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Hands on with the ViewSonic ViewPad 7e

09/14/2011 at 10:16 PM by Brad Linder 2 Comments

ViewSonic ViewPad 7e

The ViewSonic ViewPad 7e is a 7 inch budget tablet which is expected to launch soon for about $200. The tablet has an 800 x 600 pixel capacitive touchscreen display and a rather chunky case, especially when compared with more svelte tablets such as the ViewSonic ViewPad 7x or Acer Iconia Tab A100. But during a brief hands-on with the tablet tonight, I found the ViewPad 7e to offer a pretty compelling user experience.

The little tablet is very fast and responsive, with an unspecified 1 GHz processor. It features a home screen launcher based on SPB Mobile shell which offers some fun visual eye candy, including a 3D carousel for switching between your home screens to view different widgets or application shortcuts.

I’m not in love with the four big plastic buttons below the display. On the one hand, they’re easy to find and press, but they’re a lot less elegant than the capacitive touch buttons found on more expensive tablets.

The ViewPad 7e features WiFi, Bluetooth, and HDMI. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and while the tablet doesn’t include access to the official Google Android Market, ViewSonic does load it up with the Amazon Appstore as well as a few other third party apps (including Amazon Kindle and Amazon MP3 apps… so if you don’t want to wait for Amazon to release its Kindle tablet, you can get a taste of the Amazon experience from ViewSonic.

ViewSonic expects the ViewPad 7e to go on sale in late October for about $199.

 

ViewSonic ViewPad 7e


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I hate it when there is no support for Android Market, because Amazon is a big joke, its not available in all countries, mine included! FAIL!
And no, other alternatives often do not carry required apps or simply offer them through… Android Market!

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If you are thinking of getting this tablet, I hope you like Gingerbread. Viewsonic previous Android tablet was much more powerful than this one and came with Froyo. It has been 10 months and it’s still on Froyo.

Have a look at the gTablet user community campaign on Facebook for more info.

https://www.facebook.com/gTabletOwners

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