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Viewsonic Viewpad E70 Review
The 7-inch Viewpad E70 looks to join a budding category of affordable Android tablets hitting the market. At just $169, the E70 will undercut the Kindle Fire while also bringing some features missing in Amazon’s popular tablet.
Based on specs, the Viewpad E70 doesn’t look like a powerhouse. The tablet has dual cameras, HDMI out, and a slot for a MicroSD memory card. Our lead analyst Sascha Segan had some hands on time with the E70 at CES and he found the build quality to be fairly solid, but the screen grainy at 800 by 480. The tablet uses a 1GHz ARM processor, similar to one you might find on a midrange smartphone. The E70 doesn’t have Gmail or the Android Market; for apps, you get Amazon’s Appstore instead.
The big feature here is Google’s latest version of Android, 4.0, or “Ice Cream Sandwich,” which will come preloaded. Though the internal components aren’t very impressive, the latest version of Android ran surprisingly well on the E70 in our hands-on time with the tablet. The addition of ICS makes the E70 an interesting alternative over current affordable tablets like the Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet, which run heavily modified versions of Android 2.0 “Gingerbread,” which is now an aging OS.
The Viewpad E70 should hit store shelves in April, making it one of the first tablets to come with Android 4.0 out of the box.
Based on specs, the Viewpad E70 doesn’t look like a powerhouse. The tablet has dual cameras, HDMI out, and a slot for a MicroSD memory card. Our lead analyst Sascha Segan had some hands on time with the E70 at CES and he found the build quality to be fairly solid, but the screen grainy at 800 by 480. The tablet uses a 1GHz ARM processor, similar to one you might find on a midrange smartphone. The E70 doesn’t have Gmail or the Android Market; for apps, you get Amazon’s Appstore instead.
The big feature here is Google’s latest version of Android, 4.0, or “Ice Cream Sandwich,” which will come preloaded. Though the internal components aren’t very impressive, the latest version of Android ran surprisingly well on the E70 in our hands-on time with the tablet. The addition of ICS makes the E70 an interesting alternative over current affordable tablets like the Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet, which run heavily modified versions of Android 2.0 “Gingerbread,” which is now an aging OS.
The Viewpad E70 should hit store shelves in April, making it one of the first tablets to come with Android 4.0 out of the box.
