ViewPad 7 Android 2.2 Tablet Walkthrough & Review

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29 Nov, 2010 4:30 pm

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The Viewpad 7 is cheaper version of the Galaxy Tab, obviously the Galaxy Tab is a better machine, but its significantly more expensive. This is a you get what you pay for situations, the ViewPad is a great machine, I’m in love with it, if I didn’t need HD in my life then I would probably pick up the ViewPad over the Galaxy Tab any day. But I shoot video in HD and I am what is called a Super User, I produce content and consume content more deeply then your average Joe. If I’m an average user who is looks for a reasonably priced on the go device that lets you watch HQ YouTube rather then HD YouTube content the you might want to grab the ViewPad 7. The machine gets high marks for full Android Market access, a cool design, and enough power for 7 hours of use per charge. One bad thing compared to the Galaxy Tab is the screen resolution of the ViewPad 7, which is 800 x 480 compared, to the 1024 x 600 on the Tab. However, the resolution makes apps designed for smartphones look good on the screen.

If you are looking to pick up a top notch 7 inch android tablet the Galaxy Tab still wins for its higher resolution screen, faster processor, and better software. But if you don’t need high performance and don’t mind waiting a few seconds for pictures to come into focus or programs to load then the ViewPad with its lower price is a very attractive tablet indeed.

Here is our hands on and walk through so you can see for your self how the tablet performs, we even getting into a MMOG so really, its not too shabby!

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  • PaniK

    similar to Archos 70 ?

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    Archos has 3x more powerful ARM Cortex A8 45nm processor, same grade as Samsung Galaxy Tab, Droid X and iPhone4. And still significantly cheaper than this at $275 vs $479 msrp.

    Pay double for 3x slower ARM11 tablet?

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  • http://www.netbooknews.de Sascha Pallenberg

    to get 3G and Google Market Place access out of the box ;)

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    3G can be nice (if the user doesn’t mind dedicating a SIM card for the tablet), but the Google Marketplace thing, it takes 1min to install on Archos just get the gApps4Archos.apk on Google.

  • Gp3730j

    Actually , I was giving the Archos 7 a really serious look to purchase) until i looked at the specs and seen it does not have GPS capabilities (deal breaker). In my opinion with all 7 inch devices its all about portability and GPS should be a standard feature. , I really dont care about watching movies in HD so thats not a concern. I demo’d the Viewsonic 7 and found it to be a very “snappy” device with internet usage (considering the weaker processor) i noticed there is a slight “lag” using the camera (and unfortunately its only 3mp) but it does have GPS capabilities (that works very well) and a storage capacity of 32GB’s. So @ a price of $420.00 (i found an online site) I am eagerly waiting its delivery (probably tuesday).