Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet 168
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."
The most important question has not been asked (Score:5, Funny)
Does it run FreeBSD?
Holy design, Batman. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:slate ? I prefer to buy a tablet. (Score:3, Funny)
They were always called "pad" on Star Trek. Or does that count as future use of the word?
Got the Mono? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cherrypal scam? (Score:1, Funny)
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-Cherry Pal!
Re:I like the form factor (Score:2, Funny)
Re:slate ? I prefer to buy a tablet. (Score:3, Funny)