8" contender to the scroll?

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8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Kommander » February 6th, 2011, 7:17 pm

Ok, slightly envious here, just found this in my e-mail and was drooling a bit at the specifications - especially for the similar price band - views/opinions?

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product ... B-S5PV2108
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Kommander » February 6th, 2011, 7:24 pm

According to androidtablets.net - it's basically a Galaxy Tab clone (minus the 3G and bluetooth features)

http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/sam ... blets.html
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Steveee-B » February 6th, 2011, 9:53 pm

Looks good doesnt it. tut!
Have you seen its already running 2.2 as well?!
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Kommander » February 6th, 2011, 9:56 pm

2.2, more memory and a better A8 cortex (i.e. flash 10 out of the box!) processor.

*gets hammer out and eyes the piggy bank" :lol:
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Charlie » February 6th, 2011, 10:17 pm

@Kommander - Buy buy buy - you know you want to :D
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Panrider » February 6th, 2011, 10:53 pm

£38 more than maplin and £63 more than Tesco for the Scroll.

The battery seems a bit on the small side.

The 2mp camera would be nice though.

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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Pete_S » February 6th, 2011, 11:14 pm

<<Weight (kg) : 3.00>> Image

Weight cock-up aside, I don't like the micro usb port and the apparent lack of a usb host too. Or perhaps it's just sour grapes ...
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby Kommander » February 6th, 2011, 11:24 pm

Yeah, battery caught my eye too - then again we were talking a while back about looking for Li-Po batteries for the scroll - maybe the same could be applied.

Though I'm not sure I could justify the use of a second tablet.

Though I could buy it on the basis of it being a tablet for my staff to use as necessary...
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby glostermeteor » February 8th, 2011, 7:13 pm

I'm sticking with my scroll until Android 3 is rolled out properly. Hopefully we might see tablets with capacitive screens drop in price too.
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Re: 8" contender to the scroll?

Postby mSDesign » February 17th, 2011, 9:21 pm

Thank you for this post, it looks interesting. does the amount of RAM matter on the scrolls as to whether it can run apps compared to the linked one?
I am considering either just staying with the bog standard scroll 7" or the 8" version which has just been released as far as I'm aware?

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