Does anyone know if it is a resistive or capacitive touch screen?

My buddy bought this one. And is is very slow. I would not recomend at all. Does not even come close to the ipad. Or a good cell phone for the matter,

there is no HDMI port.. they only went as far as printing it on the box when implementing it.

that had me pretty on board with it.. kinda disappointed but glad I saw that before I bought.

epander74 wrote:Does anyone know if it is a resistive or capacitive touch screen?

resistive.

Can you download the Kindle app to this?

randydaw wrote:Bit much on the God parody there, Woot. I know, I know, when you skewer others I laugh too... but God is sacred to me, and real, and it stung to hear Him belittled, even tongue in cheek.

Preparing for the inevitable onslaught of mockery now...

YGSM - Have you never seen the duck-billed platypus? The leak frog? Hugo Chavez? Woot selling out to Amazon?

MY God has a sense of humor and he's ROTFLOL at this writeup...even if he doesn't know what ROTFLOL means...

I found it entertaining that, in the picture of the back of the unit, there's clearly a label reading "HDMI" stamped into the case between the headphone jack and the SD card ... with blank plastic underneath the label.
And as far as I can tell, there's no "deluxe" version from Augen that does include an HDMI jack. (Unless it shares its case with some other brand of cheap Chinese tablet.)

randydaw wrote:Bit much on the God parody there, Woot. I know, I know, when you skewer others I laugh too... but God is sacred to me, and real, and it stung to hear Him belittled, even tongue in cheek.

Preparing for the inevitable onslaught of mockery now...

Well said - I'm in agreement with you.

ivioo wrote:Cons:
No Blue-tooth
Version 2.1
Not the real App Market

Pros:
Cheap
Expansion slot

There are instructions out there to root it, so you can get the real app market.

The touch screen is not very responsive.

wilcononomous wrote:How would this fair for reading comics on?

I actually bought it just for that reason so here is hoping that it is good for that reason

E-bay sell the same item for $ 98.00 and it is new. the only downside is it ships from Hong Kong it takes 2-3 weeks, but it is also new not a refurb

bratsk wrote:Was thinking the same. Woot may want to ask for forgiveness or duck!!

Think it's too late for forgiveness. Already sold their souls to AMAZON. No good deals anymore.

Biggest piece of crap you could ever buy - The unit is resistive touchscreen - meaning you have to beat it to get it to take even a single letter. - The unit crashed constantly even when loading a basic website - if the website I loaded had flash, the browser would crash - This unit is slowwwwwww ... The only thing I'd recommend this unit for is ... well ... nothing - For a few bucks more, go to Sears and get the GTablet by Viewsonic - It has the tegra 2 which is ready to handle honeycomb when released & is rooted therefore you can install a custom android brew that runs flawlessly. The viewpad is also capacitive screen which is beautiful. Stay away from this and all augen products - I bought it at kmart when it was $200 and it went back less than 48 hours later.

randydaw wrote:Bit much on the God parody there, Woot. I know, I know, when you skewer others I laugh too... but God is sacred to me, and real, and it stung to hear Him belittled, even tongue in cheek.

Preparing for the inevitable onslaught of mockery now...

I agree, however, it was not done with malice and it's not vitriolic. I am sure He understands.

randydaw wrote:Bit much on the God parody there, Woot. I know, I know, when you skewer others I laugh too... but God is sacred to me, and real, and it stung to hear Him belittled, even tongue in cheek.

Preparing for the inevitable onslaught of mockery now...

I'm with ya, dude. At least they didn't make fun of His noodly appendages.

Actually, God wasn't being skewered, Moses was.

summetj wrote:Does anybody know if it can be charged via USB (even if very slowly), or is the AC adapter the only way?

A/C Adapter is the only way.

cheap gift for a kid maybe

satman714 wrote:Even if this was the greatest tablet on earth, IT IS STILL A CRAPPY DEAL. This is what we have seen all week. Is amazon purposely trying to ruin Woot? The whole point of Woot was this amazing one day deal, I have seen none of that lately.

