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But will it help Wile E. Coyote catch Road Runner?!
Strikes me as being a fairly ordinary tablet at a fairly ordinary price. a 1GHz Cortex A8 should mean it performs reasonably, but it's nothing spectacular...
kalniel (01-11-2011)
if they release the code to allow people to easily make custom roms for it (like the vega) it could be a winner!
Those specs look literally identical to the £119 Kogan tablet.
My kogan just went on ebay - unfortunately whilst Android 2.3 on a 1Ghz Cortex A8 processor sounds like it might do the job.... it really doesnt. Save your money folks, this honestly is a case of you get what you pay for. Save up for a Tegra 2 model, or an ipad.
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Can only agree. Got a 7" ACER Iconia A100 in the USA for about $320 dollars. While the battery life is a bit poor its a tegra 2 dual core and performance is great. Runs Android 3.2.
What on earth were you trying to do with yours? I used to have an Android 2.2 tablet which was running a 1GHz ARM11 CPU and that did everything I needed it to! I suspect yours had a software issue somewhere along the line: a 1GHz Cortex A8 should be more than plenty for a basic tablet...Originally Posted by MSIC
Browse the internet with a flash-enabled browser mainly.
I can already hear the 'but dont enable flash' apologists, however given what I wanted it primarily for (my son accessing cbeebies website games) it was a must.
I acknowledge that Kogan probably did bugger-all to Android to optimise it, and perhaps ACME do (maybe adding drivers or something) however for me this is absolutely the fractious nature of Android.
My Samsung Galaxy SII works beautifully and web-browsing is a pleasure, but the Kogan was donkey slow.
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If it comes with a money off coupon for the Acme Rocket Skates it may help.But will it help Wile E. Coyote catch Road Runner?!
Hmmm, my experience of trying to interact with flash on a tablet / smartphone is that most flash browser games / plugins are written with mouse interaction in mind, and don't work that well with a touch-screen anyway. Which always surprised me a little, but there it is - there's so much dependancy on mouseovers to open control panels and what have you that I've ended up turning flash off unless I really need it (plugins on demand!) on all my android devices - for most jobs there's a native app that works better than browser + flash.
But yes, under those specific circumstances I can see why a 1GHz A8 might not be enough: but I think you really need to detail the circumstances, rather than just say "this isn't powerful enough" - in the vast majority of situations (i.e. for running native apps / games, media consumption, general (non-flash) web browsing etc.) a 1GHz A8 is more than sufficient.
Yep, that's a fair point - and indeed there were a number of things that did run ok - Angry Birds, for one, ran well.
Also it could display DVD-quality video perfectly fine (but not 720p), and at a pinch might double up as an ereader... but then it is more than just the CPU, as the quality of the screen (with my Kogan, dont know about the ACME) was ok but light years behind an ipad, whilst battery life was in the 3 - 4 hour range (so fine for videos to and fro from work, not great as a holiday ereader).
Ho hum.... I guess though overall I was glad to see the back of it, and now want to put that money towards an iPad, or at a pinch an 8 inch Samsung Galaxy.
Last edited by MSIC; 02-11-2011 at 06:59 PM.
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