Any word on if the screen is resistive or capacitive?

It'll also be slow. The G1 has a 528mHz processor with 178MB ram I believe. This thing would be slower than that. Good for basic tasks, but kind of weak.

Empty shelf space in the #STL also - the employee sounded annoyed and already knew the questions - so people are hunting for them! See my @RexDixon twitter stream - have a picture of the empty spot - with plenty of eBook readers in stock below that for $99 also.

Checked my local K-Mart, they are sold out. Will get a rain check tomorrow AM. Was told they may get some in tomorrow morning on the truck.

I also tried in the metro-STL area and no luck. The 2 K-Marts I tried said they haven't had any at all.. As in the product isn't in their system which is odd since it's "on sale" until 7/31... I'll keep trying nonetheless

Hope this doesn't turn into a nightmare for the Kmart brand. They have had to deal with the likes of Target and Walmart shredding their market share and the purchase of Sears didn't seem to help that much.

Video review here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfha5r6law0

I also tried in the metro-STL area and no luck. The 4 K-Marts I tried said they haven't had any at all.. None would give a rain-check.

Columbus Ohio raincheck as of 7-27-2010. Maybe some on a truck Thursday.

Just tried the local #STL Kmart after dropping the kid off at camp - none in stock, and - NO RAINCHECKS!!! Something about them being a "no raincheck" store. Said there was a truck later today, but I'm starting to think that Augen should have gone with a better retail outlet to distribute this product. There were no tablets and no netbooks - but 3 "the book" eBook readers.

Just to update everyone reading this concerning the "non-raincheck" store/policy:

I did have a nice back and forth e-mail with this guy – [email protected] – Daniel Honigman – and he said he passed over my request for a raincheck to his ops people. I also tweeted this earlier today – http://twitter.com/RexDixon/status/19750549465 – about Augen customer service or lack thereof. I also found the CEO for Augen on Facebook, and sent him a message.

Still at the end of the day, my Kmart up the road has none – but the display cards for both the tablet and notebook sit in a case with TheBook eReader which they had 3 of the last time I was in there this morning.

Quick update: Received a call from the store I went too this morning. They said they would honor the $149.99 price when they receive one, but they also checked and there are *NONE* within a ~50 mile radius of #STL / St. Louis, MO - so that means - none for today or the very near future unless Augen shipping sends a bunch to this area pronto!

I assume they (Augen) had no real idea of the sort of demand for something like this?

There don't seem to be any, anywhere. I live in the Philadelphia area and all the stores I've called either didn't know what the device was or said that they weren't scheduled to receive any anytime soon. Only one said they had the tablet in their system to allow rainchecks. You can see on ebay that a couple people have picked up this tablet(much like the wii) and are turning it over for an instant profit.

I got a call on Thursday that one was being held for me at the Durham, NC store. As I was picking mine up, a fellow came in to get the other two of the three that had come in. So within about 1 minute they were sold out. I asked to inspect mine before I paid and was told "no." Fine. So I paid, and opened it on the spot. Removed the protective film. Good news, the battery was almost fully charged. The screen was barely responsive, taking two and three taps to get any response on any icon. Got to the clock set-up and couldn't get out. (I've had a Hero and an EVO, so I'm not an Android virgin.) There are some peculiar controls on the back where you can only feel them, but I couldn't get them to do anything with the clock set-up screen. The screen itself had a white line along the right side. But the real deal-killer was that the case was gapingly split along one seam. No amount of squeezing would pop it into place. Either the glue or the welding beam had just not been applied there. The end. I must say they were nice about letting me return it, although I had to wait quite a while my purchase appeared in their computer so they could actually perform the return. iPad, here I come, I guess.

