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Re: Colleen on the Android

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I've been pretty happy with my Acer Iconia. You can get them refurbished 
for about $230 on ebay. They have a dual core processor and a full size 
USB port. I actually bought it for my wife for Christmas, but she lasted 
about 3 months before deciding I'd get more use out of it.

I have been curious about how you're supposed to control the Atari 
emulators I've tried to use, however...

- Trevor

On 5/29/2012 5:14 PM, Rick wrote:
> "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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