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it's been a long time since we've done an unboxing in the cameraman's office as

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you can see it's kind of gone to ruin in

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the time that I haven't been here to uh to help him clear space from time to

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time got old game controllers not that the cameraman has any idea how to play a

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game being a Mac guy and all that okay

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cameraman we're doing some cleanup he's got his precious money all over the

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place so i' wonder you has any money he spends so much on making sure that he

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has a Mac instead of getting a PC which is a better

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value okay so today we have something totally unrelated to Mac or PC this is

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actually an Android tablet this is the cruise tablet from velocity micro and it

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looks pretty cool so first things first

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we got a sticker on the front Kindle for Android so you can read more than

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725,000 Kindle books with free applications with the free applications

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on the cruise tablet if you are a non Us customer book availability may vary so

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that might be relevant to me given I am here in the great white north of Canada

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all right let's see what they have to say for themselves on the box so you can

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view your cruise tablet at the right angle with the cruise stand so there's a

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stand Dimensions you got the compatible products there's a little stand okay I

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don't know that it comes with that I guess we'll find out here on the back

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little thing all the applications you need in the palm of your hand and here's

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our specs so it has a 7 in uh slim TFT

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so that b basically just means LCD screen 800x 600 capacitive touch it is a

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4:3 aspect ratio so that's interesting this is not widescreen it runs off

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Android 2.0 has a browser okay 256 Megs

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of RAM 4 gigs of built-in storage with a 4 gig external SD card but you can

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expand that it comes with Wi-Fi it has a g sensor battery is up to 6 hours of

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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

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so you can support up to I believe it's 32 gigs on SDHC video playback is here

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reader files stand oh the stand is included there you go here's all a few

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different things that you can do surf the web use the online bookstore you can

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access your social media really it's app driven much like uh any Android device

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you can watch videos view documents it has a dictionary I don't know why they

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would necessarily call it the dictionary but whatever manage your files and it

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has a g sensor so it will automatically rotate from portrait to

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landscape more features here which we've

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pretty much cover most of those also includes an alarm clock apparently a

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calculator I mean it better include a calculator you know this kind of a price

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point and this Advanced device okay so

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packaging wise here we go we have a white box which has more of a white box on the

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inside there's the tablet itself I'm not going to show you that just yet here is

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a nice little uh okay there's our included 4 gig SanDisk SDHC

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card here is a little sleeve which

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includes some information about the warranty so there's our SD card here's

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the limited warranty okay something about one year okay so it has a 1ear

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warranty next we've got a quick start guide why don't we have a look at that

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after we turn it on and then we have a little uh little sort of foamy sleeve

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for it so that's pretty nice actually all right here's the little Cruise stand

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so you can use it at the correct angle all right and then we have a charger so

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that's it fairly simple accessory package let's have a look at the cruise

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tablet

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itself it's got a little bit of a heft to it but it's more of a um it's more of

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a feels solid weight than a feels heavy

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weight kind of like the iPhone 4 like the iPhone 4 is heavy but it's just

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heavy cuz it's like feels solidly built so I'm going to go ahead and try and

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find the power button which is here so

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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

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that's something your iPhone doesn't have okay there's our SD slot so that's

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your expandable storage up to 32 gigs on this side we've got volume controls up

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and down we've got a little bit of cruise branding going on there moving

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along to the bottom we've got a headphone jack uh some kind of indicator

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LED we have speakers which are built right into the bottom here as well as

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our power in and then on the other side nothing so it's got a fairly clean

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overall look to the outside of it on the back you just see a little velocity

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micro logo Cruise tablet you got your serial number as well as some FCC you

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know it complies with part whatever of whatever um here we've got Android

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booting up now and why don't we wait for it to boot

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up and then we'll be back and yeah it's not quite booted up

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yet oh it's booted up cameraman's gesturing to me so I guess we better do

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that oh look there we go so the screen is right away nice and vibrant I'm going

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to see if I can find some uh I think here is settings yeah so let's play

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around with some of the stuff so we've got Wireless and networks works pretty

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much like any other Android device so we've got our navigation up here move it

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down a little bit there we go uh so let's see I want screen is a big one for

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me so let's see what the display is going to look like if we uh Tinker

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around with a little bit so brightness it's at its maximum brightness right now

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it goes all the way down to here so I'd say sort of a happy medium is probably

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right there around 35 to uh 40% that's

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where I usually end up when I'm using any of these kinds of devices this one

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seems to have a full charge on it right

