Market full of me-too tablets that all look the same and do the same things the same way, Vice credit for thinking outside the box. Vice VTAB1008 Tablet ($ 329 list) has a lot of humor and personality, as well as a convenient remote control. But it is too slow and not doing enough to be considered a true competitor for Apple iPhone ($ 499 - $ 829, 4.5 stars), the best tablet on the market. It is not the same price Acer Iconia Tab A100 ($ 329.99, 4 stars), our favorite small screen tablet.Design
Measuring 6.6 by 8.1 inches, 0.48 Tablet Vizio is much squarer than most other tablets. Between 8 inches and the aspect ratio of 4:03 of the tablet, it large enough to be useful orientation, ie 16:10 Android tablets, which are virtually useless in an upright position. The only real drawback is that the keyboard is awkward to use with your thumbs while the tablet in a vertical position, you'll want to put down and get some more of you, where 16:10 is a tablet device, however, a surprisingly heavy hand. At 1.29 pounds, is not rock, but is much heavier than the 7-inch Tab Iconia A100 and almost the same weight is the largest 9.7-inch iPad 2, which weighs pounds 1.33.
The front panel has all the glossy screen and the frame, with the exception of the front facing camera lens. It has a VGA quality camera, great for video chat, but is unlikely to be useful for taking pictures or video. There is no rear camera: The back is gray, metallic plastic futuristic Vizio logo.
The back of the platform is wider than the front. In the top panel is the power button, 3.5mm headphone jack and dual stereo speakers. Living the volume controls on the right side of the tablet, while the bottom has a third speaker (if you get stereo sound in any orientation). The speakers sound good, they are stronger and brighter than the speakers in most of the tablets. The stereo effect is good too, but make no mistake, you do not sound very good here. Also at the bottom are microwave and microUSB port cover and microSD card slot HDMI. (Because there are only 2 GB of storage available for integrated user you want to use the microSD slot.) Tablet can leave the video up to 1080p via HDMI port micro. There is also Wi-Fi b / g / n and Bluetooth built in.
As with any Android device, the buttons Home, Menu and Back available on the Tablet Vizio, but rather to exist in one place, they are capacitive buttons, which always rests on the bottom of the screen. When you turn the knobs rotation device as it is a neat, trick.
The 8-inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 768 multi-touch screen which is able to IPAD solution, and its aspect ratio (4:3). As a small screen, text and graphics look a little stronger than the iPad. The biggest problem with the monitor is its viewing angle: Looking Vizio Tablet side is difficult and you can not see much. For comparison, one can watch a IPAD from a horizontal viewing angle and completely still see the screen clearly. It is also not a particularly bright screen, especially at Auto by default too low.
The screen is very sensitive to touch and easy to use tablets SwiftKey keyboard that offers personal correction. I especially like that the keyboard is divided, when in landscape mode, so all keys are available with your thumbs. This is a much better typing experience than other tablets I've used.
Android Apps
You never know to look at, but the Android 2.3 "Gingerbread", which is optimized for mobile phones, without pills, tablets powers Vice. Vizio TVs are buses that run Internet applications on the Application called Vizio, Vizio and went on his way to customize Android as it looks and feels as if they were applications. Therefore, it is not really a problem, Vizio is not running Tablet honeycomb, the tablet versions of Android. OS does not seem to tend to fill the larger screen. Android is not the classic problem of having too little application to use the tablet, but a phone optimized for applications, at least look a little 'better in the 8-inch screen as-10.1 inches. (Vizio does not claim that is working to update the honeycomb, but no release date has been announced.)
The remote control is pre-installed app, which is close, Hallmark, and the function of Vice Tablet App. No IR blaster inside the tablet, which operates the remote control application to become a universal remote for any home entertainment system. Determination is necessary to know the model number for each device you want to manage, but when you do cinch to find, just point and tap. You can organize the engine room, and switch between them with ease. The integration and the level of control depends on the device and manufacturer of Vizio TVs tablet works better, and will be strongly integrated with Google TV-based line of Vizio TVs soon, but for most of the devices, provides the necessary checks.
When you turn on the device, there is no indication on how to open it before you touch the screen, which is odd, but since most people's instinct is to touch the screen in any case, not a huge deal. Lock the screen has a ton of information on, alerts and much more, to take all at a glance, even with the opening of the device, it was nice.
One thing you notice when you unlock the tablet is that the home screen is only about the drawer. When you go home, go to a program schedule of the unit, divided into two sections: one of the categories such as favorite games and you can control manually, and all applications are, well, all your applications. Below are shortcuts to the browser, email, market, shopping, and music applications. These are non-customized version of applications that have a completely different aesthetic from the rest of the shelf so that the difference Vizio is a little jarring. They did not look good on the big screen. If you like widgets, they are available in a program called Widgets Council.
There are a lot of preinstalled applications, fortunately. You have the standard clock Google browser, calculator, calendar, camera, contacts, downloads, email, gallery, Latitude Gmail, Google Search, Maps, market, music, navigation, news, weather, places, values, speak and YouTube. Vizio adds to this list a corner of the application (for reading eBooks), remote control, user manual (a manual for Tablet Vizio) and the Council of the Widget above. There is also access to Android Market, where you can get all Android applications, more than 200,000 (like Flash, which supports the platform) and Hulu Plus, which is currently supported only by the Tablet Vizio.
Android software itself is full of small flowers, when you touch the button, before something happens, lights, and animated. And 'good enough, and is a nice novelty for about ten minutes, but I immediately hated as the car slows down. It does not slow the device itself, it just made every single activity will last more than two seconds, because every time you press the button or swipe the screen, it was a wonderful thing to do before he could take me where I wanted to go . You can eliminate some of these animations in the Options menu, but not as much as I wanted to get rid of.
In addition, there were a number of times the device very late, or just overwritten. In two different points, the application launch crash when launching the application is the startup screen, which is pretty much out of luck when it breaks. In general, Tablet Vizio has just taken a rate of almost anything, or to respond to button presses. There is a long delay in a couple of times, but eventually just started to not feel up to their tasks.
Performance
Vizio Inside the Tablet, there is a 1GHz Marvell Armada 600 series single-core processor. This is a generation behind dual-core processors seen in most tablets honeycomb, and is more suited to a phone in a tablet. Here, it feels slow.
My experience with the tablet is slow confirmed during our performance tests. Our performance tests scored the game an Android smartphone low end in less than half of the Galaxy Tab tablets 10.1 or Acer Iconia Tab A100. This tablet is not designed to handle intensive applications or games, and can be slower than your smartphone.
Mirror to an HDTV was a seamless experience, even if there was a significant deterioration on the side TV. He has dealt with Bluetooth headsets as well.
There is a positive side, underpowered machine inside Vizio Tablet: The battery is excellent. Vizio prices compressed 10 hours of battery life under normal conditions, in my tests, including leaving the screen and the Wi-Fi and play the movie the loop until the battery runs out, scored compressed Vizio to 6 hours, 42 minutes duration battery.
Vizio Tablet receives many points to be something different and add features, a universal remote, it is legally single shelf space. But the tablet can simply not good enough to compete against its competitors tablet. The price is right, but that does not excuse his faults, the A100 Iconia Tab is the same price, and works much better, and $ 199 Amazon Kindle fire seems more convincing as well, even if it is not available. Heck, moved Nook color card N2A ($ 34.99, 4 stars) did better on our performance tests. The price is right for the tablet Vizio, but the tablet is not ready for prime time.
