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Abdul Waheed
In recent months, brands have launched tablets that cater to the needs of the budget-minded consumer. We have seen the Reliance Tab, and close on its heels came the Beetel Magiq tablet. Fly is a fairly popular brand in India, best known for their entry-level mobile phones. The company has recently launched one of the most economical tablets available in the market, second only to the Akaash tablet. But money isn’t the only consideration of course, so read on to find out if the value of the Fly Vision meets its price tag.
Design and Build Quality
The design of tablets, these days are pretty much standard. With nothing exciting really to talk about. Fly has stuck to a tried and tested form factor making the Vision similar in appearance to other tablets. It’s equipped with a 7-inch resistive touchscreen, which has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 800 x 480. This means that one can use a stylus or fingers (but will need to tap the display with a little more effort) to access the various onscreen options. However, if a little more too much pressure is exerted on the display it causes several anomalies to appear. One side of the bezel has a brushed metal finish and on it is a singular ‘Home’ button.
This tablet is basically in landscape mode and the top is where the buttons such as on/off, menu and return keys are placed. On the bottom of the slate are where all the ports are located. These include a full-size USB port, a mini-USB port, DC-in for charging, a 3.5mm audio jack, as well as a MicroSD card slot. There is a 2GB memory card that comes along with it and the storage capacity can be expanded to 16GB. The rear features a built-in speaker. The one thing that this tablet misses out on are dedicated volume buttons, and to adjust the volume one has to be in the media player.
Overall, the design is pretty neat and the brushed metal strip on the face adds to the style factor. It is pretty slim as well and can easily fit in the back pocket of a pair of jeans or a handbag. The tablet is not really heavy as well and carrying it around does not pose a problem.
Features and Performance
Interface
The Fly Vision tablet runs on a stock version of Android 2.2 Froyo. On the home page and the main menu, there are no enhancements present. However, the media players for audio and video do feature some enhancements. The home screen is pretty simple looking and it appears like Fly has just added Froyo on this tablet without any customization from their end. We don’t have much of a problem with this, except for the fact that we would like brands to set themselves apart from the rest.
The tablet runs on a 600MHz ARMv6 processor. In terms of power, this is obviously not the fastest, but you can’t expect too much from the price. This is evident while navigating through the interface and the lag that is noticeable onscreen. As compared to the Beetel Magiq, this tablet is pretty slow. The buttons on the top help in accessing the options such as settings, wallpaper, notifications, etc., right from the home page itself. So there is no need to go to the main menu, because this helps with just a single click. There is no camera on this slate.
While running Linpack, the Fly Vision tablet gave us a score of 1.908 MFLOPS on multi thread, while we got a single thread reading of 2.157 MFLOPS. Not impressive, at all.
source: http://tech2.in.com/reviews/tablets/fly-vision-tablet-review/255292
Vast number of ports
Design and Build Quality
The design of tablets, these days are pretty much standard. With nothing exciting really to talk about. Fly has stuck to a tried and tested form factor making the Vision similar in appearance to other tablets. It’s equipped with a 7-inch resistive touchscreen, which has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 800 x 480. This means that one can use a stylus or fingers (but will need to tap the display with a little more effort) to access the various onscreen options. However, if a little more too much pressure is exerted on the display it causes several anomalies to appear. One side of the bezel has a brushed metal finish and on it is a singular ‘Home’ button.
This tablet is basically in landscape mode and the top is where the buttons such as on/off, menu and return keys are placed. On the bottom of the slate are where all the ports are located. These include a full-size USB port, a mini-USB port, DC-in for charging, a 3.5mm audio jack, as well as a MicroSD card slot. There is a 2GB memory card that comes along with it and the storage capacity can be expanded to 16GB. The rear features a built-in speaker. The one thing that this tablet misses out on are dedicated volume buttons, and to adjust the volume one has to be in the media player.
Simple yet stylish rear
Overall, the design is pretty neat and the brushed metal strip on the face adds to the style factor. It is pretty slim as well and can easily fit in the back pocket of a pair of jeans or a handbag. The tablet is not really heavy as well and carrying it around does not pose a problem.
Features and Performance
Interface
The Fly Vision tablet runs on a stock version of Android 2.2 Froyo. On the home page and the main menu, there are no enhancements present. However, the media players for audio and video do feature some enhancements. The home screen is pretty simple looking and it appears like Fly has just added Froyo on this tablet without any customization from their end. We don’t have much of a problem with this, except for the fact that we would like brands to set themselves apart from the rest.
The tablet runs on a 600MHz ARMv6 processor. In terms of power, this is obviously not the fastest, but you can’t expect too much from the price. This is evident while navigating through the interface and the lag that is noticeable onscreen. As compared to the Beetel Magiq, this tablet is pretty slow. The buttons on the top help in accessing the options such as settings, wallpaper, notifications, etc., right from the home page itself. So there is no need to go to the main menu, because this helps with just a single click. There is no camera on this slate.
The resistive touchscreen shows some bleeding
While running Linpack, the Fly Vision tablet gave us a score of 1.908 MFLOPS on multi thread, while we got a single thread reading of 2.157 MFLOPS. Not impressive, at all.
source: http://tech2.in.com/reviews/tablets/fly-vision-tablet-review/255292
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