Android Phones
Need a tablet? Android based iLet Mini HAL shipping March 1 for $199
February 26, 2010 | by Chris Smith
Android Devices
With all of the tablet-fever recently, you may have sat back and thought to yourself, “do I need one of these things?” Even with Apple trying to convince us that the next form of computing is going to be tablet and gesture based, many people including myself are still questioning if a tablet is something we really need.
It looks like the company Haleron thinks we need a tablet in our lives and decided to enter the game with their 7″ Android 1.6 based iLet Mini HAL. It isn’t the most powerful device; running a 600MHz VIA CPU with 128MB of RAM but for a low $199 price tag you can’t really ask for too much. The Haleron iLet Mini HAL will also have 2GB of onboard memory as well as 10GB of “cloud” storage for all of your stuff and will start shipping next week.
I think that this device is compelling especially considering the low price. Also, the size seems perfect to me. It’s about the size of a 7″ x 5″ sheet of tablet paper making it just the right size for entering text on the portrait keyboard. It also would be great for games and reading. I doubt that this device will be taken in by the masses (anyone ever hear of Haleron?) but it could prove to be quite the geek device.
where can things like this be bought?
Follow the Source link above. It will take you to Haleron's site for pre-order.
problem i have with this is the fact its got 1.6 on it.. why not 2.1 like in the nexeus?? after all the use of a tablet on the internet would be better if it had the flash update you could actually "see" the web pages. or take on the go. I personally havent seen a nexus one in person and do not know how well the flash works on it but id love to have a droid based tablet that could at least view the websites i like alot such as Hulu. anyways. that's my 2 cents worth.
According to Haleron's site iLet Mini HAL will be full upgradeable. I am not sure exactly what that means but I suspect that Android 2.1 will be able to eventually run on it.
im soo tempted to pull the trigger!
but i know in a month it`ll be $150…plus others will come out at $250 with a gig cpu and ram…
i can do this!!
im holding out.
look nice. but does it support multitouch? without mutitouch this device will be useless, no bed reading, no fun.
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