07-25-2010, 09:53 PM | #1 |
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I am on the verge of buying a Chinese tablet and wanted to know if there is a huge (as in very noticeable) difference in these two core processors.
ARM1176JZ(F)-S Cortex A8 I will be using it for: 60% ebook reading 30% web browsing 10% movies Thanks |
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Buy one of the NEW cortex A8 tablets, otherwise buy Rockchip 2808 tablet. Stay the HELL AWAY from a VIA based ARM CPU IF you can... If what you HAVE listed IS correct the Cortex A8 will be great, but be AWARE ALL of these tablets utilize LCD screens which are ENTIRELY useless in any sort of bright/mostly direct sunlight conditions... IF you want an ebook reader primarily, go with a nook... it has a small LCD control screen + eInk reading screen and can be hacked to a degree... [EDIT] Given your reading percentage I'd say nook, but wait for another inevitable price drop if you can... and/or other possibly newer and BETTER devices, e.g. color eInk plus FASTER refresh times as curent eInk is VERY ssssllllloooooowwwww, but the nook is hackable to run things it wasn't meant to runwhich are useful... sorry I'm wandering but that's the way it si unless you want a useless in direct(or bright) sunlight reader LCD based... I'm not being clear so I'll simplify it, for daylight/direct sunlight/bright sunlight reaading Nook Android or some other eInk base is your ONLY USEFUL choice, o OTHERrwise experiment with tablets but ONLY with ROCKCHIP 2808(if your're cheap) or Cortex A8 o.w. Also be careful of Chinese purveyors of products as they NOTORIOUSLY do NOT support their products. Check out flatcomputing.com for a "potentially" decent allarounder excepting the lighting conditions mentioned above for eInk... [/EDIT] Last edited by cutterjohn42; 07-25-2010 at 11:38 PM. |
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07-25-2010, 11:58 PM | #3 |
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Thanks for your input. It looks like the Cortex is what I will be wanting.
I have already had a Sony PRS-505 (wife dropped and broke screen last week) and I now have a Nook. I won't read out in daylight/direct sunlight. And the Nook is simply not 'android' enough...even rooted, there are very limited apps available and the tiny color screen is frustrating... lots of scrolling, scrolling... Er... I looked at that flatcomputing site... why would I pay that price? Are they in the US or something? It's the exact same machine on a couple of other sites - just more expensive. electroworld.cn has it listed as the ZT180 ($199) wiipad.us has it listed as the wiipad neno ($231) the flatcomputing price is $285 |
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There's also the Orphan iPed M16 and Zenithink ZT-180 which have cortex a8 CPUs... go look at slatedroid.com forums when they come up again, generic devices -> A7/A8 subforum IIRC [EDIT] Also be VERY careful about what Chinese vendor you MIGHT buy your Cortex A8 tablet from... [/EDIT] Last edited by Alexander Turcic; 07-26-2010 at 06:05 AM. Reason: Edited the edit |
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07-26-2010, 12:11 AM | #5 |
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I've been all over the flatcomputing web site and I can't see any actual information that says they are a US company...did I miss something?
Regardless, they have to import them from the same suppliers as everyone else, I would think. As far as warranty is concerned, I don't know... Sorry, I have this thing about always trying to find the lowest price. |
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I'm thinking that the Freedom A10 MIGHT be a Zenithink ZT-180 tablet re-branded. The only other choice for a tablet based in the US is the Pandigital Novel which would be significantly slower, but can be had from Kohls, Bed Bath & Beyond, and apparently other chain stores eventually. You can use a BBB 30% off coupon on it and they have a $20 MIR IIRC, which makes it c. $115 (until 8/10 IIRC). I think that you can get a discount at Kohls too but it may only be if you use a Kohls card and they have a MIR of $15 IIRC but Kohls works out to be slightly cheaper. Kohls stopped selling these for a while and I'm not sure if they ever started selling them again as I haven't gotten around to checking stores for the PDN yet, especially since I'm not thinking the A10 or possibly waiting a bit longer to also see what the ASUS & MSI android tablets are like IF they are ever marketed. PDN has a non-Cortex A8 CPU (forget which offhand) @ 533MHz IIRC, and seems to be fairly hackable. Beyond that there's the Archos tablets, which have builtin hdds, but no SD/uSD slots as far as I've read. Sounds like the Internet Tablet 5 is the way to go on those. They 5 tablet is @ Android 1.6 IIRC and has a 800MHz Cortex A8 processor + 430MHz DSP. The price is between the A10 & PDN dependent upon which internal hdd model you order, but I'd investigate Archos before buying and read their archosfan forums. [EDIT] Location is given on their facebook page: Quote:
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i bought the a81-e from merrimobiles which has the a8 chip and android 2.1 and i am very pleased with the unit,it is a well made unit and i am glad i made this purchase. i went to my local electrical store to view the archos and the build quality left a lot to be desired.i bought mine without the gps because i am disabled and do not have a car .the browser is fast and it can load web sites fast over wifi.i paid £170.00 for it including postage.
