Extremely cheap tablet - Archos Arnova 8, dropped from £139 to £57.27 Amazon

Xzen

Not the most powerful tablet on the market, but still pretty useful for the price.

I'm just getting this for someone who needs to read her college PDFs, the odd Audio and eBook, facebook, youtube and the usual net use.

A quick check on CamelCamel shows it was up in the £139/€160 a few days ago, down to £57.27/€66.12 with free delivery to UK or your ParcelMotel (UK VAT) -or- free delivery to Ireland at £58.71/€67.84 (Irish VAT).

long_b

Xzen wrote: »

Not the most powerful tablet on the market, but still pretty useful for the price.

I'm just getting this for someone who needs to read her college PDFs, the odd Audio and eBook, facebook, youtube and the usual net use.

A quick check on CamelCamel shows it was up in the £139/€160 a few days ago, down to £57.27/€66.12 with free delivery to UK or your ParcelMotel (UK VAT) -or- free delivery to Ireland at £58.71/€67.84 (Irish VAT).

Resistive screen = pass

Fresh Pots

It's got a resistive screen so I'd steer clear even at that price.

eamon234

I've used this it's a horrible piece of tat. Wouldn't use it for a coaster. Avoid at any price.

fl4pj4ck

RAM Size - 4 GB

that's BS, it has 512MB of memory and 4GB of storage

GreenWolfe

That thing is a total waste of money. OP, you should cancel your order before it's too late.

Multiple reviews on Amazon say it doesn't even have Google Play access, along with the really, really bad spec.

Xzen

EarthlyPangaea wrote: »

you should cancel your order before it's too late.

Too late for me, it's already dispatched.

Not too worried though, I've used resistive tabs and phones in the past, never had major issues. They're not as responsive as capacitive screens, but good enough for reading a few PDFs and the odd email

As for the Google App store, that can be fixed with a new ROM, although the only app being used is Aldiko (available as an APK for self-loading).

Dozen Wicked Words

Xzen wrote: »

Too late for me, it's already dispatched.

Not too worried though, I've used resistive tabs and phones in the past, never had major issues. They're not as responsive as capacitive screens, but good enough for reading a few PDFs and the odd email

As for the Google App store, that can be fixed with a new ROM, although the only app being used is Aldiko (available as an APK for self-loading).

One of the reviewers says it's actually capacitive anyway. For all its short comings, the reviews aren't that horrific and it is cheap enough. Battery is supposedly decent which lets a lot of the really cheap Chinese tablets down. I don't think you will be that disappointed. For that money.

onform

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

One of the reviewers says it's actually capacitive anyway. For all its short comings, the reviews aren't that horrific and it is cheap enough. Battery is supposedly decent which lets a lot of the really cheap Chinese tablets down. I don't think you will be that disappointed. For that money.

That model can be resistive or capacitive, see link:

http://arnovatech.com/products/g2/arn_8/?country=lv&lang=en

Xzen

I've asked Amazon for more info and they're going to do a physical check for me in their warehouse. Soon as I know more I'll update the thread

Incidentally, my tablet dispatched with a new delivery company called iParcel - first time I've ever had this on Amazon - anyone ever heard of or had packages from them? Are they any good

Akrasia

Xzen wrote: »

I've asked Amazon for more info and they're going to do a physical check for me in their warehouse. Soon as I know more I'll update the thread

Incidentally, my tablet dispatched with a new delivery company called iParcel - first time I've ever had this on Amazon - anyone ever heard of or had packages from them? Are they any good

I've had a package from Iparcel. It took about a week to arrive, it's delivered by Fastway when it gets to Ireland

One thing though, their online tracking is rubbish. It'll tell you that your package is in America, or Australia or the UK so that's a bit nerve racking

keithclancy

Would never buy archos again.

Archos 70 Internet tablet, fine hardware wise, updates are crap, missing codecs so you can't play some movies (you have to buy these as an add on)

Also it didn't charge from USB ... PILE of CRAP.

Xzen

Got an update and good news. The screen is capacitive.

The i-Parcel tracking shows mine in Australia though . We'll see on Monday.

(added here since I can't update the OP).