inanitydefined
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- Jan 3, 2013
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Hello all. I am a long term android user. I have just ordered what will be my 5th android tablet. I'm hoping this one will work right.
My first tab was an Archos 5IT. This was really just a toy but gave me my first taste of android and portable ARM computing. When it broke I decided to get a cheap android tablet. I ordered an ICOO D70W. The vendor I bought from did not ship me the W version, instead sending me the outdated D70 and refused to acknowledge their mistake. So being stuck with it, I made the best of it, overclocking it a bit to improve the performance. While I had this thing my laptop broke. Since I did not use it any more I decided not to replace it. Here about 2 months ago my girlfriend stepped on my ICOO. After looking around a bit I decided on a DOUBLEPOWER m7088 from walmart. I loved this thing for the week I had before it decided to soft brick itself. I was in the process of trying to reflash it when I found out that about half the people who bought them were having problems (this tab isn't even for sale at walmart anymore). It promptly went back.
Right about this time I found a really good deal on a Asus Nexus 7. I jumped on it naturally. Now I must stress this because I feel it is important that everyone considering a Nexus understands this. Of all the tabs I have listed, the nexus 7 was the biggest disappointment. The quality control was absolutely abysmal. The digitzer didn't work on the right half of the screen, the headphone jack didn't work, the screen was lifting, the performance was very poor for its hardware. I started reading around and found a lot of people having huge issues with ASUS customer service, and a long line of shoddy built android tablets coming out of them. I decided I didn't want to deal with all that, especially at its price point.
So i currently have a PIPO S2 on order. I did a lot of reading and found PIPO seems to take care of its customers, I bought a good 3rd party warranty (a lesson I learned when I bought the ICOO). Hopefully my saga will be over, at least till the next crop of crazy powerful processors comes out
My first tab was an Archos 5IT. This was really just a toy but gave me my first taste of android and portable ARM computing. When it broke I decided to get a cheap android tablet. I ordered an ICOO D70W. The vendor I bought from did not ship me the W version, instead sending me the outdated D70 and refused to acknowledge their mistake. So being stuck with it, I made the best of it, overclocking it a bit to improve the performance. While I had this thing my laptop broke. Since I did not use it any more I decided not to replace it. Here about 2 months ago my girlfriend stepped on my ICOO. After looking around a bit I decided on a DOUBLEPOWER m7088 from walmart. I loved this thing for the week I had before it decided to soft brick itself. I was in the process of trying to reflash it when I found out that about half the people who bought them were having problems (this tab isn't even for sale at walmart anymore). It promptly went back.
Right about this time I found a really good deal on a Asus Nexus 7. I jumped on it naturally. Now I must stress this because I feel it is important that everyone considering a Nexus understands this. Of all the tabs I have listed, the nexus 7 was the biggest disappointment. The quality control was absolutely abysmal. The digitzer didn't work on the right half of the screen, the headphone jack didn't work, the screen was lifting, the performance was very poor for its hardware. I started reading around and found a lot of people having huge issues with ASUS customer service, and a long line of shoddy built android tablets coming out of them. I decided I didn't want to deal with all that, especially at its price point.
So i currently have a PIPO S2 on order. I did a lot of reading and found PIPO seems to take care of its customers, I bought a good 3rd party warranty (a lesson I learned when I bought the ICOO). Hopefully my saga will be over, at least till the next crop of crazy powerful processors comes out
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