hardsell
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- Sep 19, 2011
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I buy almost everything from amazon and they eventually ask for a review of your purchase....
so mine was:
rating: two out of 5 stars
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: VIZIO 8-Inch Tablet with WiFi - VTAB1008 (Personal Computers)
pros: nice screen
Cons:
hard to grip: the icons on the bezel, the notification icon, the power button, volume controls all made for a hard to grip device, in contrast the kindle dxg was much bigger but without a touch screen you could hold it like a book with your thumb on the screen when my thumb strays onto the screen (hard to tell as the glass over the screen covers the bezels as well) the device usually thinks I'm in multi touch mode so I cant just tap the screen anymore ...I should note that I read in bed so using one hand is a must have
heat: the device seemed to run hotter than other devices I have/had, suggestions to remedy this said to pretty much turn off everything that makes this an android tablet (wifi, background data, gps,, etc) rather than just an ereader I could have gotten 2 refurbished nook colors for what this cost
battery life: the vizio site says 10 hours of normal usage, without defining what normal usage is, I read to give the batteries a chance to charge a few times before returning, and still even with _everything_ off but the ereader program, I never got more than 7 hours from full charge to must charge warning while others at one of the two vizio only android forums (hmm, strange I can't find an official vizio forum for the device, although there is a phone number, I prefer to see help written out
sd card: I never tried using an sd card till the day after my 30 day return "window" expired only to find that the vizio wouldn't save to the sd card properly and the internal memory fills up rapidly
I couldn't get the video chats to work either as it says on the box
edit-> sales blurb says it fits in your coat pocket but not in any of my 3 coats even the one with "cargo" pockets
this tab might work if you primarily want to watch stuff, then it would probably be in a stand, and would be okay, but for working from just holding it.... not so good
You can see what other vizio users think/offer help, workarounds at:
[...] search for vizio forums a n d r o i d t a b l e t s d o t n e t
[...] a n d r o i d f o r u m s c o m s l a s h v i z i o
if I had a 32 day return policy this would have been returned after finding the sd card problem,which was just too much on top of my other problems, I tried to work out all the problems (my initial impression was to return it on the 3rd day) because of the battery life, heat, holding it thing.... but some of the forums said battery problems just need several charging sessions to work out the new device kinks but no luck here from full charge to low battery warning is now roughly six hours with _everything_ off but the ereader program
so mine was:
rating: two out of 5 stars
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: VIZIO 8-Inch Tablet with WiFi - VTAB1008 (Personal Computers)
pros: nice screen
Cons:
hard to grip: the icons on the bezel, the notification icon, the power button, volume controls all made for a hard to grip device, in contrast the kindle dxg was much bigger but without a touch screen you could hold it like a book with your thumb on the screen when my thumb strays onto the screen (hard to tell as the glass over the screen covers the bezels as well) the device usually thinks I'm in multi touch mode so I cant just tap the screen anymore ...I should note that I read in bed so using one hand is a must have
heat: the device seemed to run hotter than other devices I have/had, suggestions to remedy this said to pretty much turn off everything that makes this an android tablet (wifi, background data, gps,, etc) rather than just an ereader I could have gotten 2 refurbished nook colors for what this cost
battery life: the vizio site says 10 hours of normal usage, without defining what normal usage is, I read to give the batteries a chance to charge a few times before returning, and still even with _everything_ off but the ereader program, I never got more than 7 hours from full charge to must charge warning while others at one of the two vizio only android forums (hmm, strange I can't find an official vizio forum for the device, although there is a phone number, I prefer to see help written out
sd card: I never tried using an sd card till the day after my 30 day return "window" expired only to find that the vizio wouldn't save to the sd card properly and the internal memory fills up rapidly
I couldn't get the video chats to work either as it says on the box
edit-> sales blurb says it fits in your coat pocket but not in any of my 3 coats even the one with "cargo" pockets
this tab might work if you primarily want to watch stuff, then it would probably be in a stand, and would be okay, but for working from just holding it.... not so good
You can see what other vizio users think/offer help, workarounds at:
[...] search for vizio forums a n d r o i d t a b l e t s d o t n e t
[...] a n d r o i d f o r u m s c o m s l a s h v i z i o
if I had a 32 day return policy this would have been returned after finding the sd card problem,which was just too much on top of my other problems, I tried to work out all the problems (my initial impression was to return it on the 3rd day) because of the battery life, heat, holding it thing.... but some of the forums said battery problems just need several charging sessions to work out the new device kinks but no luck here from full charge to low battery warning is now roughly six hours with _everything_ off but the ereader program
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