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8.0
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Criteria Comments Rating
  • Features Cellular connectivity is a miss at times. No USB connectivity. Nice camera and sound. so-so
  • Display No comments great!
  • Battery life Nowhere near 9.5 hrs.With WiFi ON,6 hrs.With WiFi Off and games ON,5-7 hrs.GPS/BT/Auto Sync Off. Battery improved with time. with JB 4.1 it improved further. good
  • Ease of use Very light skin on ICS Android. Good. good
  • Storage capacity Enough for me. great!
  • Design and form factor You have to try too hard to press the volume buttons. Speakers as everybody is pointing out, gets covered most of the time you hold on to the tablet. good
  • Portability (size / weight) Too heavy when you hold it in portrait mode to play games. You have to hold at the bottom, as most of your controls would lie there. so-so
  • Durability I dropped it once. And nothing happened. Am happy, I did not buy a sony/Samsung. great!
Detailed review
Negatives
  • Cellular connectivity missing. A bad decision I made.
  • Battery even in power saving mode is not as impressive as promised.
  • Power/Volume buttons are annoying
  • Speaker not placed very right.
  • A very heavy bottom in portrait mode. My wife hates it. She sticks to her iPad.
  • Hangs often with ICS (atleast once a day).
  • Unlocking the screen with the power button does not work at times.
  • USB connectivity missing in the tablet.
Positives

That's available everywhere.
review history
2012-10-31
Design and form factor rating changed from 3 to 4
Edited comment on Design and form factor
Battery life rating changed from 3 to 4
Edited comment on Battery life
Updated overall rating
2012-10-03
Edited comment on Battery life
Features rating changed from 4 to 3
Edited comment on Features
Updated detailed review