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Ends at 10PM PDT. Sellout.woot! has the has the Viewsonic gTablet 10" Android Tablet for $240 + $5 shipping = $245 shipped.
1.0Ghz NVIDIA Tegra 2, 16GB Storage, 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth
10.1" multi-touch LCD, Android OS 2.2 OS, 10 hour battery
$245
2.2 Froyo ... pass.
Actually not a terrible price for the hardware...to upgrade froyo, I think there are some custom roms out there.
carlson03 is correct.
There are a number of Android 2.3 rooms to choose from.
Also, the stock software is total crap. Your first order of business is to flash a new rom.
Consider this thing has the same chipset as a Motorola Xoom or a Samsung Tab.
Had a short love affair with one of these. RE: ROMs, go check out:
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/rom.htm
This is a great website to learn about what's available, and how to find it. There's a very good selection of Froyo, Gingerbread, and Honeycomb ROMs, and support for each.
Excellent deal!! Mine's running Honeycomb, it rocks, a steal @ this price.
Hmmm, are these on sale because the Amazon tab is out soon (Oct $250)?
#6 Please run as far as you can from the Amazon tablet. I was pretty disappointed to see the 7" ($250) is designed to compete with the Nook Color. About as FAR from a versatile Android tablet as you can get:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/
"Google's Android Market is nowhere to be found. In fact, no Google app is anywhere to be found. This is Android fully forked. My understanding is that the Kindle OS was built on top of some version of Android prior to 2 And Amazon will keep building on top of that of that over time. In other words, this won't be getting “Honeycomb†or “Ice Cream Sandwich†— or if it does, users will never know it because that will only be the underpinnings of the OS. Any visual changes will be all Amazon.
They are not working with Google on this. At all."
BTW, that's not a knock on the Nook Color. Just bitterness that Amazon isn't aiming higher with the 7" tab.