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From the specs, it's not multitouch (a significant feature). From the video, it was stuttering on just scrolling the application lists.

It may be a competitor to the iPad / iPod Touch, but it's not a serious competitor. Apple still has the "premium" edge on it, their market doesn't seem likely to be overly affected. An Android tablet definitely appeals to me more than an iPad, for software purposes, but I'm not one of the iPad's target consumers. Though I'm not interested if it doesn't have multitouch.

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More than not multitouch, it's a resistive (rather than capacitive) touch screen, so you can only reliably use it with a stylus (which is included.)

Which is a bit of a downer, cos I was thinking of getting one to mount one in my car. Also, AFAIK, there isn't any good free handwriting recognition on Android yet, so you may be stuck tapping an on-screen keyboard with a stylus.

No accelerometer either. I'm not sure how it knows whether to display in landscape or portrait. Says that it's "controlled by software".

Might just have a button that you have to press, which after trying to use my iphone while laying on a couch might be nice.

I wish this was easily turned off in teh settings or other method natively. Until I jailbroke my device, reading in bed wasn't very easy.

I read (I think on DaringFireball) that the iPad will have an orientation lock switch, which will prevent it from rotating.

As a note to that, the iPad has a hardware rotation lock switch.

You are correct, it does not have multi-touch, and I think that the panel it is built around doesn't support that. The mobile network connectivity is handled through a dongle.

The price seems to have dropped from $189 two weeks ago to $155 now.

And you can bet that is not IPS matrix. I am amazed that so few mention this feature of iPad, especially that IPS matrix a hard to find even on high-end notebooks.

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