Colleen on the Android

From	"Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject	Colleen on the Android
Date	2012-05-29 16:14 -0700
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"And as a tablet/e-reader combo that tries to compete with Apple's iPad, the 
Novel is slow and inelegant, and lacks the full versatility that a true 
tablet user expects."

Reading that I just had to run out and buy one of these beauties. Not that I 
am keeping score but it's my second Android tablet. It was on sale at Big 
Lots for $40 so I figured what the hey. Believe it or not they had an 
Android netbook, no touch screen but a keyboard with mouse pad, on sale for 
$30 but I didn't get there in time for that one.

This was an inexpensive Pandigital Novel, the black reduced feature model 
that even people with the white model turn their nose up at.

It does everything you'd expect it to do considering the reviews. Works good 
at Wifi hotspots, nice picture viewer, couple of lame games that my six year 
old grandaughter likes to play, e-reader is functional.

Problem is no access to the real Android Market so I'm reduced to putting 
APKs on an SD card with my WinXP machine and plugging it into the tablet for 
the install which brings me current.

I've been running Droid800 on my two tablets and it's a pretty sucky 
experience. They are both trailing edge 800 MHz ARM based boxes. Does 
Colleen run any faster then Droid800? Are they all still open source? I 
haven't played with frame skipping yet but not experiencing much love. I 
expect just a little bit more performance from an 800 MHz, 32 bit, 
processor emulating a 40 year old 8 bit. I'm sure much of the half broken 
stuff like loading carts and binaries can be fixed but slow is too slow. I'm 
already shopping for a faster tablet!

Rick

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Colleen on the Android "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-05-29 16:14 -0700
  Re: Colleen on the Android Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-06-04 15:57 -0600
    Re: Colleen on the Android "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-06-04 17:32 -0700
    Re: Colleen on the Android Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2012-07-07 01:20 +0400
      Re: Colleen on the Android Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-06 17:09 -0600

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