Tour the Cruz Reader, a $200 Android Tablet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znry0q_yo3M&feature=player_embedded
The iPad's the best tablet around because it's the pretty much the only tablet around, but a whole legion of Android tablets, like Velocity Micro's Cruz Reader, are on their way. For $200, this one looks pretty good.
The 7" Cruz Reader, slated for availability in August, is being sold as an ebook reader—a $300 Cruz Tablet, with 4GB more memory, will come out shortly after—but it looks like it will really just be a cheap, functional Android tablet; it has a USB port and SD slot and it can display photos, play MP4 video and audio files, and browse the web. It might not do these things flawlessly, but hey, it's just an ebook reader after all! (That's what you call expectation management.)
Update: A-ha, here are the full specs for both the Cruz Reader and Cruz Tablet:
(From gizmodo) |