This is a great size! Larger than a phone but not so cumbersome as a full-size pad. (I have Samsung 10.1 Tab A that weighs 2 pounds and it is just too bulky for this job)
Pros
The display is really sharp. I was very surprised at this price point.
CPU is fast
WiFi is fast.
Great battery life (so far)
Lightweight and slim.
Has a place for a sim card! So it can be a phone as well! (I was surprised)
Cons.
Dear God so many questions on the startup! I was getting sick of answering questions!
The Storage use graphics are not right.
Wifi – My home has 50 down 5 up. The pad gets 38 down 5 up. Nothing wrong with that.
CPU- See below but once everything is done it is very crisp and responsive.
Storage – I put in a 32 gig SD card and it just adds it to base memory somehow. So I have more than the 16 gig internal installed on it but it shows my huge app (more below about that is you care) is on the internal ram and SD Drive is o bytes used. It is very weird but not really a problem.
Now, I read reviews below where it was laggy, the wifi was slow and the battery was slow to charge. I don’t know if those reviews applied to the cheaper one (“the essential) OR this one. I can tell you when I first got this one started up the updates start pretty quick, then a big OS update pulls as well. It probably took a solid hour for all the downloads and updates to finish. During that time all the reviews about laggy and slow were very true. However, once it was all done updating the battery started charging fast and the performance became very crisp (as it should be with a quad-core 1.3 GHz Snapdragon processor)
For me, this is a one app tab. I have an aviation app, Garmin Pilot for those who care. It is a GPS/nav app that contains all information about all the geography in the USA right down to information such as runway length, frequencies, fuel cost and hours of operation for every airport in the USA along with real-time weather and info on every navigation aid in the USA. So the app itself is only 80 meg. However, it has an 11 GB database to work with! ;)
So for battery life, I fired up Garmin Pilot. A serious weather system was marching across America. (see photo) With the screen locked, so no timeouts like it would be in the cockpit, I watched that system slowly march across the Midwest with 1-second refreshes for 2 hours. In two hours of continuous use it consumed 16% of the battery. Not bad if you ask me.
So for the price, I find this hard to beat. For use in the cockpit, the small size and light weight are really perfect.
| Standing screen display size | 7 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1024x600 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1280x720 Pixels |
| Processor | 1.3 GHz |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Hard Drive | Flash Memory Solid State |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Integrated Graphics |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Wireless Type | 802.11bgn, 802.11b, 802.11b/g |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 15 Hours |
