It’s cheap, it’s cheerless, it’s the Vodafone Webbbook. It’s aimed at the lowest end of the market, as a functional, utilitarian device that lets people that wouldn’t have Internet access get online. So the only question is, did it need to be quite so nasty? The Vodafone Webbook feels cheap, runs slowly and seems to offer very little value outside of its pocket-friendly price tag. Can it possibly compete with the lower-priced tablets currently available such as the Kindle Fire?

Gearburn digs into the Webbook, and wonders if you can’t get better value elsewhere.