OH? You didn't see the Handy Appliance Caddy then? What a deal that was! ...

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Only if you there was a use for it...

After research, I would pass for the following reasons.

1. Looks like crap! Cheap is an understatement. I would be embarrassed if I was on a plane next to an Ipad or iPhone.

2. Price. Maybe for $40. That is the most I will pay for this thing.

3. Save for a month or two and upgrade to iPad or other android device.

4. This is something that I would buy on impulse and wish I had my money back within a day. Sometimes cheap or value isn't the best option.

I just feel this is a waste of money. It is something that would end up in my woot crap drawer, which is growing. I would have buyer remorse for this product. If it ever goes under $40, I might bite.

wa3yri wrote:It works very well for both, but it must be moded to be able to DL the FB app. Goto the SDA forum when you get it and mod it 1st

Can you provide a link to the "SDA forum"? I google this with no results.

Back at product launch, the reviews for this were terrible. A more recent review at Test Freaks indicates the unit has been updated with a larger 3.5mm audio plug and it now includes auto-orientation sensing.

http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/review-of-augen-gentouch78-7-android-tablet/

It's still not a powerful tablet PC and has it's flaws, but $109 is a decent price to read e-books and run light Android games/apps *IF* it's the updated unit. If I knew the refurb would be the better one, I'd be in for one. (May still get one and see if I get lucky.)

crsbryan wrote:The Nook Color, rooted, compares well with the Galaxy Tab. How does this compare? How about with Velocity Micro Cruz Reader or Tablet?

This is a comparable hardware platform to the Velocity Cruz Reader, or the Pandigital Novel, with the addition of a microphone (if I recall correctly). I've had a Cruz Reader since Christmas, and have flashed the ROM to make it a general purpose Android tablet with access to the Android Market (the official app store). There is much activity at Slatedroid, developing enhanced ROMs to flash the Cruz Reader with - it's improving daily. The Cruz Reader was $99 at BB recently, and still can be found at $119 at various outlets.

shaver wrote:CRAP! I bought one before I read these reviews. Is there a way I can un-buy it?

edit: found the answer.
"You can attempt to cancel your order by emailing service@woot.com with your order number and letting them know you'd like to cancel. Assuming your order hasn't shipped yet, you should be able to cancel."

That's what I tried to do as well but my hopes are not high. I have many sd cards (non micro SD) that I wanted to use with this. Woot claims SD card slot all others say micro SD.

Mine will be unopened and returned even if this means I eat return shipping cost.

For everyone who has problems with the market, try looking into an alternative market. For example "SlideMe" or "applanet."

randydaw wrote:Bit much on the God parody there, Woot. I know, I know, when you skewer others I laugh too... but God is sacred to me, and real, and it stung to hear Him belittled, even tongue in cheek.

Preparing for the inevitable onslaught of mockery now...

I'm glad to see the support you're getting for your comment. There's hope for wooters, but maybe not woot!

pvhoof wrote:That's what I tried to do as well but my hopes are not high. I have many sd cards (non micro SD) that I wanted to use with this. Woot claims SD card slot all others say micro SD.

Mine will be unopened and returned even if this means I eat return shipping cost.

I think you just have to email, or call them on Monday. I don't think it ships out for like a week after you order it.

Got one of these as a prize at a work holiday party. I returned it with the gift receipt back to Kmart after messing with it for about a week. It was about $170 in December (new).

Pros:
Inexpensive.

