I haven’t decided if I want connectivity on my tablet and I know I don’t want to store details of my personal life on the cloud.
#NEXTAB BATTERY DIES FAST INSTALL#
I was pleased that I could turn-off automatic connections to Google but disappointed that I couldn’t install apps without going to Google or Amazon. I could see how important quality could be for people in the field taking inventory or doing quality inspections but it wasn’t for me. We agree that while the quality could be better for the price it wasn’t all that bad. This is the first tablet I’ve tried and I was both pleasantly surprised and disappointed for different reasons than Nate Hoffelder. While it does achieve the low end of adequate, I cannot help but note that there are better options in the same price range.
#NEXTAB BATTERY DIES FAST ANDROID#
I don’t expect much from a $99 Android tablet, but this one still manages to come up short. Also, the calibration routine doesn’t want to work I often have to repeat it 3 or more times before it accepts the results. As a result I’m growing less and less happy with the responsiveness of the touchscreen. The touchscreen is capacitive but it doesn’t really like responding to 2-fingered gestures like pinch-zoom. TouchscreenĪngry Birds also revealed an issue that started to bother me more and more as I used this tablet. That is far shorter than the 3 tablets listed above, making it a reason why you should get them. That falls into a moderate use category, IMO, and so far this tablet looks to have not much over a day of real battery life. I’ve used this tablet for a week while I spent most of my time working at home. It doesn’t always notice when I pull back on the slingshot.
Angry Birds also installed okay, but I’m having some issues with lag. The clips I played on Youtube all worked, and I’m currently reading a couple ebooks with Aldiko. They installed fine and both worked fine. I got Aldiko and Youtube apps from Freeware Lovers. The missing apps aren’t a serious problem. Unless you happen to like your ebooks to have a faux book appearance, avoid this app. It comes with the B&N ebookstore installed but the reading app is provided by E-Fun. This tablet ships with most of the basic apps but it’s missing Youtube, Amazon Appstore, and a decent reading app.
This photo is the best I could find out of a couple dozen test shots.
At the time I knew most of the specs but I didn’t know that the camera could only do VGA resolution, and rather poorly at that. The Next7s was announced at the beginning of May as E-Fun’s first cheapest tablet running Android 4.0. I’m citing this as a shortcoming because the other 3 budget 7″ Android tablets above all either ship with it or you can install Android Market with minimal effort. To be more exact, the app crashes when I try to run it. I then tried another easy method and that didn’t work either. This tablet didn’t come with Android Market and my usual easy method for installing it didn’t quite work correctly. The case is now plastic, with a build quality on par with other budget tablets. The Next7s gives up all this in pursuit of a lower price. Before they had been trying to sell premium budget tablets with a nicer metal shell, better build quality, and a nice finish on the front. It’s running the latest generation of Android on a 1GHz Rockchip CPU. The Next7s has a 7″ capacitive touchscreen with 4 GB Flash storage, a so-so camera, g-sensor, and a speaker. While they’re not major defects, they do cause this tablet to come up short against the Polaroid PMID701, IdolPad, or the Innosoul. I’ve had this tablet for a week and I can say from first hand experience that it has several issues that should give you pause. Of the many budget Android tablets currently on the market, this is not the one you should buy. You know I cannot resist a budget tablet so I went out and got this one. BigLots had it advertised for $90, a slight discount from their regular price of $99. E-Fun’s latest Android tablet hit store shelves this weekend just in time for a sale.
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