{"id":1813,"date":"2012-08-21T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T01:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2012-12-21T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:18:47","slug":"velocity-cruz-t301-android-tablet-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/velocity-cruz-t301-android-tablet-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Velocity Cruz T301 Android Tablet review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a refurbished Velocity Cruz T301 Android Tablet for $70, and it was worth it. This tablet has many downsides when compared to many more expensive tablets, but the $70 price tag makes it a decent deal.<\/p>\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good screen quality &#8211; I&#8217;m quite happy with the screen brightness and color representation. It&#8217;s not a super high resolution, but it&#8217;s quite good for the price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weight &#038; size: At just over 1 lb, this 7 inch tablet feels heavy and thick. Although it was originally sold as an E-Reader + Tablet, I don&#8217;t think I would want to use it as an e-reader for long periods of time.<\/li>\n<li>MIPS processor &#8211; Many android applications are pure Java and will work fine on the tablet, but a lot of the &#8220;best&#8221; games, video players, and high end applications use native code that is compiled for ARM processors, and are not compatible with the T301 tablet. <\/li>\n<li>Lack of native flash support &#8211; The built in browser (due to the MIPS processor) does not support flash video, and I haven&#8217;t found a good substitute that does. It does have a youTube application that works, but it&#8217;s annoying to have to switch over to that application and re-find the movie. It also doesn&#8217;t work in various embedded contexts. The built in browser also does not support HTML5 video.<\/li>\n<li>Touchy accelerometer &#8211; The screen would sometimes turn upside down when the accelerometer glitches. Not super frequently, but often enough that I eventually disabled the auto-rotate feature because I got tired of shaking the tablet to right the screen orientation. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I plan on using it as a dedicated screen (photo viewer, video monitor, etc) but with the right 3rd party apps (NewsRob\/ K9 mail) it can be used for checking out your RSS feeds or reading your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a refurbished Velocity Cruz T301 Android Tablet for $70, and it was worth it. This tablet has many downsides when compared to many more expensive tablets, but the $70 price tag makes it a decent deal. Pros: Good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/velocity-cruz-t301-android-tablet-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}