Awwww yes, the perfect passive aggressive gift for those you loathe. On the surface it shows you are generous, giving a tablet as a gift. They think you're bill gates during the unwrapping. But once it's powered on, you're really Satan.
@cengland0 Meh... I prefer iOS, or windows. :) I picked up a few unbranded 10.1 Tablets last time they were on sale at Cowboom. Can anyone suggest a decent USB charger that is minimum 5V 2 Amp? This is for christmas gifts for not really tech savvy people.
@sohmageek and if you get these for them as gifts it's going to be non stop problems for you. Even semi decent acer tablets have brought headaches back to me when giftees meet the hardware wall and they don't perform worth beans. As an example 2 years ago my mother in law found tablets like these and asked if it was a good price. It was, but I told her to NOT buy them. She did the same thing with crappy cameras and camcorders. Guess who gets called with every imperfection... Not the manufacturer. Although I bought one just because I needed a new doorstop and I have 33 to burn and Im banking on it just being able to be a stereo reciever remote and no more. Your better off getting them puppies. Less headaches and responsibilities than a shitty tablet. Please save yourself and take my advice.
@communist My HP Touchpad charger is 5.3v @ 2a. Still hands down my fastest charger. This with a short cable has charged phones so fast I am worried about shortening the battery life. (No research done). @h1p1n3 is right. I was to find a sub $50 tablet for a relative, and I do not want to start the getting a call everyday for issues again.
Buy three of these for those nephews you don't like. 5 seconds of "OMG Uncle Bobby you have changed" glitter in their eyes... and then the sad realization. "You haven't changed at all, you jackass."
@christinerenee Novalauncher is what saves most Android devices from whatever intern-designed homescreen/interface is native. I have a lot of Android devices and use it in all of them.
@Kerig3 That was my first thought too, but a quick googling reports that Haier is actually a racist operation out of mainland China. Racist?
"According to data released by Euro monitor, in 2014 the Haier brand had the world's largest market share in white goods"
"White goods." I'll bet.
All joking aside, there is a great story on the Wikipedia page about a turning moment in the company's management realizing it had to do something about its quality problems.
When he arrived in 1984, Zhang decided that improvement was needed to the factory's quality control.
In 1985, a customer brought a faulty refrigerator back to the factory and showed it to Zhang. Zhang and the customer then went through his entire inventory of 400 refrigerators looking for a replacement. In the process he discovered that there was a 20 percent failure rate in his merchandise. To emphasize the importance of product quality, Zhang had the 76 dud refrigerators lined up on the factory floor. He then distributed sledgehammers to the employees and ordered them to destroy the refrigerators. The workers were hesitant; the cost of a refrigerator at the time was about 2 years worth of wages. Seeing their distress, Zhang said: "Destroy them! If we pass these 76 refrigerators for sale, we'll be continuing a mistake that has all but bankrupted our company." The refrigerators were destroyed. One of the hammers used is on display at company headquarters as a reminder to posterity.
@thismyusername Actually according to same Wikipedia page "The term white goods or whiteware, in contrast to brown goods, is also used, primarily where British English is spoken..." You got to love the Brits and their references to decades-old style (ie, calling all vacuum cleaners Hoovers). Shouldn't they be calling these "Stainless Goods" to keep up with the times? 😁
@Comedian Similar story at Samsung a while back. Samsung shifts their upper senior management around on a yearly basis, and each person spends only two or three years at any position. New guy comes in to head the phone division, and immediately proudly hands out phones to all his friends and family. Starts getting negative feedback from said friends and family, so checks out their stories and finds out the phones are indeed crap; crap design, crap assembly. So, he goes down to the division and orders all phones and parts in stock and in the production lines (yes, Samsung frequently does final assembly in Korea) out into a big pile in he courtyard. And he burns the pile in a bonfire. And then tells all the employees that they will ship nothing except newly designed phones, and to start designing now.
Almost 8 years ago exactly, my family bought a Nokia 770 "Internet Tablet" from the spiritual predecessor of Meh. Seeing this took me right back. It's incredible how different 8 years ago was. Here's what $100 got you then, It's a great read, and contains such tidbits as "They have computers on phones now?"
