I just got myself a 7" android slate. a generic one, it is stated in the ROM: styleflying, which I'm not sure what it is. With this generic slate, comes a generic box. White one with a big lettering saying Android 2.1.
Here is some specification:
Android 2.1
7" Screen 800x480
Telechip 800MHz
Rom said M1 by styleflying firmware 2.1 update 1
Softwares that I installed:
1. Alkitab
2. Bible - Olive Tree
3. Documents To Go 3.0 Full version (bought it from Dataviz website)
4. Adobe Reader
5. Astro Player - nice one, it can play both movies and music, got podcast support. it's really nice.
6. SlideMe - sine I can't access Android Market 9the Market is there, but the download never started.
7. Dataviz's Superstore - another Android Market replacement.
8. Upvise - for my note taking app
9. ES File Explorer
10. Facebook
11. nimbuzz
12. Twidroyd
13. K9-Mail
14. Yahoo Mail
15. Yahoo Messenger
16. Titanium Backup - which is not working yet, due to rooting problem.\
17. AndTask - for switching from one app to the other (somehow the home button on my slate doesn't background apps when I press and hold it), but AndTask has more feature other than task switcher, which is really nice
17. and some games
The internal memory for apps are about 512 MB, and installing all of those softwares on takes a few MBs, and i got about 420 MB left. Put in a 16GB microSD, and well, this thing has becoming my primary media player, e-book reader (most of my books are PDFs). And with Doc To Go, it has become my working tool also. Work emails is handled by K9, I can save attachments to microSD card.
Well. It went better than I expected. Much better in fact.
I'm buying another gadget which is a 3G mi-fi router to compensate the lack of 3G radio inside the slate. With mi-fi, then this cheap tablet has evolved into a true road warrior.
BTW. under heavy use, it can last almost a day. i don't know the capacity of the battery, but well, it's definitely great. heavy use means checking emails on background, read e-books for a couple of hours, hear some music and play movies for a couple of hours. I think, If you do all of those things all at once, I think it can go for 4-6 hours max. The 800 mHz processor is enough, by i mean enough is, you can open several apps, for example browing, check email in the background, open up an excel sheet while downloading some new apps, I did that most of the time, and no "force close" coming up.
Some software that doesn't work well:
1. mailDroid - always freeze, don't know why, so I force close it and uninstall it
2. andropaint - can't even select "agree" button (the agree button is way beyond the lower screen, maybe it wasn't built for this kind of resolution
3. Games: ColorBlock, Diamond Miner - quarter screen play on 800 x 480
Some software that i tried, but un-installed:
1. mvideoplayer - nice player, but the functionality already covered by Astro Player, so I delete it
2. OI file manager - i think ES file manager is better, nad got more feature
3. Officesuite - Docs to Go is much better
Well that's it for now, later i'll bring you some pictures, and how I rig up a protector for it.
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