WEBVTT 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:09.040 it's been a long time since we've done an unboxing in the cameraman's office as 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:11.679 you can see it's kind of gone to ruin in 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:18.240 the time that I haven't been here to uh to help him clear space from time to 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:23.160 time got old game controllers not that the cameraman has any idea how to play a 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:25.680 game being a Mac guy and all that okay 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:30.640 cameraman we're doing some cleanup he's got his precious money all over the 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:34.360 place so i' wonder you has any money he spends so much on making sure that he 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:38.640 has a Mac instead of getting a PC which is a better 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:43.760 value okay so today we have something totally unrelated to Mac or PC this is 00:00:41.559 --> 00:00:50.000 actually an Android tablet this is the cruise tablet from velocity micro and it 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:51.559 looks pretty cool so first things first 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:55.559 we got a sticker on the front Kindle for Android so you can read more than 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:59.640 725,000 Kindle books with free applications with the free applications 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:03.039 on the cruise tablet if you are a non Us customer book availability may vary so 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:08.720 that might be relevant to me given I am here in the great white north of Canada 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:12.400 all right let's see what they have to say for themselves on the box so you can 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:16.560 view your cruise tablet at the right angle with the cruise stand so there's a 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.600 stand Dimensions you got the compatible products there's a little stand okay I 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:24.159 don't know that it comes with that I guess we'll find out here on the back 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:29.439 little thing all the applications you need in the palm of your hand and here's 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.960 our specs so it has a 7 in uh slim TFT 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:36.479 so that b basically just means LCD screen 800x 600 capacitive touch it is a 00:01:34.119 --> 00:01:41.759 4:3 aspect ratio so that's interesting this is not widescreen it runs off 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:44.079 Android 2.0 has a browser okay 256 Megs 00:01:41.759 --> 00:01:48.799 of RAM 4 gigs of built-in storage with a 4 gig external SD card but you can 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:53.000 expand that it comes with Wi-Fi it has a g sensor battery is up to 6 hours of 00:01:51.320 --> 00:01:58.920 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 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:04.479 so you can support up to I believe it's 32 gigs on SDHC video playback is here 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:07.759 reader files stand oh the stand is included there you go here's all a few 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:11.720 different things that you can do surf the web use the online bookstore you can 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:16.680 access your social media really it's app driven much like uh any Android device 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.680 you can watch videos view documents it has a dictionary I don't know why they 00:02:17.959 --> 00:02:23.879 would necessarily call it the dictionary but whatever manage your files and it 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:29.200 has a g sensor so it will automatically rotate from portrait to 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:31.319 landscape more features here which we've 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:35.640 pretty much cover most of those also includes an alarm clock apparently a 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:41.720 calculator I mean it better include a calculator you know this kind of a price 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:43.280 point and this Advanced device okay so 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:48.959 packaging wise here we go we have a white box which has more of a white box on the 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:53.080 inside there's the tablet itself I'm not going to show you that just yet here is 00:02:51.159 --> 00:03:01.440 a nice little uh okay there's our included 4 gig SanDisk SDHC 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:02.920 card here is a little sleeve which 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:08.040 includes some information about the warranty so there's our SD card here's 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:12.879 the limited warranty okay something about one year okay so it has a 1ear 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:16.159 warranty next we've got a quick start guide why don't we have a look at that 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:21.360 after we turn it on and then we have a little uh little sort of foamy sleeve 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:26.040 for it so that's pretty nice actually all right here's the little Cruise stand 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:30.239 so you can use it at the correct angle all right and then we have a charger so 00:03:28.519 --> 00:03:35.439 that's it fairly simple accessory package let's have a look at the cruise 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:35.439 tablet 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:45.400 itself it's got a little bit of a heft to it but it's more of a um it's more of 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:47.360 a feels solid weight than a feels heavy 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:52.599 weight kind of like the iPhone 4 like the iPhone 