@N8TheGreat you took me back! I had a 770, then the 800. I think i sold it to someone for $100 after about 2 years. The N770 was great for remote server administration because of the keyboard, made a useful ssh and rdp client
@N8TheGreat Thanks for digging that one up, I can't believe it's been a decade already. It's telling that both devices have the same horizontal resolution.
@yeppers Yeah-- that's right, the 770 didn't have a keyboard; Pretty sure between my friend and I we had all 3; With unlimited bluetooth tethered internet on our dumb-phones we were ahead of the times in 2008
i shelled out $400 for N800 + Navicore GPS and BT GPS dingus.. whatta device. before iPhone/iPodTouch they could have been industry leaders if they had just a notch more apps and didn't depend entirely on volunteers
@Str8MurdaSon App selection can be a bit limited if you want to use it primarily 'as a tablet,' w/ fullscreen, large touch targets, etc. Also, it's still Windows, and you're going to put up with its constant updates, which it will gladly do while unplugged, killing your battery, etc… all the baggage that comes with the OS. That said, I have had no desire to use/own any tablets that aren't running Windows.
There is a tablet that is far superior to this piece of junk which requires no batteries, has simple and intuitive controls, no firmware updates are required and it costs only half as much as this "deal."
If a hardware defect arises and a valid claim is received within the warranty period, at its option and to the extent permitted by law, Le Pan will: (1) repair the hardware defect at no charge; or (2) exchange the product with a product that is new or refurbished, that is substantially equivalent to the original product. This warranty is for replacement for like-items only and does not cover items out of production if the company no longer stocks them. This warranty is not assignable or transferable.
I am guessing that this so called tablet (using that term loosely) is no longer in production....... so forget the warranty as well.
Hell Mehry full of crap the android is with thee. And to the mehpublic for which it leans lazily against a wall, one mehtion, indimehsible, with mehberty and mehstice for all.
Lightning fast Meh on my part. I know a few people who bought this exact model in various colors. None of them connect to Wifi very well, even if you are right near the router. And from some of the reviews I've read buy 2-3 because these have a tendency to die an early death.
For less than ten more bucks, I was able to find some G Pad 7.0 LTE refurbs. Those LG tablets are actually respectable with fast processors, HD screens, and good battery life (esp. If you get them closer to stock Android by loading CM 12.1).
@PhysAssist Sorry, this was a while ago and it looks like the supply is dwindling. Cheapest I see now are used ones on eBay and Cowboom for around $60 (which is still good, but not as amazing). You can also probably find Nexus 7s and Kindle Fire HDs (not sure about HDX) in the same range though.
My wife purchased one of these from a major TV presenter and online retailer. Haier's tech support had but one suggestion for the ones we owned, factory reset. It cured the freeze up problems for only a short time and never cured the bad Wi-Fi connectivity. We returned our original one when reset did nothing and they replaced it with another. That one we returned to the retailer for a refund when it worked no better. Bad product with bad support = MEH! Nothing for me today!
Perhaps not a good comparison, but I got an LG Optimus Exceed 2 (Verizon Prepaid) for $20 that I use as my cheap portable tablet. It's good enough for checking meh, or writing this comment. Don't activate it; use it in airplane mode. I just missed get it for $15 at bestbuy.com. sigh.
Oh, credit Linux Journal for the idea that I need a cheap pocket tablet/toy. "It's for work."
Oh meh. For about 30 seconds you had me, I was ready to press the buy button for my first purchase. That I took a moment to read the comments. I guess you weren't lying in your description. This actually is a 9 inch piece of crap. I guess I'll put the 33 bucks back in my pocket and save it for something somewhat less craptastic than this. It wouldn't take much to identify a product that meets that criteria. Maybe you should sell leftovers from people's lunches for 33 bucks. At least they could be used in a compost pile
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful Don't waste your time By RTFM on February 6, 2014 I bought this (from a non-Amazon retailer), and in a word it's a piece of junk.
The fatal flaw is the WiFi. I have three other WiFi devices (two laptops and a cell) that I use in my dining room. All three get either three or four bars of WiFi consistently.
