10.1 Inch Cortex A9 Tablet PC ZT280-R10 with GPS&RJ45 Review

[Allen]

The good: video, WiFi&RJ45 interface, GPS
The Bad: No mutil point control, poor camera,

AMLogic 8726-M processor is an excellent processor now. Its performance and price win great popularity since it came out. ZT280-R10 is a tablet that ships this CPU, after test, it works well and do not let down me.


Firmware
CPU: ARM Cortex-A9, AMLogic 8726-M CPU, 1GHz
Operation System:Android 2.3
RAM:512MB
ROM:4GB
Screen: 10.1''', resistive, 1024*600,

Design
Like most tablet pcs' design, ZT280-R10 arrays all keys on the top panel, and all input/output interfaces on the right side panel. What id different is ZT280-R10 gets a RJ45 port.


To be continued...
Product link: http://www.pandawill.com/zt280r10-ta...er-p50312.html

[Allen]

Performance
Internet:
One of the most important function of the tablet pc is surfing webs. If this function is bad, this tablet pc is a failure. It will be very inconvenient to use the tablet to skim news, staty connected with others,such as Facebook,Twitter,Email, and the like applications may disappoint you a lot. So when I get the tablet PC, I always test the browser first. ZT280-R10' s browser is not bad. Downloading webs fast and, due to the high sensitive capacitive screen, it is easy to slide and turn the pages. I could not test the specific download speed, but to skim some webs, such as Google News, Sina, and the like, the speed is acceptable, the wait time is about 8 seconds in average. This time depends more on your local network. So, in general, ZT280-R10 's browser is good.

Video:
Tablet pc's another important function is video play. ZT280-R10 dose well in this function. It can play 1080P video smoothly and clear. Kinds of formats video are supported well,AVI/MOV/MP4/RMVB/FLV/MKV and so .
on. If you want to watch video on large screen, you can use the HDMI port to output video, very convenient.
Android market
Android market is a powerful market, you can download different applications and games from it. I download Angry Birds(about 800KB) for test, it takes about one minute to download and install it, amazing speed.
GPS: ZT280-R10 has built-in GPS, with the external antenna, it can navigate well
Game
I am afraid the lag of ZT280 is game for it does not support multi -touch, which makes many games difficult to play.

Conclusion: As a middle range tablet pc, ZT280-R10 does a good job. 1GHz CPU make the tablet runs fast and 512MB RAM ensure enough space for the device to run. Though in game, it has a lot to do, other applications are running smoothly, so in a whole, ZT280-R10 is a nice tablet pc considering the low price

[SuperTony]

Thanks to your review, Allen. Good job

[RuslanMG]

Allen
1. Does it have a good microphone for Skype? Please check sound recording.
2. How about sleep mode? Can it go to sleep mode for a long time without energy losing?
3. How long it's battery life?
thanks

[Allen]

Yes， it has a speaker built-in, the sound recording is acceptable.
as for sleep mode, it can save much power as other tablet pcs, it is impossible to consum no power.
the battery can work about 4-5 hours, standby time is about 1 day.