Device for reading Go World Magazine in Digital Form

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Re: Device for reading Go World Magazine in Digital Form

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lobotommy wrote:
alejo wrote: In the end, you must accept paying a little bit more on ipad or jailbreaking it, which voids your warranty and so on ...
You want to use pirated software? No jailbreak required. Google it.
My mistake, my knowledge on the iphone/ipad piracy world is very little.
lobotommy wrote: Alejo, you seem to be a little naive in your believe in "Google's better world". It's just cheaper. Cheaper does not mean better in any language. Does it mean in Spanish? ;)
No, cheaper obviously doesn't mean better. But I certainly believe that Google's policies are better than Apple's, though the "don't be evil" was forgotten long ago. So, yes, I'm much in favor of Android than iphone/ipad.
I assume we could discuss this for ages and others would join us in the longest offtopic of the forum, but for the sake of the post, I invite you to talk this through private messages.

However, as I stated on one of my posts above, Android is behind iphone when it comes to Go apps. Hands down. There is no arguing right now. I expect this to follow the same trend we're seeing lately, which is turning the apps from both systems are the same level or even switching the patterns.
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Re: Device for reading Go World Magazine in Digital Form

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Gave into the temptation and bought the Pipo M6 with internal 3G. Happy to report that it works with Go World Magazine pdfs loaded onto a 32G microSD card and the pdf reads very crisp. The screen is exactly the same resolution as the iPad with Retina screen with 24bit color. A very good value tablet which I have switched via the settings to work in English interface. Check the specs yourself via Google if you want to see why I was interested in this model. So far I am quite happy to use this device to read my Go World Magazine pdfs. And now I'm going to try flashing it with a custom ROM to see if I can get even better performance :)
There is one thing which really annoys me about this tablet though. You have to use the 9V 2.5A 2.5mm power charger supplied with it. You can't charge via USB connection cables.
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