Everyone, We're going to use some tablets in the museum as information kiosks. I bought a fifty-dollar Amazon Kindle Fire 7. Going to return it. It's a nice tablet, but I found out that Amazon's version of Android limits a bunch of things that we would need for a kiosk mode. Nevermind the details of how/why; that's a long story. Bottom line is we need something with conventional Android. I'd like recommendations for other sub-$100 Android tablets (the more sub-$100, the better). Performance is not an issue: all they have to do is run a browser. Android 5.x and minimal hardware specs is good enough.
Check the Lenovo web site. They have some around $100 tablets and I believe that these are reasonably free from the adware which infects many of the cheap Chinese machines. http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/lenovo/a-series/tab3-8/?menu-id=tab_3_8 Dave
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 10 December 2016 00:48 To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evan@snarc.net> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Semi-OT: Cheap tablets for museum
Everyone,
We're going to use some tablets in the museum as information kiosks.
I bought a fifty-dollar Amazon Kindle Fire 7. Going to return it. It's a nice tablet, but I found out that Amazon's version of Android limits a bunch of things that we would need for a kiosk mode. Nevermind the details of how/why; that's a long story. Bottom line is we need something with conventional Android.
I'd like recommendations for other sub-$100 Android tablets (the more sub- $100, the better). Performance is not an issue: all they have to do is run a browser. Android 5.x and minimal hardware specs is good enough.
https://tablet.ninja/finding-the-best-tablets-under-100/ There are some nice refurb HP Streams that run Windows.
On 12/13/2016 03:16 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
https://tablet.ninja/finding-the-best-tablets-under-100/
There are some nice refurb HP Streams that run Windows.
I think the Lenovo 10" Tablet is $99 at Walmart. But that might not be as good an idea as the 7" tablet. As the 10" is more likely to be taken than the 7" tablet. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
I am working to pair a 7" touch screen display with my C.H.I.P, via HDMI port. On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 12/13/2016 03:16 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
https://tablet.ninja/finding-the-best-tablets-under-100/
There are some nice refurb HP Streams that run Windows.
I think the Lenovo 10" Tablet is $99 at Walmart. But that might not be as good an idea as the 7" tablet. As the 10" is more likely to be taken than the 7" tablet.
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
Check the Lenovo web site. They have some around $100 tablets and I believe that these are reasonably free from the adware which infects many of the cheap Chinese machines.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/lenovo/a-series/tab3-8/?menu-id=tab_3_8
BestBuy had their Insignia house brand 8" tablet for $60. Its specs are good enough for what I needed.
Do a search on the newegg.com website. They have a huge variety of almost everything computer related. I bought a cheap but decent Android tablet a couple years ago. I think it was around $50. On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:48 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: Everyone, We're going to use some tablets in the museum as information kiosks. I bought a fifty-dollar Amazon Kindle Fire 7. Going to return it. It's a nice tablet, but I found out that Amazon's version of Android limits a bunch of things that we would need for a kiosk mode. Nevermind the details of how/why; that's a long story. Bottom line is we need something with conventional Android. I'd like recommendations for other sub-$100 Android tablets (the more sub-$100, the better). Performance is not an issue: all they have to do is run a browser. Android 5.x and minimal hardware specs is good enough.
participants (6)
-
chrisjpf33＠gmail.com -
Christian Liendo -
Dave Wade -
Evan Koblentz -
Neil Cherry -
william degnan