Dispensing with it because it’s a little big to use as an ebook reader one-handed on a crowded Red Line train, and I’ve replaced it with a Nook Color, which is less featureful but a lot smaller and lighter. (And the things the ViewSonic tablet has that the Nook doesn’t, like a camera for videoconferencing and a USB host port, were things I didn’t really use anyway.)
It’s modded by replacing the stock firmware (which was ViewSonic’s tweak of Android) with CyanogenMod, which is somebody else’s tweak of Android that runs on lots of phones and tablets. The net effect, I believe, is actually to make it a more standard Android tablet. Poking around the CyanogenMod web site will give you a clearer sense.
There are some Android Market apps that think they aren’t compatible with it (mainly due to screen size), but most are fine, and since it didn’t originally ship with Android Market access at all, it’s a net improvement in terms of app compatibility versus the stock firmware.
That said, I’ve poked around and I believe I have the right files to reflash the stock OS it came with, if DD doesn’t want it and you do and you’d prefer the stock firmware.
Re: drwex and I might
It’s modded by replacing the stock firmware (which was ViewSonic’s tweak of Android) with CyanogenMod, which is somebody else’s tweak of Android that runs on lots of phones and tablets. The net effect, I believe, is actually to make it a more standard Android tablet. Poking around the CyanogenMod web site will give you a clearer sense.
There are some Android Market apps that think they aren’t compatible with it (mainly due to screen size), but most are fine, and since it didn’t originally ship with Android Market access at all, it’s a net improvement in terms of app compatibility versus the stock firmware.
That said, I’ve poked around and I believe I have the right files to reflash the stock OS it came with, if DD doesn’t want it and you do and you’d prefer the stock firmware.