The Lack of Tablets Available Readily for Consumers to Purchase

Let’s say you want to buy an internet tablet, a MID (mobile internet device), or whatever you want to call it. You go to the usual technology stores and some other stores, but guess what, you are only going to find two tablets, that’s right two. Currently there are only two tablets available for consumers to just go out and buy from the store, at least that I know of. Those are the iPad, and the new Augen Gentouch 78. Those are about the only two you will find. Let’s say that after your little scavenger hunt for a tablet you decide that the iPad is too expensive for you, but you still don’t want something as crappy as the Augen Gentouch 78, so you decide to expand your search online. You go to Google and search for “internet tablets”, you will find two more internet tablets, the Archos line of tablets, and if you delve a little deeper, the Fusion Garage JooJoo. That totals your tablet tally to four. Let’s say none of these tablets meet your needs either, so you look some more. You will most likely find the Nokia N900, and maybe some Vilivs. Other than that, there is nothing, nothing! At least this is what I have found in my experience of searching for a good internet tablet. Then you will decide to spend another 3 hours looking for an internet tablet. At the end of those two hours, you find yourself looking at you computer about to crash because of all of the tabs you have open. The tabs are mostly full of Chinese wholesale sites offering you strange tablets with manufacturers you have never heard of, unclear specifications, and you will have absolutely no sense of wanting to buy any of these tablets. You have never heard of the manufacturer, the OS is probably something you have never seen, or a hacked version of Android, and you are extremely depressed because you just spent about 4 hours of your life looking for a normal internet tablet, which, in the end, you did not find. Thinking of this will probably cause you to start yelling at your computer. This, sadly is how the actual tablet market is these days, and I have experienced this myself. You will only find a few, or five in my case, internet tablets that you have actually ever heard of or you can trust even a little. The rest is Chinese (no offense to the Chinese, they actually make some pretty awesome stuff) craptablets from sites that will probably steal your identity and never even send you the tablet. This is not how the market should be. In my opinion the tablet market should be like the laptop market, except for with a little less confusion. And I think that it is a shame that tablets are nowhere to be found now, but I think that in the next couple of years the tablet market will experience rapid growth. This is mostly because people have a growing need for devices and tablets that they can take anywhere and actually be productive with. So, I hope this has shortened those tablet lovers’ searches for a new internet tablet, and I really hope that tablets become a lot easier for consumers to purchase.

Augen Gentouch 78, The Cheapest and Worst Android Tablet on The Market

The Augen Gentouch 78 is probably the cheapest Android tablet on the market, at just $150. It is also one of the very few that are readily available for consumers to purchase, as it is being sold at Kmart. The specifications of the Augen Gentouch 78 don't really seem bad at first, but when you look at the Gentouch's performance, you realize that you get what you pay for. The Augen Gentouch 78 has a 7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800x480. Unfortunately, the touchscreen display is resistive, but for this price point you shouldn't really expect anything better. Most of the reviews also indicate that you have to press pretty hard on the display for your touch to actually register and that the touchscreen also lags. The Gentouch 78 also features an 800 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM. This makes even the worst Android smartphones look fast. The Gentouch also has 2 GB of internal memory which is expandable via a microSD card slot, which supports cards of up to 16 GB. There is also no accelerometer. As for connectivity, WiFi is the only thing you get. As for hardware on the outside of the tablet, there isn't really much to talk about. There is a 2.5mm headphone jack (Yeah, that's right, 2.5mm), but Augen says that if you email them they will either send you a pair of 2.5mm headphones or an adapter for 3.5mm headphones. I am assuming that there is also a built-in speaker, but their website is pretty light on specifications. Another downside to the Augent Gentouch 78 is that there is no home button on the front, which makes it fairly hard to get back to the home screen. Now, lets talk about the software. The Gentouch 78 comes with Android 2.1 installed, but Augen says that there may be a possibility of an upgrade to 2.2 later on. Augen advertises the tablet as being able to access the Android Market out of the box, and it seems that this was possible at first, but it was later disabled by Google. The Gentouch also has Gmail and a few other applications installed. It actually turns out the Augen had installed a pirated version of Android onto the Gentouch, and Google disabled most of the features. Augen has said that they are working with Google to resolve their issues, but I don't think that you'll have access to the Android Market on the Augen Gentouch anytime soon. I haven't actually used the Augen Gentouch, but from reviews that I have read and videos that I have seen it seems like the tablet is pretty lacking. I guess you can't complain much because of the cheap $150 price tag, but that doesn't mean it has to be terrible. It seems that web browsing is okay, but slow and laggy. Overall, the Augen Gentouch 78 is a big let down, and we wouldn't recommend it. If, for some strange reason you want to buy the Augen Gentouch 78, it is available now at Kmart stores for just $150.