I want one simply for being my jukebox. will this work well for playing my music from Google Music Beta or from my 32G Sd Card through my home stereo system?

jamina1 wrote:This is actually on sale at Newegg today for $59.99 with promocode EMCYTZT915

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16858274015&nm_mc=EMC-GD111611&cm_mmc=EMC-GD111611-_-index-_-Item-_-58-274-015

Good luck.

The Newegg tablet is much cheaper but it is an R103, not a T103. The r103 is a resistive touch screen vs the capacitive touchscreen on the t103. It takes a lot of pressure to operate a resistive touch screen compared to a capacitive one. The Newegg deal comes with a 4gb sd card, tho.

Does anyone have experience using this device to download and play Audiobooks? I know it has a media player with a time display, and it has wi-fi, so it seems that the capability is there. However, I'm reading reports of dropped wi-fi connections which would lead to a frustrating experience downloading a big audiobook file. Thoughts?

joec56 wrote:Comes with the free upgrade to 2.2 on the card or so it states on their site & it's the same model# as this one.....just sayin'

Joe - I'm with you. I'd rather pay a little more and be able to return to Walmart.

Does anyone know how this tablet compares to Coby Kyros 7012 (at HHGregg for $99)? Want to get 3 for my kids...ANGRY BIRDS IS A MUST! But it based on other posts, it's not going to work on the Cruz.

I got one of these at a Big Lots sale a couple of weeks ago.

I took it back after a couple of days. The screen was not responsive, the Wifi dropped all the time and it was just darned slow.

Music playback was ok. Reading a PDF was very slow. Reading text or other files as ok ,

I never could get the device to load a youtube file.

If you have the time to work with the device, it could be useful, but I decided it was not worth the time and effort.

I think most posters here would be better off with the old Nooks or other devices that are on the market for the same price.

jillmmax wrote:Joe - I'm with you. I'd rather pay a little more and be able to return to Walmart.

Does anyone know how this tablet compares to Coby Kyros 7012 (at HHGregg for $99)? Want to get 3 for my kids...ANGRY BIRDS IS A MUST! But it based on other posts, it's not going to work on the Cruz.

There's the t103 and the t301. Walmart sells the t103 in the title, but reviews are for the t301 ...so which is it?

I want to buy a tablet for my parents. Is there a big difference between Android 2.2 and Android 3.0?

My wife and I bought one of these last year and have been really disappointed. Touch sensitivity is terrible; it kept losing network connection; short battery life; very limited app selection. All in all, it was agony to use this thing and after a month, we didn't even try any more. Haven't touched it since..

sarahbelle14 wrote:There's the t103 and the t301. Walmart sells the t103 in the title, but reviews are for the t301 ...so which is it?

Walmart is selling T103 for $75 and T301 for $99

I think I'll purchase this for my elderly mother-in-law. As long as it will hold an e-book of the bible, a few simple games, photographs and withstand excessive second hand smoke it should be fine. For my more computer savvy 3 year old I have purchased a LeapPad, but it's very tempting to grab one of these for him too.

jillmmax wrote:Walmart is selling T103 for $75 and T301 for $99

Thank you so much!

I passed on the chumby powered tablet during the woot off the other day and wished I had bought 2 now is my chance for redemption. I only need these for a few things. Alarm clock (looks like that is covered) pandora, recipes in the kitchen, and last but very importantly not least, netflix. There are conflicting statements everywhere on whether this will run netflix. Does anyone on here use one of these to watch netflix or know someone that does for sure? I am willing to hack this or upgrade anything I need to but these are for gifts for those uses only. Ifnot anyone have a price comparable suggestion for those uses. I await the wisdom of the WOOT community

It doesn't do Netflix. That's a show stopper for me.

I bought a R101 -- this thing's resistive screen cousin -- as a dedicated comic book reader a few months back for $80. I also use it to check Facebook and email (although composing posts and emails is frustrating, given the resistive screen). I've also downloaded a free drawing app, and my kids love using that. (At that price, I have no qualms with handing it to a 3-year-old.)

