After learning of the Haleron iLet Mini HAL, I feel as if we are in the midst of an invasion of 7-inch MID tablets with the SmaKit S7, Mastone Prowave, WITS A81, and new tablets from Archos (likely the leaked Archos 7 Android) all fighting for the limelight over the past week!
A successor to the original iLet Mini, the iLet Mini HAL still has the 7-inch WVGA touch screen display, but improves in several key areas. Most notably, the new tablet features a 600MHz VIA processor (exact model unspecified), double the speed of its predecessor, and runs Android in place of Windows CE 6.0, although WinCE is still offered as an option. Other specifications include 128MB DDR2 RAM, 2GB local flash storage, b/g WiFi, optional 3G, support for microSD cards up to 32GB, two USB 2.0 ports, microphone input and audio output, and in-built stereo speakers. Regarding battery life, the HAL is rated at 16 hours of active use and 72 hours of standby.
Some other interesting highlights on the company's product website include HAL owners receiving 10GB worth of online storage through Haleron's iConnect service, two available colors of black and white, and the tablet's Android installation (called Ocean Android) being version 1.6, with the ability to be upgraded in the future.
The iLet Mini HAL is clearly a simpler device compared to some of the other recent tablets mentioned earlier, but this is reflected in the price with it being available for order at $199. On the flip side, as pointed out by Liliputing, the product image looks like a rendering and there is some uncertainty regarding the reliability of ordering from Haleron. Have you guys had any experience with Haleron products before? Let us know your thoughts on Haleron and the iLet Mini HAL in the comments.
Wow, This one want’s to be different from the rest. Primary sceen display is Portrait. Never seen that on many 7″ and above screens aside from the iPad.
In an attempt to verify Haleron a month or two ago, I tracked the iLet design back to a french company which has an active forum. They in fact do sell the design to be remanufactured abroad. I inquired if they had licensed to Haleron, and received a solid NO.
If you look at the whois on the haleron domain, it is registered to a shipping district office in Miami Fl. Google the CEO’s name and you get several other failed companies, and a business bankruptcy filing in Colorado.
Based on my research, I believe the company is a scam.
the french company is eviGroup and their devices have several real reviews… and sorry, the whois is connected to an apartment building in Savannah GA.
It was another website that directs to haleron that was registered to a miami ship hole. Offices in Columbia and Ecuador? Pu-lease.
This is the whois info for haleron.com:
Registrant:
Groupo Haleron Ltd
101 st george blvd
savannah, Georgia 33419
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: HALERON.COM
Created on: 29-Apr-04
Expires on: 29-Apr-10
Last Updated on: 23-Feb-10
Administrative Contact:
Haleron Ltd, Grupo haleron@mailvault.com
101 St George Blvd
savannah, Georgia 31419
United States
+7.572991063
Technical Contact:
ONEANDONE, Hostmaster hostmaster@1and1.com
1&1 Internet Inc.
701 Lee Rd.
Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania 19087
United States
+1.8774612631 Fax — +1.6105601501
Domain servers in listed order:
NS25.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS26.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
In spite of the whois info, Haleron’s contact details are:
Haleron Technologies S.A.
Information Center
Address:
CRA 16 # 28-08
Monteria
Cordoba
n/a
Colombia
Telephone: (57) 4 2309631 or (57) 300-308-8578
http://www.haleron.com
Information: Offices in:
Medellin, Colombia
CL 51 #73-76
CC Los Colores
2309631
San Jose, Costa Rica
Quito, Ecuador
Contact us Via SKYPE at: HALERON
Hi there,
in light of Brad’s findings, I wanted to add some evidence we’ve uncovered ourselves which add fuel to the scam theory (the full article can be found at our site, but I’ll summarise the main points)-
The “support forums” have very few posts, and none of them seem to be from anyone who actually owns one of Haleron’s devices. Add to that one of the sections of the support forum contains a link to a “swordfish community site” for downloading updates for the Haleron Swordfish netbook, however, if you follow the link, it leads to a mobile phone review blog which predates the Haleron forum link and contains no mention of “swordfish” whatsoever.
Secondly, we translated a Colombian(?) forum post discussing the authenticity of Haleron and have a couple of quotes from someone who claims to have actually visited the address of one of Haleron’s alleged offices to see if they are there. He found a school.
This is looking very much like a pretty big hoax folks.
New Mini Android Tablet Haleron iLet Mini Hal 7” is available on Mercaway.com at 199.00 USD http://tinyurl.com/ychkco7
Dear Mercaway,
Again you just show the stock rendered photo of the iLet Mini HAL. If you want to appear legitimate, then please take your own photo of the device and post it up for us to see (add it to the page you linked to above).
Merci!
Haleron’s webpage (http://haleron.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&product_id=20&category_id=6&flypage=flypage.tpl&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=63&vmcchk=1&Itemid=63) now says the iLet Mini HAL will ship on 19 March, again which is suspicious as they said they had over 4000 items in stock and I monitored the webpage over the last few days and the number was decreasing. Why all of a sudden is it not available anymore?
I think this “company” may be an importer of Chinese goods. I found this while browsing the internet and it looks exactly like their iLet Extreme tablet and the release date there coincides with Haleron’s release date:
http://chinagrabber.com/10-2-tft-multi-touch-screen-3g-phone-gps-tablet-pc-mini-multi-touch-pc-w-windows-7-gps-3g-camera-wifi—x9-gps-pc.aspx
30.03.2010 pay $255. iLet mini HAL has not received.
We ordered 2 month ago the 19″ screenPCs and never got them. We contacted Haleron a few times, but there is no response. So we think Brad is right!
Please pay attention with Haleron.
I paid to Halewron Ciolombia to buy 1 H97 but never received it.
When I asked a quote Haleron answer me quickly, after I paid none answered me anynmore.