Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Once you get to dark maybe you could post your ANTuTu benchmark score.
Its not there yet on AnTuTu so yours would be the first MIPS report.”
I have submitted the results to Antutu, but here they are for others to see.
RAM : 189
CPU integer : 501
CPU float-point : 200
2D Graphics : 318
3D Graphics : 437
Database IO: 145
Total score 1790. As I haven't got a memory card, I wasn't able to run the test on it, but will do that at a later date.
Originally Posted by John259:
“I'd greatly appreciate a brief review once you've had chance to play with it.”
Okay here goes for the review.
I have been playing with the Novo 7 Paladin for a couple hours now & have to say that it is built quite solid. The capacitive screen works really well & does what it is told by my fingers, unlike the nasty resistive screens, I would go as far as saying as the screen is almost as reliable as my Samsung Galaxy S2. Web browsing is quite smooth but am yet to find a decent browser to use as the inbuilt one is very basic but does the job. Video & Audio playback is excellent quality, haven't seen any dropped frames in video as yet & if you have got the audio up high, you can feel the bass at the back of the unit but without distorted sound. Applications load really fast & the general use of the tablet is really fast as well considering it is a really new Operating System. The tablet can be used as a USB storage device, as files can be transferred easily. However if you copy across an APK file, then you must load the APK manager on the tablet, to install the application.
Android market is installed but isn't shown on the main screen, you have to search for it & place the widget on the screen yourself, which only takes a matter of a minute to do.
Negatives
The only real gripe I have with the device is the reliability of the WIFI connection as it does like to drop quite a bit, despite me being in the same room as the router, but it does reconnect quite quickly. Also downloading files is quite slow.
Due to not many applications being compatible with the MIPS CPU, the Android Market is quite limited. However I installed a file called Magic Code ICS & this makes more APK files compatible, however you must download them from various sites first & install them manually as they don't appear on the market. Hopefully as time goes on, more applications will appear for the device on the market.
On certain images you can see the pixels of the screen but it isn't that bad as said earlier with the video playback being really good.
Finally you do get a lot of Chinese applications when you first turn on the device but these can be removed with ease. Finally ICS requires a lot of disk space & even after removing all of the Chinese applications, you are only left with 760mb, so if you get this tablet, it is highly recommended to get an SD card, especially if you intend to put on a lot of Music / Video files.
Despite the slight flaws of the device which could be fixed in future firmware updates, the Novo 7 Paladin is an excellent piece of kit for the money as it does exactly what it is supposed to do & is far more better value than devices like Scroll Options. If you are after a cheap tablet with decent video / audio playback, with pretty good web browsing experience then I would say that you won't get better than this for the money, especially with UK Ebay sellers doing them for £90.
My next thing to get is a decent case, as there have been reports of cracked screens when people have dropped them, as this tablet isn't something you would want damaged.
If there are any other questions then I will do my best to answer them.