Wireless Internet Tablet Less than £74

gromituk

tightus_wad wrote: »

Anyone know what SAT NAV system it can use? TOMTOM?

Not much point in a sat nav if you don't know where you are - it doesn't have a GPS receiver in it!

ukdutypaid

rsykes2000 wrote: »

The Nokia 770 is not a phone

Yep sorry that was my point...... Other than the screen a wifi enabled phone such as the HP..... is the holy grail of convergence on one device.

Phone
Push email
Wifi (VOIP Phone)
Bluetooth
Web
PDA
Office
Media Player
Tiny screen

the Nokia
Wifi (VOIP Phone) Skype, jabber compat etc
Bluetooth
Email
Web
Media player
Massive screen. Bigger onscreen keyboard for chat, but you still couldn't really..

Don't matter... I've obviously gone mad... Thought their site was a bit odd, with adding a free phone. If they don't have your details then how do they do a DD for a contract.... Hunt you down I suppose....

So on merit, I'm not sure it's worth it, other than a bit of convenience and having a portable DAB radio, for round the house...

bobdauilda

could you use skype on this to make it a phone?

gromituk

*sigh* http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=skype+nokia+770&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

cheeky

gromituk wrote: »

Not much point in a sat nav if you don't know where you are - it doesn't have a GPS receiver in it!

It has bluetooth so you can get a solar bluetooth gps off ebay for £30+

Sid_Harper

And Nokia do a GPS for it too

gromituk

Aha - looks like you'll end up spending nearly as much as on a dedicated sat-nav in a single box though, unfortunately.

DavidN83

Can someone confirm; if I buy this, do I have to sign up to some sort of monthly contract? Or is the £74 all I pay?

zeroamp

Good grief this has provoked a lot of discussion since I first posted it:-

Does this help - There are 3 offers on Expansys

1. The basic tablet £73.40

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=141019

2. Tne tablet plus a 1GB card £77.95 - as the cards are £15 on the site on their own for an extra few quid this a good offer.

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=142406


3. If you are looking for a new mobile phone they are offering an HP iPAQ 514 + Anytime 500 + Nokia 770. This is free but will cost you £35 a month on contract.

http://www.expansys.com/a.aspx?i=150229


All the units seem to be expected in 5 days - and it has been saying that for a few days now so I don't believe it they must be waiting for stock.

There is a maximum of 1 gig memory but a flash update will let you put 2 gig on.

The real advantage of the device is that it will load the vast majority of web pages without having to scroll across the screen agreed you will have to zoom in to read it but it makes the navigation so much easier and I understand the screen is very good quality.

The operating system is Linux and therefore has great following with the development and open source community.

It is unashamedly a gadget. In its original conception it was going to be in excess of £400. It has been selling till recently at over £300 and £74 is less than they can be made for so as a pure gadget buy it is probably worth a look and if you don't like it a sale on Ebay would probably mean most of your money back.

ukdutypaid

DavidN83 wrote: »

Can someone confirm; if I buy this, do I have to sign up to some sort of monthly contract? Or is the £74 all I pay?

No there's no contract with it.
I'm not sure of the point of it though. It's cheap cos it's pointless?
It's 70 quid for a portable radio, radio, in the house.
Perhaps I just haven't thought of enough uses for it.. Nice nifty little gadget, but do you really need it?
Other than your own wifi connection in your own house, is it worth walking about with it, in the hope that there's free WIFI access all over the place.
Paying for access to one of those is about a tenner a time, if you can find it outside London.

A wifi enabled phone gives everything this has got. There aren't many of them out there yes (I wonder why!), but everytime I upgrade my phone, about once a year, there's more and more features. Next year and I'll prob get a wifi enable phone free, as an upgrade anyway. See the HP phone thingy above (obtaining the Nokia is free if you sign up to a contract with that mind)