This thing, brand new, out of the box was barely gettign two bars. The result was throughput so bad that webpages were literally taking 20 to 30 seconds to load which normally load in one second on any of my other devices.
Ridiculous. For that performance, you'd be better off getting an older, used tablet (any tablet) or an old used laptop rather than this tablet.
And the bonus? It has a very cheap (plastic) look and feel. I've seen a number of other tablets (Kindles, Apples, Surface, etc.) and none of them felt or looked so cheap and flimsy. Based on the looks, you'd think this was worth maybe $30.
"8GB (expandable to 32GB with microSD card)" Where are you going to get a 24GB card to expand it to 32GB? They go from 16GB to 32GB. I think you can ADD 32GB which expands it to 40GB total.
Makes you wonder why they would want to make such a piece of crap in the first place. I mean come on, make something half decent and charge a little more. If not you end up on the Meh shelves!
@Str8MurdaSon I have a tablet I bought a couple years ago that's almost the same specs and those are the kinds of things you can do with it, but the big kicker is that it's SO SLOW, and pretty soon you will stop using it altogether because you can't endure another spinner for 30 seconds to pull up a Netflix screen. So it'll go into your junk drawer of regret and/or shame pretty soon.
@OnionSoup Maybe for a few days-- I'd worry about it failing as an alarm clock and costing more than an extra $33 for the lost few hours at work (says the guy on Meh from work)
Bought one of these elsewhere. Stopped working in less than a week. Would not recommend.
Holy crap, a tablet for $33? Oh, it's a crappy $33 tablet.
@lichme ...is the Best Buy $50 for tablet trade in still going?
@lichme it seems to be over-priced by around $30 ;)
Awwww yes, the perfect passive aggressive gift for those you loathe. On the surface it shows you are generous, giving a tablet as a gift. They think you're bill gates during the unwrapping. But once it's powered on, you're really Satan.
@h1p1n3 I don't get the distinction.
These could be a fun and interesting addition to my technology class this year. Hey Meh, any chance I could qualify for an Educator bulk deal? :)
meh... android.
@sohmageek Android is a good thing.
@cengland0 Really the only thing it's got going for it.
@stoopkid I agree. Slow CPU, little memory, bad video, and huge bezel.
@cengland0 Meh... I prefer iOS, or windows. :) I picked up a few unbranded 10.1 Tablets last time they were on sale at Cowboom. Can anyone suggest a decent USB charger that is minimum 5V 2 Amp? This is for christmas gifts for not really tech savvy people.
@sohmageek I have had great luck with Anker chargers... http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charger-Foldable-Technology-Motorola/dp/B00B8L36A6
@sohmageek and if you get these for them as gifts it's going to be non stop problems for you. Even semi decent acer tablets have brought headaches back to me when giftees meet the hardware wall and they don't perform worth beans. As an example 2 years ago my mother in law found tablets like these and asked if it was a good price. It was, but I told her to NOT buy them. She did the same thing with crappy cameras and camcorders. Guess who gets called with every imperfection... Not the manufacturer. Although I bought one just because I needed a new doorstop and I have 33 to burn and Im banking on it just being able to be a stereo reciever remote and no more. Your better off getting them puppies. Less headaches and responsibilities than a shitty tablet. Please save yourself and take my advice.
@sohmageek the best charger I own is an hp touchpad 2.1amp @ 5.1volts charger. Charges and everything anything quickly. But it costs $16 at Amazon and fleabay http://www.amazon.com/HP-North-American-Charger-TouchPad/dp/B0055QYJJM
The best value priced charger would be the blackberry playbook charger 1.8amps @5volts $6ish shipped http://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-ACC-39343-301-Original-Micro-USB-Blackberry/dp/B005OD89MY/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1441775468&sr=1-1&keywords=Playbook+charger
@sohmageek Yes, Anker is the way to go. Get a model that has the IQ ports.
@communist My HP Touchpad charger is 5.3v @ 2a.
Still hands down my fastest charger. This with a short cable has charged phones so fast I am worried about shortening the battery life. (No research done).
@h1p1n3 is right. I was to find a sub $50 tablet for a relative, and I do not want to start the getting a call everyday for issues again.
