Refurbished Klu by Curtis 7" screen 4GB Android 4.0 (ICE) tablet at Frys Electronics for $58

[caseyc]

Last Saturday while visiting a Frys Electronics store in Palo Alto, California, I bought this refurbished low-spec Android tablet for a whopping $58.00 plus tax.&nbsp; Although this price is for a refurbished model, the tablet seems to be okay and came with the original box packaging.<br><br>I don't suggest you use this Android&nbsp;tablet if it's your only tablet because you may be frustrated with the low specs on this device.&nbsp; I'm using this as a 3rd Android tablet, which is essentially&nbsp;nearly a disposable tablet given the price.&nbsp; My other 2 Android tablets are much higher specs and are made by Samsung and Lenovo.<br><br>I'm using this tablet for simple Netflix movie viewing, music playing, and web surfing. Although there is only a pathetic 2 GB of usable memory space (or less), you can insert a large micro-SD memory card&nbsp;into the tablet to store your media files.&nbsp; This tablet only has a low-resolution front facing camera (no rear camera), plus the screen resolution is rather low too, but for movie playing it's actually rather decent.&nbsp; <br><br>Although it comes with a mini-USB cord (not micro-USB), plus an AC charging adapter plug, this tablet only appears to charge through a wall AC charger (as opposed to USB charging).&nbsp;&nbsp;Another disadvantage is that it doesn't seem to have Bluetooth, which means you can't stream audio to say an external Bluetooth enabled speaker.&nbsp; But you can plug in a 3.5mm headphones for listening to music.<br><br>Also of importance, you can only download Android apps using the supplied "1 Mobile"&nbsp;app because you can-NOT download apps from&nbsp;the Google Play store, as this tablet is not recognized by the&nbsp;Android market.<br><br>I could not find this same device through the website at&nbsp;Frys Electronics, therefore I'm giving a different link below which I found by doing a Google search.&nbsp; Might make a decent gift to give someone?<br><br>Refurbished Klu by Curtis 7" 4GB Android 4.0 Touchscreen Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet <br><a href="http://www.hhgregg.com/klu-by-curti...hscreen-ice-cream-sandwich-tablet/item/LT7033" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.hhgregg.com/klu-by-curti...hscreen-ice-cream-sandwich-tablet/item/LT7033</a><br><br>Again, this Android tablet has LOW specs, so don't expect higher performance compared to tablets costing hundreds of dollars.<br><br><br>

 

[Cubey]

If I ever decide to get a tablet, it'll be a Google Nexus. They seem to be the cheapest and best spec'd tablet (for the price) out there.

 

[caseyc]

The Google Nexus 7" Android tablet is nice, which costs around $250. &nbsp;It would be even better if it offered a micro-SD memory card slot, but alas, it doesn't. &nbsp;I have the Samsung 7.7" Tab Android tablet by Verizon, and it does offer a micro-SD card slot to hold my 64GB card full of media files, plus I love the super-amoled screen which is amazing. &nbsp;The sucker costs several hundred dollars though.

 

[Cubey]

The 16GB Nexus 7 is $200. 32GB is $250. That's for WIFI only ones. For 3G ones, it's $300 for the 32GB ones (no 16GB model).<br><br>I'd probably be happy with the 16GB model but who knows... $50 more for twice the storage. Like you said, no other expansion.<br><br>I have a 32GB micro SD card in my Virgin Mobile Android phone so i can house my mostly commonly listened to mp3s on it plus have spare left for copying videos to it I may want to watch on the go. I have plenty of storage on my laptop plus an external USB powered hard drive for main storage of files.<br><br>The only real benefit of a tablet is better battery life than a laptop and a bigger screen for web browsing. But then I'd have yet another device to keep charged... <img src="/images/boards/smilies/rolleyes.gif" class="emoticon bbc_img">

 

[caseyc]

