Iain Brown
Bright, nice video image, plenty of memory, with accessories.
It's a little too soon to make an absolute determination on how good this tablet is, but for the few days I've used it, it seems excellent. It has a crisp, bright display, decent amount of memory and micro-SD expansion.The expansion card apparently can not be formatted as internal memory, which is a slight disappointment, since I'd like more than 128G main storage, but that's an Android issue rather than one with this tablet: if Android apps could save data to the external drive, they would take up less internal storage. As it is, I can configure some of the heaviest disk-using apps (Amazon Prime, Netflix) to use the SD card (512 GB Samsung) for download space, and configure my music players to find music on the SD card.The display is very comparable to the Amazon Fire HD 10 I own, same pixel dimensions but slightly (1/2" or so) wider. (Width in portrait mode.) I needed a different tablet to get full Android support for Google Docs, so this will probably replace the Fire HD.The rear camera seems good. The third picture in this review is a garlic grater plate that happened to be a couple of inches behind the tablet when I tried it. I will say that my Pixel 7 recognizes a QR code almost instantly, but this tablet took a while and I had to move the code fairly close to the device for it to recognize the code. I don't know about the quality of the front camera. It seems to work fine, but I only use it for family chats.I didn't realize it had a 3.5mm headset jack. That's a nice surprise. The jack is on a corner (top left when the tablet is on its kickstand) which seems an odd choice but I guess it works in both landscape and portrait that way.The accessories (case, keyboard, mouse) aren't the sturdiest, but most tablets don't include them. I wanted to be sure I could get a case that fit correctly, and this fits the bill for that. I'm embarrassed to say that I took over 20 minutes trying to figure out how to make the kickstand work, and finally watched an unboxing video. Now that I know that the case flap curls only backward and upward I see that it's trivial. Second photo is the kick stand folded in place before leaning the tablet against it.I much prefer having a separate mouse and keyboard; tablet keyboards with touchpads tend to sent the cursor scurrying away to edit the wrong text on a whim. I try to make a point of disabling the touchpad on the Fire tablet keyboard I have to avoid that, but sometimes it's useful to be able to work with cursor control without touching the screen, so the inclusion of a mouse is good.It does seem to burn through the battery quite quickly. The display maximum brightness is far higher than any phone or tablet I've owned before; it might be that I've had the brightness too high while testing. Even if not, I'd prefer a bright screen to a long battery life to work in more bright spaces.I wasn't able to make the screen protector stick without bubbles, so I abandoned it.The tablet appears to do everything I need and more, quickly, and in a wide variety of light conditions. Of course, I want it for writing, and immediately set up Amazon Prime and Netflix, so who knows how much writing I'll ever do.Ver másVer menos
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