Anyone know much about the new Ainol NOVO 7? I just ordered one from a new supplier to test out. It won't be here for like a month though because I opted for China Post Airmail for shipping (gotta save the $$ on sample orders
...).
Anyhow, I have been reading around about it and I can't find a whole lot that is substantial. There is a cool youtube video that shows the HDMI-out working flawlessly.
Among its rather "incredible" claims are:
-2160p (yes, double 1080p!) video playback (which I speculate might be just marketing speak but this means it should have flawless playback on the device for most anything you throw at it).
-1.5 Ghz Processor, Dual-Core, Cortex-A8 (once again, I feel this might be marketing speak. It has already been stated that the current firmware only runs at 1.0ghz and I have feeling that that "dual core" bit is just referring to a DSP or the GPU... I have never heard of a true "dual core" cortex-A8? has anyone else?)
-7.5 hours of battery life with wiFi ON! Boy that would be nice... It boasts about 3 different "power saving" technologies as a part of the chipset... I have never heard of any of them... One site said this:
" Battery is 4000mAh and Ainol says that novo7 standby time is up to 25 + days; music playback 25 + hours; high-definition video playback is up to 9 + hours; Web browsing is up to 7 + hours; Playing 3D high-definition games up to 6 + hours."
Yeah right...
is my though...
-Ridiculously high benchmark scores that outpace all other Cortex-A8's and most (all?) Current Cortex A9s??
-Mali-400 GPU - same GPU in all the new Samsung chips that are coming out and the same GPU in AmLogic Cortex-A9 chipset.
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Here is what I HAVE been able to confirm from video and reading translated chinese forums...
- Hi-Def video playback seems to be closer to 5 hours... at the absolute MAX
- The 800x480 screen is not very good quality (I will have to see for myself and compare it to my other 2 7" devices)
- HDMI Output does work and it appears to be flawless (see video below)
- Video Playback does seem to be as perfect as claimed
- Game playback is solid for the games that work with it. Some games have bugs though
- There are some initial bugs with the OS (graphical artifacts and things I think?)
- It does support Charging via the USB port (big plus)
- It has a VERY Short boot time... like 20 Seconds....
-----Still no "real" benchmarks yet other than what the manufacturer has shown and I can't figure out what they are comparing against because the image has stuff in chinese....
- Build quality is really top-notch. It is lightweight but really solid and very thin. I will judge this for myself when I get my device. Build Quality and Battery life (along with hopefully solid if not quite so "fantastic and incredible" performanc) are what have attracted me to this option.
- There is an Ainol NOVO 7 and a NOVO 7 "ADVANCED" - The NOVO 7 has the AmLogic processor - The "Advanced" has the Boxchip processor, the "regular" has the AmLogic Processor
Videos:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBTP6e5Fpg
That is what I have been able to dig up... Anyone else have any info?
Cheers,
Roman
http://topnotchtablets.com
Anyhow, I have been reading around about it and I can't find a whole lot that is substantial. There is a cool youtube video that shows the HDMI-out working flawlessly.
Among its rather "incredible" claims are:
-2160p (yes, double 1080p!) video playback (which I speculate might be just marketing speak but this means it should have flawless playback on the device for most anything you throw at it).
-1.5 Ghz Processor, Dual-Core, Cortex-A8 (once again, I feel this might be marketing speak. It has already been stated that the current firmware only runs at 1.0ghz and I have feeling that that "dual core" bit is just referring to a DSP or the GPU... I have never heard of a true "dual core" cortex-A8? has anyone else?)
-7.5 hours of battery life with wiFi ON! Boy that would be nice... It boasts about 3 different "power saving" technologies as a part of the chipset... I have never heard of any of them... One site said this:
" Battery is 4000mAh and Ainol says that novo7 standby time is up to 25 + days; music playback 25 + hours; high-definition video playback is up to 9 + hours; Web browsing is up to 7 + hours; Playing 3D high-definition games up to 6 + hours."
Yeah right...
-Ridiculously high benchmark scores that outpace all other Cortex-A8's and most (all?) Current Cortex A9s??
-Mali-400 GPU - same GPU in all the new Samsung chips that are coming out and the same GPU in AmLogic Cortex-A9 chipset.
-----------------------------
Here is what I HAVE been able to confirm from video and reading translated chinese forums...
- Hi-Def video playback seems to be closer to 5 hours... at the absolute MAX
- The 800x480 screen is not very good quality (I will have to see for myself and compare it to my other 2 7" devices)
- HDMI Output does work and it appears to be flawless (see video below)
- Video Playback does seem to be as perfect as claimed
- Game playback is solid for the games that work with it. Some games have bugs though
- There are some initial bugs with the OS (graphical artifacts and things I think?)
- It does support Charging via the USB port (big plus)
- It has a VERY Short boot time... like 20 Seconds....
-----Still no "real" benchmarks yet other than what the manufacturer has shown and I can't figure out what they are comparing against because the image has stuff in chinese....
- Build quality is really top-notch. It is lightweight but really solid and very thin. I will judge this for myself when I get my device. Build Quality and Battery life (along with hopefully solid if not quite so "fantastic and incredible" performanc) are what have attracted me to this option.
- There is an Ainol NOVO 7 and a NOVO 7 "ADVANCED" - The NOVO 7 has the AmLogic processor - The "Advanced" has the Boxchip processor, the "regular" has the AmLogic Processor
Videos:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBTP6e5Fpg
That is what I have been able to dig up... Anyone else have any info?
Cheers,
Roman
http://topnotchtablets.com