Given that I knew what it was capable of and what I bought it for when I bought it, I am more than happy with it. I mean, come on... you're buying a tablet for under $100. What do you expect?

If I was not getting my Kindle Fire in the mail today, I would snap this thing up for my new comic reader and let my kids have the R101 full-time.

jmc1029 wrote:It doesn't do Netflix. That's a show stopper for me.

While I was thinking about getting this for my mother to introduce her to technology, I know that she won't really enjoy it if she can't go on YouTube and play funny pet videos. She sure loves those funny cats.

Video is a bust :c(

Drat, I just ordered one of these from WalMart for $99 last night - literally just hours before this deal came online.

If you dont mind that this is a refurb then this will save you $30 from WalMart's price which is the cheapest place to buy it new.

Perfect for an e-reader and that's it. Lower your expectations because its not what you want it to be.

kmagrill wrote:The Newegg deal comes with a 4gb sd card, tho.

THIS item when purchased new (rather than refurbished) comes with a 4GB SD card too - I wonder if the version Woot is selling actually comes with the card and they forgot to list it, or if they got rid of the free card for the refurbished version.

jmc1029 wrote:It doesn't do Netflix. That's a show stopper for me.

Nice pun!

amoraluv wrote:What drive me crazy is the placement of the power button. They got smarter with the later models by making them smaller and not as depression happy

Ugh... the power button...I have the model just below this one, wasn't *extremely* happy with it but since I'd mainly gotten it as a cheap reader that just happened to have extra capability, it wasn't all THAT bad... but I sure hated that power button. It would come on with the slightest touch and then take forever to boot up so I could shut it off again.

sdc100 wrote:There is also a browser which runs websites through their server. The server translates Flash into HTML (I think) before delivering it to your device.

That would be Opera Mobile. I use it on my Xoom and IMHO it's the best tablet browser. Load times are very quick.

I bought one of these the last time they had it one woot. It worked for about 10 minutes before it refused to connect to ANY wifi signal. DO NOT buy it!

I recently purchased the R103 and rooted it with a rom called Macho(?). It was pretty simple to do, I followed instructions in a forum. I was then able to download angry birds, but it was too slow to actually be playable.. I'm purchasing this one as well, we'll see how this one works out once rerooted.

Oh, and SquareTrade customers get 30% off warranties for a tablet/ipad THIS WEEK ONLY. (through 11/21)

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My big question is will this be able to support the netflix android app?

kmagrill wrote:The Newegg tablet is much cheaper but it is an R103, not a T103. The r103 is a resistive touch screen vs the capacitive touchscreen on the t103. It takes a lot of pressure to operate a resistive touch screen compared to a capacitive one. The Newegg deal comes with a 4gb sd card, tho.

Here is a comparison of the two
http://www.tabletreaderinfo.com/content/Velocity-Micro-Cruz-r103-Tablet-Review/Velocity-Micro-Cruz-t301-Comparison.htm

cosens84 wrote:Here is a comparison of the two
http://www.tabletreaderinfo.com/content/Velocity-Micro-Cruz-r103-Tablet-Review/Velocity-Micro-Cruz-t301-Comparison.htm

T301 not T103.. sorry.

rachelannharper wrote:My big question is will this be able to support the netflix android app?

It may not be a definitive answer, but the reviews seem to suggest that it does not.

cosens84 wrote:Here is a comparison of the two
http://www.tabletreaderinfo.com/content/Velocity-Micro-Cruz-r103-Tablet-Review/Velocity-Micro-Cruz-t301-Comparison.htm

Your comparison mentions that they're both 4GB, but they're actually both 2GB... is there something I'm missing? I want the 4GB one!!

jmiller2225 wrote:Needing advice... looking for a cheap tablet for a 6 year old to watch MP4 movies on... will this one do it okay? Don't really look for it to do much more other than some basic web browsing, email and e-reader which I assume this will do workmanlike.
Any advice?

