About 400 MB apparently. Officially 512MB (in the manual). Battery life not looking promising either. The one i bought this morning is also discharging quickly.
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Maybe it's because it was last charged months ago in china. Am charging it now to test. Ewww just identified serious build issues.
I was having issues with the status bar buttons and re-oriented to test. Felt a significant portion of the works shift inside. I haven't had that problem, and i've just given it a good shake after reading your experience.
It's not sturdy but it feels solid enough. OK, basic experience with Aldi an Bauhn- forget them if you need any help. So far we have had four devices all purchased from Aldi.
3 tablets and a camera. There have been other things like the POD coffee machine and frother- but they all failed within warranty continuously and so we just go back and exchange them. With the tablets – all of them have had the digitiser ( what most people think of as the 'screen') cracked and there is no way I can get Bauhn or Aldi to give me a part number, or even some one that will sell me one. The tablets do the job we want and there is no requirement to chuck them (they are the ICS version from about 2 years ago). The batteries are still going well. But due to the cracks being dangerous for possible cut fingers, we cant use them.
So perfectly good devices are basically scrap for the lack of a part. The camera is in the same position. One of the buttons has a collapsed spring inside and so you cant turn the camera on.
Trying to get a new board (I know getting only a switch is beyond hope) gets the same response as the tablets- which is nothing usefull. Bauhns answer is to take the devices to a tablet repair place and get them to repair the unit. They just don't get that I am in an electronics repair business, we repair tablets etc, but some how their draft between the ears people just don't get it. So if you want something that is reasonable in specifications and price, these are OK. If you want something that can be repaired after the warranty runs out – go find some thing else. If you want that part of what 'reasonable price' is supposed to buy you – post warranty parts support etc, go some where else.
Bauhn/Aldi are a 'use it until it breaks, then throw it away' mob. Enjoy contributing to the massive e waste heap of the modern world (and poisoning the world for your kids while you do so.) by buying their stuff. The one i bought this morning is also discharging quickly. Maybe it's because it was last charged months ago in china.
Am charging it now to test. If I'm generous, I would concede that android probably does a whole heap of first run stuff that might chew through the battery on first use and settle down later. I would suggest thoroughly testing the touch-screen too as I found the action bar unresponsive in one of the landscape orientations but worked in portrait. It's a shame but with some of the 7 inch samsungs available for 149 I might go down that road instead. I bought one yesterday too. Never used a tablet that wasn't an iPad and I don't play nicely with i-anything, they are designed by demons.
So I spent the evening struggling with the interface which was alien. Having to charge it up via my laptop was slightly annoying but Aldi will kindly sell you a proper charger. Speed of doing things seemed reasonable, and once I worked out you double click on things to open them, was able to connect it to my home wifi no problems. Have to get used to the tablet-version of sites I'm familiar with, that was annoying. But watching the battery discharge at a rate of knots was the biggest concern, if it's that bad, it might have to go back. Don't want an expensive tablet, this is just for convenience at home, so when I want to look up a website quickly or the weather radar, I can use this rather than booting up the laptop. Don't intend to do emails or shopping on it, and reading the angry cheap tablet article on Gizmodo, that might be just as well.
Not too fussed about the resolution, it seems OK-ish. The charge is the only big concern for me at present. What is it reasonable to expect from a $99 tablet? An HP 7 inch with 1GB of RAM Quad core and 8GB storage from Officeworks on special. Quality is similar to Samsung.
This model has been replaced now. As far as 10 inch go I think the HP 10 inch at Officeworks is $229 otherwise as others have said, go for a Samsung for around $300. I suspect the Samsung has a faster processor, but I find it really hard to compare without a lot of research.
Personally I think for most purposes a 7 inch is too small. I purchased the HP 7 inch for a particular purpose, where the screen size isn't critical. It is fantastic I had many issues with mine, found out the lack of ram is a real problem when combined with iOS 8. Browsing can be a frustrating experience, everytime you swith tabs the pages have to reload. Then there's the random crashes or random reboots. This was the best tab I've ever owned for the money. Can't find them now unfortunately.
Fwiw It even out performs my Samsung tab s ($500 rrp tab) in most tasks, and out performed my old iPad Air at browsing heavy webpages, thanks to the 2gb of ram. Hard to beat an nexus 7 for $80 delivered, if you just want a basic tab. Pretty much everything is going to be garbage at. Good heavens, that is a useful site, thank you. Annoyingly, the review is written in Japanese! I might bookmark that site. Looks like the resolution is a lot better (compared the Aldi tablet with an iPad which was unfortunate given iPads' well-known prettiness), ditto speed although I'm OK with the Aldi one's speed.
Only question now is how quickly it gets going. Does it put itself to deep sleep if not touched for a time, because the whole reason for having a tablet is being able to reach out and grab a web portal to look things up conveniently.
I'm getting used to mine. The graphics are a bit scratchy, and it has some habits, but the battery is only down to half way so-far. I think the problem there is it shows you in 1% increments, so it looks like it's really going down fast. I have started turning off the wireless thing before turning it off though, turned it off last night and the internet light stayed on on my router.
