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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • Over 10,000 were sold on woot yesterday, I think droidlife had a alot to do with it because I’ve never heard of that website in my life

  • “Before you get too crazy though, it’s my understanding that this tablet isn’t the most hacker-friendly.”

    Wait…what? Are you kidding me? The G-tablet has more devs (Roebeet, gomji, pershoot) working on more ROMs (7 different ones at last count), than any Android tablet currently in existence. There is a full NVflash available, making the Tablet virtually unbrickable (there hasn’t been a single confirmed bricked tablet in the forum, despite people doing insane things to them). This post is so ridiculously uninformed it hurts my head.

    Read up: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=841

  • The comments right on woot talk about how hacker friendly it is lol two buddies at work scooped this up earlier, looks like a solid device. Much better than Kellex is giving credit for it seems.

  • just ordered my viewsonic g tablet!took me a while to make my decision but the thing has tegra 2, for 285$!! honeycomb will be on it garunteed!

  • “it’s my understanding that this tablet isn’t the most hacker-friendly.” — Wrong. The is an active development going on at XDA. No Honeycomb (yet) but a couple of good Gingerbread roms. Also a version of the NotionInk firmware. This is a very solid device.

  • Bought one of these and cancelled my xoom pre-order at Costco. For less than half price, I can wait a few days for the Honeycomb hack.

  • oh well, bye bye xoom wifi for now.. for half price this will do, only feature i’m missing is the GPS. Has anyone tethered to your droid’s gps via bluetooth to make google maps navigation work?

  • I bought two a few months ago ($379) and still loving it and not regretting it at all. Yes!!!! totally hackable. Head over to XDA ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=841 ). The very talented devs. GoJimi, pershoot & Roebeet make it very easy to turn this tab in into an awesome piece of hardware. The IRC Channel: #tegratab is a very user-friendly community (one of the best) with ejhart, badfrog and many others to help you out….

  • I have had mine since Black Friday last year, and this thing is a beast. Wish I could have gotten it for this price, but oh well, I guess I have to pay my early adopter tax in one way or another.

    I passed this link around at work and it resulted in 4 people buying one. Looks like I’m going to be holding a hacking workshop on it! lol

  • Post updated! Hacker-friendly indeed! Our tablet hacking expert must have been thinking about another tablet. 😛 Buy away!

  • Kellex you are quite wrong, this tablet is VERY hacker friendly. It is not locked down what so ever, and roots with Z4.

    XDA guys have done wonders when it comes to enchancing this tablet. Unfortently out of the box it is absolute garbage, mostly due to Viewsonics custom UI. However, within 20 mins with from CM7 or one of the many custom ROMS the thing is beaslty. I have averaged 2300 quadrants and couldn’t be happy…a truely great steal of a tablet

  • Got me one… was going to pick up a nook anyway for just $30 less and hack it. But why? when I can get this for only a little more…

  • my broken record comment – it is very hackable and easy to mess with. Viewing angle… eh… but what do you expect for the price. I love mine.

  • Actually the GTablet is very hacker friendly, and there’s a good size community at XDA. There’s no Honeycomb yet, but that’s because it hasn’t hit AOSP, and there was no luck just throwing XOOM roms on it. There are several gingerbread roms though, and it’s officially supported by Cyanogenmod.

  • for 279 can u beat it? been looking for one forever, was gonna take the xoom plundge but for the money for basic browsing and couch potato usage …..seems like a deal…how late can u order?

  • If I didn’t already have one I would pick it up. Hmmm, I wonder if I should return it to Office Depot and then order this one.

  • If I hadn’t just received my Notion Ink Adam last week, I would be all over this. The viewing angles suck, but you really can’t beat it for that price.

    • Hank, how is that Notion Ink Tab ? I got tired of waiting… so go the Xoom… but still curious

      • Well the viewing angles aren’t very good on it, but I can’t complain otherwise! I love having full sized USB and HDMI ports and the dual core and 1 gig of ram are great as well. NI’s Eden isn’t ready for prime time, but there are a couple of ROMs out there that are great. For $375 plus shipping, I am happy as I can be!

      • I have my Adam, and I can honestly say that it is great except for the software. The entire Eden experience is junk. I stopped using it because I hated it so much. Then I took the time to install the EdenX rom (about 10 min) and it has been great. If I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t invest in the PixelQi version as it just isn’t sharp enough and desaturated. It’s not bad, but I value the image quality more than the outdoor mode. Good luck trying to buy one anyway. My friend ordered an Adam before I did and he still hasn’t received it. He ordered one of these G-Tabs today and is trying to cancel his order with NI.

  • read that there is a cheap tablet solution – sweet
    read that its dual core – nice
    read that its only $285 – meh
    [grabs credit card]
    read that I may not be able to “slap honeycomb on it” – F***!

      • Me and my wife both have one of these and have tried a few custom ROMs, including CyanogenMod.

        It’s very similar specs as the Motorola WiFi-only Xoom, but with a crappier LCD (Tegra 2, 512 MB DDR2, WiFi) and was VERY easy to hack. I have no idea where we got the idea it’s not hacker friendly in this article.

        I have it paired with my OG Droid and use an app that leeches its GPS for trips in the car. I bought mine at $425/ea and don’t regret it.

  • What’s your thoughts on the display? Some say viewing angle stinks…..I’m wary of buying one with so much talk about this…

    • The viewing angle on it does suck but I really like mine, very fast and has decent battery life.

  • Extremely hacker friendly. I highly recommend this to anyone. This is the third one I’m buying in a matter of two months. Sold the last two prematurely in anticipation of receiving my Notion Ink Adam. Well…the Adam has yet to come and I am giving up on it and moving forward with a credit card dispute.
    At any rate, the Viewsonic G Tablet is a solid device once it’s rooted and loaded with a custom rom.

  • I would recommend this device, but one warning….IT HAS HORRIBLE VIEWING ANGLE. Unless you’re looking at it head on, it’s hard to view what’s on the screen. I bought it from Sears couple months ago and after a week returned it bc of its lack of viewing angle….otherwise…KICKASS tablet.

    • I agree! super easy to hack and super fast and battery lasts forever. I can easily watch 2 movies or more on one charge!

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