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Honestly, for the price, the Eken is the only game in town. The past several days have shown postings that a few people have received the unit (mine should be here today or tomorrow). The verdict at this point, based upon those who have received, is:
1) It really does offer much bang for the buck. The screen is better than several more expensive units. For what it does offer, no other mid can be found anywhere for the price.
2) Quality control is quite low. One person's m001 might work correctly but the next two people have ones with less than stellar buttons or jacks.
3) The Android OS seems to be quite buggy. Hopefully, the reported OS problems will be corrected as time goes by.
4) There's an incredible amount of misinformation circulating about the m001. Every time I read an update on legitimate, well-respected websites, I see conflicting information. Some praise it. Some call it a piece of junk. Some try to report it as both junk and praise-worthy... perhaps it is. Even the Chinese sellers seem to not be able to get their facts right! They give-out conflicting info that seems hard to believe they're describing the same device!
After I've had mine several days I'll post my own biased conclusions. I have a track-record for over-coming niche-device's limitations. I had 2 Newtons, 2 Palms, 5 Wince HPCs, 2 wince pdas, 3 Windows tablet PCs, and several touchscreen phones. All of those devices were touchscreen and all of them had both hardware and software limitations... many of which I found work-a-rounds to. I'll see what I can do to help get this thing working better-than-shipped!
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