I've had a day to play around with this now, and at this point I'm unlikely to keep it. As I mentioned in my initial post, my main use for this would have been as a multi-platform e-reading tablet. From what I've seen, it's going to struggle to fulfill that purpose, for me at least. What I liked The inbuilt functions seemed to work fairly well. The main Kobo app is almost identical to the one on the iPad and works in much the same fashion. I tested the Email, YouTube and Zinio apps, and again, all of them worked reasonably well. My existing content downloaded to the machine with no trouble. I also found the capacitive touchscreen to be reasonably responsive, which was a criticism I'd read in other reviews. I particularly liked the Kobo widget which brings your currently being read content right to your home screen. Being used to iOS, it took me a little time to get used to Android, but it wasn't that difficult. You also can't really argue about the price – $169 is a pretty good deal – if you're prepared to accept the limitations. I also really liked the 7…
I've had a day to play around with this now, and at this point I'm unlikely to keep it. As I mentioned in my initial post, my main use for this would have been as a multi-platform e-reading tablet. From what I've seen, it's going to struggle to fulfill that purpose, for me at least. What I liked The inbuilt functions seemed to work fairly well. The main Kobo app is almost identical to the one on the iPad and works in much the same fashion. I tested the Email, YouTube and Zinio apps, and again, all of them worked reasonably well. My existing content downloaded to the machine with no trouble. I also found the capacitive touchscreen to be reasonably responsive, which was a criticism I'd read in other reviews. I particularly liked the Kobo widget which brings your currently being read content right to your home screen. Being used to iOS, it took me a little time to get used to Android, but it wasn't that difficult. You also can't really argue about the price – $169 is a pretty good deal – if you're prepared to accept the limitations. I also really liked the 7…