The VIA WonderMedia WM8650 chip can be found in many 7 and 8 inch tablets that are manufactured in China and being sold for around the $100 mark. The specs are low, with an 800MHz processor, 256MB RAM and just 2GB internal storage. But for the price, the First Arkansas News has discovered that with a bit of tweaking, you can have yourself a fun mobile Internet device.
"Ah, but rooting the Cerebro is worth it. Prior to doing that, I had no Android Market, games were so slow they were unplayable and even the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook applications were painfully slow. All of those problems were fixed after I rooted the machine and that’s a good thing as I wanted the Kindle and Nook apps to work so I could turn this into a cheap ereader. The root kept me at Android 2.2 (Froyo) instead of moving to Android 3, but at least the thing behaves a lot better than it did."
The specific tablet in question is the Cerebro from Lightinthebox.com.
"Ah, but rooting the Cerebro is worth it. Prior to doing that, I had no Android Market, games were so slow they were unplayable and even the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook applications were painfully slow. All of those problems were fixed after I rooted the machine and that’s a good thing as I wanted the Kindle and Nook apps to work so I could turn this into a cheap ereader. The root kept me at Android 2.2 (Froyo) instead of moving to Android 3, but at least the thing behaves a lot better than it did."
The specific tablet in question is the Cerebro from Lightinthebox.com.
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