5. WITS A81

This is one of the Chinese-made Section 1 tablets. Possibly somewhat hackable. I have one of the resistive-touch ones, branded as a "Nationite MIDnite". Sadly, dysfunctional. One of the firmware updates "bricked" it.

• Slatedroid: Witstech A81E

  Has some specifications, alas relatively little else.

• a81linux

• A81 Linux

• On Installing Angstrom Linux on A81E

  Angstrom is one of the interesting embedded Linux distributions.

Here are some links less specific to the A81 unit:

• The Sad State of Open Source in Android tablets

• Run Android on Your Netbook or Desktop - How-To Geek

• How To Root Android Devices

  Using Android ADB.

  Documents process set up for Augen tablets, but this evidently works fine on A81.

  Obtain ChainsDD/xinx's Superuser.apk/su , and get the appropriate version (Eclair=Android 2.1, Froyo=Android 2.2).

  Unzip update.zip on your computer (or on the tablet)

  Run the following from your computer (or from a terminal on the tablet, in which case one may omit the adb bits):

  adb push ./system/app/Superuser.apk /system/app/ adb push ./system/xbin/su /system/xbin adb shell rm /system/bin/su adb shell ln -s /system/xbin/su /system/bin/su adb shell chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su adb shell reboot