[Aslug] Optus Mytab and meeting this month

[Ken T]

Thanks for the review - it gave me a laugh :)  Enjoy your $135k worth of
credit...

On 30 August 2011 19:29, Bill <warvault at gmail.com> wrote:

> Design and quality are adequate especially at the price-point.  Make no
> mistake, it's no iPad, resistive touchscreen (so no multi touch), the
> backplate is kinda flimsy plastic, and the screen (admittedly through the
> factory screenguard)  feels cheap too. But the body feels nicely solid, it
> is far less bulky than even a 7" netbook, very close in size to a naked
> Kindle v3. The screen is really bright,  but only (only?! ?!?) 800x480, that
> is probably around the same as far more powerful HTC or Samsung phones.
> Performance-wise it barely runs Angry Birds Rio after the first few levels
> but as a device to browse for torrents, read my newsfeeds, email, make and
> receive calls, Skype-chat (calls haven't worked well so far, but my
> connection has been shaped since it arrived...), SSHing into my server
> (using Hackers Keyboard if anyone needs F-keys for their device), casual
> gaming and just general fidgeting while waiting in line, it has been
> tremendous!  Worth mentioning of. Comes with 1 month and 6gig of prepaid
> Optus mobile broadband which at the LUDICROUS rate Optus charges is actually
> $135000 worth of credit ($22.60 per megabyte on my personal prepaid SIM).
> So there we have it the review no one wanted on the little android tablet
> device that could.
>
> As always I am totally up for ASLUG meet, pretty much whenever and wherever
> is good, so long as it fits with my wife's roster...
>
> Regards Bill
> On 30/08/2011 8:58 AM, "Ken T" <professorsnapper at gmail.com> wrote:
>



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