CherryPad 7-Inch Android Tablet Video Review
CherryPad 7-Inch Android Tablet Video Review
Tablets, tablets and more tablets. If we were asked to pick only one HOT product category this holiday shopping season, there wouldn't be even a nanosecond of hesitation before we offered the words tablet PCs. Tablet PCs may not be a new product category or idea but they certainly have come of age and 2011 is shaping up now to be the year of the tablet. Apple made a big splash with the iPad earlier this year and Q4 is starting to look like it will bring a veritable tidal wave of Android and Windows 7-based devices competing for shopping carriage space versus Apple's new 10-inch darling slate computer. The good news is, all of this competition is bound to mean lower prices at retail. Fittingly, a small company out of Paola Alto, CA no less -- Cherrypal, made headlines recently with the announcement of their dirt-cheap $188 CherryPad tablet.The CherryPad is a 7-inch slate that comes preloaded with the Android 2.1 (aka Eclair) operating system and is driven by an 800MHz ARM11-based processor by Samsung, backed by a meager 256MB of DDR2 system memory. The device is also based on a resistive touch display, so it takes a bit of getting use to, if you've been working with devices like the iPhone or similar, where capacitive touch displays are ubiquitous. Journey on here with us in this quick-take video review of the CherryPad. Just what does $188 buy you in an Android tablet? You're about to find out.
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| Height | 5.19 inch (13.2 cm) |
| Width | 0.49 inch (1.25 cm) |
| Length | 7.95 inch (20.2 cm) |
| Weight | 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg) |
| Processor | Telechips ARM11 800 MHz (CPU + GPU + DSP) system-on-chip |
| Graphics accelerator | OpenGL 2.0 |
| Firmware: | 0.90 Eclair (optimized for smooth scrolling and power management) |
| Operating environment: | Android 2.1 (over the air apgrade to 2.2 scheduled for end of 2010) |
| access to Android Market | |
| Factory language setting: | English (United States) |
| Other supported languages: | English (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore), |
| Spanish, Chinese (PRC, Taiwan), Czech, Dutch (Netherlands, Belgium), | |
| Czech, Dutch (Netherlands, Belgium), French (France, Belgium, Canada, | |
| Switzerland), German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein), | |
| Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Norwegian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian | |
| Display technology: | 7-inch resistive touch screen 800-by-480 pixels resolution |
| Display navigation: | touch of finers (soft touch, firm touch) or stylus |
| Sensors | gravity sensor |
| Video playback | 1080p (HDTV video mode, 1,080 lines of vertical resolution) |
| Memory | 256 MB DDR2 |
| Storage | 2 GB NAND Flash (plus 16 GB through Micro SD card) |
| Wirless (WiFi) | 802.11 b/g (n) |
| Speakers | 1 high quality stereo speaker |
| Microphone | built in microphone |
| Audio | 3.5mm headphone jack |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Card reader: | Micro SD reader (supports up to 16 GB) |
| Battery: | 3200 MAh rechargable lithium-polymer battery (6 to 8 hours run time) |
In short, the CherryPad falls down a bit where Cherrypal decided to cut corners from a cost perspective. The device needs another 256MB of RAM (for 512MB total) and a higher quality touch screen (perhaps a 1GHz CPU?) and that would have likely pushed its price to the $250 mark or higher perhaps. Still, for better overall experience and usability, and heck, toss in a web cam while we're at it, we'd offer that most would gladly pay the upcharge.
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