The Digital Reader

A couple of deals have come across my desk this morning, and I’ll probably see more later.

First up is a $70 generic Android tablet on 1SaleaDay. I can’t find the model name, but I know the manufacturer. Eken is a well known name. Update: the model name was on the image. This is the Eken M009.

This tablet is running Android v2.2  on an 800MHz VIA CPU, with a 7″ screen, 2GB Flash storage, microSD card slot, Wifi, speakers, microphone, and a VGA webcam. It also has a dongle with an ethernet port, and that dongle worries me. I don’t trust tablets that have dongles. But it is also supposed to come with goodies like Android Market and Flash 10.1, os it might be worth the risk.

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The other deal this morning is for a refurbished 10″ Android netbook for $80. Augen, a company which died recently, released this netbook late last year. I have one and it has pretty decent specs and performance for the price. This is a nice little sub$100 netbook. If you’ve ever wanted to experiment with an Android netbook, this would be a small risk.

BTW, there’s every indication that Augen are dead, so there is no warranty. Also, I don’t like the site that is selling the netbook. I’ve bought from them in the past and I don’t like their business practices. You can also find this same netbook for only $15 more over at Newegg. I’d get it there.