Guys, what is with all the negative reviews and comments? Keep in mind, when you are comparing it to an Android phone you are comparing a $150 item to a cell phone that costs $499-799 without a contract. When you compare the fact it has a resistive screen to something with a capacitive screen...again, $150 device to a $400-800 device. For the cost of this thing you are getting a nice unit. Supports wi-fi, has a g-sensor, decent sized screen, and an 800Mhz processor...for $150! That is an amazing deal. If you want more speed or more features, go drop $500 to $800 on an iPad and be happy about it. However, for $150, I love this thing. As soon as Cyanogen gets a Froyo hack for it and roots it I'll overclock the processor and it will be sweet as heck. Who knows, maybe there will be a memory hack too. Has anyone cracked it open? Does it use a DIMM we can replace? Who knows?

Anyway, I can watch movies, surf the net and do all my business stuff with remote desktop, vnc, Touchdown...not to mention personal stuff with GMail and my calendar. I'm happy I didn't spend 3-4 times this for an iPad for very little life difference.

Given it's a $150 device I set my expectations pretty low but have still managed to be disappointed. I've had my own issues with Augen support. After reading the now infamous note by whatever company officer about having a fix for the Android Market problem "in 48 hours", I went to the support site to download the patch. Of course we all know there's next to nothing out there and absolutely nothing for the Android Market problem. I opened a ticket with them and got the following email:
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Please check this Newsletter that was posted on our site: News
GENTOUCH78 & Google Mobile Services Application Suite . Press Release
Mark at Augen Customer Support

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: 4970
Department: Customer Support
Priority: High
Status: Closed
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Of course the link the idiot sent me was one I had already seen. And there is nothing there to help me with my original question, where do I download the Android Market fix. So, I send a follow-up to Mark asking him where the patch is and got the following:

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It's because your not looking. Would you like me to spoonfeed you SIR?

here is the link: http://augenus.com/7800atpsoftware.zip
here is the instruction: http://augenus.com/androidcalibrationinstructions.pdf

you'll need it badly
Mark at Augen Customer Support

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: 4970
Department: Customer Support
Priority: High
Status: Closed
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Insulting your customer is generally not a good idea. The best part about all this is these messages are from 8/10, and the idiot knows there is no solution to the problem but decided to basically lie to me and give me a run around instead of facing the facts. After doing some more research on this I find the patch for the problem doesn't exist, which brings up the question what was the idiot going to "spoon feed" me?

My theory on Augen is it's a bunch morons who are buying cheap, cloned hardware in China and importing it (everyone remember Apex?) They have no idea of how to run a company or support a product, and with the recent Google issues, also have no idea about software licensing.

The support site has no structure to it, but this may be because they will have no idea of how to actually fix any of the problems until the can get a H2B visa and interpreter for a guy in China and relocate him instead of letting Mark put the thing together.

After reading so many comments on various sites about this tablets elusive, raincheckingness (so analog & antiquated) I am currently tracking my online purchase

I work for my local kmart in the electronics department and i can personally say that today i had 3 people come up to me and ask if we had any in stock. our numbers said we had 6 in the store but i checked everywhere they could have been and none could be found. i called 2 other stores and both said they were out. we do NOT get them on the truck often it is very rare. when we do get them in stock they fly off the shelves. your best bet is to call early in the morning either right when the store opens on a Monday Wednesday or even Friday after the trucks deliver

the Augen touch tablet IS NOT WORTH BUYING!!! i had returned 2 units for various defects - freezing up, memory card damaged, nonreponsive touch screen... kmart's nyc store refused to give me a refund until i had a yelling fit and called my credit card company. this product is not worth anything. you are better off waiting for something more substantial. the quality of the unit is that of a child's toy - cheaply made - plastic. BUYER BEWARE!

Hello, This is Mishka Fishka, i really like that post, you are doing a great job. Thanks.

I bought three Augen products over Christmas, two 10" notebooks, and the 7" gentouch from Kmart. I WISH I NEVER DID. They are garbage all of them shut of and will note turn back on. I will never buy any thing made by or with Augens name on it. I also will no longer shop at Kmart for selling such junk. MY KIDS ENJOYED GETTING JUNK FOR CHRISTMAS.

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