I just posted about the pandigital novel. I would seriously tell you not to invest in the tablet market right now if you don't want to be buying something else in 8 months to a year. The technology is moving so fast, and Apple missed its pricing point with the IPAD so badly that there are literally hundreds of tablets coming out in the next few months. The firmware for all of them is going to be experimental, the computing ability is going to leap forward very quickly, and anything bought in the next month will be obsolete in weeks. Remember, the Nook JUST dropped in February or something, the Ipad last month or so, and now Android is up to build 2.2 and running on phones primarily. This entire market has existed for maybe a year. Basically all of these devices are oversized phones still. In the next few months the RAM is going to increase, therefore computing ability will increase, and the drivers will settle in so webcams, bluetooth, usb ports, etc. will actually work. I seriously considered both the v7 and the various APADS, and decided to get something that can do a little more than I NEED it to do RIGHT NOW, as cheaply as possible. When the APAD has 512megs of ram, or better yet a gig or more, and the webcam works right, and it runs Android 2.2, and the bluetooth works right, and it has access to the Android market, and there's maybe a GPS option, and a few keyboards available, THEN I will put the requisite $300 or so that costs down. Until then, you're gambling with the rest of us first-adopters. If you'd like, you might be able to find a betamax, or a HDDVD player, or a MDplayer on ebay to see what I mean.That said, it really depends on what you're buying it for. If I were buying a machine for computing, I would buy the V7 over the APAD, because I know it can theoretically run Android 2.2, whereas the RAM on the APAD is too low, and because, as I understand, it has higher screen resolution for video. What I got instead was the Novel, because I got it for less than $150, it can play music, video, read books, has access to barnes and noble, and will be able to handle Android 2.2 and the Android marketplace pretty soon. That's what I NEED RIGHT NOW. In 2 months they'll release the black 2gb 3g capable model that is already being planned, and my 1gb one will be obsolete, but it will do what I need it to do.