Huawei Ideos S7 Phone Tablet On Sale - $50 Off for $249 at Best Buy this Week! (US)

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In this week's flyer for Best Buy for January 23-29, the Huawei Ideos S7 is on sale this week, for $249 (regular $299). This is the best price for the tablet ever seen, and certainly the lowest for an unlocked phone tablet without a contract. This is a great deal for a very capable device.

The S7 is an unlocked 7" Android 2.1 phone/data tablet (full AT&T 3G compatibility with SIM card, 2G with T-Mobile). It is a Cortex A8 tablet with an expected Android 2.2 update coming within Q1 this year. Check the previous writeup for the device here. The configuration of the S7 sold at Best Buy shares many of the internal components as the Nexus One in the Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250, but has a 7" display and a single-point resistive touchscreen. While the S7's performance, battery life and screen quality may not be as good as its current and upcoming competitors, but this price point is hard to beat.

Thanks to darksoul in our Huawei S7 forums for sharing this with us.

 

Hmm, I hear there is the device out for $250...2-point touch, beautiful IPS display, no battery issues, easy to root, 2.2 coming soon, Cortex A8, 512MB RAM...

I think it's called...THE NOOK COLOR!!!!!!

-Matt

 

I'm not an owner, so "don't shoot the messenger for the message":

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I don't mean these quotes in a snarky way...not having owned an S7 (which is a sexy little beast, btw), it's one of the ways that I've learned how it performs.

At the very least, I should admit that battery life on the Nook is fabulous, as long as you don't use it. Otherwise it's 8-10 hours for reading (haven't tried video test yet).

-Matt

 

For the record, EVERYTHING I say regarding the Nook and S7 is meant in fun.

But here's a serious comment: I'm assuming you don't own a Nook, right? For some reason the screen brightness goes up to ELEVEN (Spinal Tap joke)! I can't speak for most owners, but keeping it 30-40% is plenty bright. So remember the data you're quoting are anecdotal from a single user...plus we don't know how exhaustive his testing was...rooted system?...background apps running?... My wild guess is with screen around 35%, wifi+net will probably give you 4ish hours, maybe more.

No contest on the eReader comparisons, btw. E-Ink and LCD is not even an apples-oranges comparison.

-Matt

 

For the record, EVERYTHING I say regarding the Nook and S7 is meant in fun.

But here's a serious comment: I'm assuming you don't own a Nook, right? For some reason the screen brightness goes up to ELEVEN (Spinal Tap joke)! I can't speak for most owners, but keeping it 30-40% is plenty bright. So remember the data you're quoting are anecdotal from a single user...plus we don't know how exhaustive his testing was...rooted system?...background apps running?... My wild guess is with screen around 35%, wifi+net will probably give you 4ish hours, maybe more.

EDIT: Oh gee, I just reread the comments from Rebo, which are before the Nook release date (November 2010). I think he really meant it literally when he called his numbers "My worse case estimation of the battery life for Nook Color." Looks like he pulled them out of...thin air. (Sorry, I'm a researcher and technical writer, so I get paid to be argumentative and nit-picky.)

No contest on the eReader comparisons, btw. E-Ink and LCD is not even an apples-oranges comparison.

-Matt

 

Woops, double post??? What happened to the wonderful "edit" button???

Sorry for that...

-Matt

 

Nope, just wifi on the Nook. Looks like there's also bluetooth, but not activated by the stock ROM. Once rooted, it pretty much has full Market access...at least, what's visible while running 2.1.

-Matt