An "open" relationship with my iPad

[goodolmike]

Are any of you guys nerds? I sure am.

I love my iPad dearly, but I'm thinking about cheating on him. The world is about to be inundated with iPad clones. From what I've seen so far is all of them use the Android operating system, which as you know, is open source (translation for the manufacturer: free).

I was talking to danlmarmot about it the other day, and he summed his prediction for these clones in one word, "fail". He's probably right, but I would imagine, at some point, someone's going to make a cool one. Right?

So, tomorrow, my affair begins. I'll be heading down to beautiful Chula Vista, CA, to the K-Mart there, to hopefully purchase this bad boy. The Augen GenTouch78.

(I love how the guy in this video is apparently naked. Then, at one point, he shows his toes, and he has super gross, long toenails. Ew!)

According to slashgear.com, "The 7-inch touchscreen Android slate was spotted in the latest Kmart Weekly Circular, priced at $149.99 up until the end of the month, and will apparently run Android 2.1 on an unspecified 800MHz CPU complete with WiFi and 2GB of storage."

UPDATE: Turns out they don't have it. The kind lady on the phone said I can get a raincheck. I probably will. I want it now, though. Man!

Comments

[genxcub.livejournal.com]

I haven't been absorbed by the iPad collective. I have an iPod touch (the iPad nano), and I can't say I really use it a whole bunch. I mean, yes, I do something with it on a daily basis, but I haven't been thinking it needed to be bigger.

[cpj.livejournal.com]

The big downer for me is that these clone builders are just in it for the short haul, trying to cash in on Apple's product.

And that should be a big indicator that they have no idea how to plan for future revisions.

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

I agree. Plus I find it fascinating how blatantly these companies rip off Apple's designs.