{"id":4855,"date":"2010-11-22T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2010-11-22T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:58:45","slug":"worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"

It really says something when some of your customers ask the Internet whether they got the right thing when they received your product, or whether it got switched out with some joke Chinese knockoff that’s not really supposed to work.<\/p>\n
The Maylong M-150 TabletPC is an Android-based device sold by Walgreens for a mere $99 a pop. The obvious purpose for this tablet’s existence is to appeal to bargain basement shoppers\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgrandmas, poor college kids, those on a tight budget\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby claiming to offer a full tablet experience for cheap. I mean, it runs Android, right? That’s a legit operating system nowadays. Unfortunately, the Maylong M-150 is the very epitome of “race to the bottom,” and anyone looking to buy one would get more bang for the buck by setting it on fire for warmth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It also says something that this was the most positive statement in the entire review. \u00c2\u00a0Really, the M-150 has a 2-3 hour STANDBY time for the battery… \u00c2\u00a0WTF? \u00c2\u00a0Read the review yourself at Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It really says something when some of your customers ask the Internet whether they got the right thing when they received your product, or whether it got switched out with some joke Chinese knockoff that’s not really supposed to work. The Maylong M-150 TabletPC is an Android-based device sold by Walgreens for a mere $99 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,23,67,19],"tags":[1018,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}