@thismyusername same here. I have 100% success with them. They charge my 1+1 in the car very fast.
Polish that turd!
Buy three of these for those nephews you don't like. 5 seconds of "OMG Uncle Bobby you have changed" glitter in their eyes... and then the sad realization. "You haven't changed at all, you jackass."
@tsm Haha, literally impulse bought three for my three nephews but then read all the comments here and nope'd.
Are the lousy reviews why they didn't provide an Amazon link?
http://www.amazon.com/Haier-HG-9041-PL-HG-9041-9-Tablet/dp/B00IEHSVXE
@mehgrl I mean they're pretty clear it's bad. Maybe they didn't include it because you can only buy from third party sellers?
This tablet is a hard pill to swallow..
@AttyVette It is nine inches.
@darksaber99999 And purple.
Haier today, gone tomorrow.
Purple for @Barney!
@boc @barney Purple is my friend.
@boc @juststephen I love purple.
If they say it's crappy, believe them.
I learned that the hard way with the $20 Meep.
On the other hand, this one looks a lot better than the Meep...
@christinerenee after i downloaded novalauncher, the meep was actually pretty useful. My 3 year old loves it.
@MsELizardBeth What the heck is novalauncher? I'm going to have to check that out. You might have saved my $20 investment.
@christinerenee gets rid of the craptastic meep interface and makes it a basic android tablet. Essentially just replaces home screens.
@christinerenee Novalauncher is what saves most Android devices from whatever intern-designed homescreen/interface is native. I have a lot of Android devices and use it in all of them.
Haier gonna... Hey!
Funny how good Meh is at making you want to buy something so crappy... but I'm not buying one.
HA! Need 2 for my Halloween Moses costume.
Hey everyone,
This didn't affect many of you but I still wanted to give a little insight and transparency on an issue we had with these.
We went to check on the purple units and found to our surprise that none of them were new and they were all refurbished/used.
@MEHcus reached out to those that purchased purple and offered them a full refund or a replacement of the blue version.
So if you bought a purple one, make sure you check your email!
cc: @Barney @PurplePawPrints @heartny and anyone else that likes purple
@JonT Well, I would have ordered one, but now I want rose gold.
@JonT that's odd. What drove you folks to check on purple? The purplholics hanging out here?
@JonT Thanks for the heads-up. Sometimes respiffied is better, but probably not in this case. I'll hold out for the purple Galaxy Tab.
Comes in purple, though.
@KDemo I am fond of purple
@KDemo I don't even think purple will help this tablet.
@Barney
Isn't Haier the same brand of those tiny dorm room mini fridges? MEH!
@Kerig3 That was my first thought too, but a quick googling reports that Haier is actually a racist operation out of mainland China. Racist?
"According to data released by Euro monitor, in 2014 the Haier brand had the world's largest market share in white goods"
"White goods." I'll bet.
All joking aside, there is a great story on the Wikipedia page about a turning moment in the company's management realizing it had to do something about its quality problems.
When he arrived in 1984, Zhang decided that improvement was needed to the factory's quality control.
In 1985, a customer brought a faulty refrigerator back to the factory and showed it to Zhang. Zhang and the customer then went through his entire inventory of 400 refrigerators looking for a replacement. In the process he discovered that there was a 20 percent failure rate in his merchandise. To emphasize the importance of product quality, Zhang had the 76 dud refrigerators lined up on the factory floor. He then distributed sledgehammers to the employees and ordered them to destroy the refrigerators. The workers were hesitant; the cost of a refrigerator at the time was about 2 years worth of wages. Seeing their distress, Zhang said: "Destroy them! If we pass these 76 refrigerators for sale, we'll be continuing a mistake that has all but bankrupted our company." The refrigerators were destroyed. One of the hammers used is on display at company headquarters as a reminder to posterity.
@Comedian That is an awesome story.
@Comedian tl;dr De-meh-lition is good for business.
Whitegoods are home appliances (think washing machine, refrigerator, ovens)
Browngoods are the awesome stuff (think computers, tablets, stereos, HDTVs etc).
