Colorfly E708-Q1 or Asus memopad hd7 : 7 inch tablet. (Bought the memopad)

[William Gaatjes]

Has anyone some experience with this tablet ?

For the price it has good specifications.
The only drawback i can find so far when looking around at the internet is that it has no bluetooth but it has USB OTG. So it is possible to insert a small bluetooth adapter on a usb OTG cable. Not the best solution but for the price, it is sufficient. It is on sale for around 100 euro here in Europe.
It is wildly popular in China it seems.

But it is very cheap and has a 7" 1280*800 IPS panel.

http://www.colorfly.eu/E708/index.html

Some specifications :
CPU is a quadcore at 1GHz : Allwinner A31S Cortex A7,
GPU is PowerVR SGX544MP.
RAM is 1GB DDR3.
FLASH is 8GB.

 

[Stable]

Could be worse. 8GB flash is a concern.

 

[Oyeve]

Imo it's not worth it. Those specs are Meh.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I will be mostly reading pdf books /ebooks on it and comics. And some light internet usage. For the price it is very cheap and according to the reviews it is fast and capable of fluid multitasking. It seems todo fluid movie playback as well.

And it can be rooted if desired.

http://anton008.com/colorfly-e708-root/

http://anton008.com/colorfly-e708-q1-review/

I am still searching if there is a hack present to add bluetooth.
Just for the fun.

 

[Oyeve]

I will be mostly reading pdf books /ebooks on it and comics. And some light internet usage. For the price it is very cheap and according to the reviews it is fast and capable of fluid multitasking. It seems todo fluid movie playback as well.

And it can be rooted if desired.

http://anton008.com/colorfly-e708-root/

http://anton008.com/colorfly-e708-q1-review/

I am still searching if there is a hack present to add bluetooth.
Just for the fun.

I see. I was going by your first post saying 100 EUR, but I see its much cheaper than that. May be worth a look.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I see. I was going by your first post saying 100 EUR, but I see its much cheaper than that. May be worth a look.

Yeah, that price is really low. I find it saddening that the EU price is much higher. Should be around the same as the US dollar price. :\

 

[Ravynmagi]

I don't know how cheap this is. But this is a very low end processor with very limited amount of storage. Is it really worth it at any price if you don't like it? This is not going to provide a satisfactory experience.

 

[luv2liv]

if u want cheap n good, this is $120 at walmart. i got it for my mom and she loves it!
it is very fast for the things she does. youtube, email, website, music. she doesnt play games on it so i dont know how good it is for games.


http://www.walmart.com/ip/Hisense-Se...70BSA/25427874

 

[Roland00Address]

A cell phone has a bigger battery than this, and it is running a 7" screen and not a 4.5 or 5" screen.

 

[William Gaatjes]

if u want cheap n good, this is $120 at walmart. i got it for my mom and she loves it!
it is very fast for the things she does. youtube, email, website, music. she doesnt play games on it so i dont know how good it is for games.


http://www.walmart.com/ip/Hisense-Se...70BSA/25427874

That does seem a nice one. (Un)fortunately there is no walmart here.
I will try to find that brand here.

EDIT:
I did and they do net sell tablets in the EU it seems...

 

[William Gaatjes]

*Cries* I see ads in German where the E708-Q1 only costs 49,95 euros. :'(
Why s everything so expensive here in Holland... Grrr

 

[William Gaatjes]

This model from asus : "ASUS MeMO Pad HD 7 - 16GB"
has similar specs but with bluetooth and almost double the battery capacity.
And the max cpu clock is with this model 1,5GHz. It is about 24 euro more expensive.

And with a review from anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7160/asus-memo-pad-hd7-review

 

[William Gaatjes]

Yahooo, i am the happy owner of a asus memopad 16 HD 7. I also bought a 16 GB class 10 sd card. I have for now enough storage. ^_^ I can read all my pdf books now and comics.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Typing a reply from my memopad.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Sigh i wanted to buy this one :

http://www.asus.com/Tablet_Mobile_Accessories/ASUS_MeMO_Pad_HD_7_TransCover/

But i found it to be too expensive. Half the price of the tablet.
So, i bought a universal stand folio case for a 7" tablet from Tucano instead.

http://www.tucano.com/en/collections/facile/facile-3967.html?color=Black

Unfortunately, the right upper corner is where the power button resides.
And the volume buttons. I decided to not use the elastic band and use a round velcro sticker instead. I placed it on the back near the upper right corner of the folio and one on the back of the tablet near the right upper corner. Easiest way is to stick the velcro sticker first on the folio, then stick the opposite velcro sticker on that velcro sticker and then place the memopad inside the folio. The opposite velco sticker will then stick at the right location and align automatically while sticking to the tablet. This way only 3 elastic bands are used and on the upper right corner, the velcro sticker is keeping the tablet in place. Taking pictures is not that easy anymore since you have to take the tablet out but for me that does not matter, i am not planning to take pictures with my memopad often.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I am thinking to buy this as an add on.

Bluetooth, thus handsfree. But you can plug in your favorite wired headphones.

http://www.amazon.com/Jumbl-Bluetoot.../dp/B00GJW1HDM

Jumbl™ Bluetooth Hands-Free Calling & A2DP Audio Streaming Adapter/Receiver for 3.5mm Devices - Converts Wired 3.5mm Headphones into Wireless Music Streaming Stereo Earphones - w/Built-In Mic

Works for 10 hours on a battery charge. And is rechargable by using a microusb cable. Has a build in mic for speech and another for noise cancellation.

For movie watching i do not really need it. The memopad works great. The memopad looses about 5 percent charge for every half hour of movie watching using vlc.

 

[Lyfer]

Congrats on the purchase.