Vodafone Webbox, is it worth it?

Aqua_lung said:
It's not bad but there are better alternatives... the old adage of you get what you pay for applies.
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Such as?

What product would you advise for an IT illiterate environment (and most likely very low levels of education) with no to very low income per household, most likely rural. Assume no access to IT support of any kind.

What better alternatives would you suggest?
 
Its a good product I think, what about supplying a few free to the schools in alex soweto etc? Four hundred bucks is a lot there. So let them spread the word in the townships as well?
 
The_Librarian said:
Jannie

Can you play Manic Miner on it? :D
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Attack of the Mutant Camels should work well.
As long as whoever is buying the webbox realises exactly how limited its capabilities are and if these capabilities meet their needs, then its Perfect.
R399 for 100meg x 12, including the facility to connect to net and to view it on a screen larger than a cellphone, is a bargain.
As said in previous posts, there is a target demographic !!
 
jannievanzyl said:
Such as?

What product would you advise for an IT illiterate environment (and most likely very low levels of education) with no to very low income per household, most likely rural. Assume no access to IT support of any kind.

What better alternatives would you suggest?
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My post might not have been clear enough, apologies... my reply was aimed at the OP since he would rather use wifi, I would recommend these in that case.(although primarily aimed at the US market)
http://goo.gl/dpgm
http://goo.gl/uubg

The webbox would be a good solution in the cases you mentioned assuming they have a proper TV set, I highly doubt that's always the case, if no viable TV set is available a cheap tablet like this one would be ideal.
 
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Aqua_lung said:
My post might not have been clear enough, apologies... my reply was aimed at the OP since he would rather use wifi, I would recommend these in that case.(although primarily aimed at the US market)
http://goo.gl/dpgm
http://goo.gl/uubg

The webbox would be a good solution in the cases you mentioned assuming they have a proper TV set, I highly doubt that's the case, a cheap tablet like this would be ideal.
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Over 20 million TV sets in South Africa.
 
jannievanzyl said:
Over 20 million TV sets in South Africa.
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Assuming all have RCA inputs, the cheap older sets don't have them as standard. I think it's a decent product priced very well, I would give it to some older relatives though.
 
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