mine arrived this morning, but I had to go out and lay some concrete for dad 🙄
Ive had a play now and these are first findings:
Nice weight and solid feel. Robust.
Will charge over USB as long as it’s not sitting at the end of an overcrowded hub
Mounts and hosts easily
ICS (Android 4.0.x) is OK, but not IMO an amazing jump from gingerbread.
There’s still a bit of bloat installed from Gadgetfreak which needs taking off
It comes with 4.0.3 on it
Rockplayer lite works fine and mp4 plays beautifully. Unfortunately windows DVR-MS files are a little sluggish, but just means I have to do the extra Handbrake conversion of my TV recordings – but Ive been doing that for my phone for a while anyway
typing is very good. keyboard easy to hit and responds well, even without using a special ap, but I shall be trying Swiftkey in a bit
Doesnt seem to support google calendar sync in this build, but working on it.
Android market works out of the box, as does gmail sync and google talk
The native browser is awful. But I use opera which seems fine.
Overall the tablet is good. I think it would be excellent with rolled back to a gingerbread build which is what I shall do later this evening I think as an experiment. Ive got a copy of the 4.0.3 firmware I can reflash later if I want to…will see how it goes.
For the money, it’s a really good bit of kit. Bit of lag using the novolauncher, but Im just about to fiddle with that.
Mrs S is screaming to be fed, so I have to go away, but I’ll post up a bit more later.