Anandtech’s First Look at Viewsonic G Tablet
Anandtech takes a quick glimpse at the Viewsonic G Tablet, a Tegra 2-powered Android 2.2 10.1-inch tablet with Viewsonic’s own customised UI. What did they have to say? Well, apart from a good technical breakdown of what the Tegra 2 SoC is, and the hardware underlying the tablet, Anandtech was not particularly favourable with regard to Viewsonic’s customised UI: “Viewsonic loaded their own Tap UI onto the G Tablet. It’s a decent looking UI, but it’s aggravatingly slow and makes most of the navigation through the OS pretty painful.” It is surprising that the UI would be so slow on such a powerful processor. Concluding remarks: “Our first impressions of the G Tablet, beyond the woeful viewing angles and the unfortunate UI skin, is actually that of a fairly usable budget tablet.” (What would they say about the aPad?)
It becomes fairly obvious that this tablet does not quite compete in the leagues of the Rockchips, Telechips and VIA powered tablets, but rather with the big and expensive boys like the, Galaxy’s and iPads. A Tegra 2 tablet being called budget, even at a modest USD$399, still is enough to scare many away. That said, the impression of underwhelming resignation that we get from the Anandtech preview makes us wonder if Tegra 2 is all that without a properly programmed Android. That is, can the sheer power of the processor make up for incredibly bad OS integration? The first look suggests not. It is slightly disappointing. Read the full review here.
via anandtech
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