April 9th 2012 Ainol NOVO 7 Elf Tablet A10 1.2ghz
Product Features
Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)
A10 1.2ghz (ARM-9)
7 inch IPS Capacitive Touchscreen with 1024 X 600 Resolution
Flash 11 & HTML5 Support
1GB RAM / 8GB Nand Flash / Supports up to 16GB microSD card
5-point Multi-touch IPS Capacitive Screen
Front side Camera only (some sites list it as 1.3MP while others say 2MP)
Technical Details
3800mAH 7.4V Rechargeable Li-ion Battery. 5-8 hours battery life.
4 Way G-sensor. WiFi 802.11b/g/n.
Built-in 3D Accelerator. Powerful 3D gaming
AC Adapter Input 100/240V
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This tablet is not a knock off. Ainol is an actual Chinese company that builds not just this tablet, but others as well. I was looking for a tablet to replace my out of date laptop. I assessed what I was truly using the laptop for at this time and decided if I was going to replace it that a tablet would fit the bill.
The Ainol novo 7 Elf android 4.0 tablet was not my first choice. I had seen the Ainol Paladin in person via a co-worker that bought it for his daughter. It was nice, but it didn’t quite grab me in the spec department. He then told me the cost and I was intrigued. It was way less than most smart phones you can get on contract shipping included. However I thought a seven inch tablet would be to small to make an investment into. I looked at ten inch tablets, but all of them cost as much as a decent laptop. That made the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Asus Transformer, Motorola XOOM, and the like a no go. I could not spend that type of money on hardware that would be rendered obsolete in two years or less. My laptop has lasted about 7 years.
Size was an important factor that could not be ignored. I wanted some thing larger than my smart phone, but not to large to become a little cumbersome to travel with on a daily basis. I wanted to be able to throw it in my backpack and go.I ruled out ten inch tablets mostly due to cost and not really needing to lug around a 10 inch android tablet all of the time. I’m not using my tablet to show customers things on screen which would make the larger screen a better option. I started looking for an eight inch tablet, but I could only come across one manufacturer that made one. It was Samsung and they wanted an arm plus a leg for it. The other two factors against Samsung for me is TouchWiz and the fact that they are slow to update currently released devices. Yes, you can work around those things, but if I’m dropping my hard earned devalued dollars, I want to be able to use Android OS in as close to its intended form as possible. This thought coming from a guy that has a Motorola Atrix? Yes. MotoBlur is basically all widgets and launcher on my smart phone. I don’t mind the launcher and I’ve replaced all of the widgets I use with better alternatives from Google Play. The only widgets I have not replaced are the toggle widgets, but I already have a selected replacement for them as well.
With the eightinchtablet out of the question I moved down to the seven inch range. I will not go below seven inches. If I did, the I might as well just get a Samsung Galaxy Note phablet. We already know where I stand with Samsung and a five inch phone is to large in my opinion. If it works for you, awesome. It just doesn’t for me. I like being able to put my phone in a normal pocket. Cargo pants are nice, but not always cool. The most popular 7 inch android tablet are the Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook. I know the Nook can be rooted and modded, the Fire can be too from what I have heard. However, both did not meet my desires. I was left conflicted due to losing some thing I wanted to get some thing else I wanted. So they both became non-choices for me. Further research landed me on the Ainol Elf.
Product Features
Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)
A10 1.2ghz (ARM-9)
7 inch IPS Capacitive Touchscreen with 1024 X 600 Resolution
Flash 11 & HTML5 Support
1GB RAM / 8GB Nand Flash / Supports up to 16GB microSD card
5-point Multi-touch IPS Capacitive Screen
Front side Camera only (some sites list it as 1.3MP while others say 2MP)
Technical Details
3800mAH 7.4V Rechargeable Li-ion Battery. 5-8 hours battery life.
4 Way G-sensor. WiFi 802.11b/g/n.
Built-in 3D Accelerator. Powerful 3D gaming
AC Adapter Input 100/240V
This tablet is not a knock off. Ainol is an actual Chinese company that builds not just this tablet, but others as well. I was looking for a tablet to replace my out of date laptop. I assessed what I was truly using the laptop for at this time and decided if I was going to replace it that a tablet would fit the bill.
The Ainol novo 7 Elf android 4.0 tablet was not my first choice. I had seen the Ainol Paladin in person via a co-worker that bought it for his daughter. It was nice, but it didn’t quite grab me in the spec department. He then told me the cost and I was intrigued. It was way less than most smart phones you can get on contract shipping included. However I thought a seven inch tablet would be to small to make an investment into. I looked at ten inch tablets, but all of them cost as much as a decent laptop. That made the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Asus Transformer, Motorola XOOM, and the like a no go. I could not spend that type of money on hardware that would be rendered obsolete in two years or less. My laptop has lasted about 7 years.
Size was an important factor that could not be ignored. I wanted some thing larger than my smart phone, but not to large to become a little cumbersome to travel with on a daily basis. I wanted to be able to throw it in my backpack and go.I ruled out ten inch tablets mostly due to cost and not really needing to lug around a 10 inch android tablet all of the time. I’m not using my tablet to show customers things on screen which would make the larger screen a better option. I started looking for an eight inch tablet, but I could only come across one manufacturer that made one. It was Samsung and they wanted an arm plus a leg for it. The other two factors against Samsung for me is TouchWiz and the fact that they are slow to update currently released devices. Yes, you can work around those things, but if I’m dropping my hard earned devalued dollars, I want to be able to use Android OS in as close to its intended form as possible. This thought coming from a guy that has a Motorola Atrix? Yes. MotoBlur is basically all widgets and launcher on my smart phone. I don’t mind the launcher and I’ve replaced all of the widgets I use with better alternatives from Google Play. The only widgets I have not replaced are the toggle widgets, but I already have a selected replacement for them as well.
With the eightinchtablet out of the question I moved down to the seven inch range. I will not go below seven inches. If I did, the I might as well just get a Samsung Galaxy Note phablet. We already know where I stand with Samsung and a five inch phone is to large in my opinion. If it works for you, awesome. It just doesn’t for me. I like being able to put my phone in a normal pocket. Cargo pants are nice, but not always cool. The most popular 7 inch android tablet are the Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook. I know the Nook can be rooted and modded, the Fire can be too from what I have heard. However, both did not meet my desires. I was left conflicted due to losing some thing I wanted to get some thing else I wanted. So they both became non-choices for me. Further research landed me on the Ainol Elf.