What many people don't understand until it's too late is that it's important to have larger versus smaller internal storage.&nbsp; That's because current Android tablets and Android smartphones with the operating system of 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) have been dis-abled&nbsp;for transferring apps from internal storage to the external memory card.&nbsp; In other words, you the user cannot transfer apps to your external memory card.&nbsp; Therefore, if you have limited internal storage to begin with, you will run out of space for adding more apps, then you will be forced to delete existing apps to free up internal storage space.&nbsp; I believe it is Google that designed this new limitation probably in order to motivate users to store their files in the cloud, as opposed to internal storage.&nbsp; I already have this same problem myself because my $700 (full retail price) Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone only comes with 16 GB of internal storage space, whereby only 12 GB is available to the user and the rest is taken up by the Android operating system.&nbsp; After only owning my Note 2 phone for a short time, I'm already down to 2 GB of free usable internal storage because I have installed hundreds of apps.&nbsp; Even my Sandisk Ultra 64 GB micro-SD external memory card inside the phone is already half filled up with lots of music, videos, documents, and various other items.&nbsp; For those who are advanced users of the Android operating system, they will usually tell you to "root" your device (phone, tablet) in order to bypass the Google Android limitation of not being able to transfer apps to the external memory card.&nbsp; I personally don't want to root any of my devices, but there will come a time I will probably be forced to do so.&nbsp; Anyway, memory is cheap nowadays.&nbsp; An extra $50 for additional internal storage is so worth it.&nbsp; I wish I had that choice myself, but alas, Samsung did not offer any larger variations.&nbsp; Although I don't use Apple products such as the iPad or iPhone, I applaud Apple for making a larger 128 GB iPad version.&nbsp; If I were an iPad user, I'd get the larger 128 GB version myself.

 

[caseyc]

Update here. I'm now considering refunding this cheap&nbsp;$58 Android tablet.&nbsp; It's just too slow for me. Plus the screen resolution is too low.&nbsp; I'm used to my high end Android devices so this Klu/Curtis tablet is just not cutting it for me.&nbsp;Only downer is that Frys Electronics will charge a 15% restocking fee.&nbsp; Oh well.

 

[ickkii]

casey you can mount /data/ to sd, it's commonplace in phones/tablets that have less than optimal i/o controllers to mount to faster sd cards but requires a little more advanced knowledge.&nbsp;<br><br>I'm sorta lazy and swap sd cards like I do t-shirts, so I agree its still better to have more internal storage although not essential. If android is eating 4gb of your 16 I'd definitely say you should root and do a complete wipe and flash an aosp based rom if yoy havent already (you mentioned you have a samsung device and they're notorious for bloated stock roms). Cache cleaners like SD Maid are really useful too.<br><br>Not to shoot down OPs find, but I avoid sub 100 dollar android devices like the plague.&nbsp;

 

[offroad]

to add to the discussion.&nbsp; You can run VUDU.COM to store some owned movies in the cloud, and watch when you want to.&nbsp; It does cost $2 per movie to store&nbsp;your SD resolution movie (if the license will allow it).&nbsp; This is the ULTRAVIOLET licensing agreement with movie distibution owners.<BR><BR>Or you can use NETFLIX,&nbsp;or REDBOX online, or AMAZON PRIME, or HULU PLUS, etc.<BR>&nbsp;

 

[lampliter]

I thought tying a monkeys fist was complicated; Is there a short course that will teach me how to fit all this stuff into my brain.<br>Root and do a complete wipe and flash an aosp based rom. Dang man.

 

[caseyc]

Update here. &nbsp;I couldn't take it anymore, so I refunded this low end cheap Android tablet. &nbsp;The last straw was that even though the tablet included a USB cable, the tablet would not charge through the cable via a 12 volt adapter through my vehicle. &nbsp;The tablet could ONLY be charged through a wall AC electrical outlet. &nbsp;That was a big downer for me. &nbsp;I will stick to my high end Samsung and Lenovo Android tablets instead.<br><br>

 

[offroad]

For $250 to $300&nbsp;get a used IPAD 2 and you are golden.&nbsp;It just works.&nbsp; or the high end samsung or lenova android