The 7″ Advent Amico Android tablet is now in stock over at PC World. If you don’t mind taking a punt on a rather unknown hardware configuration, you may now put one in your little online shopping basket and buy one in return for £129.
It’ll be an ideal Christmas present for… yourself.
The Advent Amico comes with Android 2.1 running on a 300MHz ARM9 processor inside. Which might work, or might not. The touchscreen is resistive, so it’ll be a struggle whatever. Here’s the tech spec sheet:
Processor VIA WM8605 (300MHz ARM9)
Operating System Android 2.1
RAM 256MB
Screen type Resistive touch panel
Screen resolution 800 x 480 pixels
Screen size 7″
Hard drive 512MB flash memory
Memory card reader Micro SD
USB mini-USB port
Wi-Fi WiFi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth No
Webcam Built-in 0.3-megapixel webcam
Battery 2-cell Li-polymer battery (up to 5 days standby life)
Size 206 x 114.5 x 14 mm
Weight 450~500g
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
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Summer
/ January 3, 2011Hi! im buying one of these tomorrow! and i cant seem to fid a case anywhere! and you do you know what apps there will be for it? such as apple apps like angrey birds, sims, smurfs ad all those other wonderful apps for it? thank you.
Joe S
/ January 4, 2011Seen it in PC WORLD, and liked it, but sales person could not tell me if EXCELL can be installed. I,m not interested in WEB etc. All I need is spreadsheet, diary, contacts and alarm clock!
Random Helper
/ May 29, 2011Install OfficeSuite Pro
Vic
/ January 5, 2011Bought one of these yesterday–has anyone any idea of how to get android apps onto it?—theres no way i can see of going to the apps market from the amico itself
thanks
vic
Android buyer aswell
/ March 2, 2011helloo, yes if you find out can you let me know please it said it would ocme with it but i have not seem to have got it…so please help, much appriceitated! lol x
Sponge Finge
/ January 5, 2011Joe S, are you a travelling bookkeeper?
No, sorry, Excel cannot be installed on this device. You could have used Google Docs’ spreadsheet (despite you not being interested in ‘WEB’) but that only works properly on Android 2.2, which this doesn’t have and likely never will.
I can only suggest you buy a laptop.
Also, you should take a second look at ‘WEB’. It’s what all the cool kids are into. That and drugs. And seeing how far they have to go in before they get banned from commenting on Eurodroid.
dobieg
/ January 8, 2011Sorry to say I bought one of thes ethe other day.
lamentably slow, ‘cos it’s running Android 2.1 it isn’t instaled with marketplace – if you can see a website which provides APK files you can download them, else you have to put them onto micro-sd memory.
Seems to work marginally better with ‘Dolphin’ browser, but I have pros running Fash 10, so no iPlayer etc (suspect the hardware isn’t up to it anyway)
Consider it a ‘bigscreen MP3 Player’ rather than a proper android tablet, otherwise it’s just a toy.
Probably best avoided, wait 18 months for the price to drop tp £60 or get a better machine for £250