This is going to shake up the cell phone market big time when
 people catch on. I am usually ahead of the pack when it comes to
 certain things.

 This is a 10 inch diagonal phablet with android 4.42. A phablet is
 a combination smart phone and tablet. In case you don't know

 Has all the accouterments of expensive smart phones.

 ARM Cortex  A8  processor 1 to 1.5 gigi cycles per second I think
 it has four processors. It is super fast.


 4 gig flash

 512 meg ram

 32 gig micro sd card.

 2 sim cards (2 telephone numbers)

 3g  unlocked

 The best thing for me is the quality of the audio Maria Callas
 sounds even better on the inland speaker system I mentioned and ear
 phones. When I heard Maria sing on this I was really sold.

 Here is the surprising thing it sells for only about $100. It is
 comparable to cell phones and phablets  selling for up to $500.
 Comes with a case and a full size USB keyboard with real tactile
 feed back individual keys.

 Amazon sells them if you want an ultra reliable supplier.

 It is called the American Pumpkin made in China of course.

 I had my 8" BLU Phablet in my jacket pocket and I tripped and fell
 down on it. The glass was shattered of course and bent the aluminum
 frame. I paid $300 for it but it was history.

 I do not get money for this. I just thought some of you would like
 to know about it.

 Paul Lamar


 Paul, Thanks, for passing on what looks like a great deal, and for
 me at the right time! Both my wife, and I need a smart phone
 device.

 Regards, Norm Parmley

 I had bought one of those, and experienced some problems.

 There is nothing wrong with the china phones but please take the
 following into account when picking one:

 1. check with your carrier, while every unlocked phone will sign on
 with your carrier, some use different frequencies for data.

 On my carrier they used 1100 for 2G, 1400 for 3G and 1800 for 4G,
 my Chinese phone used 1100 for 2G, 1200 for 3G and 1600 for 4G. So
 while I had data but only at the 2G speed due to the phone.

 2. check the frequencies your carrier uses for the phone and
 roaming use, some chinese phones only use one frequency for voice
 therefore even though your carrier uses non-charged roaming
 services from other companies, your phone with only one voice
 frequency will not roam.

 There are alot of differences in frequency use by different
 carriers, be sure to check carefully before buying a phone to make
 sure you will get to

 use all the services you paid for with your carrier.

 David Mikesell

 Thanks David. What a coincidence :-)

 It seems to be working on T-Mobile so far. I have my fingers
 crossed.

 The data rate is very fast when using it with the DSL WiFi modem I
 have on my hard wired phone line. I have not tried the Internet
 yet on a T-Mobile cell phone tower however.

 One minor problem is it uses the recent big sim cards but the
 T-Mobile office had some adapters to enlarge my small sim card out
 of my crashed BLU and that worked.

 Paul Lamar


 The carriers in canada supply a card with,regular, micro and nano
 sim all in one. It surprises me that a carrier would supply
 anything else ! Many industrial grade laptops and pads have a slot
 for a radio card.

 Steve Carlisle

 Are you talking about WiFi  or cell phone towers?

 Are you saying that in Canada you can get a card for your computer
 that gives it telephone capabilities?

 That is kind of strange. Most notebooks in the last 5 years or so
 have built in WiFi transmitters and receivers. Mine works in
 Europe, NZ and Oz so far.

 Of course all smart phones and tablets have WiFi them as well as
 cell phone TX an RX..


 Paul Lamar

 Not Strange at all. Panasonic Toughbooks, and industrial computers
 from other manufacturers have used by the Gov police fire, and
 military for over 20 years. these computers are up-gradable with
 many options. Whatever software one decides to use, are what
 services you can have.

 Steve Carlisle

 Is this a police two way radio?

 Connect to whom?

 What is SMS?

 Are you in the Mounties?


 Paul Lamar


 Paul, these units were bought surplus form a government auction,
 there were very likely ex RCMP or VPD units, used for Computer
 Aided Dispatch, criminal database search and motor vehicle/drivers
 license search. Local cellular carriers provide the secure
 encrypted radio link through cell towers. SMS is the standard text
 messaging service we all use on our phones. NO, i am not with the
 RCMP ! Many NATO armies, and the US military use these ToughBooks
 to connect to forward operation bases, and call in drone strikes.


 Steve


 I thought so. All the cop cars have terminals and when they stop
 you to give you a ticket they all ready know all about you :-) In
 fact if you have a smart phone they know where you have been every
 hour for the last month or so because your lat and long has been
 recorded. Google has access to that info. New cars are getting
 Internet access. The bank that loaned you the money on the car can
 find out where the car is to repossess it if you don't make
 payments.

 Paul Lamar


 Is this the Flab-let?  I don’t see a keyboard.  Does the one you
 describe have one?

Thanks. John Dinkel


 I don't think it is. I know nothing about that. Mine is a quad core.

Check and make sure it has a GPS receiver.

Paul Lamar


Is that not 8 cores (octa) ?

Steve Carlisle

http://wccftech.com/amd-8-core-arm-cpu/

I'll bet Android (Linux) runs lickity split on that.
But also think it might consume a lot of battery.

That is what Linux was born for.

 My quad core only works for a day and half.

Paul Lamar

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