Review: ViewPad 10 features Windows and Android

Review: ViewPad 10 features Windows and Android
Viewsonic new tablet has a unique solution for consumers who are still on Microsoft Windows, as well as the Google operating system Android gains traction: it offers both.
The ViewPad 10 is a dual-boot unit. It can run either Windows 7 or Android launch, as the computer.
Out of the box are the impressive specifications. The ViewPad has a 10.1-inch display that is larger than the iPad is 9.7 inches. It weighs less than two pounds, has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and is filled with a relatively fast Intel 1.66 GHz processor. It costs $ 599 for the 16-gigabyte version and $ 679 for double the memory.
The ViewPad has a built-in camera. The resolution is only 1.3 megapixels, well short of what to offer the iPhone and other smartphones. So, do not expect great pictures.
The device also features a mini-VGA port, a standard audio jack, two USB ports and a MicroSD card slot. It’s quite fully functional for a tablet.
The computer is installed with Windows 7 Home Premium, and I updated the unit test with version 2.2 of Android, also known as Froyo.
I spent some time first with Android, as I already knew, the environment as the owner of an Android phone from HTC. The ViewPad not present, how rich an experience as the phone, mostly because the graphical interface, the links, widgets, and navigation presented on the tablet is not as advanced as on smartphones. HTC’s smooth, “Sense” environment for mobile phones, for example, is one of the best-of-breed for the presentation of the Android Tools and Applications.
In addition, the apps shortcut on the tablet is not the full range of apps on Google’s Android Market. Instead, he took me into a much smaller selection of so-called “AndAppStore.” A direct link to the complete slate of these apps would have been better market, but the device seems to be paralyzed.
Google is not the Android Market on Android, 2.2 tablets with screens larger than seven inches preinstalled. And ViewSonic has no current plans to upgrade beyond ViewPad version of the operating system. Want, so there is an impasse, the ViewPad leaves.
You could try to install a newer version of Android, as Honeycomb, on your own. But it requires advanced technological capabilities and there is no guarantee from the manufacturer or Google that ViewPad will do well.
Once applications are started, they work as expected. You have to start fast and easy to use. But most apps for Android are for a smaller display, not something as big as the ViewPad designed. The 10.1-inch screen size, in most cases for me, was wasted on the Android side of this dual-boot machine.
The better half of the ViewPad is Windows 7
It ran quickly and was fairly intuitive to touch on the response to the correct icons, scroll bars, and objects on the screen that I’m trying. It was a new experience for me, the Web in Firefox to navigate by swiping across the screen. It fared well – better than surfing for the content of the Android site.
When it came to more complicated programs that interact with the tablet was a challenge.
You could try to edit photos with Adobe Photoshop for Windows, but you would making the task much more difficult than it be in a conventional mouse and cursor environment. Trust me, I tried.
Each incorrect tap water drove me into the wrong window or menu, which had to be backed out and started over. The first thing that came to mind was an action with “Ctrl + Z” to undo, but the keyboard was not there when I pulled onto the screen from his perch in a small, hidden corner of the screen.
I let Photoshop, and a few other detail-oriented tasks for which conventional computers with real keyboards. Tablets, are better at this stage for the content consumption as content creation.
(See film, reading Gawker, Flickr photo browsing, and Facebook time-emetics), despite my success with a variety of Windows experience the tablet experience asking for apps. Better apps. Finger-friendly apps.
Browser to work to deliver this content, but work full-featured applications specially brewed for the human figures better. They are touchable regions with larger and fewer (if any) tiny leaves designed controller.
It is swollen by Microsoft to make Windows 7 touch-friendly, but the company needs to compete head-specific fashion, a tablet version of its operating system Android and IOS.
Is dual boot for the tablet worth it? Not really at this point. Android is the best phone on the left. But with a few improvements, or perhaps a separate Tablet operating system, Windows is pretty fit into this growing computer segment.