After playing with it for a few days I can say the L and R buttons are excellent, they are angular shaped so you can put your fingers either on top or the side, the d-pad is fine, only thing that isnt so great are the fake analogs and the YXBA buttons (they feel hard and a bitt stiff, but im used to using either a psp go or ps3/xbox/wii controllers so I might be too picky). I will make a video, probarly today as its raining outside anyways
I dont have root yet but there is a generic allwinner a10 script that can do so.
so far, very nice device, mali400 gpu does 1080p mkv very smooth
just shoot if you have more questions
EDIT: yes, really 1 gig of ram, 2gig of internal "sd card space" and 1 gig system storage for apps