@thismyusername Actually according to same Wikipedia page "The term white goods or whiteware, in contrast to brown goods, is also used, primarily where British English is spoken..." You got to love the Brits and their references to decades-old style (ie, calling all vacuum cleaners Hoovers). Shouldn't they be calling these "Stainless Goods" to keep up with the times? 😁
That was my best attempt at humor at 2am... 😲
@Comedian Thanks for this! I love to learn something new every day, especially something this wacky! 👍
@Comedian I thought the punchline was gonna be that they couldn't destroy the refrigerators because the hammers were defective.
@Comedian Similar story at Samsung a while back. Samsung shifts their upper senior management around on a yearly basis, and each person spends only two or three years at any position. New guy comes in to head the phone division, and immediately proudly hands out phones to all his friends and family. Starts getting negative feedback from said friends and family, so checks out their stories and finds out the phones are indeed crap; crap design, crap assembly. So, he goes down to the division and orders all phones and parts in stock and in the production lines (yes, Samsung frequently does final assembly in Korea) out into a big pile in he courtyard. And he burns the pile in a bonfire. And then tells all the employees that they will ship nothing except newly designed phones, and to start designing now.
I can't believe I stayed up for this!
@corrado Join the club.
Almost 8 years ago exactly, my family bought a Nokia 770 "Internet Tablet" from the spiritual predecessor of Meh. Seeing this took me right back. It's incredible how different 8 years ago was. Here's what $100 got you then, It's a great read, and contains such tidbits as "They have computers on phones now?"
http://www.woot.com/blog/post/nokia-770-internet-tablet-2
@N8TheGreat you took me back! I had a 770, then the 800. I think i sold it to someone for $100 after about 2 years. The N770 was great for remote server administration because of the keyboard, made a useful ssh and rdp client
@N8TheGreat Thanks for digging that one up, I can't believe it's been a decade already. It's telling that both devices have the same horizontal resolution.
@CaffeineGuy Did you mean the 800? It had the slide-out keyboard.
And I ended up getting the 770, the 800, and the 810. Those were awesome little devices.
ETA: I think my 770 came from Woot too.
@yeppers Yeah-- that's right, the 770 didn't have a keyboard; Pretty sure between my friend and I we had all 3; With unlimited bluetooth tethered internet on our dumb-phones we were ahead of the times in 2008
i shelled out $400 for N800 + Navicore GPS and BT GPS dingus.. whatta device. before iPhone/iPodTouch they could have been industry leaders if they had just a notch more apps and didn't depend entirely on volunteers
http://www.amazon.com/Haier-HG-9041-PL-HG-9041-9-Tablet/dp/B00IEHSVXE
Two amazon reviews, neither good.
Edit: Beaten by a few seconds
@Nexar Jinx you're it.
@mehgrl Darn! So close
Hmmm. Somehow purple makes crap seem a little more appealing.
@heartny it is the color of royalty
@heartny If I had purple crap that looked appealing, I'd see a doctor.
@sjk3 Or go to a different winery.
@sjk3
meh. I can get a quad core windows 8.1 (upgradeable to 10) tablet for only $15 more at Microcenter.
@jzmacdaddy my microcenter winbook TW801 died in less than a year, getting ready to see how good their warranty service is ;)
@jzmacdaddy Maybe but who wants a windows 8.1 machine?
@thismyusername my tw700 died last month bought it in January
This tablet is crapppp
It was part of the crap android tablet wave for people who didn't want to shell out money for an iPad
If you only want to spend less than $40 on a tablet i would recommend this one
www.cowboom.com/product/1611600/
It has a quad core processor and 1280x800 display
Sold by cowboom(bestbuys tradein department)
@communist But that's a windows tablet.
@Gurduloo what's the dealbreaker with going windows? Microcenter has openbox winbooks for $48, so I was thinking about that as well.
@Str8MurdaSon App selection can be a bit limited if you want to use it primarily 'as a tablet,' w/ fullscreen, large touch targets, etc. Also, it's still Windows, and you're going to put up with its constant updates, which it will gladly do while unplugged, killing your battery, etc… all the baggage that comes with the OS. That said, I have had no desire to use/own any tablets that aren't running Windows.
There is a tablet that is far superior to this piece of junk which requires no batteries, has simple and intuitive controls, no firmware updates are required and it costs only half as much as this "deal."
