Picked one up after hearing about the great positives of this tablet from the last go around. Viewing angle may still be an issue, but this will primarily be used by 1 person at a time in our house. So many options for updating the ROM to something more useful if need be too.

For those people calling it an iPad wanna be, come on, not everything out there is trying to compete with Apple. Heck, Apple didn't even come out with the first tablet either. So much misguided information...

I found this video doing a comparison between the gTablet and the iPad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfx8kQkZdI0

and another video review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luc_hIW44lE

ginormous76 wrote:I'm highly considering this purchase. However, can I download programs from the internet if there isn't an app for them?

Example: Let's say that AIM doesn't have an App (I'm sure it does, but let's say it doesn't). Can I download AIM off the internet and run it like I would a normal PC? In other words, my taps would just be read as the mouse clicking?

No, Android, though based off linux, is it's own operating system and Programs from OSX, Windows and Linux will not run on them, only APPs will.

That said, you may be able to install windows xp tablet edition on this if you're crazy.

Aw, man, I WAAAAAAAANT one! However, not in the budget today. I need to wait until at least after today, when I find out whether we'll be paying for physical therapy for our 3-year-old for who knows how long.

I need cheap Wootables today! Also, I need for nothing really good to come on until after 3pm Eastern!

Can somebody just call me if a good radar detector or a 360 shows up?

Lokisince89 wrote:Does this have any support for GPS?

Unfortunately no, however with the custom roms you can use the wifi locator services, which work pretty well in populated areas.

chrismarois wrote:I am having the hardest time pulling the trigger...I really want this, but something is stopping me. Can anyone give me a push in one direction or the other? It is only $15 more on other sites, so this is not really a great deal. I have been considering a Nook color to root, but think the 10" screen might be nice to have...Opinions? Rooted Nook Color or this?

I wanted to get one of these when they debut them at the roebuck store. Unfortunately, they only had a piece of cardboard with a picture as their display. When I asked the guy for one to play around with he told me I could look up the specs online. Sorry but I just cant purchase something like that without seeing how it works up close. Personally, for only 80 bucks more, I would pick up a refirbished Ipad. They are hard to find but if you look everyday, eventually they have them in stock. Sometimes they even have them here, but you would have better luck at the source. I picked up one last week.

jgiannon wrote:cnet reviews aren't good. Flesh the rom and you will have a great tablet

Mine came defaulted to classic Android and it wasn't nearly as bad as the reviews indicated.

I tried it for an hour or two before putting the Vega-N ROM (froyo) on it, which was very easy.

I now have Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Google Marketplace and the Amazon Appstore installed.

Can I take pictures tethered to this thing?

suspect23 wrote:Unfortunately no, however with the custom roms you can use the wifi locator services, which work pretty well in populated areas.

Or use one of the many bluetooth GPS units that work.

Bummer. If you live in Texas, it's cheaper to get it somewhere else. Jatravartid taxes.

Damn you, Woot. It was only with the utmost strength, willpower, and the fact that my Visa is inside a block of ice in the freezer that kept me from buying one of these last time. I thought I had evaded that particular snare. Now here it is again, it's BACK, and of course I can't even quickly shut down the Wootsite and pretend I didn't see anything - I have to obsessively check on it every 5 minutes on the impossible chance that the Box of Crayons will make an appearance at 9am on the first day of a woot-off.

I hate you.

Does anyone know if this will ever be able yo upgrade to newer Android versions, or will it be a 2.2 device forever?

suspect23 wrote:Yet. Though since google hasn't released the complete source of 3.0 yet, it may be a year off before custom ROM devs have 3.0 working on a gtab (if ever).

If you look at XDA work has already begun and there is an experimental Gingerbread ROM with Honeycomb elements.

deathbyblue wrote:I don't know if this was posted but it's now on sale for $225 at geek land. But for some odd reason the pics looks like an Ipad or maybe it's an Iphone? I don't own either and ignore Icrap when ever it's around me.

http://www.geekland.co/Flying-Touch-101-Android-21-Tablet-Camera-3G-Wifi-84617950.htm

Ignorethis, apparently after reading both specs side by side, my search (using the name listed on woot) came up as a lie. This is not the same device.

So after doing a little research I found the SW sucks (what a surprise) but the HW is solid. This is very easy to root and flash new SW. It looks a lot like Samsung Tab 10.1 Tablet. Only differences are:

Heavier by .2 lbs
Cameras: (no rear, front is 1.3 MP vs 2.0 MP Samsung Tab 10.1)
Thicker
Less battery (3600 mAh vs 6800 mAh)
Less cost: (280 vs 500)
Root: (Yes vs ???)
Android: (Froyo vs Honeycomb)

All in all not bad. Samsung's Tab is out June 8th, so you get this sooner.

