China tablet

[Happily1986]

not being kpo, but graciously sharing your knowledge and know how

 

 

me take on MIC tablet is .....millions of users there cant be much wrong , and most oem are there for them to make copy cats

 

i don't mind buying but these OEM makers often omit the hardware specs that people take for granted. Eg. is the touchscreen capacitative or resistive based? resistive touchscreens for now, do not support multi-touch. In this case, what good is your multimedia experience going to be?

 

Also, battery capacity is a spec that one should not ignore. I don't know the average capacity is for most mainstream tablets out there but i think it should start from a minimum of 1900mAH.

 

Other than such "hidden" hardware specs which are more likely to be sub par, the other issue is product support. Not referring to warranty but rather, we are talking about whether the OEM fella will be willing to continue churning out new firmware based on new releases of Android builds. Not very likely in my opinion.

 

Last but not least, one will be missing out on quite a bit of fun in the sense that virtually no developer is going to develop kernels for your device let alone, "ROMs". Kernel is the communicating layer between the software and hardware layers. Devices that have different hardware configuration or different electrical circuitry layout usually cannot share kernels. For example Galaxy S2 i9100 cannot use the kernel meant for i9100G.

 

Note: i9100G is the sub par version of the i9100 as it utilises Texas Instruments OMAP SoC 4430 and uses PowerVR SGX540. Different CPU and GPU and inferior on both counts. Point is, i9100G and i9100 are so similar in appearance but they cannot share kernels.

[Gadgeter]

anyone tried these products?? rather than the usual ipad or G tab??

 

looking at the spec, it does look pretty decent for something that cost 100 odd dollars. How is the reliability and stability??

 

Android 4.0 Tablet PC

Google Android 4.0 OS

Capacitive Touch Screen

Cortex-A9/3G/WIFI/1080P

Original Price:$168.00/Piece

 

 

I have my fair share of getting china made products, not all are lasting.

 

[Opel17]

anyone tried these products?? rather than the usual ipad or G tab??

 

looking at the spec, it does look pretty decent for something that cost 100 odd dollars. How is the reliability and stability??

 

Android 4.0 Tablet PC

Google Android 4.0 OS

Capacitive Touch Screen

Cortex-A9/3G/WIFI/1080P

Original Price:$168.00/Piece

 

http://www.tekgrabber.com/SKYTEX-SKYPAD-Al...p/sx-sp715a.htm

Are you referring to this tablet ? I am still looking out for a good-buy as well.

This tablet look good based on the advertisement, however not sure about the actual thing.

I am regularly watching out Amazon.com and Woot.com for deals/promo. However, some reviews in Amazon.com on China tablets does not seem positive.

 

[Hamburger]

actually looking at this.....

 

Reference Ainovo 7 Cream Sanwich

Operating System Andriod 4.0 OS

CPU Ingenic Xbrust JZ4770 ( MIPS )

CPU Frequency 1Ghz

GPU GC8650 444Mhz GPU

RAM 512 MB

RAM Type DDR2

Internal Memory 8GB

Card Reader microSD Card / TF Card 32GB Max.

Screen Size 7 Inch

Screen Resolution 800*480 pixels

Screen Type Capacitive Screen,Mutil

HD Video Support Full HD 1080p

Video Formats RM/RMVB/H.263/H.264/MPEG(DAT)/MPEG2(VOB)/MPEG4/WMV/VC-1

Audio Formats MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC, OGG, AAC

eBook Formats txt, fb2, pdb, pdf, epub, mobi

Image Formats JPG, BMP, PNG

Flash Support Yes

WiFi Standard 802.11 b/g/n

I/O Ports mini USB 2.0 OTG, Headphone Jack,Micro

G-Sensor Yes

Other Built-in Microphone and Speakers

Integrated MIC Yes

Battery Life

3800mAh

MAX working time:6-8 Hours

Color White/Black

Language

Mutil Language

Accessories

1 x Ainol NOVO7 Tablet pc

1 x Earphone

1 x USB Cable

Dimension 188x112x11.8mm

Weight 325g

 

one drawback, dont support 3G

Edited February 13, 2012 by Hamburger

[Donut]

actually looking at this.....

