New to tablets

[dancingbetta]

Hi all!

While this is my first tablet, I am not new to Android at all. Bought the legendary G1 when it was a year old and a year later the first Galaxy S. Both of them were rooted and ran Cyanogen or other ROMs
After being rather peeved with Samsung for not officially releasing ICS for my phone and unimpressed with Google's own offering, I recently bit the bullet and switched to iOS - which I am quite happy with.

Nevertheless I have come full circle already after winning a competition at work and being presented with a gift off the Tesco catalog worth around 100 quid. Unfortunately not quite enough for the kindle fire, but I spotted the Engage instead. Initially i was a bit wary of getting a tablet from a relatively unknown brand, but the generally positive reviews of the other models persuaded me to go for it.

I received the tablet today, the folio case and stylus I ordered separately already arrived last week.
Thanks to the forums here I managed to find the Play store and make a shortcut for it. Thanks for that! Being stuck with third party app stores was the one thing I was most worried about.

I'll use the Engage mostly for reading, both books and online content, whenever the additional screen estate comes in handy.

Regards,

Dancing Betta

[Trashcooky]

Hi and welcome to the forum.
We look forward to seeing you in the lounge and help threads as it sounds like you know a bit.
After you have had more time to explore and try things you might like to offer your review of the Engage as I think they are a bit thin on the ground in this forum.
Look forward to hearing from you in the future.

[dancingbetta]

Hello,

After a few months with this tablet I have to admit I am sadly giving up on it. I use it for checking social media, some light reading on Amazon Kindle and viewing and updating my files on Springpad, no gaming or heavy video use at all - but the amount of times apps (no specific ones, everything) throw me a "The application XXX has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." upon opening are frustrating. No way to "look something up quickly" on this, especially with the quite notable lag. I don't remember my Galaxy S being this fussy.
Sorry, not impressed but not much to expect at that price point.

Regards,

Dancing Betta

[dancingbetta]

Last update:

I sold the Scroll tablet an spent a long time looking at what other Android-based options I had. For a long while I was tempted by the latest quad cores like the Onda V972, Chuwi V99 or Ainol Spark.
However, many quads still seem stuck on Android 4.04 and the amount ad stability of third party ROMs is not great.
Therefore, I went for a dual core instead, in this case the original version of the Ainol Hero. Loaded the cranked_hero ROM from Slatedroid on it and am using the Nova Launcher and all is well.

Lesson of the day: if you do buy an Android tablet that isn't from one of the major players, double-check the level of community support beforehand!

Regards,

Dancing Betta

[Trashcooky]

Last update:

I sold the Scroll tablet an spent a long time looking at what other Android-based options I had. For a long while I was tempted by the latest quad cores like the Onda V972, Chuwi V99 or Ainol Spark.
However, many quads still seem stuck on Android 4.04 and the amount ad stability of third party ROMs is not great.
Therefore, I went for a dual core instead, in this case the original version of the Ainol Hero. Loaded the cranked_hero ROM from Slatedroid on it and am using the Nova Launcher and all is well.

Lesson of the day: if you do buy an Android tablet that isn't from one of the major players, double-check the level of community support beforehand!

Regards,

Dancing Betta

I have moved this entire thread to the "Lounge" as this section is reserved for just new member introductions as it says at the top of the page.

Thanks for your informative posts.