Leaves a little extra money for my beer budget.

I found my new development play thing.

Now a wireless N router or bluetooth keyboard would be nice.

Woot changing flash into flesh. Just don't say flash light.

chaospearl wrote:Damn you, Woot. It was only with the utmost strength, willpower, and the fact that my Visa is inside a block of ice in the freezer that kept me from buying one of these last time. I thought I had evaded that particular snare. Now here it is again, it's BACK, and of course I can't even quickly shut down the Wootsite and pretend I didn't see anything - I have to obsessively check on it every 5 minutes on the impossible chance that the Box of Crayons will make an appearance at 9am on the first day of a woot-off.

I hate you.

Just so you know...they don't always have a beeohcee, and they just had one Friday, so they may not be planning one.

davevani wrote:Bought one, mostly very nice. Web browser is buggy on certain pages, longing for Android 2.3 on it.

I'll just leave this here.

Also the firefox build for Android is a good alternative (but no fl.a.sh for ff).

chaospearl wrote:
... only with the utmost strength, willpower, and the fact that my Visa is inside a block of ice in the freezer that kept me from...

Um, just ignore the brilliant new grammatical structure I seem to have invented there. I haven't had my coffee yet.

raizypan wrote:Can I take pictures tethered to this thing?

Why would you want to be tethered? The tablet has Wi-Fi and bluetooth.

But, it does have a mini-USB and a full USB port.

Woot, damn it! I am awake now, so bring on the fun stuff (Start with Sansas). Everyone should be three of these. I would, but I already have twelve of them.....

behathaway wrote:Got mine last week. Which ROM is better VEGAn Tab or TnT-lite? Why do you like it better?

Warning: don't buy this if you aren't going to Flesh it.

edit: Why does woot keep changing f-l-a-s-h to flesh?

Try both, I did, and they both work pretty great. I settled on TNT Lite because the interface is the same as on my cell phone.

suspect23 wrote:Unfortunately no, however with the custom roms you can use the wifi locator services, which work pretty well in populated areas.

Or just buy a GPS bluetooth receiver (like Tom Tom) for $20-$40 and not worry about Wi-Fi. You need the BLUEGPS & Copilot apps.

BUYER BEWARE, WOOTSTERS!! A week or so ago, on a 2-for-Tuesday, the toothbrush sanitizers. I thought I'd purchase two of the sets, so I'd get 4 total sanitizers. My order came yesterday, and only 2 sanitizers. I checked my order, I did order and pay for two. I emailed woot and here is their answer: the TOOTHBRUSH that comes inside the sanitizer, inside the plastic packaging, is what counts as the TWO!! Silly me, I would think that 2-for-Tuesday implies two of the same item!! In future Tuesdays, be careful!! If you order something that is battery charged and it includes the battery, you might be getting "2" without knowing it.
I think I'm done with purchasing from Woot. I suggest you guys try out Yugster instead.

Also, a couple of people have mentioned their lights stopped flashing. Totally normal. The w00t-off isn't over until the lights are gone altogether.

Happy w00ting!

Got one of these GTablets when it was up on Woot 3/23. Rooted it and installed TnTLite 4.4.0...runs like a dream. Tons of other ROMs you can install, just visit XDA Developers.

If you're thinking of a Moto Xoom but are on a budget and don't really care to be using this on the road (e.g., broadband), the GTablet is the way to go. But you can also tether this tablet to your current Android 2.2 phone to get broadband as well (so I've been told)

In for another...early bday gift for a buddy.

Got one last time it was up.

The viewing angle sucks and the pre-loaded OS (TapNTap) is garbage.

After installing a custom ROM (Cyanogen is tops) it's definitely worth the money.

I saw this in office depot for $379 back in november and had been contemplating buying it. I love android saw the specs and thought this had to be an awesome device...I saw it on woot a few weeks ago, and broke down and bought it. The device is actually really good out of the box it ran alot better than some of the reviews i read. As soon as i hooked it up i got an ota update. The only issues i found is the viewing angle is minimal and they don't have the android market. I ended up modding it with tnt lite 4.4 and its perfect..running toe to toe with the ipad for half the price! Excellent buy if your still on the fence.

This is going to take awhile. Where are the funny cat pictures?

raizypan wrote:Can I take pictures tethered to this thing?

That is a popular question that I haven't found the answer to either.

I was not (and am not) a fan of the current crop of tablets. They are simply larger smartphones and that's boring as sh*t. I want them to either fill a middle spot between "full" computer and smartphone but, failing that, simply replace my desktop/laptop and allow me to do everything I could do there on my tablet.

Having said that, I have owned one of these tabs for about a week. It's okay; it's not as useless as I was thinking it would be.

