# My kick ass $30 micro android tablet!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kick-ass-30-micro-android-tablet/718460>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 24, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kick-ass-30-micro-android-tablet/718460 "2015-04-24T18:21:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kick-ass-30-micro-android-tablet/718460/1 "2015-04-24T18:21:19Z")

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Got a [Moto G pay as you go smartphone from Best Buy](http://www.bestbuy.com/site/verizon-wireless-prepaid-motorola-moto-g-no-contract-cell-phone-black/3041063.p?id=1219086346405)the other day on sale for $29.95. (34.00 delivered). Bypassed the dial up initialization on startup and now I have a very nice supremely portable Android tablet. It’s even got a an FM radio build in and plays music and movies I can load into memory without a hitch.

If I can access a wifi presence it makes a very easy to carry tablet and I use it for listening to podcasts. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5 Smartphone as my main smartphone but it’s bigger and it’s in a chunky Otterbox and the Moto One is supremely slim and pocketable and I can listen to saved podcasts from my shirt pocket while I work at home. I put it on the car dashboard and listen to podcasts while driving. I use it as a test bed for apps before downloading them onto my Samsung. The Moto One screen is sharp as a pin and being nearsighted makes it easy to read without glasses.

[Youtube on setup as tablet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40kx0BK5Dsc)

It’s a little thing but I’m tickled pink with it’s functionality for the price.

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kick-ass-30-micro-android-tablet/718460/2 "2015-04-24T19:21:17Z")

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How it continues to work well for you, it does appear that if you restart the phone you will have to re-dismiss activation, which is easy enough, but wondering if that may become harder if you update the OS and they try to plug that hole.