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applications on the cruise tablet if you are a non Us customer book availability may vary so that might be relevant to me given I am here in the great white north of Canada all right let's see what they have to say for themselves on the box so you can view your cruise tablet at the right angle with the cruise stand so there's a stand Dimensions you got the compatible products there's a little stand okay I don't know that it comes with that I guess we'll find out here on the back little thing all the applications you need in the palm of your hand and here's our specs so it has a 7 in uh slim TFT so that b basically just means LCD screen 800x 600 capacitive touch it is a 4:3 aspect ratio so that's interesting this is not widescreen it runs off Android 2.0 has a browser okay 256 Megs of RAM 4 gigs of built-in storage with a 4 gig external SD card but you can expand that it comes with Wi-Fi it has a g sensor battery is up to 6 hours of watching video we've got Dimensions here but we're going to pull it out and show you guys later it has support for SDHC so you can support up to I believe it's 32 gigs on SDHC video playback is here reader files stand oh the stand is included there you go here's all a few different things that you can do surf the web use the online bookstore you can access your social media really it's app driven much like uh any Android device you can watch videos view documents it has a dictionary I don't know why they would necessarily call it the dictionary but whatever manage your files and it has a g sensor so it will automatically rotate from portrait to landscape more features here which we've pretty much cover most of those also includes an alarm clock apparently a calculator I mean it better include a calculator you know this kind of a price point and this Advanced device okay so packaging wise here we go we have a white box which has more of a white box on the inside there's the tablet itself I'm not going to show you that just yet here is a nice little uh okay there's our included 4 gig SanDisk SDHC card here is a little sleeve which includes some information about the warranty so there's our SD card here's the limited warranty okay something about one year okay so it has a 1ear warranty next we've got a quick start guide why don't we have a look at that after we turn it on and then we have a little uh little sort of foamy sleeve for it so that's pretty nice actually all right here's the little Cruise stand so you can use it at the correct angle all right and then we have a charger so that's it fairly simple accessory package let's have a look at the cruise tablet itself it's got a little bit of a heft to it but it's more of a um it's more of a feels solid weight than a feels heavy weight kind of like the iPhone 4 like the iPhone 4 is heavy but it's just heavy cuz it's like feels solidly built so I'm going to go ahead and try and find the power button which is here so let's uh let's wait for it to power on while we show you guys all the buttons so we've got reset check it out USB that's something your iPhone doesn't have okay there's our SD slot so that's your expandable storage up to 32 gigs on this side we've got volume controls up and down we've got a little bit of cruise branding going on there moving along to the bottom we've got a headphone jack uh some kind of indicator LED we have speakers which are built right into the bottom here as well as our power in and then on the other side nothing so it's got a fairly clean overall look to the outside of it on the back you just see a little velocity micro logo Cruise tablet you got your serial number as well as some FCC you know it complies with part whatever of whatever um here we've got Android booting up now and why don't we wait for it to boot up and then we'll be back and yeah it's not quite booted up yet oh it's booted up cameraman's gesturing to me so I guess we better do that oh look there we go so the screen is right away nice and vibrant I'm going to see if I can find some uh I think here is settings yeah so let's play around with some of the stuff so we've got Wireless and networks works pretty much like any other Android device so we've got our navigation up here move it down a little bit there we go uh so let's see I want screen is a big one for me so let's see what the display is going to look like if we uh Tinker around with a little bit so brightness it's at its maximum brightness right now it goes all the way down to here so I'd say sort of a happy medium is probably right there around 35 to uh 40% that's where I usually end up when I'm using any of these kinds of devices this one seems to have a full charge on it right now uh we can show animations cool so does that yeah there we go so now the uh now the screens are going to be animating uh you know what give me a second to get connected to the Wi-Fi and then we'll go a little further into this so here we go we got the Android app store installed it actually didn't come with that pre-installed on the tablet which is a very strange thing to me but here it is so I just downloaded Angry Birds uh connecting to the Wi-Fi only took me a couple minutes which is pretty cool um just had to enter the password for the Wi-Fi here at the office using the App Store is pretty much like using the App Store on my friend's phone uh back when I was deciding whether to get um here let me see where's like uh here why don't me see if there's like a Facebook app or something uh back when I was deciding whether to get uh the Galaxy S Vibrant or the iPhone 4 um although the cameraman did bring my attention to the fact that Android 2.0 what this guy's running is not really that similar to the uh to the Android that is running on the phones that are out there right now it's slightly more up toate so this is what there is for Facebook why don't we just have a look and see if our Angry Birds is done not just yet so let's uh you know okay I I have to criticize a couple things it's not as fast as I would ideally like um it's not quite as U the screen's not quite as bright as I would ideally like but it's got a lot going for it and that is that the price is really low so this thing is less than 250 bucks at retail it does have the agreement in place with Amazon where you can use it as a Kindle ebook reader so that makes it it puts it down in that ebook price point where it becomes very a very good value proposition um and you don't really need the speed for those kinds of applications so here you can just sign in with your Amazon um credentials okay so why don't we go ahead and uh check out Angry Birds here see how well that runs on this little tablet of course that's what I would care about right do I want to install this application yep okay we'll come back once it's installed okay we weren't able to install Angry Birds what I've discovered is that that app store is not actually like the Android Market that I'm familiar with so it doesn't have some of the same good stuff in it uh we did find a YouTube app though in the in the cruise App Store and there's also a Facebook one in there so let's see how well the YouTube one works I'm just running one of my own YouTube videos this is a 720p video yes it is highend and I mean very highend gra okay let's see if there's a way to run this in higher quality I'll be back in a minute so we were watching it in horrible quality uh why don't we watch in normal quality that might help a little bit ah yes it is highend and I mean very highend Graphics unboxing time this is the rad HD 6990 it features I don't really see anywhere to adjust the volume ony okay details comments oh oh I can rate my video check this out 4 gigs of gddr5 memory yes okay G well I think that they're probably focusing on the correct marketing points on the box when they emphasize it as like a Kindle reader because with the overall build of it feeling very solid very nice and the uh the screen being quite adequate I think that it would make for like a great eBook reader and since there you can access the internet on it and we'll show you the browsing speed in just a moment here here let's try this one more time watch a normal quality let's see if it gets any better that it's probably buffering right now okay let's show you guys the browser so we're going to go to nci.com okay press home okay we got a browser NCI x.com let's go there oops okay let's try that again NCI ix.com go let's try that go button that might work better so here's where we downloaded the YouTube v1.3 cuz you can see it's not a you it's not like an Android YouTube app it's like specifically for the cruise reader so I think they probably still got some work to do as far as the app development goes and um and once once those mature a little bit once the installed base of these uh devices gets a little bit wider then I think we'll see some definite improvements in the overall um in the overall responsiveness of the apps here we go so we're loading up the NCIX site uh oh you can double tap to zoom in and zoom out so that's kind of neat I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to check out the forums you can see we've got St Patrick's deals going on on nci.com right now so we've moved significantly closer to our access point and we're actually having a little bit more success with the uh browsing speed okay so let's go to uh you know the main forum uh home so basically I think the conclusion at this point is that as an e-reader or for checking email um actually this is pretty unbeatable for the price but I wouldn't expect to be doing any heavy lifting let's see if we can get it to browse a little bit faster now because I I did have some success with faster browsing so here we go now we can navigate so I'm quite close to my access point from here and uh that's giving me some more success although it's still not fast by any stretch of the imagination for mobile browsing but I mean it's more than adequate for like uh email or whatever the case may be so thank you for checking out this video on the velocity micro Cruise tablet don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}