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10" Advent Vega Tablet - €250 @ Currys/PC World

  • 03-09-2011 11:33pm
    #1
    witnessmenow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    Advent_Vega_Tablet_AC_1-580x378.jpg

    Dual core Tegra 2 (same cpu as the high end xoom and Transformer)
    10" capacitive touch screen
    Front facing camera
    HDMI out
    Micro SD card slot (comes with 4gb)
    Moddable

    Ok so not as cheap as the hanspree in the other thread, it does have a couple of advantages though:

    No potential lottery of getting an older model
    Bricks and Mortar store
    Camera
    Sweet sweet honeycomb!

    Disadvantage:
    The viewing angles are not as good as the hanspree

    This is basically the orange San Francisco of tablets, it has an absolute massive modding community. In the last few weeks a Honeycomb 3.2 rom was released and its is excellent, and constantly improving!

    One issue may be stock though, I would ask over in the currys & pc world thread does your local store have stock before calling down.

    Links

    Modaco - Good base for modding and custom roms

    Honeycomb Rom


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Didn't know they got a honeycomb port working on it yet. Is there any big problems with the honeycomb port?


  • #3
    Rafloution
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Rafloution


    Not a bad price but I an assure you the screen is absolute dirt.

    If you are going to drop 250 euro on this save another 100 and ensure the screen is good. I bought one of these when they were 300 quid 6 months ago and it went back within a week.

    Just to add some people are more than happy with theirs which is fair enough however I expected better quality for 300 euro at the time


  • #4
    witnessmenow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    It has crashed twice since i installed the latest version. (3-4 days ago)

    The camera only works on the camera app at the moment (so no video chat)

    Other than that its all good.


  • #5
    witnessmenow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    Rafloution wrote: »
    Not a bad price but I an assure you the screen is absolute dirt.

    If you are going to drop 250 euro on this save another 100 and ensure the screen is good. I bought one of these when they were 300 quid 6 months ago and it went back within a week.

    Just to add some people are more than happy with theirs which is fair enough however I expected better quality for 300 euro at the time

    Dirt is fairly harsh!! I find the touch screen part perfect. The viewing agle could be better but I think its fine.



  • #6
    aN.Droid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭aN.Droid


    I had to return mien as the touch on the screen was broken. It would last for 5 minutes then not pick up any touch.

    I have tried all the major roms out there. The honeycomb rom was great. but had its problems aswell. Some of the vega's have too much corrupt sectors in the system partition for it to work correctly. That is the explanation given by the vegacomb devs. Mien malfunctioned more then once.

    I loved this tablet. the viewing angle was real bad but I still miss having it. I think my next purchase will either be the vega 2 when it is released or the transformer 2 when that is also released.


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