive) touchscreen, and it runs the year-old Android 1.5 OS and there’s no way to upgrade it.

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[From Look at What You Get for $499 in an Android Tablet]

Oh dear 🙂

Luther

Filed under: Television — William_T_Goodall @ 01:10

Watched the second episode of the new BBC drama Luther in HD and realised where it is going – Luther is the Clarice Starling to Alice Morgan’s Hannibal Lecter. He’s the troubled cop investigating heinous crimes and she’s the evil genius with a love/hate relationship with him who will no doubt help him figure out some of those crimes in future episodes even as he still tries to collar her for the murders she got away with. Maybe 🙂

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