Viewsonic G Tablet Pulled from Staples for Manufacturing Defect (Update: Or not)

By Nicole Scott
21 Dec, 2010 12:45 pm

Update: Earlier this week, Staples started pulling Viewsonic’s G-Tablet off the shelves due to a “manufacturing defect”. Viewsonic, on the other hand doesn’t see any defect, but rather a “user experience issue”. What’s that referring to? lack of Flash and a sluggish software experience caused by the preloaded Tap and Tap Android layer. There’ll be a fix out by the end of next week and an official download for Flash will be made available. You can read the press release at Engadget.

Engadget asked why Viewsonic shipped the tablet in the state it’s in and VP of Marketing Adam Hanin basically replies what seems like Android isn’t ready for tablets:

while Android and Tegra are great platforms, Google’s lack of support for larger devices means that companies like Viewsonic have to “go out and put together their own software and app stores.”

Original news (below):

Have to admit we are a little surprised that the Viewsonic G Tablet has been pulled because of a manufacturing defect since the Viewpad 7 seemed like a very well built device during our time with it. We hope that this is not the beginning of a trend since the Folio was also pulled because of quality control. There are a slew of Tegra tablets hitting the street at CES in January, we expect to be able to get a better guage of the Tegra tablet scene then. We do have to admit that we were initially impressed by the Malata Tegra tablet but since we have had a chance to play with it out side of running BackBreaker, we were disappointed. This was another Shenzhen product, so we are still waiting for a big name to take on the tablet and run with it, Samsung?