Ainol Novo10 Hero-2 QuadCore 10.1" HD-IPS Tablet

Ainol Novo10 Hero-2 is the very first Tablet released that is using the newest SoC made by Actions Semi named ATM7029 Chipset which is a QuadCore Cortex A9 processor which clocks at 1.5GHz with a built-in DualCore Vivante GC1000 graphics. If you're an owner of Ainol Novo10 Hero, don't be surprised on what you will see. Yes, the Ainol Novo10 Hero-2 is 100% copied from Ainol Novo10 Hero exterior design but is using a DualCore AMLogic 8726-M6 DualCore Cortex A9 with DualCore Mali400 graphics instead.

Internal Specification is very similar also to previous Ainol Novo10 Hero version except for the Bluetooth Connectivity which seems Ainol didn't include on the Novo10 Hero-2. We will still confirm that and have this article edited if found false.

You can read the full review of Ainol Novo10 Hero posted before HERE.

There isn't much leak information on how Action Semi ATM7029 QuadCore processor will perform or how power efficient it is, but one thing is for sure; this Tablet is not for Heavy 3D Games lovers. Vivante graphics has history of poor Heavy 3D Games compatibility. If you don't mind having few Heavy 3D Games compatible on your Tablet, then its good for you. You may still play Casual Games like Angry Birds and Temple Run without any problems on compatibility or watch different format of your HD Videos as-well. Its really a mater of preference, not all Tablet users play Heavy 3D Games and those people is where this Tablet is supposed to serve.

Pandawill.com is offering Ainol Novo10 Hero-2 for the lowest price of US$216.99 including a world-wide free shipping.

Model		Ainol Novo 10 Hero 2 Tablet PC
CPU		Actions ATM7029, 1.5GHz, Cortex A9 Family quad core; GPU: Vivante GC1000
Operation System		Android 4.1.1
RAM		1GB (DDR 3)
ROM（Memory）		16GB Nand Flash
Shell Material		Aluminum shell
Screen	Size	10.1 Inch
	Type	Capacitive Screen, IPS, G+G techlogy
	Display	LCD
	Resolution	1280 x 800px
	Visible Angle	178°
Extend Card		Support TF card up to 32GB extended
Camera		Dual camera, front camera is 0.3 and back is 2.0 megapixels
Gravity Sensor		Yes
Multi-Touch		Yes, 10 points multi-touch + ALPS touch botton
Flash		Support Flash 11.1
Google Play		Yes
Bluetooth		No
GPS		No
Video		1080P, AVI/MOV/MP4/RMVB/FLV/MKV…
Music		MP3/WMA/WAV/APE/AAC/FLAC/OGG
Ebook		UMD, TXT, PDF, HTML, RTF, FB2…
OTG		Yes, support ExFAT, NTFS, FAT32
USB HOST		2.0
Email and Browser		Yes, built in
WIFI		Yes, 802.11 b/g/n
3G		Not built in, support external 3G dongle: E1916, ZTE AC2736, HUAWEI E1750, HUAWEI EC122, HUAWEI EM770W
Earphone Interface		3.5mm
Work Time		Up to 8 hours for video, 5 hours for game
Battery		8000 MAh, 3.7V
Language		Dutch, Indonesian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Croatian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Roman, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Swahili, Vietnamese, Zulu, Greek, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Thai, Bengali, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Other Applications		ES File Explorer , Google Search, Google Maps, Browser, Gallery, Clock, Market, Calculator, Calendar, Video, Email, Gmail…
Product Size		261 x 180 x 9.8mm
Product Weight		657g
Extend Port		1 x TF card slot; 1 x MINI HDMI port
		1 x Micro USB port
		1 x 3.5mm Earphone port 1 x Charging port
Package including		1 x Charger (12V, 2A)
		1 x USB cable
		1 x User Manual(English, Russian, German, Spanish)
Package Weight		1015g

ONDA V972 QuadCore 9.7" Retina Display IPS Tablet

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ONDA joined the QuadCore Tablets race by releasing their very first attempt of QuadCore Tablet using the newest chipset manufactured by Allwinner Tech. The ONDA V972 9.7" IPS Tablet with Allwinner A31 QuadCore Cortex A7 which is said to defeat any DualCore Cortex A9 processor in efficiency. It carries a powerful PowerVR SGX544 OctaCore graphics which can be found  also on Apple's iPad 3. This would definitely turn the China MID Tablets competition at its finest.

To make sure that the Allwinner A31 QuadCore Cortex A7 processor with OctaCore PowerVR SGX544 graphics will perform at its best, ONDA decided to install a 2GB of DDR3 RAM on this Tablet to provide more room for running your Heavy Intensive Apps and 3D Games.

The ONDA V972 with 16GB of NAND Storage is available for pre-order at Pandawill.com for very affordable price of US$269.99 including a world-wide free shipping. It comes with color White and Black and is supposed to be available on 1st or 2nd week of January 2013.