It's called Etch A Sketch.
@TheTexasTwister And it has the same, if not better, resolution.
@sjk3 Maybe the same resolution, but pretty crappy scan rate and color depth, and the g-sensor works differently on that
Almost purchased to use in our living room as our chromecast remote for hulu/netflix etc. Then i read the comments.
Okay, about this warranty that it comes with.....
If a hardware defect arises and a valid claim is received within the warranty period, at its option and to the extent permitted by law, Le Pan will: (1) repair the hardware defect at no charge; or (2) exchange the product with a product that is new or refurbished, that is substantially equivalent to the original product. This warranty is for replacement for like-items only and does not cover items out of production if the company no longer stocks them. This warranty is not assignable or transferable.
I am guessing that this so called tablet (using that term loosely) is no longer in production....... so forget the warranty as well.
Even has a MicroSD card slot. Nice!
Firmware update is available: http://insideindustrynews.com/hg-9041-firmware-update-instruction-2/
Craptastic.
This is really a crappy tablet. I'd crap my pants if they sold many of these...
Hell Mehry full of crap the android is with thee. And to the mehpublic for which it leans lazily against a wall, one mehtion, indimehsible, with mehberty and mehstice for all.
Lightning fast Meh on my part. I know a few people who bought this exact model in various colors. None of them connect to Wifi very well, even if you are right near the router. And from some of the reviews I've read buy 2-3 because these have a tendency to die an early death.
Perfect for Meh, according to this review: http://www.chipchick.com/2014/02/le-pan-android-tablet-review.html.
Not for me today though; I'm still choking on those crappy purple power banks.
For less than ten more bucks, I was able to find some G Pad 7.0 LTE refurbs. Those LG tablets are actually respectable with fast processors, HD screens, and good battery life (esp. If you get them closer to stock Android by loading CM 12.1).
@trisk And it posts the link?
@PhysAssist Sorry, this was a while ago and it looks like the supply is dwindling. Cheapest I see now are used ones on eBay and Cowboom for around $60 (which is still good, but not as amazing). You can also probably find Nexus 7s and Kindle Fire HDs (not sure about HDX) in the same range though.
@trisk No worries, I figured that was likely, thanks for the link anyhoo.
When is there actually gonna be something worth buying again meh?
My kid has better tablet. It only cost 100$
@skymeat A $100 tablet that's better than a $30 tablet? What has science (and economics) done???
(Ok, perhaps that was a bit harsh 😺)
What a pile of crap! I'm in for one to give my 3 1/2 year old on a car trip. If it makes it the whole trip, I'll have won.
My wife purchased one of these from a major TV presenter and online retailer. Haier's tech support had but one suggestion for the ones we owned, factory reset. It cured the freeze up problems for only a short time and never cured the bad Wi-Fi connectivity. We returned our original one when reset did nothing and they replaced it with another. That one we returned to the retailer for a refund when it worked no better. Bad product with bad support = MEH! Nothing for me today!
한국인 직원이 있는걸로 알고 있습니다..
결제를 했는데 카드번호 인증이안된다며 1$ 3회 결제되어
결국은 다른카드를 이용하여 71$ 결제 하였습니다..
어떻게 된것 인가요??
@syc197110
google translate tells me this means "contact support"
연락처 지원
https://meh.com/support
Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please allow me to web surf and play dumb games.
@cfg83 I'm sure it'll do a fine job of connecting to the BBS and playing Zork.
Buy one for every Xmas gift under 5 this year. Who gives a fook if they beat the snot out of it?
@w_a_w a scrap of plywood might serve that purpose just as well.
Perhaps not a good comparison, but I got an LG Optimus Exceed 2 (Verizon Prepaid) for $20 that I use as my cheap portable tablet. It's good enough for checking meh, or writing this comment. Don't activate it; use it in airplane mode. I just missed get it for $15 at bestbuy.com. sigh.
Oh, credit Linux Journal for the idea that I need a cheap pocket tablet/toy. "It's for work."
@sligett Still $20 on Amazon.
@Thinkerer That cheap phone(/tablet) I mentioned above is $15 again at bestbuy.com all week.
