With the price of tablets going down, I bet we’ll start seeing more specialty versions showing up. Amazon’s makes it easy to buy from Amazon. Imagine a Coke-sponsored one which starts up with a Coke ad and their website. Or one from Ford that automatically connects to your Ford car. Or one from Astroglide lube and Trojan with links to pron sites. And so on.
Steve Jobs worshippers need not apply. But if you’re looking to get in God’s good graces, or you’re simply in the market for a family-friendly tablet, you may want to check out Family Christian’s Edifi. Billed as the world’s first Christian tablet, its genesis came with the inevitable intersection of technology and religion, according to Brian Honorable, a technology supervisor at Family Christian, the group that sells the tablet.
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Nor is it technically the first religious tablet. That honor, of course, goes to Moses and the Jews.
What a great idea.
I like having a Bible handy so I can defend myself from religious fanatics.
27 translations. Excellent.
I don’t know how it will bring me any closer to God, since God is presumed to be everywhere all the time and watching everything we do and writing it down for future reference when judgment day comes.
I think I will hire Jesus as my defense attorney.
“Let 10,000 flowers bloom.”
I look forward to the day when there are as many groups selling tablets as there are now signing people up for their credit cards; then there will be real competition for people’s attention and maybe we’ll get real evolution of the user interfaces.
In the meantime, at least it’s KDE.
Where can I get that pr0n tablet?!
Try the Amazon Kindle Fire™ 😉
You can get hot movies for it, on Amazon of course.
You can even order Kleenex™ at the same time.
You gotta love the enterprising American marketeers.
All MSNBC, all the time.
Or how about the “OT”, an Obama Tablet with Nancy Pelosi pop-ups every 2 minutes?
Drink the cool aid.
So, a burning bush isn’t enough anymore.
Immolation would be fitting for our ex-president.
Shrub just flapped his Alfred E. Newman ears while economies over the whole planet burned.
Hackers love cheap, sponsor subsidized hardware. My Amazon Kindle Fire hasn’t been to amazon.com in months. I bought it when comparable tablets were at least twice the cost of the Fire, rooted it and replaced the clunky Kindle interface with Android CM7, CM9 and now the latest Jelly Bean. It’s still a great reader but now is also a great tablet.
Now that is innovation.
SOP with the Nook Color and Nook tablet too.
Root to make it YOURS!
It’s gotta be just a re-branded of some tablet already on the market, right?
I have no idea if $150 is subsidized or not.
The new Google tablet is $200, so maybe.
But, I think “themed” tablets probably will be fad, for awhile. Surely, there is a market for a kid-safe tablet. But it could be anything — dog lovers, Jay-Z, NASCAR… whatever.
It’s simply an Android tablet pre-loaded with Christian software. You can probably change the software and do what you want with it. At $149 I might get one if it has the play store.
Christian software – sounds fucking boring! God damn, who dreams up this shit. Oh well, off to my prayer group.
The hardware and apps are straight up garbage not worthy of mention if not for he holy roller nutjob angle for humor.
You got better specs than listed? Neither processor, nor Android version was listed.
Technical specs?
Christians don’t need specs.
They just take on faith that what gets delivered to their hovel will perform as well as they deserve.
Besides, they’re supposed to love being ignorant.
They’re only supposed to read one book.
Just some wolf in sheep’s fleece trying to shear a few of the more gullible sheep. I’m sure the MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS, Forn versions are on their way if they aren’t already here.
Anybody want Barny the Dino 24/7?
I’ll take a heathen’s version, please.
Perhaps Jesus will send a brief text message to the faithful with advance notice of the Rapture. Just make sure Jesus is on your contact “white list” so you don’t miss it.
Satan’s tablet computer has already debuted — it’s the Kindle (hell)FIRE!!!
What about the uber-religious who would want to anoint it with Holy Water? I wonder if the warranty covers that!