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montealan · 10-23-2010, 11:37 PM

I bought the white Pandigital which has a Samsung microprocessor supposedly running at 800 mhz. I got it yesterday at Kohl's for $119 with discounts and received a $20 certificate for use next month. I figured, based on others comments, I would be returning it in a day or so because a few weeks ago I bought the Sharper Image Literati, at Kohls, and returned it within a week. I wrote a review of it on the this forum. It was pretty bad.

Anyway I was pleasantly surprised that the Novel worked OK out of the box, but I flashed the firmware so that, among other changes, I could run the Android Market app. I put Launcher Pro on as the user interface, Aldiko for epubs, Repligo for PDFs, and loaded a bunch of other Android software on so now it almost matches what I have on my Samsung Epic phone.

I've been buying my ebooks recently from Kobo, since they always have discount offers, so I downloaded their Android app, and as soon as I signed in it started to download my previously purchased books (and my wishlisted ones too). I pretty much have a $100 Android tablet!

To be truthful I was looking at the new Samsung Galaxy tablet and now I really don't need it (not that I ever did!)....at least for now.

10-23-2010, 11:37 PM	#75
montealan Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 40 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: El Dorado Hills, California Device: Kobo Glo, Kobo Aura One, Likebook T80D	Pandigital White Hacked I bought the white Pandigital which has a Samsung microprocessor supposedly running at 800 mhz. I got it yesterday at Kohl's for $119 with discounts and received a $20 certificate for use next month. I figured, based on others comments, I would be returning it in a day or so because a few weeks ago I bought the Sharper Image Literati, at Kohls, and returned it within a week. I wrote a review of it on the this forum. It was pretty bad. Anyway I was pleasantly surprised that the Novel worked OK out of the box, but I flashed the firmware so that, among other changes, I could run the Android Market app. I put Launcher Pro on as the user interface, Aldiko for epubs, Repligo for PDFs, and loaded a bunch of other Android software on so now it almost matches what I have on my Samsung Epic phone. I've been buying my ebooks recently from Kobo, since they always have discount offers, so I downloaded their Android app, and as soon as I signed in it started to download my previously purchased books (and my wishlisted ones too). I pretty much have a $100 Android tablet! To be truthful I was looking at the new Samsung Galaxy tablet and now I really don't need it (not that I ever did!)....at least for now. Last edited by montealan; 10-23-2010 at 11:58 PM.