@sligett Thanks! Picked one up for $20 at Amazon in the interim and it works great!!
Oh meh. For about 30 seconds you had me, I was ready to press the buy button for my first purchase. That I took a moment to read the comments. I guess you weren't lying in your description. This actually is a 9 inch piece of crap. I guess I'll put the 33 bucks back in my pocket and save it for something somewhat less craptastic than this. It wouldn't take much to identify a product that meets that criteria. Maybe you should sell leftovers from people's lunches for 33 bucks. At least they could be used in a compost pile
@MarkEdwards Good Gawd... do you know how much neoprene $33 bucks will buy you!!!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Don't waste your time
By RTFM on February 6, 2014
I bought this (from a non-Amazon retailer), and in a word it's a piece of junk.
The fatal flaw is the WiFi. I have three other WiFi devices (two laptops and a cell) that I use in my dining room. All three get either three or four bars of WiFi consistently.
This thing, brand new, out of the box was barely gettign two bars. The result was throughput so bad that webpages were literally taking 20 to 30 seconds to load which normally load in one second on any of my other devices.
Ridiculous. For that performance, you'd be better off getting an older, used tablet (any tablet) or an old used laptop rather than this tablet.
And the bonus? It has a very cheap (plastic) look and feel. I've seen a number of other tablets (Kindles, Apples, Surface, etc.) and none of them felt or looked so cheap and flimsy. Based on the looks, you'd think this was worth maybe $30.
So it is overpriced by 3 bucks MEH!
Specs
Condition: New
Warranty: 1 Year Le Pan
Estimated Delivery: 9/17 - 9/20
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x 9" tablet
1x Power adapter
1x Micro USB to USB cable
Pictures
Hank
Side view
Blue
Purple
Silver
Front
Right side
Retail box
Warranty
90 days
if the screen was better I would have insta clicked buy now but
@sp3ar Yeah, a better screen and I could've at least assigned it a job as a photo viewer.
"8GB (expandable to 32GB with microSD card)" Where are you going to get a 24GB card to expand it to 32GB? They go from 16GB to 32GB. I think you can ADD 32GB which expands it to 40GB total.
@cengland0 These generally come with ~5 gig of available memory, more if you get rid of preinstalled crap.
These are nice for the kitchen or bathroom. If you drop it and it dies, get another off fleabay.
Makes you wonder why they would want to make such a piece of crap in the first place. I mean come on, make something half decent and charge a little more. If not you end up on the Meh shelves!
It's from Le Pan!
For their slick marketing (they like the back): "Ultra Fast Speed"
(Also a few more specs.)
http://lepantab.com/v2/?portfolio=hg-9041
@Tadlem43 good decision.
@RedOak ...seems legit
@RedOak "Go all the way down smoothly!"
I dunno. All I want to do is read comics and watch Netflix in bed. I'm seriously thinking about pulling the trigger...
@Str8MurdaSon I have a tablet I bought a couple years ago that's almost the same specs and those are the kinds of things you can do with it, but the big kicker is that it's SO SLOW, and pretty soon you will stop using it altogether because you can't endure another spinner for 30 seconds to pull up a Netflix screen. So it'll go into your junk drawer of regret and/or shame pretty soon.
@mrallen1 That's an excellent point. Thanks for talking me off the ledge.
@Str8MurdaSon The crappy screen will be a big drag for reading comics. The crappy WiFi will be a problem for Netflix.
@jandrese duly noted. Thanks!
World's worst tablet or really cool alarm clock.
@OnionSoup Maybe for a few days-- I'd worry about it failing as an alarm clock and costing more than an extra $33 for the lost few hours at work (says the guy on Meh from work)
@OnionSoup Worst still belongs to the Maylong M150.
On what planet is this a good/quality deal? When it is a toy for 1 and 3 year old, yay disposable tablet!!
$16.99 after rebate if you bundle it with crappy software you don't need: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9794385&CatId=11943
@gallogj Maybe buying that will be an auto-vote for McAfee for President.
But does it come with a stylus...err pencil?
Full Google play store? Screenshots appear so...
I am happy with mine so far. It's able to run the low end games I plan to install on it. Browser analysis is still
pending.