Not sure what it was up to. But it's doing what I got it for, being there and able to turn on in an instant so I can quickly look stuff up. When it breaks in 8 months time, I'll return it for my refund, and go get a prettier one, having by then got used to tablets. Returned mine. Staff at checkout didn't know what to do but manager come over and put it through, said they had lots of returns. Acer Iconia One 7 is probably the best budget tablet.
Screen is at least HD on that. Alot better than this junk.
I returned their previous 3g tablet and I am about to return their bauhn 10.1 tablet The key word you have used is 'junk' and that has been my experience In future, I will not be purchasing any ALDI/Bauhn electronics. In my experience, it's just not worth it, may as well spend a few extra bucks and get something widely supported and more mainstream Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Randall Terry. Well, tomorrow my nasty little Onix is going home to Aldi, I've had enough of it. It threw a tantrum today, while I was using it, put up the black screen with 'android' on it, and I couldn't even turn it off.
So had to wait for the battery to run down, and it turned off. Charged it a bit, and it was back to its usual uselessness. Sick of the weird behaviour, the touch screen that soemtimes just doesn't notice it's being touched, the jerkyness, the way you only get to use 2/3rds of the screen. And the screen is scratched from scrolling! I don't even have proper fingernails, and my skin's not THAT dry.
It's also taught me that I hate typing on a screen. Noticed in JB some funny tablet-things with little keyboards, shall investigate further. Not going to risk any more Aldi electronics, they are all the work of the devil. Did it score a GPS?
Also what resolution Screen? Any info greatly welcome! I picked up one of these today out of curiosity, so I can give more details if requested, but I won't have it for long, it'll be going back within a few days, it's not a keeper I'm afraid to say. I'd better point out that I didn't purchase this Aldi tablet thinking it would be anything special, just a very basic device, which is what it is. It's not the worst android device I've purchased, but it would be quite stressful to use is as an only device, or even as a spare for backup. It doesn't have a GPS which is a shame, and the screen as everyone feared is only 1024x600, it is also a TN type screen which means terrible viewing angles and not as touch sensitive as you'd normally expect. The colours on the screen are very washed out, and the viewing angles are extremely narrow, as is normal with TN screens.
Having said that it's a very bright screen and it's touch sensitivity is probably better than many in this class. The biggest problem is the resolution, having only 600 pixels across is simply not enough, even on a 3.5' screen, let alone a 10' one. Sadly it does not. One can download maps from Google Maps on WiFi, or when travelling, connect via a WiFi to your smartphone hotspot and use LOCATION to access maps that way. We travelled through Europe in September that way with a Nexus 7 Tablet that does have GPS. I downloaded the maps for each stage before travelling (they stay on the device for 28 days after which they need updating) and stayed connected to my Nexus 5 phone which was connected via a Vodafone Red Plan (AUD5.00 per day charge to access my 5Gb data).
It worked a treat as Vodafone works well in Europe, and is getting much better here. Sadly it does not. Not preaching or trying to be nasty, but you might want to quote the topic (and person) which you are responding to, it makes the thread easier to comprehend for those that just skim through it looking for useful info;-) One can download maps from Google Maps on WiFi, or when travelling, connect via a WiFi to your smartphone hotspot and use LOCATION to access maps that way. Using WiFi as a location finder instead of GPS is lame to say the least, and it makes it almost useless when travelling. This is what most WiFi only iFruit devices have to do because apple are too stingy to include a GPS chipset in them, in contrast even the cheapest droid tablets usually have them as standard.
I travel quite a bit and use my phones and tablets for GPS constantly, so for me this is a basic requirement rather than a luxury feature.
ICamViewer from CCTV Camera Pros is a free video surveillance viewer app that allows users to view up to 16 IP security cameras or CCTV cameras from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad from your local network or remotely over the Internet. This app works with both IP cameras and CCTV cameras. Please note that in order to work with CCTV cameras, your cameras must be connected to a compatible network surveillance DVR or network video server.
This iPhone app does NOT generically work with all CCTV DVRs and IP cameras from all security manufacturers. The most up to date list of compatible cameras is available in the app. Below is a list of some of the main manufacturers that we are integrated with.
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If you have any recommendations on how we can improve it or if you would like to request that we add support for additional camera manufacturers and models, please contact us at [email protected]. Performance Improvements Bug Fixes App no longer crashes camera setup is interrupted and not complete.
Added iDVR-PRO8 and iDVR-PRO16 DVR compatibility Added Axis IP camera compatibility Added Axis network video server compatibility Added StarDot IP camera compatibility Added StarDot network video server compatibility Added Mobotix IP camera compatibility Added LinkSys IP camera compatibility Added Panasonic IP camera compatibility Added D-Link IP camera compatibility Compatible with iCAMView USB camera to IP camera converters / web servers. 1.3.0 20 Jul 2010.
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