 

Reference Ainovo 7 Cream Sanwich

Operating System Andriod 4.0 OS

CPU Ingenic Xbrust JZ4770 ( MIPS )

CPU Frequency 1Ghz

GPU GC8650 444Mhz GPU

RAM 512 MB

RAM Type DDR2

Internal Memory 8GB

Card Reader microSD Card / TF Card 32GB Max.

Screen Size 7 Inch

Screen Resolution 800*480 pixels

Screen Type Capacitive Screen,Mutil

HD Video Support Full HD 1080p

Video Formats RM/RMVB/H.263/H.264/MPEG(DAT)/MPEG2(VOB)/MPEG4/WMV/VC-1

Audio Formats MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC, OGG, AAC

eBook Formats txt, fb2, pdb, pdf, epub, mobi

Image Formats JPG, BMP, PNG

Flash Support Yes

WiFi Standard 802.11 b/g/n

I/O Ports mini USB 2.0 OTG, Headphone Jack,Micro

G-Sensor Yes

Other Built-in Microphone and Speakers

Integrated MIC Yes

Battery Life

3800mAh

MAX working time:6-8 Hours

Color White/Black

Language

Mutil Language

Accessories

1 x Ainol NOVO7 Tablet pc

1 x Earphone

1 x USB Cable

Dimension 188x112x11.8mm

Weight 325g

 

one drawback, dont support 3G

 

 

if u looking for 7 inch, look at Levono pad.........

 

[Hamburger]

where to buy? is it on android 2.3??

[Snowblind]

Bro try reading up the tablet subforum at hardware zone. There are quite a number of ppl using these china tablets. Alternatively you can go sim lim to touch touch and have a feel. I have an iPad and asus transformer currently, mainly for forum surfing.

Looking to buy a cheap china tablet too to just play are with but want a 10' tablet.

Word of advice, even if the tablet is cheap but is slow and laggy you will feel the frustration. And battery life matters as well, you dun want to keep charging you tablet every 2-4 hours after watching a movie or just surfing net. iPad really excels in battery life but sucks when trying to put in movies. Before going for my holiday trip, I tried to put in some movies. Gave up after a few hours and put the movies into my asus tablet.

[Aimnfire]

personal experience

 

almost vomit blood

 

if still want to buy

 

get capacitive instead of resistive

ram at least 512mb

cpu at least 800mhz

 

anything less than the above can dump into the rubbish bin

 

mine came with 256mb and really damn laggy

and battery life really bad

about 1 hr

[Donut]

where to buy? is it on android 2.3??

 

I think the model is levono A1. Google for the specs

 

U can buy from funan, lenovo shop, 2nd floor

 

Dont buy china made unless u plan to hack it

[I-LOVE-CARS]

Here is the review from PCMAG

 

The Novo 7 Basic is a small (7.4 by 4.4 by .48 inches, 12.4 ounces) white plastic tablet with a black face. This is cheap hardware, no way around it. The case emits an audible creak when you handle it. To the right of the dim, grainy, seven-inch 800-by-480 screen (yes, a phone resolution) there are five touch buttons: Volume Up and Down, Menu, Home, and Back. Ice Cream Sandwich devices aren't necessarily supposed to have hard Menu, Home, and Back buttons, but I suspect Ainovo is using a bezel from an earlier version of Android.

 

There's a power button, along with redundant hard volume buttons, on the top. On the right side there's a standard 3.5mm headset jack, mini-HDMI port, mini (not micro!) USB jack for syncing and power, a redundant separate power adapter jack, and a microSD card slot.

 

So we're not exactly dealing with a product thought through with laser precision here. (That carries over to the marketing, too; on Ainovo's site it refers to the 1GHz Ingenic Xburst CPU as "XBusrt.") But it's $99! Well, sort of; when I checked, it was $99 plus an amazing $60 in shipping from China. It would still be on par with other U.S. sold tablets in the $100-200 range, though.