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now uh we can show animations cool so

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does that yeah there we go so now the uh now the screens are going to be

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animating uh you know what give me a second to get connected to the Wi-Fi and

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then we'll go a little further into this so here we go we got the Android

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app store installed it actually didn't come with that pre-installed on the

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tablet which is a very strange thing to me but here it is so I just downloaded

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Angry Birds uh connecting to the Wi-Fi only took me a couple minutes which is

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pretty cool um just had to enter the password for the Wi-Fi here at the

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office using the App Store is pretty much like using the App Store on my

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friend's phone uh back when I was deciding whether to get um here let me

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see where's like uh here why don't me see if there's like a Facebook app or

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something uh back when I was deciding whether to get uh the Galaxy S Vibrant

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or the iPhone 4 um although the cameraman did bring my

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attention to the fact that Android 2.0 what this guy's running is not really

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that similar to the uh to the Android

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that is running on the phones that are out there right now it's slightly more

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up toate so this is what there is for Facebook why don't we just have a look

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and see if our Angry Birds is done not just yet so let's uh you know okay I

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I have to criticize a couple things it's not as fast as I would ideally like um

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it's not quite as U the screen's not

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quite as bright as I would ideally like but it's got a lot going for it and that

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is that the price is really low so this thing is less than 250 bucks at retail

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it does have the agreement in place with Amazon where you can use it as a Kindle

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ebook reader so that makes it it puts it down in that ebook price point where it

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becomes very a very good value proposition um and you don't really need

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the speed for those kinds of applications so here you can just sign

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in with your Amazon um credentials okay

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so why don't we go ahead and uh check out Angry Birds here see how well that

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runs on this little tablet of course that's what I would

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care about right do I want to install this application yep okay we'll come

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back once it's installed okay we weren't able to

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install Angry Birds what I've discovered is that that app store is not actually

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like the Android Market that I'm familiar with so it doesn't have some of

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the same good stuff in it uh we did find a YouTube app though in the in the

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cruise App Store and there's also a Facebook one in there so let's see how

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well the YouTube one works I'm just running one of my own YouTube videos

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this is a 720p video yes it is highend

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and I mean very highend

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gra okay let's see if there's a way to run this in higher quality I'll be back

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in a minute so we were watching it in horrible

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quality uh why don't we watch in normal quality that might help a little bit ah

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yes it is highend and I mean very

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highend Graphics unboxing

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time this is the rad HD

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6990 it features I don't really see anywhere to adjust the volume

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ony okay details comments oh oh I can

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rate my video check this out 4 gigs of gddr5

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memory yes okay G well I think that

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they're probably focusing on the correct marketing points on the box when they

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emphasize it as like a Kindle reader because with the overall build of it

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feeling very solid very nice and the uh

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the screen being quite adequate I think that it would make for like a great

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eBook reader and since there you can access the internet on it and we'll show

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you the browsing speed in just a moment here here let's try this one more time

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watch a normal quality let's see if it gets any

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better that it's probably buffering right

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now okay let's show you guys the browser

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so we're going to go to nci.com

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okay press home okay we got a

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browser NCI

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x.com let's go

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there oops okay let's try that again NCI

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ix.com go let's try that go button that

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might work better so here's where we downloaded the

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YouTube v1.3 cuz you can see it's not a you it's not like an Android YouTube app

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it's like specifically for the cruise reader so I think they probably still

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got some work to do as far as the app development goes and um and once once

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those mature a little bit once the installed base of these uh devices gets

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a little bit wider then I think we'll see some definite improvements in the

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overall um in the overall responsiveness

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of the

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apps here we go so we're loading up the NCIX site uh oh you can double tap to

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zoom in and zoom out so that's kind of neat

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I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to check out the forums you can see we've

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got St Patrick's deals going on on nci.com right

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now so we've moved significantly closer to our access point and we're actually

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having a little bit more success with the uh browsing

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speed okay so let's go to uh you know

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the main forum uh

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home so basically I think the conclusion at this point is that as an e-reader or

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for checking email um actually this is

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pretty unbeatable for the price but I wouldn't expect to be doing any heavy

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lifting let's see if we can get it to browse a

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little bit faster now because I I did have some success with faster browsing

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so here we go now we can navigate so I'm quite close to my access point from here

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and uh that's giving me some more success although it's still not fast by

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any stretch of the imagination for mobile browsing but I mean it's more

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than adequate for like uh email or whatever the case may be so thank you

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