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114 of 116 people found the following review helpful.
Its fun but a little awkward to navigate
By stephen Luff
Here’s a short review on the tablet. I’ve had it two days now. First off it comes in reasonable packaging. Bought in the UK.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Piece of rubbish already in the garbage
By J. Maddrell
Wanting to test out one of the new android tablets, I gave the Eken M001 a spin. I was competent to track the UPS shipment all the way from China and looked forward to tinkering with the tablet over the holiday weekend. Unfortunately, it didn’t last that long. Here are a lot of of the reasons why the tablet is now in my dumpster:
* While the power cord I received had an adapter for use in the US, it never charged the battery beyond 15% … So much for mobility.
* While the device speedily found and connected to my wireless router, the reception was very weak even while sitting at my computer desk 1 foot away from the router. This made surfing the web or accessing web based content a very slow and painful process.
* After setting the device to the rectify region and signing into my long time Skype account, I could access my contacts, but was never successful in text-chatting or making a voice connection with my contacts. Again, the wireless connectively may have been to blame.
* The touch screen is the only way to scroll in most applications. Even after calibrating the screen assorted times, I had a HORRIBLE time scrolling without without advance planning launching links or other apps on the screen.
* The final kicker (that kicked it into the dumpster) was when the screen invented a crack after in regards to 5 hours of use. It was probably from pushing the screen too hard in an try to scroll and launch applications. Given the crack that developed, I couldn’t re-sell it and I didn’t want to spend another cent on an try to make a return to the Chinese manufacturer.
What sort of worked:
* I had some success downloading and installing apps (after installing SlideMe, but never from the provided app portal), but the usability difficulties affiliated with the device prevented me from genuinely USING the apps. For example, I downloaded the new Kindle App, but was never capable to sustain a sufficient Internet connection to sync up my Kindle content on the device.
* The screen clarity was good. I think it would have been a nice way to read e-books or browse pictures (obviously inside, but not in bright sunlight).
* I likewise has success loading on content using my own SD card.
Overall, I think a 7 inch Android based device is a great conception (I in truth liked the littler size better than the more spectacular ipad – exceptionally for keeping it up like a book), but unluckily this device loaded with Android 1.6 is not even close to being ready for prime time. I was more than willing to throw away a hundred bucks for the chance to tinker with an early version of an Android tablet. Yet, even as an Android tablet pioneer, I entirely expected more than 5 hours of tinkering time.
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