Want to buy Android tablet (again)

During my trip to Linaro Connect 2012q1 I want to buy Android tablet for myself. But this time I decided to spend more time on choosing one to not end with crap like Hannspree Hannspad which I bought half year ago.

Also situation on market changed. There are cheap tablets worth checking but there are also cheap crappy ones. So let me list what I checked so far.

Kindle Fire Nook Tablet Archos 80 G9 Classic Archos 80 G9 Turbo
price (USD) 199 249 259
RAM size 512MB 1GB 512MB
resolution 1024x600 1024x600 1024x768
screen size 7” 7” 8”
internal storage 8GB 16GB 2 8GB
external storage none microSD microSD
CPU OMAP4430 1GHz OMAP4430 1GHz OMAP4430 1GHz
stock Android version 2.3 customized 2.3 customized 3.2 (4.0 in February)
community Android version 4.0 4.0 not checked
locked bootloader no yes (hacked) no
USB Host no no yes
HDMI output no no yes

As you see my requirements are more or less simple:

During CES many vendors presented new tablets but I think that most of them will be released in Q2 or later. ASUS MeMo 370T looks nice for 250USD but it is not on market.

And I do not want 3G module in tablet — my phone has over 10GB of data limit to use for next months and so far I was not able to consume 1GB per month :)

Have I missed some devices? If yes then please share information in comments. Just remember that I do not want any of those NotionAdam/Viewsonic/Hannspad ones.


  1. rumours says 1GB in newer Turbo model 

  2. 13GB /data/ so it is hard to put own data over USB 

  3. if you are lucky and find them in store — OMAP4430 1.2GHz otherwise 

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