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To add to Kilohertz53, Rebecca, and others,
I just purchased at KMart in Central Florida $89.00. It was the only one and was the display model, but bought it anyway, just to play with. I was told KMart's return policy is 90 days, with a receipt, so lots of time to see how it goes.
Other reviewers indicated they had issues with wifi, so started playing with it immediately, at the store, but could not connect Wifi to my Verizon Mifi (Kmart clerk was also interested to see if that would work). It recognized the network, but wouldn't connect. Then tried public network at Panera Bread also not successful. Was finally able to connect at Barnes and Noble public wifi. ??? go figure??
Browser was incredibly S-L-O-O-W... (worse than the Pandigital Novel, which was almost a record setter!). Didn't have a great deal of time, so tried to navigate to yahoo to check my mail. Size of screen prevented me from seeing full page and turning sidewise did not seem to work to change orientation, so had to use the joystick to navigate to the scroll bar on the bottom of the screen... and, like I said, so s-l-o-o-w, I finally had to give up and shut down, as I had other places to go.
When not online looked quickly at other features. Speakers not great, but I could hear the text to speech rendition of one of the pre-loaded ebooks pretty well. No music/pictures/video pre-loaded so will need to check that later.
Keyboard stiff to type on, joystick seemed very sensitive to me.
"Leather" case very nice, considering it is included.
This will not be a threat to the iPad, but for the price, it might have potential, once it is in the hands of many users who can figure out the kinks... Augen technical support and/or hackers who can get it up to speed.
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