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I had $100 in Amazon gift cards, and $100 in "generic" Visa gift cards from my birthday. So I pooled them and bought Amazon gift cards with the Visa gift cards. Then the question was...what do I get? Do I do as I've done before and just get myself a grab bag as full as I can make it? Or do I get some expensive thing I wouldn't normally buy?
I went with option #2, and I got an Android tablet. It came today. I'd done a fair bit of research, and I knew what I wanted for the price I was willing to pay - I wanted a 10" screen, something that likes EPub format for ebooks, with an expansion slot for additional memory. So, based on my perceived "bang for my buck" I went with the Coby Kyros, 10" version.
I like it. I haven't figured out how to get movies onto it, which I desperately want to do because of our upcoming vacation, but otherwise, it's pretty good. It doesn't have access to either the full Android Market, nor the full Amazon Appstore, but it does pretty well. It's not an iPad (the going standard, of course), but I didn't WANT an iPad, both because of price and because I absolutely LOATHE iTunes (another reason I'll never have another iPod after the Gen 3 one I bought at auction and promptly re-sold). And, even though Amazon announced its tablet today (and I was kicking myself for pulling the trigger on this Monday night when I heard Tuesday that they were going to), I'm not inclined to return the Kyros and get a Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire lacks all three of the criteria I had for a tablet, so I think this is the better way to go.
The one major disappointment is that it doesn't handle the Sony Reader app. Which means that I can't download my Sony Reader books to it, which is unfortunate. It also doesn't get the Yahoo Fantasy Baseball app, but that's not a big deal - I've got a Droid phone and a laptop that do.
I went with option #2, and I got an Android tablet. It came today. I'd done a fair bit of research, and I knew what I wanted for the price I was willing to pay - I wanted a 10" screen, something that likes EPub format for ebooks, with an expansion slot for additional memory. So, based on my perceived "bang for my buck" I went with the Coby Kyros, 10" version.
I like it. I haven't figured out how to get movies onto it, which I desperately want to do because of our upcoming vacation, but otherwise, it's pretty good. It doesn't have access to either the full Android Market, nor the full Amazon Appstore, but it does pretty well. It's not an iPad (the going standard, of course), but I didn't WANT an iPad, both because of price and because I absolutely LOATHE iTunes (another reason I'll never have another iPod after the Gen 3 one I bought at auction and promptly re-sold). And, even though Amazon announced its tablet today (and I was kicking myself for pulling the trigger on this Monday night when I heard Tuesday that they were going to), I'm not inclined to return the Kyros and get a Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire lacks all three of the criteria I had for a tablet, so I think this is the better way to go.
The one major disappointment is that it doesn't handle the Sony Reader app. Which means that I can't download my Sony Reader books to it, which is unfortunate. It also doesn't get the Yahoo Fantasy Baseball app, but that's not a big deal - I've got a Droid phone and a laptop that do.