![]() The amp in your $60 system is a cheap class D thingy that will horribly deform the sound once you turn it up to volumes that would potentially have neighbor-pissing-off capabilities. In fact, if you were to add those "huge expensive speakers from 20 years ago" to that system to replace those awful little cube thingies and you would use proper speaker cable (fine OFC copper) of a little bit more thickness, your $60 system would sound a lot better. The "power of the magnets" has nothing to do with how good you think it sounds, that's all to do with the DSP inside that will artificially boost the sound by adding a third harmonic component and widening the depth of field by adding negative difference to opposite channels. There's a smaĪ music purist doesn't regard your $60 music system as a good alternative. FWIW, I suspect you're wrong on 2 of the 3 conclusions you draw here: it's perfectly possible to get an $89 tablet that has capacitative touch and Google Play these days, but GPS will likely be out of the question.īut your suggested solution highlights the real problem with buying cheap-ass chinese hardware: there will likely not be an open source build available for it. You're making an awful lot of assumptions about his tablet when he's told us nothing useful about it other than the price. ![]() And he should refrain from installing apps from other locations And he won't even need to root it to do all the things he wants to do with it.Īlso since he doesn't have access to the official Android Market/Google Play, he should just look on the XDA forums, root his device, install Cyanogen on it, and go through the Cyanogen repo for apps. Next time, he or the person who gave him this tablet should just spend twice the money initially, and just buy an Asus Nexus 7. Even if he resolves the battery issue and the app store issue, and makes a kick ass stereo out of it, the tablet will still need to be rebooted every hour or so. And frankly, I don't think he should be spending any more money on this tablet to try to customize it, spending money on it will just be throwing good money after bad. His tablet will still be horrible after that, but it should be more bearable. And he should refrain from installing apps from other locations. In any case, since his tablet doesn't have a GPS chip in it, that issue doesn't apply to him.Īlso since he doesn't have access to the official Android Market/Google Play, he should just look on the XDA forums, root his device, install Cyanogen on it, and go through the Cyanogen repo for apps. As to the security issues, the article he pointed to talks about apps being "security risks" or "malware" for requesting GPS permissions when they shouldn't (which is really FUD). The Android-derived tablet he got is horrible! The battery is the least of its problems.Īs a rule of thumb, if someone offers you a tablet for Christmas with resistive touch, you shouldn't even open the box and you should try to return it for a full/partial refund as soon as possible. Just a good sleek and secure ROM for optimal tunage with all the top apps the kids are using today." Any thoughts there? I'm not afraid of the command line - indeed, I insist on one - but no Gentoo-type projects, thank you. ![]() Maybe a wall-mount arm like my HDTV has? We want to be able to unplug it and move around the room, so I'll need to upgrade the speakers to wireless. As for my living room stereo system, how best to mount a sleek MP3 tablet? I was thinking velcro, but it would ruin the feel. I also need top-notch security and monitoring software so I can see what my kids and their friends are doing with it next year when I'm not home while keeping them anonymous and safe on-line. Any ideas on a good app for syncing music videos with my *ahem* random music collection? Any fun, off-beat party apps this middle-aged suburban dad hasn't heard of? Since the Android security nightmare is so well documented, I'd rather not use services that require passwords. How would you take this 'old' tablet and turn it into a rockin' stereo component? Is there a ROM build out there titled Pimp My Tablet Into An MP3 Player? The current music app can look up lyrics on-line. It's already fading, so we know where this is headed - decent tablet, but it constantly needs the plug. The battery, however, was rather pathetic out of the box. ![]() New submitter capsfan100 writes "At Christmas I got an $89 Android tablet by MID.
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