For me, missing the g-sensor is a surprise disappointment. The current batch of shipment does NOT have g-sensor. If that is important to you, you may want to do something quick. The next batch, dont know when, will ship with g-sensor.

So far, I am please with my A81e. That is because it does what I want.

Pros:
- Froyo 2.2
- 7 " form factor
- I have yet to find one video that does NOT play. It plays anything I throw to it.
- large amounts of streaming internet TV around the world and USA
- hackable if you know how
- Android market with hack
- less thing to carry, it is a netbook without the keyboard, weights really really light
- wifi stable

cons:
- battery sucks big time, 3 hrs max, but they shipped you two batteries
- still monkey with the gps 3 days into ownership!
- 7" form factor, too big to hold in your palm
- no true multitask
- Android, a controlled linux
- like your maemo tablet, you need to do a little bit work to make it performs better. Right out of box performing are just ok.
- only 113 MB ram after flash (Nitdroid managed to have 227 MB!)

If you love your N800, you will like this thing. It almost does everything your N800 does and better, except true multitask. Web browsing/reading ebook/video playing/number of apps/email is many times better than N800. However, if you dig a little bit deeper, like hacking/root/SSH/streaming TVvideo, N800 is 'easier' for the linux newbees like myself

Regarding the form factor. I know 10" is way too big, I was shocked that 7" is still too big. I cannot comfortably hold the thing between my index finger and my thumb, I have to lay it on my palm. I am now interested in a 6" thing if there is such.

7" screen makes reading a breeze. As I am trained with N800, now N900, I changed the fonts from the default, medium, to very small. on browsing, I see the full screen without scrolling. All my collegeaus think I am crazy by using such small fonts. If you are the one that constantly set your desktop monitor to the highest resolution, 1280 X 800, you would love this A81e, no scrolling, you are seeing the full screen. That is already better than my netbook, which I have to constantly scroll up and down. And then, rotate this thing into portrait mode, this is even reading more than my laptop! For reading, this is bravo!!!

Bottomline:
You want a shipping froyo today, this is the only one in the whole world. All others are 'coming', 'shipping', 'on schedule'...
For me, no microphone and no g-sensor miss a lot of fun.

Knowing what I know now, would I buy it? An absolutely YES. In particular, if my ameego Bundyo packs it with meego....

More reviews here:

http://digital8.org/reviews/wits-a81e-review-1767.html
http://mp4nation.net/blog/2010/09/5-...g-the-rocktab/
http://digital8.org/reviews/wits-a81...vert-1765.html

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