{"id":229,"date":"2010-11-15T22:26:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T04:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-02-06T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T23:41:24","slug":"cherrypad-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/2010\/11\/15\/cherrypad-america\/","title":{"rendered":"CherryPad America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my CherryPad America toward the end of October.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a low-end tablet, comparable to the ones you can now find at WalMart and KMart.\u00a0 I bought mine primarily to function as an e-reader, and quickly found that it had impressive video codec support and could do more than I was expecting out of such a cheap device.\u00a0 (When I bought it, it was one of the cheapest on the market.)<\/p>\n<p>I was order number 58, so some things are probably different now.\u00a0 I believe the factory language is now English instead of Chinese for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Some initial thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good codec support (Too bad the Android video player doesn&#8217;t support internal mkv subtitles.\u00a0 You need third party software from the market for that.)<\/li>\n<li>Root access!<\/li>\n<li>Android Market is a pain to get (and keep) working.<\/li>\n<li>Resistive Screen takes some getting used to<\/li>\n<li>Speakers are less than impressive, but sounds pretty decent with headphones or externally attached speakers.<\/li>\n<li>Fits in one hand, good for reading.<\/li>\n<li>Gah, why is JavaScript not on by default?<\/li>\n<li>I like the aluminum case.<\/li>\n<li>Uses my iPod&#8217;s docking cable.<\/li>\n<li>A little slow sometimes, depends on the task.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Getting the Android Marketplace to function well has been an uphill battle, and honestly, the biggest problem I&#8217;ve run into.\u00a0 It will work for a bit and then stop working entirely.\u00a0 Actually, hasn&#8217;t worked for a week for me now. *sigh* I think I&#8217;ll email and ask about that.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a simple music-playing, video-playing tablet, that you can use for reading and browsing the Internet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s perfectly capable of all that.\u00a0 I even use it to order parts off NewEgg and such.\u00a0 Once you get it set up to your liking and get used to the resistive screen, it&#8217;s nice, if a little slow.\u00a0 Verdict is that I like it, but am hesitant to recommend buying it because of the issues I&#8217;ve had with the Android Market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my CherryPad America toward the end of October.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a low-end tablet, comparable to the ones you can now find at WalMart and KMart.\u00a0 I bought mine primarily to function as an e-reader, and quickly found that it had impressive video codec support and could do more than I was expecting out of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/2010\/11\/15\/cherrypad-america\/\" title=\"ReadCherryPad America\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4004,4003],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-android","tag-cherrypad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}