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Scroll excel tablet 7" screen
monsterroony
23-11-2011
I,m thinking of buying my son the "Scroll Excel 7 Inch Android Touch-Screen Tablet with 3D Output", it,s priced at £129.99....is this good value as I don,t know enough about them....many thanks in advance.....cheers..
koantemplation
23-11-2011
Originally Posted by monsterroony:
“I,m thinking of buying my son the "Scroll Excel 7 Inch Android Touch-Screen Tablet with 3D Output", it,s priced at £129.99....is this good value as I don,t know enough about them....many thanks in advance.....cheers..”

They had it on 'The Gadget Show'.

Looked very good. I was thinking about getting one as well.
monsterroony
23-11-2011
The Gadget Show is where my son saw the tablet lol, glad it seems ok for the money.....many thanks for replying....
brian_snail
06-12-2011
If you check the reviews on ebuyer they usually give a better idea. I'm not sure if many people see the Gadget show as a serious review show anymore?!

If you're on a budget there's a cheaper version of the scroll excel called the scroll essential at only £69 and found a good deal on an Archos that used to be £250 now £99 at carphone warehouse

I found the info here
mjcooper015
02-01-2012
i was considering buying my daughter a samsung 8' epad a820 s5pv210 with 2.1 bluetooth
blisteringly fast i believe see linkhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150676418775
Big_Ted
02-01-2012
Originally Posted by mjcooper015:
“i was considering buying my daughter a samsung 8' epad a820 s5pv210 with 2.1 bluetooth
blisteringly fast i believe see linkhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150676418775”


Careful thats not a Samsung tablet just one with a Samsung arm chip in it.

It might be a good tablet for the price but check around for reviews etc first.
clonmult
03-01-2012
Originally Posted by Big_Ted:
“Careful thats not a Samsung tablet just one with a Samsung arm chip in it.

It might be a good tablet for the price but check around for reviews etc first.”

Don't think it'll be that great.

Screen is a strange resolution for an android tablet (4:3 ratio, most tend to be widescreen), which should be good for browsing.

However one caveat - the spec overall seems okay, it will definitely *not* be blisteringly fast (single core CPU), and while the advert makes out that its multi touch - it *isn't*. Its a resistive screen, which handles multi touch in a very, very strange manner.
AKW
03-01-2012
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“Don't think it'll be that great.

Screen is a strange resolution for an android tablet (4:3 ratio, most tend to be widescreen), which should be good for browsing.

However one caveat - the spec overall seems okay, it will definitely *not* be blisteringly fast (single core CPU), and while the advert makes out that its multi touch - it *isn't*. Its a resistive screen, which handles multi touch in a very, very strange manner.”


I got one of these at Christmas and I am very please with it. I have two issues, how to alter the volume when playing back media and what USB 3g modems are compatable with it.

Very please overall
alanwarwic
03-01-2012
That Odys tablet is far better value at £80 on Amazon and is also a 1.2Ghz Cortex A8.
Similarly it is not for fast action touchscreen games having a resistive touch screen.

That scroll looks ok value though they should really have used an A9 dual core, not an A8 CPU.
alan1302
03-01-2012
Don’t think I could go back to a resistive screen anymore – too used to my iPhones screen – but the prices on these have certainly come down since I last looked….it is surprising what you can get for the money.
alanwarwic
03-01-2012
My LG GT540 was a resistive phone and I honestly could hardly tell.
Barry59
03-01-2012
I think resistive screens are suited to the displays of phones and smaller screens as one tends to press a little harder in small gestures (well I do anyway ).

I find that larger screens really need capacitive touch technology due to the longer 'swipes'.

To alanwarwic's point though, modern resitive screens are very good, though perhaps not so great for multi-touch stuff.
clonmult
04-01-2012
Originally Posted by AKW:
“I got one of these at Christmas and I am very please with it. I have two issues, how to alter the volume when playing back media and what USB 3g modems are compatable with it.

Very please overall”

For USB modem support you may be unlucky. I've seen plenty of issues/questions on the Vega and its support for a variety of USB modems, and even with the insane levels of 3rd party support on the Vega (and related tabs), modem support doesn't seem guaranteed.

Better bet would be a WiFi dongle, or wireless tethering from your mobile (if you've got a suitable data plan).

Still reckon that the Vega is one of the more outstanding tablets around - circa £150, and you get something with a reasonably good hardware spec, but its the 3rd party support that makes it stand out - Honeycomb with some of the ICS related patches really have turned it into something extremely useful.
alanwarwic
04-01-2012
At a guess the Vega has the highest 2nd hand value of any available tablet.