I used it to take notes in a meeting yesterday, but it was frustrating as anything conductive in proximity with the touchscreen destroyed my ability to write with the stylus. This included my apparently-electrically-transparent FirstAscent fleece pullover thing. Again, since this is capacitive, even close proximity will register as a touch. I eventually got used to hovering my arm, but that made writing somewhat awkward.

I've flashed Vegan-tab which has crashed and rebooted randomly and mostly rarely. The Market works but does not contain every app that my phone does. I've applied every fix and darn close to every market install to fix this and it simply doesn't show everything. I just use Titanium Backup to transfer any apps that don't show up (Glow Hockey, seriously?).

Blah blah, it's okay. I don't regret it, mostly because my 3 year old and I were playing PBS Kids games on the couch the other day.

The Asus EE Transformer thing is coming out shortly at $399 with identical internals, except more RAM, and an IPS screen at higher resolution. If you are serious about Android tablet ownership that may be your banana.

RASPUTEN wrote:So you would rather have Expensive Mp3 players IE: apple

No, I WANT the cheap ones ... ones I can afford!!!

bigdroo wrote:Couldn't help myself. It's only $20 cheaper than Buy.com, but I was originally looking at getting the Nook Color and converting it. This is more than $30-35 better than that.

But upon reading it, the battery life absolutely sucks. The description is kind of riddled with typos, too...

I bought the gTablet when it was wooted a week or two ago. Just last night I rooted to a better version of the OS as instructed at this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004. Both myself and a co-worker updated easily the instructions on that page listed under part a of "Installation for legacy 1.0.1 or 1.1 stock/mod users". (NOTE: we skipped the prerequisites but I'm not recommending that!)

I bought mine so that I can take it on motorcycle trips and save space over taking a laptop.

ellend wrote:BUYER BEWARE, WOOTSTERS!! A week or so ago, on a 2-for-Tuesday, the toothbrush sanitizers. I thought I'd purchase two of the sets, so I'd get 4 total sanitizers. My order came yesterday, and only 2 sanitizers. I checked my order, I did order and pay for two. I emailed woot and here is their answer: the TOOTHBRUSH that comes inside the sanitizer, inside the plastic packaging, is what counts as the TWO!! Silly me, I would think that 2-for-Tuesday implies two of the same item!! In future Tuesdays, be careful!! If you order something that is battery charged and it includes the battery, you might be getting "2" without knowing it.
I think I'm done with purchasing from Woot. I suggest you guys try out Yugster instead.

That's good to know. I almost bought them. If they come up again, I'll know better!

Maybe this will last till I get home. (about 3hrs) any takers?
Probably NOT!

Flesh it with a real OS... I'm using Vegan; others have luck with TNTlite. The stock OS is just, well, so Stock.

dialsoft wrote:I bought one of these last time. so buggy its not funny.

I dont know how anyone can use it. I mean compared to my IPAD its a joke. The interface, the touch sensitivity and the flow of the device is sad.

rebeltreble wrote:This is going to take awhile. Where are the funny cat pictures?

I miss the walrus...where's mah bucket???

GuardianBob wrote:So after doing a little research I found the SW sucks (what a surprise) but the HW is solid.

I did the same research and came to the same conclusion.

But, after getting it and playing with the default install, I found it was not nearly as bad as the reviewers made it out to be.

I still updated the ROM to Vega-N, but I think Viewsonic changed the ROM they ship it with since many of the reviews were written.

I missed this deal and went ahead and got a Xoom wifi. As I understand, the main differences are lower res screen and less RAM and possibly less 3D video performance. Other hardware specs are similar. Of course, no Honeycomb on g-Tab, not even as custom ROM, but that'll change sooner or later.

I like my Xoom. Didn't like it very much when I got it but over last week, I've grown to like it quite a bit. I haven't rooted it yet, and probably won't until I decide to keep it for sure. This is less than half the price I paid for Xoom ($589 plus tax at Costco) so it's actually a great deal. Sure, screen at 600 vertical pixels is not as nice as iPad (768 I think? and 800 for Xoom) but I don't think less RAM is going to affect the performance much since tablet computing is still one app at a time, more due to screen real estate than other hardware capability, so I don't think that'll matter for most apps. I'm considering it even now, as a present for my daughter. She's turning 4 but she glomps on to her mom's iPad at every chance she gets and spends hours playing "educational" games.

cyberpenguin wrote:Why would you want to be tethered? The tablet has Wi-Fi and bluetooth.

But, it does have a mini-USB and a full USB port.

I'm a photographer, and want the pictures to show up directly on the tablet. I know it can be done with the ipad. Through the wi-fi, and some additional programs.