A Review on the $99 Android 4.0 Tablet, Novo7 Basic

China-based Ainovo's Novo7 Basic is a 7 inch tablet, available at $99 a piece. Ingenic and MIPS teamed up to produce the tablet, which runs on an Ingenic XBurst 1GHz CPU with 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage. The Novo7 Basic doesn't come with Google apps pre-loaded.

Technology news and media network, The Verge, recently made a hands-on review on the device. Here are some of the important points from the review:

• The screen is capacitive instead of the standard resistive screen in this price class.
• The display is only 800 x 480 resolution, which is quite dim and has poor color reproduction.
• The tablet is quite thick at 12.3mm, which would anyone probably expect on a $99 tab, plus there are plenty of creaks throughout.
• Performance is lacking — web pages take a very long time to load and once they do, scrolling is quite painful on all but the most basic sites.
• There's a 2-megapixel camera around back and a 0.3-megapixel camera on the front, which is basically not great.

Android 4.0 on a tablet is fairly similar to Honeycomb. The applications button is still in the upper right-hand corner, while the settings menu on the lower-right offers a few more options. One neat feature is a revamped lock screen, which offers a circle of your five most recently used applications for you to jump directly into. Ice Cream Sandwich is usable at 7 inches, but not quite ideal as the buttons on the bottom bar are quite small.

In general, though the slate cannot compete with higher-priced 7-inch tablets performance-wise, it is rather impressive for such a low price. According to MIPS, the tablet will be coming to the US under a different brand later this year.

 

 

Source:  The Verge

 

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