Wopad V7 review
When Wopad first entered the tablet world, it did so in a backward trend. So, where other industry players were pushing for elbow space in a 10-inch figure world, the company resorted to a lesser, more common battlefront, shunning the Honeycomb OS and instead opted for a Gingerbread-baked overlay on its new Wopad V7. Yes, Android 2.3 makes an outward show here, the time we should be talking of Sandwiches and maybe hamburgers to come. And who cares since it’s an already always-on-the-go assistant tablet, while it’s newly hatched VC882 1GHz Cortex A8 32 bit processor speed can no doubt influence you to fork out for that flimsy $129.99 price tag. Follow down past the break for more impressions.
Regardless of how you cut it, the Wopad V7 looks like a giant ‘wow pad’ (the 7-inch version, to be precise), and not necessarily a dire happening here considering we’ve always had a soft spot for those curvy-like sides and it’s quite rigid, with a plastic build. On the back, a white rear coat gives that sort of smooth textured feel seen on smartphones; it’s also very comfortable in the hand, although the back doesn’t sport a removable battery. That in fact would turn out to be a bummer, but on the contrary given what you’re about to learn with regards to its battery life farther along in this review.
Aside from the four capacitive buttons (search, menu, back and home), camera and mic at the face of the tablet, Wopad’s kept the layout very clean. A plastic slide-out on the right edge hides the SIM and SD card slots. The tablet’s top is home to the power button, volume rocker, and while on the left edge, sits a headphone jack. Software experience is bubbly, thanks to an outstanding UI which includes Wopad’s own full-screen launcher and widgets. Widgets are essentially useful – the Home draws in the local weather and previously used apps, social networks feed, and network search bar including thumbnails for all your bookmarks, and locally stored pictures in gallery. However, if those aren’t your thing, just delete them and have the panes customized with regular Android widgets and apps.
Either way, Wopad V7’s performance was enormously snappy. In most cases, you’d think it’s the Galaxy Tab – it doesn’t lag while opening applications, spooling down webpages, or taping through Wopad’s Stage widgets. Likewise, games such as Angry Birds and Asphalt 5 were very fluid. Besides promising prompt performance, Cortex A8 32 bit processor boasts of 1080P video playback, and the Wopad V7 certainly verifies that. A 1080p video clip of Justin Bieber’s Stuck In The Moment played with no experience of lag or stuttering. A 720p video streaming on YouTube was also satisfactory and generally its Flash performance was fairly decent.
While the good news continues, the unremoveable three-cell battery could take you about 3 hours and 30 minutes while looping a video/movie at 65% brightness. But when you just surf the web and play some of the aforementioned games you can enjoy 5-6 hours of battery life, at least you’ll agree you can do something with that. That said, $129.99 can’t be pinching to bet on a platform that promises a decent battery life and fluid navigation.
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