The Velocity Micro Cruz T408 and T410 Android tablets.
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There are a ton of low-cost tablets out there, many produced by fly-by-night brands, never to be seen from again. We've covered a few of them here at CNET and in most cases it's immediately apparent that you get what you pay for.
Velocity Micro is one of the few bright spots in the budget tablet world. Over the years, its tablets and e-readers have popped up everywhere from Best Buy to Sears and RadioShack. Their designs are never the prettiest and their specs are hardly cutting-edge, but the company has managed to consistently churn out solid little Android slabs, such as the Cruz T301.
Velocity Micro's latest batch of tablets is slightly more ambitious than the last. The 8-inch Cruz T408 ($229) and 10-inch Cruz T410 ($299) are lean on features, but the company has put some work into tuning the system performance for the type of responsiveness and load time you'd typically only see in tablets costing twice as much. Both tablets run customized versions of Android 2.3 on a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, helped by 512MB of memory, 4GB of storage, and hardware-accelerated Adobe Flash. A gyro sensor... [Read more]
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