Although many Android tablets currently on the market roam from every level of the price, not the least potential consumers who worry about the quality and durability of the product. Therefore, affordable Android tablets of the popular manufacturing still sought. Besides guaranteed quality, development softwarepun attention. This time the editorial desk of our arrival 7-inch Android tablet from ASUS that Fonepad 7 FE170CG dual SIM. These tablets are sold at affordable prices, only 1.5 million dollars only, but the features and specifications that are not inferior. Intrigued by the price-to-performance given Fonepad 7? Read our review below.
Main Specifications
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900 - SIM 1 and SIM 2
- HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100
- LCD screen 16 million color 7.0-inch WSVGA (600 x 1024 pixels)
- Jellybean Android 4.3 (upgradeable to Kitkat)
- Dual-core processor 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z2520
- GPU PowerVR SGX 544MP
- 1GB of RAM
- Internal memory of 8 GB
- Rear 2MP fixed focus camera, Front VGA
- Lithium Ion 3900 mAh
Sales Package
- Tablet Fonepad 7
- charger
- manual
- warranty card
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Design and Body
The price is low, do not expect you'll find premium materials here. The whole body of the tablet which has dimensions of 192 x 110 x 10.7 mm made of plastic. Because it does not have the premium materials, ASUS chose to direct the design of this tablet to bright colors such as red, although the choice of standard colors of black and white still available. Although made of plastic, but the build quality Fonepad 7 is still good, the body feels sturdy and lightweight, because only weighs 290 grams only.
The face Fonepad 7 filled with speakers who serves also as the earpiece, front camera, and a 7-inch touch screen (there is no light and proximity sensors). The back of the main camera are just below the logo and other information about the device.
The left side of the tablet there are volume keys and lock / power, while the right side there are three slots are closed plastic flap for aesthetics to make it more presentable. The third slot is two micro SIM slot and a micro SD slot. Top there is a 3.5mm headset port and microUSB port, and the bottom just filled with mic hole.
Back again to the price factor, the screen in Fonepad 7 looks pretty just like those of similar quality Zenfone 4. With a 7-inch size, this screen has a resolution of 600 x 1024 pixels. So obviously did not look too sharp.
Unfortunately ASUS provides a layer of reflective glass so it is difficult to see the display screen under sunlight although the screen brightness set to maximum level. For help setting screen Splendid ASUS still provide applications that have a variety of settings such as white balance screen, hue and saturation, and enable vivid mode.
Interface
In terms of interface Fonepad 7 looks more fresh than the previous ASUS tablet. This time Zen ASUS provides an interface that has many features and more informative. But kinship with Zenfone, Fonepad 7 is still running on the Android 4.3 operating system with the promise Jellybean update to 4.4 Kitkat.
Side features and informative look've seen from the lockscreen provided quick access to the camera, dial, and sms. The following information about the weather and day planner users. Jellybean default widget support also still pinned. Homescreen page contains a maximum of 7 pieces of the page as a container to put the widget or shortcut folder.
There are two different windows when doing gesture swipe down from the top of the screen. If in the right area will bring up the quick toggle for several setting options, whereas if on the left will display the notification window. Drawer apps comes with a transparent black background and structure of 5 x 6 for the icon. These icons can be displayed based on three categories (all, downloaded, frequent)
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Camera
Although the tablet but Fonepad 7 has two cameras, one in front with VGA resolution and resolution 2MP rear camera fixed focus. The camera interface are complete as owned Zenfone 4 (Time Rewind, Smart Remove, Turbo Burst, Depth of Field, HDR, All Smile, Snowball Effect, Miniature Mode, beautification, selfie). Other arrangements are supplied as white balance, ISO, anti-shake, timer, burst, face detection, and others.
Fonepad 7 has an interface to the camera and recording videou, therefore, provided two dedicated buttons for photos and videos. When you are recording video can also be coupled shooting with the appropriate resolution video resolution. 2MP camera on the back can do recording up to 720p HD resolution.
Multimedia
Asus entrust multimedia business applications made by their own use. Although it has a function that is not much different, but the Gallery looks fresh kebih with views beyond stock Android. Content photos and videos are displayed by folder in the default condition, certainly can be converted to a wide selection of categories. You can view the online gallery is also here.
There is a dedicated application for playing video, so the default video played through the Gallery. The basic features of video playback only, no subtitle support, although tablets can play 720p HD video content smoothly. Although the video format support is also less extensive, but it is easily overcome because there are many third-party applications in the Play Store.
According to preference you can choose an application to play music content, whether to use the default Google Music or artificial ASUS. Again no prominent features in music apps ASUS just look in tune with the theme of the interface. There are default settings such as equalizer. ASUS prefer the sound output via speaker who pinned Sonic Master features to maximize sound output according to the type of content being played.
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Browser
Although Chrome must be present in Android today, but ASUS provides applications made their own browser. ASUS browser Chrome has a similar appearance to the tablet with a tab system like on a desktop computer. You can do multitab up to 16 tabs. The performance is mediocre, even relatively small HTML5 Scots only 292 only.
Benchmark
- Quadrant Standard: 6255 points
- AnTuTu: 1523 points
- NenaMark2: 60.2 fps
- Multitouch Tester: up to 10 touch
- Camspeed: 678 points (no flash), - points (flash)
Connectivity
- Fonepad 7 runs on quadband GSM network 850/900/1800/1900 SIM 1 and SIM 2
- Quadband HSDPA 850/900/1900 / 2100
- For local connectivity there is WiFi 802. 11 b / g / n,
- Bluetooth v4.0
- A GLONASS-GPS
- microUSB v2.0
- microSD up to 64GB
Battery Life
Fonepad 7 equipped with a Lithium Polymer battery with a capacity of 3900mAh. The battery is claimed to have a stand by time up to 619 hours and talk time up to 30 hours on 3G networks. As usual we tested the video playback 720p HD MKV format lasted one hour. We exposed tablet brightness level of 50% without the cellular network only WiFi, the battery dropped from 100% to 90%. Quite standard for a 7-inch tablet, but if it is filled with two sim card of this figure will be down. One plus is that there is an application ZenUI Power Saver. There are three profile options, the first Ultra Saving Mode, Optimized Mode, and Customized Mode.
Conclusion
Can we conclude Fonepad 7 is a great version of Zenfone 4, because in terms of specifications such as processor, GPU, RAM, internal memory both use the same konnfigurasi. Kualitaspun terms such as body material and the screen is not much different, of course Fonepad 7 using a higher resolution in anticipation of a larger screen. Both fill the same class, feature-rich and affordable device is qualified in-class performance.
excess
- Affordable feature-rich tablet
- Lightweight and compact enough
- Complete functions like a cell phone (phone, sms, dual SIM, vibration function)
- Reflective glass screen
- simple camera