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So you really like that Wistech? Are you running Android or wince(and I do) or both? (I was kind of worried a bit about their Android support...) Can you get access to the market working? And, how is the battery life with WiFi on? (I don't watch many videos, so...) hmmm... merimobiles has good prices on uSD cards too... about the going rate for those, but I wonder which brand... ah hah! and I see that they also offer a 1y warranty, so there's another one. |
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07-26-2010, 06:54 PM | #9 | |
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Well, warranty aside, I'm not sure I want to deal with a company trying to claim they are the manufacturer (instead of simply stating they are a distributor of re-branded goods)... Who ever heard of a "leading system manufacturer" that doesn't list an address or phone number... I posted a question asking if they are the manufacturer or simply a distributor in the forum on their site - we'll see if I get a reply or if the post gets deleted/edited... |
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Anyways, we'll just have to wait and see more with flatcomputing as I don't see anyone writing about having received one yet which makes me even more inclined to believe that it IS a ZT-180 rebrand. Back to the rebranding business, ever hear of Clevo? A rebrand of a Taiwanese ODM that makes LOTS of notebooks for LOTS of companies, e.g. Alienware/Dell. You can buy these (and others) from "custom" builders who also offer warranties and, apparently, honor them as I've not seen hew and cry at notebook review, although for the "custom" notebook sellers you're mostly better off going with one of the "brand" names or a Taiwanese seller. MSI & ASUS amongst others also do this, but they have the drawback of directly competing since they also sell direct retail as well. Thought of another question wrt Witstech: Notice any heat? (Just asking since I recalled reading about heat w/Eken M001 models, but I presume that was because they overclocked it a bit, and had not heatsink...) [EDIT] You MAY have heard of Clevo as Sager... at notebookreview and other places they "classify" these "whitebox" sellers as "boutique" "brands"... so it's entirely possible to get good service from a re-brander... In Sager's case they actually DO "repair" notebooks, although in the case of electronics products, which I should have been more clear about above, they'll likely replace the entire faulty component to "fix" it, e.g. bad RAM/CPU/motherboard replace the motherboard as the CPU and DRAM are likely soldered to the mb, broken cable, replace cheaply available cable world over, dead battery again replace battery with one available everywhere, so it CAN be "fixed" in a sense, but the mfg sense that you are talking about is just never going to happen as it's usually too labor intensive(expensive) to actually "fix" a dead mb unless it's a prototype... [/EDIT] [EDIT2] I must say that Pandigital is now likely to be a shell company of a Chinese company given https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/...d=%27POTPRD07T as to their attestations for the 3G version of the PDN... Not the mfg of the ruler... ah the games that we play... [/EDIT2] [EDIT3] This is the slatedroid thread with the various discount deal for the PDN... address of slatedroid may change, and this might break as it uses an IP address rather than domain name: http://38.99.171.104/~slatedr1/showt...hls-deal-codes generic devices forum appears to be MIA ATM so no more word on the ZT-180 and other new Cortex-A8 tablets... [/EDIT3] [EDIT4] And here is a link to the forum of Chinese retailers to either buy from or avoid like the black plague http://38.99.171.104/~slatedr1/forum...e!!!-%E2%98%A0 There are more spread throughout the rest of the forums, but there are several subforums MIA ATM... [/EDIT4] [EDIT5] The Generic Devices w/Cortex A8 info aren't lost, just apparently still in the process of being moved over according to a recent admin post... along with some of the other sub-forums... This http://38.99.171.104/~slatedr1/forum...-Tablet-Market is the general market forum, but best bet for further vendor info is to look in forums related to the device that you are purchasing... as this forum SHOULD be changed inthe near future... [/EDIT5] [EDIT6] Another tablet being sold in US @ KMART http://www.augenus.com/indexhome.html/GENTOUCH.html 800MHz CPU haven't had a chance to look over the rest of teh specs yet though... probably better than PDN.. but... $149 [/EDIT6] [EDIT7] I'm guessing either 800MHz cortex A8 or telechips ARM11... if it's a cortex it's a steal... but even a telechips is better than the PDN @ 533MHz even if it doesn't have a DSP co-processor. [/EDIT7] Last edited by cutterjohn42; 07-27-2010 at 01:45 AM. |
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you can replace the battery yourself which is a bonus as a lot of tablets are unibody and changing battery is not easy.to sum up so far, i am very pleased with the unit so far.works well,no hangups so far(1 week) and wits has just posted an up date to rectify the low sound from the unit,so as i said before i am very pleased with this unit and compared to the archos unit the build quality is a lot better. |
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07-27-2010, 08:16 AM | #12 |
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I wouldn't particularly mind if FlatPad was a distributor or VAR...
What I mind is the subtle deception. I think I'm going to search for feedback on the electroworld.cn site. The ZT180 that they have listed looks to be exactly what I'm looking for. |
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Just FYI for anyone that may be considering FlatComputing:
New post from the Admin at FlatComputing: http://www.flatcomputing.com/forum/?...ewtopic&t=17.0 Quote:
One more thing - It looks like all they are doing is slapping a cutom label on the outside of the imported tablet. See: /product_images/box1.jpg. That and some obvious PhotoShop tricks for their website images. Compare Image 1 from shenit.com to Image 2 from FlatComputing I'm not sure a label in English and maybe a Texas phone number create enough "Value Added" for the extra $80 - $100 price premium. Last edited by DigitalAutoPilot; 07-27-2010 at 10:15 PM. |
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Wow, looking at the image gallery that really is a blatant rip-off of the iPad, even down to the box design. Guess if you can't beat 'em, copy 'em.
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I'm worried that it won't play videos on android 2.1. Do you know how to boot the machine into wince as that should have a media player in it? When you boot up, does it give you the option which OS to use? Did you get an English manual or did you manage to find one somewhere? If not how did you manage to figure out how to upgrade firmware etc? |
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