UBI 9" Surfer

[Dee Sa]

are these worth buying ? price is £149.99 or are they using Ideal World shoppng channel to offload unwanted goods.
if you go to www.idealworld.tv/essentials they are there item 172918
I would appreciate some advise even a yes or no , personally I think they keyboard might be too small for old clumsy fingers like mine.

[VHG]

Cant find item 172918 on their web site.

[gingejbee]

There comes a size when things (eg phones, calculators etc) become impractical, because fingers are not able to work them easily. This is another example - not to mention the screen size.

[gingejbee]

.....but OK for nimble-fingered, keen-eyed teens, I suppose.

[Mobius1]

I have seen these on Ideal World before now and simply never been convinced by them. Since introducing them, they've been flogging them with ever more generous terms, like unlimited net access for 2 years. Sounds good, but also stinks of desperation.

It's "free" internet is retrieved over the now ancient GPRS technology. The reason it's still competitively speedy is because Datawind's technology compresses the data content of what you're looking at. They say this just makes it faster, but in real life this means that images and visuals are going to be compressed and thus lower in quality. This is true of any form of visual asset compression, because if it wasn't, then all internet providers would use data compression to "speed up" their networks and manage bandwidth usage.

The device is relatively low spec and low colour depth screen. If you just want to use it for emailing or reading text then maybe it might be a good value proposition, but otherwise I doubt it.

[Dee Sa]

thank you all for your replies, much appreciated. I think I will pass on this one.
Dee