 

The standout feature, of course, is Android 4.0.1 "Ice Cream Sandwich." Google has done spectacular work here at making an OS which looks comfortable on screens of any size, even tablet-sized screens with cell-phone resolutions. This is the open-source version of Android, so there's no Android Market, no Gmail, and no Maps. You can download the Amazon Appstore pretty easily, but read on for the issues there.

 

To learn more about ICS and why it's a huge leap forward from Android 2.3, read our full review of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich."

 

The Power and the Pain of MIPS

MIPS doesn't make chips. Like ARM, they make an instruction set, essentially a set of blueprints and a language for chipmakers to build upon. MIPS chips are common in set-top boxes and TVs (including the whole Vizio line), but we haven't seen them in U.S. handheld devices since some Microsoft Pocket PCs in 2000.

 

MIPS argues that its chips are less expensive than ARM processors of the same speed, so MIPS can help bring prices down without sacrificing performance. I couldn't run my system benchmarking apps, but I got 31013 on Browsermark and 5829.7 ms on Sunspider, two browser-based benchmarks. That's on par with 1GHz phones running Android 2.3 like the HTC EVO 4G and Samsung Exhibit II 4G. Performance wasn't glorious, but it was manageable and certainly acceptable given the price.

 

But here's MIPS's problem, and Intel's, too: Everyone programming for Android, so far, has assumed ARM processors. That means many apps are coded using ARM-only shortcuts or bits of code to speed them up.

 

I installed the Amazon Appstore and went on a downloading binge. Of the apps I installed, seven worked: Dictionary.com, Easy Installer, ES File Explorer, Evernote, OfficeSuite Pro 5, Pulse, and Zoodles Kid Mode.

 

Eight others wouldn't install at all: Angry Birds Rio and Seasons, Cut the Rope, Drawing Pad, Fruit Ninja, Let's Bowl Deluxe, Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile, and Symphony of Eternity.

 

Two installed, but couldn't render pages in their internal browsers, making them useless: ESPN ScoreCenter and Pulse.

 

This is a big deal. When I spoke to Intel and MIPS reps at CES, they estimated that about 75-90% of existing Android apps would run on their chips, and they said they'd work on helping get the rest on board. (To Intel's credit, its code is now part of the official Android SDK; not so for MIPS.) But the results I saw show a bleaker picture. Notice that the big-name casual games weren't showing up on the MIPS tablet.

 

MIPS preloaded its own versions of Facebook, Angry Birds, YouTube, and some action games, Spiderman, and Turbo Fly 3D. Those performed really well. Turbo Fly 3D is a tilt-controlled racing game, and the Vivante GC860 GPU had no problem handling smooth animation. Clearly the problem isn't that the hardware isn't capable. It's that developers aren't coding for MIPS.

 

At this point, I was going to keep doing a full review of the Novo 7 Basic, but then I found showstopping bugs.

 

The Novo 7 Basic has a microSD card slot that sort of supports cards up to 32GB. I say "sort of" because when you put in a card, media on that card will not show up in the gallery or music player. You can only see it with a clunky third-party media player installed on the device. Ick.

 

Even when I installed media into the tablet's 8GB of internal memory, I had a lot of problems with various music and video formats. Eventually I figured out that H.264 video with AAC audio at resolutions up to 720P plays

[Donut]

http://shopap.lenovo.com/sg/en/products/tablets/ideapad/a1/

 

There you go.......

[Hamburger]

thks for heads up...

[Hamburger]

to the pro, maybe its crap. but me noob......cant feel any diff

[Ckchong8]

may i know what brand is that.....

T7-3G

[Ysc3]

i just ordered this online. US180.00 (including EMS)

 

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/52943...holesalers.html

[Hamburger]

for china made android, it comes with its own chinese android market.

 

so is it possible to load "local" android market into the tablet??