{"id":371657,"date":"2010-02-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5481887"},"modified":"2010-02-27T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:00:00","slug":"haleron-ilet-mini-hal-is-a-modest-tablet-with-a-modest-price-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/371657","title":{"rendered":"Haleron iLet Mini HAL Is a Modest Tablet With a Modest Price [Tablets]"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the iPad seems extravagant and the JooJoo’s sordid past turns you off, the 7″ Mini HAL might be up your alley. It’s no powerhouse, but at least you’ll be able to say you own a tablet. Updated. Scam alert!<\/b><\/p>\n

The 600MHz VIA CPU isn’t blazing fast and the 7″ touch screen isn’t luxuriously wide. The 2GB of flash memory isn’t great. The Android 1.6 OS isn’t ideal.<\/p>\n

But if you just want a tablet without all the bells and whistles for doing some surfing from the couch or reading some documents in bed, the HAL seems like a fine option, especially considering the $199 price tag.<\/p>\n

And anyway, the storage is expandable via SD card and the OS is upgradable. It has Wi-Fi, 128MB of RAM, a USB port, and claims a 16 hour battery life. Best of all, Haleron says it’s shipping the HAL on March 1st. So, if only for a few weeks, you can be the first of your friends to be officially on the tablet bandwagon. [Haleron<\/a> via Ubergizmo<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Hold the phone! A commenter going by “Brad” over at Pocketables has done some sleuthing<\/a> and it seems like things aren’t quite adding up with Haleron. Here’s what he had to say:<\/p>\n

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In an attempt to verify Haleron a month or two ago, I tracked the iLet design back to a french company which has an active forum. They in fact do sell the design to be remanufactured abroad. I inquired if they had licensed to Haleron, and received a solid NO.<\/p>\n

If you look at the whois on the haleron domain, it is registered to a shipping district office in Miami Fl. Google the CEO’s name and you get several other failed companies, and a business bankruptcy filing in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Based on my research, I believe the company is a scam.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fishy indeed. Here’s Brad again, in a second comment:<\/p>\n

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the french company is eviGroup and their devices have several real reviews… and sorry, the whois is connected to an apartment building in Savannah GA.<\/p>\n

It was another website that directs to haleron that was registered to a miami ship hole. Offices in Columbia and Ecuador? Pu-lease.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After some checking up, I’m inclined to agree with Brad; I can’t find anything that makes me think that Haleron is a legitimate organization. If anyone has any further info either way send it along in an e-mail or post it in the comments.<\/p>\n



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If the iPad seems extravagant and the JooJoo’s sordid past turns you off, the 7″ Mini HAL might be up your alley. It’s no powerhouse, but at least you’ll be able to say you own a tablet. Updated. Scam alert! The 600MHz VIA CPU isn’t blazing fast and the 7″ touch screen isn’t luxuriously wide. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}