Welcome to my unboxing of the ITAB
F931A. This is an 8.9 in Android 4.0 ice
cream sandwich tablet. Okay, it uses a
4x3 aspect ratio, so it's 1024 x 768 in
terms of the screen resolution. Let's have a look at what's included. Oh yeah.
Okay, it's got a fairly complete overall accessory package. This is handy. So, a
mini USB to full-size USB adapter allows
you to easily plug a USB device. Even hey, if you even wanted to use like a 3G
modem USB adapter, you can even plug that in. So, while the unit is not 3G
capable out of the box, you can use that
as a solution as well. This is just for data transfer and syncing and whatnot.
You've got a power cable for charging. Takes about 5 hours to charge the device
from a standstill according to the manufacturer spec. We have another USB
cable. So, this one's USB A to mini B. So, for whatever that's for. Okay. Lots
of USB cables. We've got, for whatever reason, what appear to be Apple OEM
headphones. Really? They must be clones.
Mhm. Yeah, they must be clones. Okay. Well, white headphones that are
included. Okay. We've got a little guide to Android 4.0. Let's have a look at the
tablet itself. So you can see the screen has what is called a bubble screen. So
this is a capacitive fivepoint multi-touch screen. And the technology
behind it is because the but no I'm just kidding. Uh it does have a fivepoint
capacitive multi-touch screen but it is not a bubble screen. That is just a
screen protector that came in the box. So you can see the aesthetic is an awful
lot like the iPad. It does have a front- mounted camera as well as a rear-mounted
camera. So you can use it for chat applications. Um, that card that I threw
over there covered up my notes, but let's go ahead and uh take the back off
of here. Oh, that's quite nice actually. Has a metal back. So, kind of a anodized
uh metal finish on the back that seems like it should be reasonably durable.
Not much flex to the unit. Great. Okay. Volume controls are
here. These look familiar. Um, and then
that's You know what? Give me a sec here, guys. So, I don't remember where
we left off anymore. It's actually been a while. While I connected to Wi-Fi, I
installed Angry Birds because everyone loves Angry Birds. Look at those birds.
They're so angry. Actually, that's the only one that's angry. He's more confused and so is he. He's sad and he's
really confused. And uh hopefully it'll
go ahead and sort of let me play the game. Overall, the tablet is very
smooth. It's actually using an A8 processor, so it's while it's not
necessarily the Yeah, we get it. Uh while it's not necessarily the newest
possible thing, it does run pretty uh
pretty cleanly, pretty smoothly. You can see scrolling around here, scrolling
around inside the ice cream sandwich various home screens. Um internet is not
tested yet, but hopefully it's pretty good because we're about to try it. No
idea. I guess the Oh, okay. Give it a
sec. All right, so let's open a new tab.
Let's uh go ahead and go somewhere. So, let's go to
ncixx.com because there's a bunch of flash and stuff going on. And again, one
of the advantages of Android tablets versus an iOS device is the ability to
run Flash. So, you can see all of the helpful advertisements on NCIX.com such
as this one. Actually, it's possible we don't have Flash installed on it yet.
So, oh no, there it is. Okay. So, web browsing could be smoother, although
that's a complaint about Android in general.
So, probably helps if I Oh, wait, wait.
Give it a sec. There we go. Okay, so not too bad. Let's go to the uh
form. Wow, accuracy is really good. I was able to click on that tiny little
form button without any difficulty whatsoever.
Um, huh, look at that.
So web browsing could be faster, but don't hold that against the tablet because part of the problem is almost
well is definitely the fact that we have so many interfering Wi-Fi connections
around here. There's got to be about 25 wireless networks within range of the
tech tips room, which is one of the reasons it's so difficult for us to demo
anything wireless in here. So basically there's your wh there's your zooming
looks a little something like that. There's your scrolling whenever it's not
waiting for the page to load. So, actually not not bad at all, especially
given the price point. So, let's just see if there's anything else. Right. Right. We haven't even looked at the
unit physically yet. So, this is a 16 gig model. There's a sticker somewhere
that says 16 GB. It's a 2 megapixel
camera on the back. Um Oh, right. Whatever these buttons did. So, these
buttons evidently are not volume control. I assume they were, but that's
apps and options. And then this is the back button. So, you actually have a
physical back button, which is kind of cool.
