It’s taken quite a bit of chasing (and Kmart stalking) this week to score Augen’s $150 Gentouch Android inscription, though lo’ and spy, a tool is now in the legitimate home… our home! We don’t need to discuss it you which you ferociously ripped open the box to eventually see how the Android 2.1 inscription performs, exam out the touchscreen as well as see if it essentially has entrance to app stores (unlike Augen’s smartbook that you toyed with progressing this week). We’re assuming you’re only as fervent to find out a answers to those questions, so hit that review some-more symbol for some early impressions as well as a hands-on video. Augen Gentouch 78 preview

Hardware: Just like some of a early videos indicated, the tablet is made entirely of black cosmetic. For $150 you can’t really knock the setup peculiarity of this thing, but we do have to say the $199 Archos 7 Home Tablet feels a lot sturdier and is also the bit thinner. Still, the Augen tablet is satisfactorily light and it’s easy to reason up to review the website or e-book. As we’ve said prior to, 7-inch tablets have been an preferred size for holding in one palm. Oh, and as you will see in the art studio, Augen throws in a faux leather case — probably to censor a 78’s poor aesthetic. Surrounding the inscription is a micro-USB port, the 2.5mm headphone jack (yeah, it’s the bummer!) and a microSD card container. As for that headphone jack, Augen has told us which if you email them at [email protected], they’ll send you the pair of 2.5mm headphones or a little sort of adapter — cheers to that!Screen: Come upon, you’re not really repelled that a arrangement is resistive and usually has an 800 x 480 fortitude, have been you? For a cost, we approaching zero some-more unequivocally, yet in use it wasn’t as bad as we’d imagined. Obviously, you have to press flattering tough upon the 7-inch display to make selections, but there’s also the stylus which pops out upon a tip of the inscription. We’ve actually defaulted to regulating the stylus, but a fingernail positively gets a job done as well. Either approach, resistive is, good, resistive. Also, you might notice in the cinema which there’s the slight gap in between the glass of the shade and a tangible display. There’s additionally no accelerometer or software for adjusting a screen course. No violence around a bush upon this one: this screen is poor, but then again so is a tablet.Performance / Android experience: We essentially have to give Augen some credit for shipping a Gentouch 78 with Android 2.1. It’s not 2.2 — though Augen says it may be upgradeable someday — but during initial boot you were greeted by the live wallpaper as well as shortcuts to the browser, YouTube, the Market, iReader, Skype and others. Basically, if you’re an Android user, you’ll feel quite during home. However, we cannot tell you how badly you wish there was a home as well as behind symbol on the front of the device — there have been a few poor, very clicky buttons on a back, but it’s incredibly irritating to theory what each a single does when you’re seeking at a screen. The good headlines is that the GenTouch tablet is nowhere nearby as slow as a GenBook, though the 800MHz processor and 256MB of RAM makes Android smartphones, similar to the Droid X, Incredible as well as Evo 4G, look like Usain Bolt. As you see in a video, a application panel jiggers opposite the screen, scrolling is quite delayed and rising applications takes the conspicuous couple of seconds. Still the tablet is able of you do things like loading as well as examination YouTube videos as well as surfing a web, despite on Hawaiian time. There’s 2GB of onboard memory, though the microSD slot should await up to 16GB cards.Apps / Market entrance: So, yes, the Gentouch does come preloaded with a Google Market, though just as we experienced with a smartbook, applications won’t install. When we chatted with Augen, we were told that an refurbish should restore access, though they additionally mentioned they’d be chatting with Google shortly about the access. (We can’t imagine Google is all which happy that this company is shipping tablets with a Market preloaded.) However, Gmail and YouTube have been both pre-installed upon the device, as well as you have had no issues with possibly a single. Skype, on a alternative hand, doesn’t work during all. We’ll be blazing through our weekend trying to sideload a little .apks, so stay tuned upon how that all turns out. Augen tells us a updates for the store will appear upon its await site.We’ll be spending the bit more time with a Gentouch 78 to make the final call on its functionality, but it’s clear transparent that this isn’t a high-end device. If you were hoping to find the beautiful iPad surrogate for a fragment of the cost, keep upon seeking. However, deliberation most Kmart’s have been selling out of these inside of hours of receiving brand-new register, this only may be the answer all you cheap inscription seekers have been seeking for — only be rebuilt to put up with more than the few annoyances along a approach.