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I wonder if devices like that are good for Android, or bad. One the one hand they can bring Android who otherwise wouldn't have had the money to afford a device, but on the other hand the default browsing experience is apparently quite slow and it doesn't support the Google Play Store[1].

[1] http://rodmc.com/?p=494

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I'm not sure whether or not devices like this are good for Android in and of themselves, but they're an inevitable consequence of something that is great fit Android: that people can take the Android source and run with it in a variety of ways, whether Google wants them to or not.

For example, the first Android tablets pre-date the iPad by months and the first Google Android tablets by about a year. Or you could look at the variety of activity in the Android STB space, which has been substantially more interesting and successful than Google's official efforts, so far

This one in particular seems to have some major shortcomings. Quoting a review from a buyer: "Advertised on Walmart.com as a "Google" Android product, but Google play store and Google apps will not run on it. Returned for refund."

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