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(More customer reviews)So from the outside this thing kinda looks vaguely like an iPad. Right? Sure. In pictures. Thats where the comparison between the two end.
Let me start by saying that I will never buy an Apple product, and have been looking for an iPad replacement running android for awhile now. For whatever reason most manufacturers have decided for no apparent reason that most customers REALLY want 7 inch tablets, and I cant figure out where they got that mandate, but hey, if they dont want my money I will keep looking.
So I found this Flytouch2, which I was more interested in because it is a 10" touchscreen (so they call it) and it is running Android. I already have a HTC Droid Incredible and have been massively impressed with thus far. So this sounded like a great buy! Woops!
The stylus seems like a neat idea, I have thought that the iPad needed one from the get go. Its hard to really "write" with your fingers compared to a pen, and so I figured that was a good idea. Little did I know that the stylus is completely necessary to even USE the touchscreen. The touchscreen (which is dull looks like an 80's or early 90's style LCD, and not multi touch) requires that you apply so much force for it to register your finger there that calling it a touchscreen is disingenuous at best. The only other option is to use somthing incredibly sharp, so it takes less force on a given area to register (hence the much needed stylus). My fingers hurt after using it for just a few minutes trying to just register the thing. And god help you if you need to write an email. Without using the stylus on the virtual keyboard that just isn't happening. No how no way.
The plastic construction of the case feels cheap, and it makes allot of plastic on plastic cracking noises as ill sized plastic formed pieces rub against each other. The buttons are alright, but the switch to turn on and off the wifi (not even sure why its there) barely moves, and feels so cheap its just downright insane that someone would include that and not just say screw it its not worth the cost of including it because it devalues the whole product for its mere presence.
Then there is the speed. Now this is one of the most annoying features. So even once you have slogged through the touchscreen issues, and your fingers hurt, then they added all these crazy 3d effects like a spinning cube which all the icons hang out on, or when the icons all happily bounce into view as if suspended on virtual slinkies. Then you realize that the processor on this thing isnt NEARLY up to the task of rendering the graphics that are foisted on you. It takes a second and a half just to switch between screens in a choppy jerking/bouncing motion. And of course, just to make it super fun, none of these features can be shut off. Which I assume goes hand in hand with the complete inability to uninstall all the pre-installed software, much of which is written primarily with prolific pictographic characters.
On that same note, while it CAN take two TF cards, it has under 1GB of native storage space available on it. That is definitely the smallest of my complaints about it, but its most decidedly a nuisance.
Then just to add insult to injury, i wanted to upgrade it hoping that would help, or reset it to factory default settings so I could return it. And lo and behold, it just freezes on a screen that says infoTMIC. I left it overnight on this screen hoping that it was actually doing somthing and would eventually reset. Nope. Nothing. So its stuck with the original firmware, and my gmail account is perpetually locked into the device. Meaning that I am uncomfortable sending this thing back to China.
There are some upsides to this device, not many but if you look deep you can find some similarities to a functional android cellphone. I would say that the term cheap junk doesnt quite do justice to this product. Now I just need to figure out what I can do with it since sending it back seems out of the question due to the private information already loaded into it. Maybe use it as a paperweight?
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