SimPad Dual Core 8inch Android Tablet

Thursday, 06 January 2011 at 06:55

I’m not going to tar this Android with the brush. It does have an ‘feel’ granted, but the SimPad’s great looking UI coupled with the excellent looking specification is worth more than the ‘clone’ tag. Externally the SimPad has all the bells and whistles expected from an Android these days. There’s an LCD capacitive touch which supports multi-touch, a micro SD card reader, 30 pin dock connection, 1x mini USB 2.0, a 3.5mm head phone jack and 2 stereo speakers! All of those luscious are set in to a alloy body with a large black bezel and 800x600 resolution . Speaking of the bezel, there’s a home button set in to it and also a small 1.3 mega-pixel web camera.

As you can see from the shots the OS is Android, which has been nicely customized for use on an .

Now, on to the internals and the SimPads key feature. Sat alongside a choice of either 128/256/1gb RAM and a choice of either 2Gb, 4Gb or 32 Gb is a Rockchips RK2808 dual core with 3D graphics acceleration! The RK2808 is making quite a name for itself in circles, and although we’ve not been told the speed the chip is running at in the SimPad we’re pretty sure it will have enough grunt to play 1080i HD video all day long.

Other great include built in GPS, FM radio receiver and a large capacity 4500 mAh battery which should keep you going for up to 5 hours (depending on what you use the SimPad for)