Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase. That's the full suite of communications technology on a tablet you can fit in a jacket pocket. The tone quality was average at best and as usual The Android OS has no allotment for customizing the audio.
The plus side about this being an Android device is that you can download freeware like Rockplayer and Mixzing to fill in the media gaps. The bundled handsfree in-ear type are not the most comfortable or designed to provide optimum audio for media. On the other hand, it's good enough for calls.
And if you've already got a decent smartphone you're unlikely to take the time to pick up the ViewPad instead for whatever you want to do. In short, the ViewPad 7 is mostly unnecessary. In Classic mode, you have three desktops, which you can use to store shortcuts for your apps or hold display standard Android widgets.
You can even change the wallpaper on these desktops to your liking. Unfortunately, aside from the desktop and app menu, nothing else changes in Classic mode. And you still can't see a list of open tasks by holding down the home button.
When in landscape mode, the keyboard gets cut down the middle at the line between the G and H keys so you can to type with your thumbs and not have to stretch too far to target those middle keys. When in portrait mode, the keyboard doesn't split, but does have nice, large keys. Unfortunately, the G Tablet does not support haptic feedback on the keyboard or anywhere else, so you won't feel any response when you tap the keys.
Those who like the Swype keyboard that can use on the Galaxy Tab and other Android devices are also out of luck. Instead, the preloaded software build includes a few mediocre apps with low-tech designs. The News app provides the same feed of headlines you get from the desktop news widget. The Weather app provides a large, graphical display of the current and upcoming weather in your area with giant images of a sun or clouds. Es File Explorer allows you to browse files and folders on the internal storage or external SD card.
The Clock app shows the time and allows you to set alarms and timers. The To-Do app allows you to create post-it notes that appear on one of the desktop screens. The Grocery app lets you create a shopping list of things to buy when you go to the store that you can even share via e-mail, but you can't check things off your list as you buy them and, frankly, we can't imagine someone lugging this heavy tablet around the supermarket. The calendar app allows you to enter your appointments and have them appear on the desktop widget of upcoming appointments, but it doesn't sync with cloud applications like Google calendar, though it can download appointments from an ICS file.
The Photos app allows you to view and organize your pictures, though it is much less attractive and functional no editing or sharing than Google's own Gallery app. The music app helps you organize albums and songs that you have stored on the device.
The camera app allows you to shoot photos or videos of yourself with the 1. Because Google hasn't certified the G Tablet as eligible for its apps, the slate doesn't come with the official Android Market.
However, it does have a shortcut that links to the Handango web site, where you can download several good apps. However a couple of apps such as Fring wasn't and Droid Record weren't there. Plus, Angry Birds wouldn't play; we just got a blank screen with sound. The other problem with Handango is that its download process is not tailored for the G Tablet.
To download an app, you must search for it, click on the download button, then choose the "Download to PC" option on a list of choises that includes "Email to Phone" and "SMS to Phone. That choice gives them access to Android apps as well as productivity applications common to Windows 7 users. The ViewPad 10 is an interesting idea waiting for someone to properly execute it in a practical manner. I think there is a place for dual-booting devices, and I would like to see some manufacturer really put some thought and engineering muscle behind the concept.
But the ViewPad 10 as it currently ships is just an over-priced device looking for a market. By compromising the CPU and the Android version, ViewSonic has practically doomed this device to footnote status when it comes to tablet history. Avoid it -- there are much better tablets with more value on the market. Have you encountered or used the ViewSonic ViewPad 10? If so, what do you think?
Rate your experience and compare the results to what other TechRepublic members think. Give your own personal review in the TechRepublic Community Forums or let us know if you think we left anything out in our review. Learn more. There's a really famous road — maybe you know it. It's paved with good intentions.
And by now you should know all too well where it leads. It must have been aggravating for ViewSonic — which has made Windows-based tablet PCs since — to see its market destroyed by the Apple iPad in So the company did what it and everyone else has had to do: embrace Android. The result is the ViewSonic ViewPad 10 , a inch, dual-booting Windows-Android tablet with a lot of heart and lofty goals, and an utter disaster on nearly every front.
To be fair, Android is a whole new world to ViewSonic, and when you boot the device to Windows, the machine isn't half-bad. That isn't to say it didn't have its share of bugs: It took an hour of futzing just to get the two USB ports to work, and I experienced crashes nearly every day I used it.
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