FlatPad 10" Android 2.1 Tablet now available in US for $285

[GeckoDroid]

Very Cool and I agree it actually looks more like an over sized iphone 3G

[gadgetrants]

I think the question of where a tablet fits in the device landscape is a good one. Here's my 2 cents: I had a netbook (Asus 1000HA) for a year and loved it to death. Ultimately, though, I outgrew it. I could deal with the keyboard, but the 1024 x 600 screen drove me crazy (I had to kill all the window-dressing in Firefox) and more importantly, with an Atom CPU it really COULDN'T multiprocess. If I ran Firefox, Word, and Powerpoint (I teach!) at the same time, it just ran too slow.

For me, I know I'd end up wanting to use a tablet in the same way I used my netbook: 2-3 programs at a time, consuming AND producing content. That's the rub...while there's no argument that a tablet is perfect for consuming, I can't imagine that it would do any better a job at creating stuff (e.g., image processing, word processing, etc.) than a netbook.

If you ONLY wanted it for movies, music, games, email....then I could see it making more sense.

-Matt

[hart.jordan]

Wasn't there just a vid of an unboxing of the "e pad"? I just went to make my coffee and when I came back its now called the flatpad and there's no vid???? Is it just me of did something just change within the last half hour?

[DaHarder]

Though hardly a supporter of 'resistive' displays, especially on surfaces this large, for a grand total the US $351.58 (with the extended warranty) I just paid, I'm going to try this out and see how it compares to my iPad 64gb/Wifi-3g.

We'll See...

[wuyanks]

Wasn't there just a vid of an unboxing of the "e pad"? I just went to make my coffee and when I came back its now called the flatpad and there's no vid???? Is it just me of did something just change within the last half hour?

it's always been called the FlatPad

but the youtube link was broken, it's fixed now

[newpower1999]

I just wanna see somebody root it and run froyo + Adobe Flash Player 10.1

[Yodes]

Lol look at the box guys. It has an ipad iOS interface on it. Im calling shenanigans.

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interesting catch. but if you watch the video, it's running vanilla Android 2.1, not an iOS skin.

Ah I didn't watch the video because I browsed the post first and noticed the box. I do now see it is running android, however something still seems fishy to me that the box would have that on there. Eh whatever i guess. Nice to see a semi-decent (if only it had capacitive not resistive) android tablet.

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[wuyanks]

Lol look at the box guys. It has an ipad iOS interface on it. Im calling shenanigans.

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interesting catch. but if you watch the video, it's running vanilla Android 2.1, not an iOS skin.

Ah I didn't watch the video because I browsed the post first and noticed the box. I do now see it is running android, however something still seems fishy to me that the box would have that on there. Eh whatever i guess. Nice to see a semi-decent (if only it had capacitive not resistive) android tablet.

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[Bowtie]

Look at the box, it looks like someone glued Flatpad labels on the side of the box.

[hart.jordan]

Ah I see, but when he powers it on does it not say epad? I swear I saw that. Also who makes this thing?