carlfoxmarten | Android on the cheap (Reply)

So I've been playing around with my new Android tablet my parents gave me for my birthday, and have noticed several things so far:

It doesn't come with any note-taking applications out of the box.
Being a low-end device (it's made by a company called Pandigital and costs less than $100 for the 7" version), it does not have the Android Market installed.
This is a major issue when I'm trying to find software to install, as it means I can't install anything that's only available through the Android Market site.
I'll need to buy a bigger SD card.
Due to not having the proper YouTube viewer installed, I'm currently stuck with a YouTube downloader which downloads the videos to the SD card, which is only 512MB in size.
The "SlideME/SAM" software manager doesn't always work, though it is consistent in what doesn't work.
(ie, it's not random. Certain applications simply can't be installed due to an error when checking system requirements. Unfortunately, some of those programs that won't work I really wanted to try...)
The built-in browser works quite well, and plays nicely with other installed browsers.
(ie, if there are multiple browsers installed, you can make it ask which browser to open each link with)
On a similar note, the Dolphin Browser feels very crippled, or something. I have been unable to find the buttons to add and manage bookmarks. To make things even more annoying, most operations seem to be triggered by gestures, and I haven't been able to trigger any of them no matter how hard I try.
Needless to say, I've removed that browser and switched back to the default one.

It's a little under-powered, but that's nothing new to me, as I'm used to being kind of light in that regard.

The wifi support is pretty good, which is a really good thing, as it doesn't have a network jack in it.
There's also a switch on top that allows me to turn the wireless card off when I don't need it.

On the whole, it's rather handy to have something really portable to browse the net with, though we'll see just how useful it is for testing my Android projects on...