Unboxing The CorePad 8R Android Tablet
Here we have the CorePad 8R – the Android 2.2 tablet that’s powered by a 1.2GHz Samsung S5pv210 processor and sports a 8-inch resistive touchscreen with a resolution of 800 x 480. It may be a generic tablet but it also has decent specs that allow this tablet to do its job and do it well. Web browsing, easy user interface, video playback, Flash 10.1 support and 3D gaming with its Power SGX540 OpenGL ES1.1 and 2.2 and OpenVG1.0 3D graphics accelerator makes this device perfect for your well rounded, every day tablet. I get to experience the CorePad 8R first hand in this unboxing edition. Find out how it went after the break.
BOX AND TREATS
The CorePad 8R comes in a pretty nice and all-up-in-your-face bright blue box. In my opinion, its one of the better boxes I’ve seen. The shade of blue is nice and there’s our friend, Android placed right in the middle. There’s also the caption “Android In Me” which is a cute little touch to it all. As for what treats come within, you get your standard earphones, USB to MiniUSB cable, 2-pin flat AC charger and a manual.
BODY
There’s no beating around the bush with this – it looks like a common tablet but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It may not be unique in style but the common tab is popular for a reason (well… it’s normally a clone of some major tablet that’s spent money on the design, but it still means these tabs can look good). Back to it – it has a nice plastic build which isn’t too heavy at all – 499 grams – and has a nice dark grey plastic back and your common black front bezel complete with three buttons on the side. These three buttons are its menu, back/power and home buttons. All other buttons are found on the touchscreen. The tablet also has a 1.3-megapixel front camera on the top right and a single speaker on the back. On its (right) side perimeter you’ll find an AC jack, a 3.5mm headphone jack, an MicroSD card slot, an HDMI port, mic, mini USB port and USB port.
FACE
The user interface on the CorePad 8R is very easy to use, and FINALLY, I’ve found a resistive touchscreen that actually responds to my severely bitten off nails!! Oh the joy! I jump for that joy. Browsing though the menus, apps and the web worked well. The internet connected fine and websites like Gmail, Facebook and free Flash game sites worked fine. I even had a hand at Angry Birds on ugotgames.com which lagged slightly but was still playable. Watching Flash videos on youtube was also no problem – the videos streamed well but then also encountered slight lag when skipping through the tracks. The youtube app worked a charm though.
OTHER
The tablets 1.3-megapixel camera was fine to use. It can take photos as well as record video – both of which was fine but it did take me some time to recover from witnessing the monstrosity that was staring back at me from the saved file after testing. Camera complete with mic means video chats with progammes like Skype.
FOLLOW-UP
I didn’t manage to try out video playback or apps on the device, but before you all soak your feet in salty tears, I will be doing a follow up covering those very features soon to come.
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