Refurbished Ideapad Tablet A1 available for $71.05 + FS *****PRICE UPDATED****

Quote from dougpaw57 : You obviously never tried a Dell Streak with it's 800x480 crap screen.

Or a Craig CMP741e from CVS. Worst screen ever, and mine is stuck on boot up mode. Best and worst $20 SD ever. It was fun while it worked. Fast, but screen resolution killed it, then the loop issue.

Quote from tolgac : Just ordered Nook Tablet 16GB (refurbished/used) from Cowboom about the same price... should I cancel and order this ? Does anyone has used both and advice one to other ? your help is highly appreciated...Thank you..

don't know about this tablet, but the nook 16gb is pretty nice after rooted and installing CM10, everything runs quite smooth and games works well, netflix works good too, just don't have a camera, which i don't care too much about

with dual-core and 1gb ram, i think the nook tablet 16gb will be better than this lenovo one.

Quote from tolgac : Just ordered Nook Tablet 16GB (refurbished/used) from Cowboom about the same price... should I cancel and order this ? Does anyone has used both and advice one to other ? your help is highly appreciated...Thank you..

Nook Tablet blows this away. Some have even said a rooted NT runs as smooth as the Nexus 7 (which is hard to believe). I can tell you this has the same specs as the Nook Color. Where the NC shines is with the IPS screen and support. I still use ours for news and a bowling game. It also feels more substantial than our Nexus 7 and iPad 3. But it's dated, and the 512mb of ram absolutely kills it for anything more than very basic apps. 7" is an ideal tablet size. iPad is too big IMO - my kids agree.

On the cheap, you can't beat the rooted Nook Tablet. For a high end tablet, you can't beat the Nexus 7. Just get a good protective case for the 7 and don't drop it. The glass is super thin. Not a child's toy like any of the Nooks, which are indestructible.

Quote from chefjw : If it had gps or bluetooth I would buy one for a dedicated Square Credit card reader unfortunately it has neither. Confused cause all the other sights says it has gps and bluetooth.

It has GPS. Not sure about Bluetooth because I never tried to use it. I currently Have ICS on it, but it wasn't a trivial process.

Quote from tolgac : Just ordered Nook Tablet 16GB (refurbished/used) from Cowboom about the same price... should I cancel and order this ? Does anyone has used both and advice one to other ? your help is highly appreciated...Thank you..

Unless you need cameras and GPS, you made a great choice. Try and get a SanDisk Ultra microSD card on sale. Then go to iamafanof.wordpress.com and download the latest JellyBean 4.2. (You can run it directly off the microSD card without rooting or touching the NT internal software.) After that you can access the Google PlayStore and download Kindle-for-android as a second book reader (to take advantage of Amazon free books). You could also download some games (such as a free 10-point multitouch piano app) to try out on the NT's dual-core processor!

Quote from Buckeyefan 1 : Nook Tablet blows this away. Some have even said a rooted NT runs as smooth as the Nexus 7 (which is hard to believe). I can tell you this has the same specs as the Nook Color. Where the NC shines is with the IPS screen and support. I still use ours for news and a bowling game. It also feels more substantial than our Nexus 7 and iPad 3. But it's dated, and the 512mb of ram absolutely kills it for anything more than very basic apps. 7" is an ideal tablet size. iPad is too big IMO - my kids agree. On the cheap, you can't beat the rooted Nook Tablet. For a high end tablet, you can't beat the Nexus 7. Just get a good protective case for the 7 and don't drop it. The glass is super thin. Not a child's toy like any of the Nooks, which are indestructible.

Nook Color has single-core OMAP3 processor, 512MB ram, BlueTooth, It can run CM10 (JellyBean 4.1) but is hardware limited to 2-point multitouch.
Nook Tablet has dual-core OMAP4 processor, 1GB ram, No BlueTooth. It can run CM10.1 (JellyBean 4.2) If running JellyBean (or ICS) you can switch back and forth between standard 2-point, or up to 10-point mult-touch (not hardware limited).
You don't have to root a NC or a NT--the default boot device is an external microSD card. You can set up a working copy of JB4.2 by going to iamafanof.wordpress.com. (And yes, it's free.)

Quote from RavenSEAL : Won't find a cheaper, brand name android tablet than this...

Other than the nook tablet with cm 10 installed on it, for about the same price. Dual cores, better cores, double the ram, pretty much superior in every respect. Even out of the box the NT would be better than this.

You'd be wise to spend your money on something better for the same price, or much better for just a little more. You'll be throwing this out in a year.

Is there a slick deal for the nook tablet? can it do netflix, skype?

I really wanted to like this tablet but it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Lenovo had these for $106 right around Xmas time, I kept putting one in my basket but would never actually complete the purchase, something just wouldn't let me do it. Finally got a chance to play with one and my instincts were right. Stay away.

I ended up purchasing the A2107 for $99 a few weeks back using the infamous $50 off 100 deal. That one seems a bit slow to me already (no complaints because of the price), can't imagine how bad this one is then.

its fine for the price. cameras are shit, speakers are shit, microphone is shit, bluetooth is okay, gps rocks, expansion, etc. OG nook or fire doesn't come close. this does google play legit etc.

It was $177 when it first came out but they couldn't produce enough to sell here in the usa. finally they caught up and it's not worth the $177 - but far better than the MCBUB junk by a mile.

If you can read chinese, you can probably find plenty of good roms Lenovo is #1 in china man.

The main problem is android. which sucks. You can probably get a used ipad 2 for $150 and have tons of apps (especially when ios 6.1 jailbreak comes out sunday).

It's a tough sell when Best Buy has refurbished Kindle Fires for only 20 more bucks.

Quote from tolgac : Just ordered Nook Tablet 16GB (refurbished/used) from Cowboom about the same price... should I cancel and order this ? Does anyone has used both and advice one to other ? your help is highly appreciated...Thank you..

Watch out on refurb nooks from cowboom. I got one and it wasn't deactivated. So it was useless and cow boom couldn't do anything to fix it. I had to return it. They couldn't transfer the $9 extended warranty I bought so I made them just refund my money and I got a kindle fire.

Quote from rnarco : I ended up purchasing the A2107 for $99 a few weeks back using the infamous $50 off 100 deal. That one seems a bit slow to me already (no complaints because of the price), can't imagine how bad this one is then.

It's b/c of all the preloaded bloatware and crap on there. If you search around I believe some other forums have a root for it that disables a lot of it, and really speeds up the tablet.