Final Thoughts
While this tablet did not blow our minds it is a tablet you may want to consider if you are on a budget. With the price tag of $159 at Geeks.com it is one of the lowest-priced tablets running Android. It will do your daily tasks like checking e-mail, reading books, surfing the web and watching videos on YouTube. Also the speakers are pretty powerful considering the size of the tablet. The SD card slot allows you to add more storage if you choose to do so.
While this tablet does run Android it is very limited. This tablet is not an officially supported Android tablet so you will not find the Android Market on it. You do get the Cruz Market and you can get other repositories but they just seem limited compared to the Android Market. Also many of the Apps we tried to download said they were not compatible with this tablet, one of those being Angry Birds.
Another thing that I did not like was that there were no dedicated navigation buttons, they are on the screen itself. They are very small and are hard to activate. Also at times I ended up selecting something else instead of the actual button I was trying to touch. It can get annoying at times.
Overall I would say this is an entry-level tablet. It is not the most powerful and it does have some issues, but does get the job done. At the $159 price point you are getting what you pay for. Overall ThinkComputers gives the Velocity Micro Cruz T301 7-inch Android Tablet a 7 out of 10 score.
Pros:
– Does your basic tasks
– Running Android
– Speakers are very loud
– SD slot for extra storage
Cons:
– Sluggish
– Dim screen
– No Android Market
– No dedicated navigation buttons
Good competitor for Ipad.
This tablet looking very promising. Well I am going to buy this in shop next week.
Sorry, I’ve had this tablet for awhile. It’s OK for basic surfing, email, reading books, and playing music. Youtube Videos won’t last for more than 40 seconds before they freeze. In fact, you’ll be pressing the thumbtack sized panic hole many times to reboot it for anything processor-intensive. Finally, the headphone jack only plays back left speaker monorally, not stereo and I can confirm this with other T301 users.
Synchron.
I have this tablet it works fine no freezing youtube plays fine and headphones play left an right audio u obviously got a faulty unit
i recieved my micro cruz t301 in the mail yesterday and it will not turn on. i tried charging it for hours still nothing… any suggestions?? :/
Hit the reset button.
still doesn’t work…all I have is a baby blue screen with a white dot in the middle…going back tomorrow!! Very disappointing christmas present
That is the exact same thing mine does. But mine is a black/grayish screen and i cant restart it or anything and i got it for christmas.
I received this as a christmas present. Seems to be working just fine. It does appear to be very “restricted” in what it can do. With a little playing around, im sure i can make something of this.
http://dealoftheday.webs.com/
This sight has the micro cruz for only about 70 dollars. In there listing they give the option to contact them and make a offer. I got mine for only 50 dollars and it looked even better condition than i thought. I love it because of the option to add memory with a SD card. I also went to a game store and bought a touch screen pen for the nintendo ds and it works great with it. I highly recommend getting one if you dont have one.
not really. mine and a friends has the same problem
exactly
I had mine for 2 weeks (also got it for christmas) and all of a sudden the touchscreen does not register any type of touch. I was told that they can’t do anything for me and that I need to send it back (at my cost!). So frustrating!
I bought mine for my son n can’t download anything n it won’t stay on the browser n goes to home pop age tried to master reset it n it won’t even do that