You choose and I buy. RK2918 or Renesas Cortex-A9

[sere83]

Cool, thanks for the info. I actually really like the telechips design but with a Mali 200 GPU I think you could get something much better performance wise for a similar price or a little more. This Rena 3 tab does look to have very solid performance though, quite surprised actually. Nice budget option. With this recent huge influx of Cortex based China tabs there are so many options too chose from! Personally i'm gonna sit it out for a while and see if any outright favourites start to emerge once the big names have dropped their latest wares.

Ooo apparently 2.3 is coming to the Rena as well. Nice

 

[DJACID]

Ooo apparently 2.3 is coming to the Rena as well. Nice

Well with 2.3 then it has to be the rena3,
Any idea on release date for 2.3,

 

[sere83]

Not sure, just read it in one of the question responses over at the merimobiles sale page.

 

[DJACID]

Just realise there is only the ev1 and ev2 processor,
The e-gen / magicpad uses the ev2 and in the description it says android 3.0 future update,
I might be wrong but won't that means that the rena3 can use the same honeycomb port after a few custom tweaks....

 

[DJACID]

News update,
Haipad are also bringing out the rena3 but with gps and 3G,
But the price might be higher,
You can always solder the pcie slot yourself and add a 3G card...

New GT-Tab / SenseV7 Review

 

[Iwindows]

so I decided to disapoint my kids, there seem to be a lot of new tablets coming out round about now/june which could be a little better than the ones I have been looking at./ thanks dajacid & sera83 for your feedback

 

[DJACID]

Same here not sure what to get,
I preordered the Acer a101 but that was canceled a few days ago,
Due to Acer slow on producing the tablet, which is why there suck, next time there should only bring out 1 or 2 tablets at a time which there will have a better time of mass producing,

My compal tablet needs repairing damage casing,
Now thinking about buying the elocity a7 same as my compal tablet, which is also the cheapest tegra tablet on the Market and thanks to dexter work it now has honeycomb

 

[Terrykwong007]

For CPU performance, Renesas is much faster. For Android software build and solution integration, it is another issue.

Rockchips develop most core software and device driver by herself and for major ODM customer first while Renesas rely
on solution house to system solution and then assembly makers in China. Therefore, the quality build vary among
different solution house & makers for Renesas. For Rockchips, small makers just follow her reference design for assembly
like MP3 a few years ago.

 

[strider_mt2k]

Happy owner of a Rena 3 here.
Updated to the latest 05 firmware and now Skype works and video playback stuttering is fixed.

It's an extremely good tablet. Better than I thought it would be.

 

[DJACID]

Have you tried any 1080p mkv

 

[TomTang]

Have a look at :

Tablet with Renesas ARM Cortex A9 Dual core @ 1GHz




from: PCBA Tablet 7" with Cortex A9 1GHz

 

[strider_mt2k]

Have a look at :

Tablet with Renesas ARM Cortex A9 Dual core @ 1GHz



View attachment 2575
from: PCBA Tablet 7" with Cortex A9 1GHz

Nice gadget pron!
That one has a SIM slot on it I see.

Good stuff!

As for running HD content, I haven't tried anything other than HQ YouTube files on this for HD stuff. I don't own any HD content and i haven't tried any sample files.
I do know that the 0525 firmware fixes the jitters that the Rena3 had originally when playing back video files.

I'm using RockPlayer in hardware mode with great results now, when previously I've had to run in software mode.

 

[DJACID]

You could do tons of mods on the rena3 if the mini-pcie pin-outs have power going to them...

 

[strider_mt2k]

I'd love to hack the ability to use a game controller into mine.

 

[DJACID]

You can try out the Wii controller (wiimote),
Or a Bluetooth game controller