4 is heavy but it's just 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:57.280 heavy cuz it's like feels solidly built so I'm going to go ahead and try and 00:03:54.079 --> 00:03:58.840 find the power button which is here so 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:04.599 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 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:09.840 that's something your iPhone doesn't have okay there's our SD slot so that's 00:04:06.959 --> 00:04:14.079 your expandable storage up to 32 gigs on this side we've got volume controls up 00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:18.239 and down we've got a little bit of cruise branding going on there moving 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:22.759 along to the bottom we've got a headphone jack uh some kind of indicator 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:26.960 LED we have speakers which are built right into the bottom here as well as 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:31.680 our power in and then on the other side nothing so it's got a fairly clean 00:04:29.080 --> 00:04:35.280 overall look to the outside of it on the back you just see a little velocity 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:40.280 micro logo Cruise tablet you got your serial number as well as some FCC you 00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:44.240 know it complies with part whatever of whatever um here we've got Android 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:48.639 booting up now and why don't we wait for it to boot 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:51.400 up and then we'll be back and yeah it's not quite booted up 00:04:54.280 --> 00:05:01.000 yet oh it's booted up cameraman's gesturing to me so I guess we better do 00:04:58.919 --> 00:05:06.000 that oh look there we go so the screen is right away nice and vibrant I'm going 00:05:03.080 --> 00:05:10.479 to see if I can find some uh I think here is settings yeah so let's play 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:15.720 around with some of the stuff so we've got Wireless and networks works pretty 00:05:13.440 --> 00:05:20.800 much like any other Android device so we've got our navigation up here move it 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:24.280 down a little bit there we go uh so let's see I want screen is a big one for 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:27.800 me so let's see what the display is going to look like if we uh Tinker 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:31.479 around with a little bit so brightness it's at its maximum brightness right now 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:36.240 it goes all the way down to here so I'd say sort of a happy medium is probably 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.720 right there around 35 to uh 40% that's 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:43.160 where I usually end up when I'm using any of these kinds of devices this one 00:05:39.960 --> 00:05:47.479 seems to have a full charge on it right 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:49.720 now uh we can show animations cool so 00:05:47.479 --> 00:05:53.080 does that yeah there we go so now the uh now the screens are going to be 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:56.280 animating uh you know what give me a second to get connected to the Wi-Fi and 00:05:54.600 --> 00:06:01.759 then we'll go a little further into this so here we go we got the Android 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.919 app store installed it actually didn't come with that pre-installed on the 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:09.440 tablet which is a very strange thing to me but here it is so I just downloaded 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:14.080 Angry Birds uh connecting to the Wi-Fi only took me a couple minutes which is 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:17.880 pretty cool um just had to enter the password for the Wi-Fi here at the 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:21.039 office using the App Store is pretty much like using the App Store on my 00:06:19.400 --> 00:06:26.240 friend's phone uh back when I was deciding whether to get um here let me 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:29.599 see where's like uh here why don't me see if there's like a Facebook app or 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:35.160 something uh back when I was deciding whether to get uh the Galaxy S Vibrant 00:06:32.280 --> 00:06:40.280 or the iPhone 4 um although the cameraman did bring my 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:45.840 attention to the fact that Android 2.0 what this guy's running is not really 00:06:42.599 --> 00:06:48.360 that similar to the uh to the Android 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:52.120 that is running on the phones that are out there right now it's slightly more 00:06:49.880 --> 00:06:55.400 up toate so this is what there is for Facebook why don't we just have a look 00:06:53.319 --> 00:07:02.520 and see if our Angry Birds is done not just yet so let's uh you know okay I 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:09.360 I have to criticize a couple things it's not as fast as I would ideally like um 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:11.800 it's not quite as U the screen's not 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:15.919 quite as bright as I would ideally like but it's got a lot going for it and that 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:20.800 is that the price is really low so this thing is less than 250 bucks at retail 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:25.400 it does have the agreement in place with Amazon where you can use it as a Kindle 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:29.639 ebook reader so that makes it it puts it down in that ebook price point where it 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:33.840 becomes very a very good value proposition um and you don't really need 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:40.080 the speed for those kinds of applications so here you can just sign 00:07:36.039 --> 00:07:42.440 in with your Amazon um credentials okay 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:47.639 so why don't we go ahead and uh check out Angry Birds here see how well that 