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Originally Posted by booklover6
Sounds like a "hunk o' junk." What kind of tablet is it? I can assure you, there are better tablets than what you describe. And the screens of some of them are fantastic.
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It's a Lenovo. I think it's an L2107?? Can't get the model number without charging the thing again and turning it on as the sticker on the back is long gone. If I recall right, it runs Android 4.03? Many many people keep insisting that Android isn't nearly as bad as I describe, and at least one insists this particular release is just horribly buggy and all previous and succeeding releases work great... Hmm... I don't know about that. All I know is that almost every app I run on it crashes constantly with the exceptions of FBreader and a slightly older version of "VIM Touch". Can't use a web browser (any web browser) on it without it crashing a couple times per minute. I have never successfully read a single news article without having to relaunch the browser multiple times to finish reading it, for instance.
As an ereader it at least functioned. FBreader rarely crashes on it, and it was usable indoors for a few hours at a time before the battery ran dead. I couldn't even use the thing while it was plugged in because it has a micro-usb connector which only makes contact when perched at just the right angle with just the right tension on the connector (usually achieved by leaning it against various objects on my desk supported by the connector until it magically works and starts charging). Of course the slightest disturbance would mean that it would loose contact so as often as not I would pick up my tablet which had been charging all night to find it stone cold dead with a completely drained battery.