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Android 4.0 Tablet (7" Capacitive, Wi-Fi, 1GHz) = €92
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Deleted User wrote: »I mistyped the price. I paid €330. Its advertised on their site under the Android Tablets for €359 but as I did, you can ask then to knock €30 off. Am using mobile so I cant add the link to this message
One deadly feature is you can set it up to use as a remote control for all your devices in the house (TV, UPC box etc).
No worries.
I would've driven to Dublin for €230. At €330, not so interested!
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Just got my Elf2 yesterday, from a seller on Aliexpress.com. Got stung for 20quid customs from DHL though
, so it worked out at 140e all in, including a keyboard leather case (which I'll admit I don't know if I'll have much use for, the touch keyboard is well up to the job, but it was only 15dollars extra).
The android version on it from stock was fairly rubbish, with alot of chinese apps dotted around the place, however I'm just after throwing a custom ROM on (http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/34586-elf-iirom-updated-darkelf-custom-rom-for-ainol-novo7-elf-ii/) now, which was remarkably easy to do, that has given me google play, youtube and aload of other stuff.
All in all I'm certainly happy with it, no lag at all in the tablet, I have a SGS2 also and was sort of afraid that if I got a cheap tablet it wouldn't be a patch on the galaxy and would only frustrate me, but not at all!
I should be getting my Tablet as well tomorrow was no one at home for delivery also got stund for €27 from customs Will look at your link to get google play if not it tks 0 -
Just got my Elf2 yesterday, from a seller on Aliexpress.com. Got stung for 20quid customs from DHL though, so it worked out at 140e all in, including a keyboard leather case (which I'll admit I don't know if I'll have much use for, the touch keyboard is well up to the job, but it was only 15dollars extra).
The android version on it from stock was fairly rubbish, with alot of chinese apps dotted around the place, however I'm just after throwing a custom ROM on (http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/34586-elf-iirom-updated-darkelf-custom-rom-for-ainol-novo7-elf-ii/) now, which was remarkably easy to do, that has given me google play, youtube and aload of other stuff.
All in all I'm certainly happy with it, no lag at all in the tablet, I have a SGS2 also and was sort of afraid that if I got a cheap tablet it wouldn't be a patch on the galaxy and would only frustrate me, but not at all!
Have one ordered from somewhere else. Getting delivered by HK airmail, so I have slightly better chance of avoiding customs (though still very slim chance). Also a much bigger chance I will never see my Elf 2, but thats the gamble!!!! From your initial view though, it sounds worth my 100 yoyos if it does arrive.0 -
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Luckycharm wrote: »I should be getting my Tablet as well tomorrow was no one at home for delivery also got stund for €27 from customs Will look at your link to get google play if not it tks
If you caught caught for €27 and Timmaay paid €20. What do customs base their charges on ?0 -
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I bought a 7" tablet via Aliexpress - none of the specs matched up to what was advertised. Google Market updated to Play and never worked again. Many apps that worked on another Android (also non-ICS) device didn't work. The internal file layout had been customised and as a result other apps like Titanium Backup couldn't restore anything I had saved from my previous device. I sent it back (at my own expense) and got a different 7" tablet with an IPS screen and ICS.
The new tablet arrived and straight away I realised that it wasn't ICS but a skin on an older version of Android to make it look like ICS. It was supposed to take a 32mb microSD card - it didn't. It was supposed to take a SIM card and make phone calls - it didn't. It was supposed to be able to take a 3G modem - it didn't. It was supposed to take a USB connection to an external storage device - it didn't.
I didn't bother sending it back because after numerous complaints to Aliexpress they just didn't reply after a while and the store in question held off sending the replacement until I withdrew my negative review of the first tablet.
The website of the second tablet (Cube) shut down soon after I bought it. I waited three months and finally another forum posted a beta ICS ROM which is a slight improvement (phone part works and more apps work) but many of the much vaunted features just never worked.
You must also remember that while many cheap tablets claim to have similar specs to branded tablets the actual quality of parts may be quite inferior and while they claim to have a certain make & type of processor it might be the Celeron version with a speed hyped as 1GHz but is in fact an overclocked 800MHz CPU - which will overheat and disappoint over time. For example, the second tablet I got has an extremely bad WiFi chipset - it can't maintain a WiFi connection from the next room while my HTC Desire HD can connect from the road outside (I live three floors up).
At the same time I also bought a cheap dual-SIM Android phone from Merrimobile - it was a disaster. So bad was it that PayPal judged in my favour in hours after lodging a complaint (unfortunately I used my credit card with Aliexpress and they were very quick to take my money). I sent the phone back (it came from China but went back to Canada) and they refused to sign for it so it came back to me along with a refund from PayPal. I tried using the phone when it came back but after doing a restore it booted up into a Russian ROM (that they had stolen from a Russian forum for MTK6573 (Star B63M) phones) and kept crashing - it now just won't boot into Android at all.
I'm currently using a battered Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet I got from my sister and the difference is astounding despite it being badly damaged. It's got similar specs to the Chinese cheap tablet but is far superior in every way.
So all I'm saying is, don't have high hopes, expect to be disappointed, don't expect much in the way of support. If you're tech-minded and are willing to spend hours upon hours tweaking and customising that's okay but the average user will have a struggle if they want to do anything more than use social media and read books.
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This post is just for the people who are confused with the quality of the cheap tablets that you are interested in.
I understand what nodolan just said and I am pretty sure that this happened. However, I would like to give people my experience(not long) so that they may gain from it.
My friend brought me a cheap tablet from China two weeks ago. It was an Ainol Aurora II. The reason I asked him to get me this particular one is because the feedback of the older version, Elf I, is pretty good online. So I thought it wouldn't be too far off my expectation for the second generation of Aurora (The first generation had some bad feedback on the IPS screen, but it was changed to Samsung screen, if I didn't remember wrong). I have to say it is definitely better than I expected. The screen resolution is good, though can't compare with the new ipad. The battery life is about 5-6 hours for gaming. I havn't tried movie yet as the screen is too small
. The touch screen was not responding well (sometimes I had to press it a little bit harder to get it recognized.). However, this problem was solved by updating to the latest ROM from the factory. Wifi was not slow but dropped out occasionally. This problem was improved after updating the new ROM. The Wifi signal was better than my HP Pre 3 as I couldn't used my pre 3 in the toilet, but with the tablet, I can.
There are some known problem with the Aurora II as far as I can tell from the official website. However, they engineers in the factory are working on it. I think there will be another ROM released soon..
I haven't tried the 3G yet as I don't have a usb 3G modem. It is supposed to have ability of connecting an external bluetooth device. But it is not supported yet. As far as I can find from the official forum, they are still working on it.
I have tried to install a very popular football game from google play, it said it was not compatible with my device before I started installing. I tried another football game(can't remember the name, maybe called real football, or something like that). It works fine. I play it everyday. No problems at all with angry birds, fruit ninja and ect.
Overall, this tablet is definitely worth buying for general use. I don't think any tablets in the market can completely replace the role of laptop or desktop, not for me anyway.
If anyone want more specs of this particular tablet, you can google Aurora II.
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