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:51.680 runs on this little tablet of course that's what I would 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:54.919 care about right do I want to install this application yep okay we'll come 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:58.639 back once it's installed okay we weren't able to 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:03.599 install Angry Birds what I've discovered is that that app store is not actually 00:08:01.159 --> 00:08:09.120 like the Android Market that I'm familiar with so it doesn't have some of 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:13.800 the same good stuff in it uh we did find a YouTube app though in the in the 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.680 cruise App Store and there's also a Facebook one in there so let's see how 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:22.680 well the YouTube one works I'm just running one of my own YouTube videos 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:25.879 this is a 720p video yes it is highend 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:27.800 and I mean very highend 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:30.960 gra okay let's see if there's a way to run this in higher quality I'll be back 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:34.839 in a minute so we were watching it in horrible 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:41.200 quality uh why don't we watch in normal quality that might help a little bit ah 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:45.160 yes it is highend and I mean very 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:48.680 highend Graphics unboxing 00:08:45.160 --> 00:08:50.920 time this is the rad HD 00:08:48.680 --> 00:08:57.360 6990 it features I don't really see anywhere to adjust the volume 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:58.440 ony okay details comments oh oh I can 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:06.920 rate my video check this out 4 gigs of gddr5 00:09:02.959 --> 00:09:09.880 memory yes okay G well I think that 00:09:06.920 --> 00:09:14.760 they're probably focusing on the correct marketing points on the box when they 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:19.959 emphasize it as like a Kindle reader because with the overall build of it 00:09:16.839 --> 00:09:22.800 feeling very solid very nice and the uh 00:09:19.959 --> 00:09:27.440 the screen being quite adequate I think that it would make for like a great 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:31.360 eBook reader and since there you can access the internet on it and we'll show 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:34.440 you the browsing speed in just a moment here here let's try this one more time 00:09:32.880 --> 00:09:36.839 watch a normal quality let's see if it gets any 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:45.360 better that it's probably buffering right 00:09:50.920 --> 00:09:57.680 now okay let's show you guys the browser 00:09:54.279 --> 00:10:01.839 so we're going to go to nci.com 00:09:57.680 --> 00:10:01.839 okay press home okay we got a 00:10:02.640 --> 00:10:09.959 browser NCI 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:12.079 x.com let's go 00:10:09.959 --> 00:10:19.200 there oops okay let's try that again NCI 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:21.040 ix.com go let's try that go button that 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:25.279 might work better so here's where we downloaded the 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:28.920 YouTube v1.3 cuz you can see it's not a you it's not like an Android YouTube app 00:10:27.079 --> 00:10:32.399 it's like specifically for the cruise reader so I think they probably still 00:10:30.680 --> 00:10:37.480 got some work to do as far as the app development goes and um and once once 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:40.920 those mature a little bit once the installed base of these uh devices gets 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.440 a little bit wider then I think we'll see some definite improvements in the 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.760 overall um in the overall responsiveness 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.760 of the 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:57.480 apps here we go so we're loading up the NCIX site uh oh you can double tap to 00:10:56.040 --> 00:11:01.519 zoom in and zoom out so that's kind of neat 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:05.320 I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to check out the forums you can see we've 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:08.600 got St Patrick's deals going on on nci.com right 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:23.079 now so we've moved significantly closer to our access point and we're actually 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:28.240 having a little bit more success with the uh browsing 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:30.320 speed okay so let's go to uh you know 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:32.519 the main forum uh 00:11:44.920 --> 00:11:53.480 home so basically I think the conclusion at this point is that as an e-reader or 00:11:49.880 --> 00:11:55.720 for checking email um actually this is 00:11:53.480 --> 00:12:01.000 pretty unbeatable for the price but I wouldn't expect to be doing any heavy 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:04.360 lifting let's see if we can get it to browse a 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:08.240 little bit faster now because I I did have some success with faster browsing 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:12.639 so here we go now we can navigate so I'm quite close to my access point from here 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:18.639 and uh that's giving me some more success although it's still not fast by 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:22.800 any stretch of the imagination for mobile browsing but I mean it's more 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:26.639 than adequate for like uh email or whatever the case may be so thank you 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:30.959 for checking out this video on the velocity micro Cruise 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