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I have experience with a "Yeahpad Pillbox 7" or whatever it's called, with similar specs. Cost me $60 CAD even, mailed from Hong Kong a year ago, so a price po
by markus_wandel 13y ago
I have experience with a "Yeahpad Pillbox 7" or whatever it's called, with similar specs. Cost me $60 CAD even, mailed from Hong Kong a year ago, so a price point of US$38 for one now is believable.
They work fine as long as you don't expect too much. For example, installing the Facebook and Gmail apps on mine made it frustratingly slow each time it was unsuspended since these (relatively) bloatware apps - for such limited hardare - could take up to a minute to settle down. Similarly, Google Chrome is slower than the stock android browser on there, and for most practical surfing I use Opera Mini, which does most of its rendering server-side and works as well on this hardware as anything.
Youtube and Dailymotion videos play fine, although the Youtube app takes its time to start up. The weird media player that came preloaded can play full-on 1080p H.264 videos effortlessly. I don't know how they do that, must use some clever hardware acceleration.
But on the whole, just don't expect that "Android is Android". These are minimalist web surfing tablets, not pocket supercomputers.
- markus_wandel 13y agoI should add that the web interfaces to Facebook and Gmail work just fine in Opera Mini.