Cons:
*The resistive touch screen requires quite a bit of force to operate. I had to use two fingers to get it to swipe and even then it was difficult.
*The Micro-SD slot was defective on my unit. The card would not go into the slot (that's what she said). If you put the card in at the wrong angle, it would miss the slot completely and fall into the unit. After doing some research, I found quite a few others that had the same problem.
*No Android market out of the box. I hear it is possible by rooting it, but I never got that far.
*Without a Micro-SD card, this will not play music or video. Since my card slot was broken, it severely impeded the usefulness of the device.
*The web browser seems very slow. Comparable to my blackberry curve 8330 on verizon. I expected it to be much faster considering it was on wifi.
*The unit would sometimes not boot at all. This is a known issue that is fixed with a patch.
*The headphone jack was not the standard 3.5mm size. Instead it uses the smaller 2.5mm.

defibrillator wrote:I guess it would be too much to except this to stream netflix in some way ?

As far as I know, Android doesn't support Netlifx.

editorkid wrote:The Engadget review and the stats from Woot on the home page contradict each other a lot. Can any Woot staffers step in and clarify, please?

Engadget: Micro-USB port
Woot: Mini-USB port

Engadget: 2.5mm headphone jack
Woot: 3.5mm headphone jack

Engadget: Micro-SD slot
Woot: SD slot

Also, since Android Market isn't installed on the device as it ships, where do the "over 2,000 apps" come from?

Thanks!

I owned one of these. Micro-SD, Mini-USB, 2.5MM headphone jack.

defibrillator wrote:I guess it would be too much to except this to stream netflix in some way ?

There is no Android app for Netflix. So your hope to watch Netflix would have to be fulfilled through your browser...if compatible.

randydaw wrote:Bit much on the God parody there, Woot. I know, I know, when you skewer others I laugh too... but God is sacred to me, and real, and it stung to hear Him belittled, even tongue in cheek.

Preparing for the inevitable onslaught of mockery now...

If God is sacred to you, then a blog post on woot really shouldn't offend you, now should it? I would think people would have thicker skin regarding things that are sacred to them.

maisie wrote:Engadget reviewed the early production model. Later units - the "B" version, have a 3.5 mm headphone jack

My unit from December had a 2.5 mm... So unless they changed it recently.....

peacelover222 wrote:[snip]
huge screen (compared to a phone) that only lets you use 4x4 icons.
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Wit no Google app store to go to 16 icons is probably all you'll ever need!

So, the consensus so far is that this is for tech heads who like to tinker and not for people who want to buy it and go.

The one I purchased in December from Kmart had the 3.5mm audio. From what i can gather, there were two different versions that came out. The first had the 2.5mm w/o auto gyro and the second had the 3.5mm with the auto gyro.

It's got a micro-SD port and not a regular SD port as described on Woot (Woot, I would open one up and check to be sure and modify your product description so you don't get a lot of returns... or at least more than usual). If you look at the picture, you'll see that the size of the SD port is the size of a micro-SD.

There is no HDMI port but there is a print of it above where the port should have been on the device itself. I guess they had originally planned to have it but decided not to put that in.

This is not the iPad or the Galaxy so if you want a full featured, ready to use, bug free capacitive device, don't by this. But if you want to get your feet wet with learning how to root android devices this is as good a device as any to start. If anyone can recommend other comparably inexpensive devices that the Android dev teams are currently working on, please post.

Yup, pretty much for tech heads.

belliott1227 wrote:Can you download the Kindle app to this?

Not directly, but you can install it. Download the app from your computer to an SD card, insert the card in the device and run the app manager to install. You can get the kindle app and many more here: http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/app/kindle

jgiannon wrote:Another is the NotionInk Adam, very nice tablet coming out, but don't know when!

Starts shipping for those that got in on preorder 1 this Wed. Next preorder to start soon after that and I would guess regular orders shortly after that.

It's an Augen. Seriously, don't waste your money.

epander74 wrote:Does anyone know if it is a resistive or capacitive touch screen?

per engadget, resistance

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/augen-gentouch-78-preview/

sedeal wrote:Can you provide a link to the "SDA forum"? I google this with no results.

Try xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739504

Slatedroid also helpful:
http://www.slatedroid.com/augen-gentouch78/