Oh, that's a camera apparently. Oh, let's look at another tablet through a
tablet. It's like a tablet seion. So, there's your dedicated back
button. On the side, we find a bunch of stuff. So, there is your uh grill for
your speakers. There's your headphone jack. There's your mini USB. There's
your micro SD. So, you can put up to a 32 gig micro SD in here for expanded
storage. There is your uh right that's where you can plug
in the 3G dongle using that included cable. Then there is your ah mini HDMI.
Excellent. Power and finally well power in and then the power button. So battery
life is in the neighborhood of depending on who you ask anywhere from about 5 to
10 hours. And it can go up to 20 days in standby which is nice. Um I have an
Android tablet that doesn't last that long in standby by and it's kind of a
pain in the butt. Not this one. It's a different one. Um 1024x 768 screen. I
think we covered that. Supports HD playback. Doesn't have Bluetooth
unfortunately, but obviously it does have Wi-Fi. Front back camera, can connect to
Yep. Yep. Yep. Can expand mini HDMI. And
I think that pretty much covers it. So, basically, in a nutshell, nice overall
my nice overall build with the metal back that is very fingerprint resistant.
like no matter what I try to do, it's not getting all grubbed up, which is a
complaint that I have even about the iPad and, you know, in spite of its
otherwise awesomeness because Apple made it and it is therefore amazing. Um,
screen actually feels pretty good. The screen is is actually pretty impressive.
I hate personally seeing the touchscreen interface of a tablet. I find that very
very bothersome. Um, and you really can't see it. It's a very flat screen,
no ripple to it, and you can just barely make out some vertical lines. I thought
you couldn't see it at all actually until I just saw those now. So, it
doesn't bother me at all. Even compared to something like Transformer Gen One
where it's got those dots all over the screen. That just drove me
crazy. Yes. Crazy enough to like say it
like that, like crazy. Uh, so we're going to install Fruit Ninja free just
to check out the uh accept and download.
Check out the fivepoint multi-touch. Guess we can also see the
download speed here, which is pretty good considering we're in the tech tips
room. I just re reset the router, so maybe that's uh maybe that's helping a
little bit. Or maybe it jumped the gun there. Hard to say. So you guys Yeah. I
mean, this is some this is some usability time with the
tablet. There's your responsiveness. I'm actually I'm overall
I'm pretty impressed, especially given the price point. It's not bad at all. We
can like go on the YouTubes and
uh can see if we can find a video of like some guy talking about tablets or
something. If you guys want to see a video of like a Oops. Okay, there we go.
If you guys want to see a video of a really unresponsive tablet, I'll show you a really good one.
Um it's like lols.
Um yeah, that one. This one. It was like eight minutes
in between trying to do things and them actually happening. Lus tech tips video.
How do I adjust the volume if those aren't volume buttons? There must be some way.
I don't know. Slick's pointing at something, but I don't know what to do.
H sound. This probably isn't the fastest
way to do it, but it's done now. There we go. Okay, back. I'm not
actually an Android expert by any stretch of the imagination. So, here.
Not bad. It actually looks really good. What do you think? This looks naughty.
There's a limited warranty. Okay. Something about one year. Okay. So, it
has a one-year warranty. Viewing angle is not bad either, actually. Wow. Why
don't we have a look at that after we turn it on? And then we have a little Yeah, I'd say it's very usable from
about here to about here. So, that's pretty nice, actually. Here. Well, why
don't you look at it stand? That's awesome. Okay, so moving
along. Fruit Ninja free. We get to see my Fruit Ninja skills and then I think
we're pretty much done. How long is this video? That's a long video. Sorry guys.
Tablets are one of those things where if we don't do a little bit of usability though, then the video is sort of a
waste. Anyway, nobody cares about Open Faint
and my stats on Fruit Ninja
free. Come on, you can do
it. Zoom to fill screen. Stretch to fill
screen. Zoom. Stretch. Zoom stretch.
Zoom stretch. Zoom
stretch. Okay, give me a sec,
guys. All right, so here's our Fruit Ninja demo. It did finally manage to
load. Ah, and then for sure it'll be a bomb next. I've played this game
before. So, there's our
five. This is the hackore way to play. Ha.
Whoa, so deep. Oh, damn. Okay, well,
it's got a gig of RAM, which I didn't mention before. And I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking
out my unboxing and first look at this pretty valueoriented, and I'd say pretty
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