Skytone’s Alpha 680 tablet, Android interface gets underwhelming hands-on treatment
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We’re still not sold on the $250 price tag for Skytone‘s Android-powered Alpha 680, and these video hands-on of the tablet / netbook from netbooknews.de don’t help. While the apps shown off run smoothly — browser, Maps, Skype, Office, etc. — they also serve as painful reminders that multitasking’s just not gonna work when each app takes up the full screen and can only be opened one at a time. Not that we necessarily expected to do nine things at once with an ARM-based processor, but something tells us we’d be reaching for the Jaunty Jackalope before too long. See for yourself in the two-part video series after the break.
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