ViewSonic gTablet Features, Price and Review

ViewSonic gTablet Features

Why not see more than 10 inches or more tablets Android to compete with iPad? This is a question I did, and I'm sure many of you have asked about the situation as well. The main reason is that Google's operating system is oriented tablet here yet. The latest version, Android 2.2, which is installed in most of the slates of 7 inches and smaller, Galaxy Tab and Dell Streak, the smartphone operating system from Google. Mobile operating system from Google, which is scheduled for tablets (pun intended) and all manufacturers can afford to announce that there will be released more easily than if Google says it's ready. Although it appears that at least one manufacturer may have the inside track.

However, some manufacturers have created, and 10-inch shelves, regardless of that, the Google Android operating system Android market paralysis, which limits the functionality of each device has more than 7 inches. It's hard to walk the line, without the blessing of Google, but ViewSonic has launched its 10-inch GTABLET and had a great time. NVIDIA Tegra powered by GTABLET 2 is equipped with a processor 512 MB RAM, 16 GB of flash memory, and many expansion options. First, give practical demonstrations of the device, a violation of the functionality and performance to help complete the picture.

Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system

Press-N-User Interface

NVIDIA Tegra 2 1 GHz dual core processor ARM 9

1.3 megapixel VGA front camera

16 MB of ROM, 512 MB of RAM

Wi-Fi 802.11b / g.

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

1024 × 660 TFT LCD

Capacitive Touch

3650mAh Li-Polymer

8 to 10 hours of battery life

USB 2.0 (slave), mini-USB (host) and Micro SD - up to 32 GB

3.5 mm connector

HDMI dock / headset / USB (optional)

G-Sensor, digital compass and an ambient light sensor

£ 1.55, 10.5 "x 6.8" x 0.54 "thick

A quick analysis of the data, which may very excited when a movie fan. NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip dual-core 1 GHz ARM-9 unit on board with the NVIDIA graphics engine, which not only a great performance for things like video playback Full HD 1080p, high autonomy, offering 08.10 ViewSonic hours. There is a 16 MB of Flash ROM, and two mini-USB and standard USB ports with micro SD card slot for additional memory expansion. Lagunas another 512 MB of RAM can do this quickly and are equipped with compressed high-resolution camera could be better for web conferencing. Look GTABLET, such as construction and software.

For reference, GTABLET little more than the iPhone, but not so large, and only the thicker hair of 0.54 inches, compared with the iPhone 0.5 "thick frame. And, it weighs only 0.05 kilos more than the iPad. In fact, only the size of the iPhone comes in a 16:9 aspect ratio, all waiting for Apple to develop but do not go down that road. GTABLET build quality is generally as good as the iPhone, but is not decorated aluminum foil with a mate again. ViewSonic high quality place to black thick plastic casing around it.

The main advantage of the tablet, Android tablet Apple's open design. No matter how many jobs are devices such as Mr. available as open source, you can not ignore the fact that at present the limited access to iPhone users, if you do not want to go through the sync cable and iTunes . GTABLET Moreover, not only the SD card slot, a flash and mini-USB and USB port size. GTABLET incoming and outgoing traffic as easy as plugging the USB cable, USB stick or SD card. ViewSonic also has a docking port on the device, and the optional docking station with HDMI output is also available. In brief, the connection is complete GTABLET.

The touch screen is very sensitive to GTABLET and, like most tablets and smartphones on the market today, that changes direction depending on how you hold. Here you can see GTABLET, starting with the stock screen Android 2.2 (Froyo). Android navigation buttons capacitive touchscreen enabled right GTABLET board. There are buttons for navigation studies, home, menu, and back.

GTABLET screen has a native resolution of 1024X600, which is a modest number of pixels on the screen of this size and appearance, although I have always had a higher resolution. Some resolution 10-inch netbook supports 1366x768 10.1-inch screen LCD screen. GTABLET has good contrast and brightness, with a very important issue, you should see it's pretty simple, since the viewing angles are poor devices. Seen here in the next iPhone (possibly tough competition, because the Apple board is more expensive, but hey, it compares the list of 10 inches here), has lost almost all its splendor GTABLET to 45 degrees or more.

Also strange problem I've found that the screen is much better viewing angle when he became the head (the navigation buttons on the left). As I studied, I found some forum users asked GTABLET was built to display correctly installed backwards. I contacted Viewsonic and they said that the problem is not presented here, the U.S. Department ViewSonic AQ, but the plant can be. Anyway, I have seen this anomaly, and ask some people in the office to look at themselves. All agree that progress is being made to 180 degrees and can be easily seen. Remains to be seen whether this is a manufacturing defect and to confirm that ViewSonic formally addressed.

Then there Tap N Tap "To be honest from the beginning that are usually very critical of the UI tab of this species. In the end, it's a little thin, ultra-low power consumption characteristics, for example, the execution of two batteries so the user interface, just to add to consume. Dell has done a good job with UI for their pills in a row in practice all-in-one desktop computers and netbooks, but it takes time to make a very light footprint and allows for better design of the user experience. K Unfortunately, I have Tap Tap "does not radiate.

The main screen, you can see above, looks a bit dated and boring, but this is not the real problem - is to keep the wind from the sails, in fact, slowing the system. Diligent ViewSonic to release updates to-air May-Tap Tap n enhancing the experience, "but the software just feels swollen and hard. The only thing we, as a user interface, the keyboard was common, a good job is the key to the company as a capacitive touch screen interface.

Press "n is a kind of necessary evil, but GTABLET, at least for now. Since Google Android Market is not a platform that more than 7 inches, at least, this interface gives you some free programs to work as e-mail, contacts, time, etc, should all this will change after the release of Google OS Honeycomb (Android 3.0), ViewSonic, and then update a ROM cell. At the same time, and our links GTABLET applications, I fans of the equipment and installation of custom disk XDA-Developers forum. I followed this guide and installed TNT Lite.

With a little effort, this disc lets you play and press the keyboard and control panel settings, but the image of the band is more than the stock configuration options can Froyo Android Market. GTABLET TNT Lite is a more appropriate and in the world in his hands, which more or less what you need in terms of services and applications. Again, this is not my own experience of running a box ", however, do not expect this level of functionality GTABLET if you are willing to get their hands dirty and working with unit of measure like this.

General Elimination of the sound processing engine under the hood GTABLET the best estimate of the overall performance of the class (and BenchmarkPi Linpack results) and the graphics performance is very competitive (and An3DBench Neocore). The processor is only here, shows that the NVIDIA Tegra SoC CALL2 GTABLET, graphics wise, Samsung Hummingbird 1 GHz processor, the Galaxy Tab and Epic 4G. Links to various An3D and early filling rate equations, while the yield Neocore OpenGL ES rendering techniques for high efficiency devices.

The standard calculation in terms of 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon HTC EVO 4G, a unique game for the Tegra chip GTABLET 2, but all proposals, GTABLET wise and balanced teams unit offers a peak HP tablet for things like video playback Full HD 1080p and games for mobile phones.