This is the very interesting part of ONDA V972, we all know that there are several China MID brands offering each a Retina Display Tablet. However, most of them is using a less powerful DualCore or QuadCore graphics processors like RK3066 with a half-speed Mali400 MP4. Although the Mali400 MP4 may seems strong enough to handle every Heavy 3D Games, it has limitation specifically on Display Resolution. It can only handle and process image smoothly with a Full-HD resolution, anything above that will give the half-speed Mali400 MP4 a hard time and users will soon experience occasional lags and delay on graphics transitions.
ONDA knows and understand everything about it so they've been patient to have a Chipset like Allwinner A31 Cortex A7 that won't suffer in this consequences. PowerVR SGX544 with OctaCore graphics processor like an Apple iPad 3 has will surely handle the Retina Display with ease so users can enjoy the awesomeness of having the said feature. IPS Screen Technology is added to provide vivid and bright images with wide viewing angles without losing every bit of quality.
A 2.0MP Front Facing Camera is placed identical to Apple iPad 3 Camera, just don't expect FaceTime quality in here. 2.0MP is decent enough with good background light indoor or outdoor. This should be more than enough for Video Calling purposes.

ONDA is very clever copying the Apple iPad 3 looks. Its very clear on how the V972 was designed, 5.0MP Rear Facing Camera on the corner just like where Apple put their Rear Camera and an Aluminium shell case to protect the back. Little ONDA brand markings can be covered with an Apple logo sticker that can be bought at several stalls at mall if you want to. LoL.
What makes me worry to these full Aluminium Shell case is how the WiFi will perform, some Tablets like PiPO with full Aluminium Shell suffers a slight decrease on WiFi performance, leaving the users a limited WiFi coverage. Although ONDA doesn't seems to share the same history with regards to WiFi performance.

Complete availability of Interface port and function is also seen here. From left to right; Stereo Speakers, microUSB with Host function, microSDCard slot upto 32GB of External Storage, miniHDMI-out, and a standard Wall Charger port.
Having a Stereo Speakers are great. But having them both on one side isn't. It just defeat the purpose of having them. Let's just hope it provide decent sound quality. The Tablet thickness measures around 9.8mm which is fine.

Almost everything on this Tablet seems to be fine. Battery Capacity was 8000mAh 3.7V which is rated to last 8hrs of usage. But, having a Retina Display has been notorious to Battery Life. This is one of the consequences the users will have to bear or maybe I'm wrong this time. It is said that this new QuadCore Cortex A7 performs about 3.5x better than DualCore Cortex A9 while consuming 0.9x energy compared to latter. If these data are true, there should be no worries at all.

Model		ONDA V972 Quad Core Tablet PC
CPU		Allwinner A31, Cortex A7 quad core; GPU: PowerVR SGX544 MP2
Operation System		Android 4.1.1
RAM		2GB (DDR 3)
ROM（Memory）		16GB Nand Flash
Shell Material		Plastic
Screen	Size	9.7 Inch
	Type	Retina Screen, IPS
	Display	LCD
	Resolution	2048 x 1536px
	Visible Angle	180°
Extend Card		Support TF card up to 32GB extended
Camera		Dual camera, front is 2.0 megapixels, back is 5.0 mega AF
Gravity Sensor		Yes
Multi-Touch		Yes, 5 points touch
Play Store		Yes, built in
Bluetooth		Yes, bluetooth V2.0
Video		4K(4096 x 2160 px), support BlueRay 3D video, AVI/MOV/MP4/RMVB/FLV/MKV…
Music		MP3/WMA/WAV/APE/AAC/FLAC/OGG
Ebook		UMD, TXT, PDF, HTML, RTF, FB2…
Skype		Yes
Email and Browser		Yes, built in
WIFI		Yes, 802.11 b/g/n
3G		Not built in, support external 3G dongle: E1916, ZTE AC2736, HUAWEI E1750, HUAWEI EC122, HUAWEI EM770W
Earphone Interface		3.5mm
Work Time		Up to 8 hours
Battery		8000 MAh, 3.7V
Language		Czech, Dansk, German, English, Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polski, Greek, Portuguese, Svenska, Turkey, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Other Applications		File Manager, OfficeSuite, Google Search, Task Manager, Browser, Gallery, Android Webkit, Clock, Calculator, Calendar, iReader, Gmail…
Product Size		242.6 x 187.5 x 9.8mm
Product Weight		649g
Extend Port		1 x TF card slot
		1 x Micro USB port; 1 x MINI HDMI port
		1 x 3.5mm Earphone port
Package including		1 x Charger
		1 x USB cable
		1 x User Manual(English, Russian, German, Spanish)
Package Weight		1300g

Ramos W42 QuadCore 9.4" HD-IPS Tablet

Ramos or Blue Devils in Chinese brand started to flood the China MID market a series of Tablets using a Samsung Exynos 4412 QuadCore Cortex A9 processor with QuadCore Mali400 graphics at full speed. It started with their recent release Ramos W30 and W30HD which creates a huge difference to other China MID brands that opted to use a cheaper QuadCore solution instead like FreeScale i.MX6Q and Action Semi ATM7029 chipsets.