I got a refurb pandigital novel from Amazon for $80. It is well built and will show mp4 movies fine. Wifi browsing, email and e-reader functions are great. I wouldn't trust anything more fancy to a six year old.

Looking at this because of froyo and the better screen.

Broke down and tried one, after reading the reviews I am hoping I am getting a e-reader that should be able to functionally browse the web. If it does this then I will be happy.
I used my 20 woot coupon Jumbo woot sent me for October activity so this made it only 55 dollars.

This would make a great devices for the bathroom. the stand will sit nice on the back of the toilet.

I bought one of these for my wife last time it was on w00t. We are very pleased with it.

My feedback:

This is NOT a tablet, regardless of the description. it's the world's cheapest and most durable COLOR READER, and you should buy it with that in mind. It can do some other stuff in a rudimentary way, but it shines as a reader. It can run Kindle and Library loan software, and it can muddle through with PDFs and Office documents. The constraint for using it more robustly is the touch screen, which is laggy -- not like your iPad but more like a device that needs a stylus to really work well.

If you want a COLOR READER, this is a huge value and a great buy. If you want an actual TABLET COMPUTER, this is NOT the item to buy. It falls way short of that.

Also: the use of the SD card can be tricky. I have had good success with it playing music and moving books around, but again: not a tablet.

Spiky wrote:The iPhone 4 is underclocked to 800 or even lower from the 1Ghz its proc is actually rated at, and it is plenty fast, operating a screen with more pixels than this Cruz. Although I somehow doubt the Cruz's software is quite as fine-tuned as iOS. It's really more about the hardware + software, not just clock rates.

These aren't the same processor architecture, and there is a lot more to consider than megahertz here, not least of which the following:

Instructions per clock
in-order or out-of-order execution
data and instruction cache sizes
GPU capability and GPU GUI acceleration (iOS does it, Android doesn't and the SOC in the iPhone 4 has an SGX 543 GPU which is second only to the 543MP2 [dual core] version found in the iPad2/iPhone4S)

imajr wrote:I want to buy a tablet for my parents. Is there a big difference between Android 2.2 and Android 3.0?

Yes, it's a very different interface. Keep in mind I'm an Android starving pilgrim, so my experience is limited. 3.0 (Honeycomb) is meant for tablets such as the Xoom, Galaxy, Transformer, etc. Froyo (2.2) is meant for phones. In the time I played with the Froyo tablets in Frys they seemed much more limited for tablet use & felt like overgrown phones; Honeycomb on my Xoom feels much closer to a small laptop.

imajr wrote:I want to buy a tablet for my parents. Is there a big difference between Android 2.2 and Android 3.0?

Roughly 0.8

Prepare to be disappointed. Updated my T301 to 2.2 and installed android market, so this is as good as it gets. Poor touchscreen response, but maybe because tablet is so slow you can't tell if touch registered. Can't run flash because of MIPS processor. Even worse, browser crashes on sites with flash. Helps if you disable java in browser settings, but then some sites diplay poorly. Many apps, including angry birds, refuse to install. OK for checking email, but frustrating for browsing. Works OK as ereader (using Overdrive/Digital Editions) but heavy and doesn't show page numbers. Basically does many things, but does nothing well.

I want it to read comics. Anyone know about using ComiXology? And what the comics would look like?

hardworkingjulie wrote:I think I'll purchase this for my elderly mother-in-law. As long as it will hold an e-book of the bible, a few simple games, photographs and withstand excessive second hand smoke it should be fine. For my more computer savvy 3 year old I have purchased a LeapPad, but it's very tempting to grab one of these for him too.

Best post of the day

bobpaul wrote:Dictionary.

MichaelSF wrote:LOL... I gues you did not realize I was being factitious. Or did you think his simply commenting "refurbished" was a quality and helpful post. ;)

Now that was a missed opportunity at snark:

refurbished

or

Dictionary

;p

I was going to order but found a review on it that changed my mind:

http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/velocity-micro-cruz-tablet/4505-3126_7-34451903.html