Viewsonic G Tablet 10" Android Tablet PC $275 at eBay

This was one of the better 1st gen Android tablets when it came out. Nice to see the price on these starting to come down but with better tablets out now the price on this needs to drop down to around $200 for it to be a good deal.

looks like similar specs as the galaxy tab

only problem with this one is that it doesn't have gps...kind of a bummer considering the rest of the specs are pretty decent for the price and compared to price/features of other tablets out there

#1, first generation?

How is this a first generation tablet? It's using the latest processor from NVIDIA.

Also, it's a good tablet for the price, but the viewing angles are pretty horrible on it.

I really like mine, for reading web pages and PDFs at the coffee shop or around the house. It was the best one I found in this price range.

Stay away from this one even though its cheaper. It has a fundamental flaw ... the viewing angles are severely restricted. That might not be a problem on a laptop or a monitor (you position yourself so you are dead center of the screen) ... but on a tablet its a major flaw. I bought this one with the intention of using it as a note taking tablet for class. The angles are so bad that if you rest this on the table you have to be hovering your head right above it to get the best view. Extremely inconvenient. Otherwise it has very good specs. But the screen is the window to what it offers ... and most times that window glass is just too foggy.

Get a tablet with an IPS display ... its a big leap forward and well worth the $100 or so extra !

it's not tegra 2, it's 1ghz arm processor stated on the link itself.

#3, Very few tablets around this price range have a gps.

#4, Most people do considered this a 1st gen Android tablet with "1st gen" being the first tablets put out by major manufactures. This competes with the Galaxy Tab and the Nook color (rooted) as the popular and semi-successful Android tablets first on the market. Nvidia is getting ready to release the Tegra 3, quad-core CPUs sometime this year.

#6, The viewing angle is bad but not as bad as people make it out to be. 90% of the time you'll be holding a tablet and looking straight at it so the screen is fine. It's only when you try to view it angle or trying to have more than one person watch something that you'll notice the sub par screen. I agree an IPS screen is a key feature to look for. Right now the Asus EEE Transformer has similar/better specs and an IPS screen for about $400. This is why I originally posted that this needs to drop down to around $200 to be a good deal.

#7 it is the Tegra 2 CPU, Tegra 2 is a 1GHz dual Cortex A9 based processor.

It's both (same thing). Viewsonic's site describes it as: 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 - Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU

My recommendation to look for newer tablets wouldn't be so much because of the screen, but because of the lack up updates & support expected from Viewsonic. While there's been major momentum recently in porting Honeycomb to the gTablet, you'll wish you had a tablet that came with it officially.

It's also worth mentioning an important "breakthrough" last week: a Honeycomb port is now working on the gTab. It's an alpha and a few things don't work--camera, Flash, USB to PC transfer--but for the most part it's stable and gapps+browser are working nicely. Really makes it a steal for $280ish.

RE: GPS..I have to admit the $400 Asus Transformer(+IPS display) looks pretty tempting. But remember there's not much use for GPS without 3G. Many of us will tether the tablet to our phones, but that's not really a good long-term solution. In my case, in the car I'm happy to use GPS on the phone and let the kids use the tablet for movies.

#6 is right, the screen is really awful. Total waste of money.

All you nay sayers don't have a CLUE!! I have this modded with Cyanogen Mod 03 and it is AWESOME!! I can do all of my work (in sales) anywhere now, much more portable than a laptop and its BLAZING BLAZING FAST!!

A STEAL @ $275!!

It's a cheap tablet.

When people who spend time to mod and re-mod these things take into account the time spent on it ?

Thats what I call penny-wise pound foolish. For goodness sake, skip a couple of dinner outings and get an IPS-capable tablet ! Remember, I owned and return this tablet because it has really horrid viewing angles probably a 60 degree viewing angle (move 30 degrees off-axis and its washed out!)