Customers Raving About Hanvon B10 Tablet, iPad Ditched

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6 Jul, 2010 7:23 pm

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Hanvon Tablet with MeeGo!

Ah, the Hanvon TouchPad B10, or BC10C as it has been known until now has remained one of the more attractive Wintel based slate PCs thanks to it’s CULV based 743 processor instead of the usual Atom fare. We’ve seen plenty of it at trade fairs and JKKMobile reviewed one, showing us how sexy the overall package was not to mention the silky smooth speed of it.

Since that review I haven’t heard much about this tablet until very recently where it has gone on sale in Australia (featured on the front page of OfficeWorks no less) for $898 AUD ($761) and customers are just getting their hands on them and reporting their thoughts on the Whirlpool Forums.

Overall the Hanvon TouchPad B10 seems to be getting rave reviews from the few who have shared their thoughts. One even compares it to the iPad and eventually ditched Apple’s tablet in favour of Hanvon’s due to the freedom it allows. That’s not all! There are some pictures with MeeGo on board! Links at the bottom of the post.

Hanvon Tablet vs iPad

Compared to the iPad, the Hanvon reportedly has a fan that you can hear (isn’t silent), gets warm under normal usage, has a touch screen that is just as responsive, has ports (OMG!), lasts 3 – 4 hours web surfing with Wi-Fi and feels a little heavier and certainly not comfortable enough for single hand usage.

To recall the specs on this tablet – 10.1″ 1024 x 600 multi-touch capacitive display, Intel Celeron ULV 743 (1.3 GHz) processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM, GMA 4500 MHD graphics, 250GB HDD, 1.3MP Webcam, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and Windows 7 Home Premium. Let’s not forget the ports! mini HDMI port for HDMI or VGA output. 2x USB. mic and headphone jacks. Full specs can be found on the product page.

If you need more instant gratification then check out the other pics from various users:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1428794&p=21

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1428794&p=10

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1428794&p=14

Anyone see this tablet go on sale anywhere else in the world? I haven’t been keeping tabs on tablet news.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1428794&p=10
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1428794&p=14

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  • markntravis

    WOW it has a 130 mega pixel camera on board.

  • Peter

    You mean 1.3MP? But yeah! take that iPad!

  • markntravis

    WOW it has a 130 mega pixel camera on board.

  • Peter

    You mean 1.3MP? But yeah! take that iPad!

  • HRoss

    I had the opportunity to test the B10 (thanks to Papyrus in Germany) for a short time and was impressed by the quality of this tablet PC. I loved it. The brilliant display was easy on the eyes and Windows 7 was generally easy to operate viw the touch-screen. The accurate optical mouse made selecting smaller controls straightforward (i.e. often quicker than zooming in with two fingers and then tapping on the enlarged controls). The price may seem high, but it’s a fully functional Win 7 PC – no strings, no restrictions. It just works!

  • Apple Fanboi

    Hello i am an apple fanboy but i have to say this looks pretty cool

  • http://twitter.com/JohnCritic John Critic

    I’ve reviewed the Hanvon tablet at a local store in Australia (Officeworks) with the following negatives:

    - Felt heavy if you try to hold it upright
    - Cumbersome to use Windows 7 on it without a keyboard (impossible to install Win7 without one!)
    - Battery life was realistically about 3 hours on high brightness (I don’t like to compromise my screen visibility for a better battery life)

    My main complaint is that while it had all the equipment to run Windows 7, it didn’t mean I could use it seamlessly as a tablet. It was difficult to pinpoint tiny buttons or resize screens, the user interface was clearly not designed for tablets and was made even worst when I try to use it like a notebook.

    The weight got heavier the longer I held it. While my current tablet is even heavier it is also notebook with a keyboard and I usually rest it on my lap anyway when I’m using it on a couch or in bed.

    I think for a first try the B10 is a good tablet to start off. It doesn’t have the battery life of the iPad or my 8 hour tablet, but at least it’s lighter than mine. I really think tablets should develop from mobile devices like phones and handheld PCs than from notebooks and desktop PCs.

    The lesson we should learn is :

    - Windows 7 is not suitable for tablets
    - Tablets should have a fast and responsive operating system and hardware developed from mobile devices (ie. phones, handheld PCs etc)
    - Tablets should last 8-10++ hours due to the lower powered mobile hardware components, efficient operating system and bigger batteries
    - Screens should be developed from readers for better visibility for reading than from notebooks

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for your review on that tablet. Couldn’t agree more.

  • HeadNOTinA$$

    who the hell are you? How exactly is the development of display devices different between thiese products? and why is THAT the answer? i think you need to change the resolution on that thing (one of the many things an ipad cannot do) and stop critisizing things you dont properly understand.
    this device has windows 7 because its a full fledged computer, the ipad is not, it’s a great toy at best (or really what we all REALLY wanted when palm made the “PDA” popular) the fact that you CAN PLUG IN A USB KAYBOARD (or use any standard bluetooth one) should show that this is an entirely different beast then the ipad.
    and while windows 7 may need to be optimized to work best with the touchscreen, it is a COMPLETE OPERATING SYSTEM, your ipad wont be logging into your work domain…… oh, you don’t know what i’m talking about? then go buy an ipad, they dummy-proofed it for ya.

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