I'm not sure if you can find them new/refurbished for £150 any more, that now happens to be the far more risky 2nd hand ebay price.
clonmult
04-01-2012
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“At a guess the Vega has the highest 2nd hand value of any available tablet.

I'm not sure if you can find them new/refurbished for £150 any more, that now happens to be the far more risky 2nd hand ebay price.”

I was only going from memory on price, recall something about DSG selling them via their ebay shop for around that price.

Not surprising the possible demand for them, apart from viewing angles on the screen, its a cracking bit of kit.
dadioflex
04-01-2012
Amazed they didn't capitalise on the Vega's success and release an updated version for Xmas. They can't have made any money selling them though - what you got was just a shade under-powered compared to tablets costing twice as much.
clonmult
05-01-2012
Originally Posted by dadioflex:
“Amazed they didn't capitalise on the Vega's success and release an updated version for Xmas. They can't have made any money selling them though - what you got was just a shade under-powered compared to tablets costing twice as much.”

There's been continual rumours of an update, but then its not really DSG/Advent that make them, they just rebrand the kit, so it'll be up to them to source a suitable OEM tablet and slap an Advent sticker on the back.

To be honest, I'm not even sure you could count it as underpowered - its still running exactly the same processor as that kit coming in at almost twice the price.
dadioflex
06-01-2012
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“There's been continual rumours of an update, but then its not really DSG/Advent that make them, they just rebrand the kit, so it'll be up to them to source a suitable OEM tablet and slap an Advent sticker on the back.

To be honest, I'm not even sure you could count it as underpowered - its still running exactly the same processor as that kit coming in at almost twice the price.”

I was thinking more about RAM and internal storage, but I'm fairly sure the Tegra 2 chipset in the Vega was a less powerful than the version of the chipset that went into eg the Xoom - however I'm struggling to find anything to back this up so it might be my imagination.

The Vega was probably my best tech buy for about a decade. Something that has genuinely changed how I spend my free time. I used to spend a couple of hours a night slumped in front of the TV, now I still do that, but I can check IMDB and Wikipedia while I'm doing it. Joy.
tomferguson
09-01-2012
Got mine at Christmas from ebuyer. When it worked it was fine but it kept crashing re-booting so sent it back. On the "Scroll" forum some people report no problems but others have the same as mine re crashes.

If you buy from a good retailer then you can return it should it be the same as mine.

Sometimes you just get what you pay for !
clonmult
10-01-2012
Originally Posted by dadioflex:
“I was thinking more about RAM and internal storage, but I'm fairly sure the Tegra 2 chipset in the Vega was a less powerful than the version of the chipset that went into eg the Xoom - however I'm struggling to find anything to back this up so it might be my imagination.

The Vega was probably my best tech buy for about a decade. Something that has genuinely changed how I spend my free time. I used to spend a couple of hours a night slumped in front of the TV, now I still do that, but I can check IMDB and Wikipedia while I'm doing it. Joy.”

I've never (obviously) run out of RAM, and more internal storage wouldn't be required if Android wasn't so stupidly designed - I think the memory allocation is the one reason why it isn't truly suited to use as a "serious" tablet PC.

Its damnably irritating to have to use Apps2SD or Links2SD on such a regular basis.

I'm doing the same - happily watching a film (on the netbook, connected via HDMI to the TV), and browsing wikipedia or IMDB for information on what I'm watching.

Benchmarks tend to put the Vega at a similar level of performance to the Xoom, will be nice when Vegacomb gets it next update and we can push the CPU beyond 1.2gHz again.
alanwarwic
10-01-2012
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“...if Android wasn't so stupidly designed - I think the memory allocation is the one reason why it isn't truly suited to use as a "serious" tablet PC.”

I can safely argue that the single tasking IOS mp3 player system is far more ill suited to being a proper tablet computer.

Have you ever thought that the iPhone 4s battery problems might just be IOS struggling when adding a task?
IOS was only designed to do one foreground task whilst Android is very much Linux.

edit - sorry I guess you meant the supplied internal memory, not how it operates. I'd certainly still rather have that SD slot than something stupidly limited like the Fire.
alanwarwic
10-01-2012
Originally Posted by Barry59:
“...I find that larger screens really need capacitive touch technology due to the longer 'swipes'.

To alanwarwic's point though, modern resitive screens are very good, though perhaps not so great for multi-touch stuff.”

I'm finding that with my cheap Odys.

It does not stop it being a brilliant little tablet and it is certainly swipes that can be quirky.
Now how do I build the kernel to add DIY bluetooth.
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