The Ramos W42 is a 9.4" Tablet that is almost identical to PiPO Max-M8 that we've already featured here before. However, the Ramos W42 is actually using a much powerful chipset than PiPO Max-M8's Rockchip RK3066 DualCore chipset with half-speed Mali400 MP4 graphics, and a much faster Bluetooth Connectivity. It has a WiFi Connectivity, Accelerometer and Gyro function, although it lack an HDMI-out and some features were scaled down. Its still using Android 4.0.4 IceCreamSandwich OS which is very unfortunate. Hopefully, Ramos will provide decent JellyBean updates on their Exynos 4412 Tablets.

You can now place your pre-order at Pandawill.com which offers a very competitive price of US$266.99 including a world-wide free shipping. The item is expected to be release 1st or 2nd week of January 2013.

The Ramos W42 is using the same screen that PiPO Max-M8 uses, a 1280x800pixel HD720p resolution 10-point Multi-Touch Display Panel with vivid and bright IPS screen Technology. Wider viewing angles, perfect image quality and clearer display of Text. Suitable for every users need like Gaming, Movie Playback, Viewing Photos, Browsing the Web and Reading E-books.

A low resolution 0.3MP Front Facing camera is placed on the middle-top of the bezel which can be useful on Video Calling.

This is where PiPO Max-M8 had an advantage, Ramos W42 placed a 2.0MP Rear Camera without LED Flash and a Monofiring LoudSpeaker instead of Stereo Speakers. PiPO Max-M8's 5.0MP Rear Camera with Flash is said to captures good quality of HD Photos and Videos and the Stereo Speaker which are placed in the Front provides great sound clarity and quality. A 2.0MP Rear Camera can still be useful, however, it requires good lightings if used indoor.

The Monofiring LoudSpeaker placed in the back is somehow a bit disappointing for this almost great QuadCore Tablet. I guess they had to do some sacrifice in order to maintain competitive price. Let's just hope it provide at-least decent quality of sound.

The Ramos W42 also have a lower Battery Capacity of 5400mAh capacity against 6500mAh capacity of PiPO Max-M8, however Samsung Exynos 4412 Chipset is proven efficient so don't be surprise if these two offers very similar Battery Life. Additional PiPO Max-M8 advantage is how they design the Tablet. its almost comparable to Sonxy Xperia S Tablet with its 9mm thickness against Ramos W42's 10.5mm. Both are using Aluminium Shell Case to protect the back of the Tablet and if we look PiPO Max-M8's WiFi performance, there should be no problem on Ramos W42's WiFi performance as-well.

As for the performance, it should be a hands down win of Ramos W42 over PiPO Max-M8.

Model		Ramos W42 Quad Core Tablet PC
CPU		Samsung Exynos 4412, 1.4GHz, Cortex A9 quad core; GPU: Mali 400 MP4
Operation System		Android 4.0.4
RAM		1GB (DDR 3)
ROM（Memory）		16GB Nand Flash
Shell Material		Aluminum Shell
Screen	Size	9.4 Inch
	Type	Capacitive Screen, IPS
	Display	LCD
	Resolution	1280 x 800px
	Visible Angle	178°
Extend Card		Support TF card up to 32GB extended
Camera		Dual camera, front is 0.3 and back is 2.0 megapixels
Gravity Sensor		Yes
Multi-Touch		Yes, 10 points touch
Play Store		Yes
Bluetooth		Yes, Bluetooth 4.0
Video		1080P, AVI/MOV/MP4/RMVB/FLV/MKV…
Music		MP3/WMA/WAV/APE/AAC/FLAC/OGG
Ebook		UMD, TXT, PDF, HTML, RTF, FB2…
Skype		Yes
Email and Browser		Yes, built in
WIFI		Yes, 802.11 b/g/n
3G		Not built in, support external 3G dongle: E1916, ZTE AC2736, HUAWEI E1750, HUAWEI EC122, HUAWEI EM770W
Earphone Interface		3.5mm
Work Time		Up to 6-7 hours
Battery		5400mAh
Language		Czech, Dansk, German, English, Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polski, Greek, Portuguese, Svenska, Turkey, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Other Applications		File Manager, OfficeSuite, Google Search, Task Manager, Browser, Gallery, Android Webkit, Clock, Calculator, Calendar, iReader, Gmail…
Product Size		244.6 x 170.3 x 10.5mm
Product Weight		524g
Extend Port		1 x TF card slot
		1 x Micro USB port
		1 x 3.5mm Earphone port
Package including		1 x Charger
		1 x USB cable
		1 x User Manual(English, Russian, German, Spanish)
Package Weight