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Zenithink ZT-180 1GHz 10" tablet
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drsaurabhg
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can't find any!
Which shipping method did you use? How long did it take?
gtpdjw
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@fusion600 I used DHL and it 3.5 days to get here, @bully47 yes hhere are a couple of my favs,AppBrain Android Market - Download the best Android Apps and Games,Droid TV - Android app on AppBrain but thats just a couple you will find many more
anniemaye79
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Did you ever get your tablet to connect via WiFi? I have had my Zenithink Zt 180 Epad for a few days now and I am having issues with it connecting to my wireless router too, even when I'm sitting 2 feet from it and it picks up the signal. It just keeps saying disconnected?
gtpdjw
Android Enthusiast
@bully47 another great app is http://www.appbrain.com/app/mvideoplayer/afzkl.development.mVideoPlay It can read from your external sd card to play movie and view pics
I have managed to install flash 10 on the ZT180 2.2 this morning by using the link from appbrain. I could not find it on the offical droid market place.It dosent look like a beta version but im not sure to be honest . Skyfire is also avalible for these tablets.
SO i managed to get flash onto my tablet but it seems not to work sorry to get peoples hopes up . any one else having the same prob
SO i managed to get flash onto my tablet but it seems not to work sorry to get peoples hopes up . any one else having the same prob
ThePearl99
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anyone find a way to get the HDMI output to work?
cannot find anywhere to turn the output on or off. i assumed that as soon as you plug in the cable it would enable, tv was receiving no signal.
any help would be appreciated.
shayne
cannot find anywhere to turn the output on or off. i assumed that as soon as you plug in the cable it would enable, tv was receiving no signal.
any help would be appreciated.
shayne
Jack Bauer
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This will be a lengthy full review over the ZT-180 Epad.
(Typed with usb keyboard plugged into Epad)
I will review:
Where to buy
Battery life
Resistive touch screen
Browser
Games
Applications
Utorrent
Movies
Music
Pictures
TF/Micro SD Card
Keyoard/Mouse/usb drive
Overall product
Where to Buy
A feew months before christmas I started looking into tablets and found the ZT-180. I read hundreds of reviews of this product and watched many youtube reviews as well. So on November 26 I ordered this product with the promise of a 2 week delivery time from Merrimobiles. Well Christmas came along and still no Epad. January came along and still no EEpad. It had been over a month and a half and it still hadn't arrived. I had been calling regulary (2-3 times a week) and they wouldn't give me a straight answer. So on January 19th Ireordered the Epad but this time from PandaWill. The one I ordered from PandWill arrived 3 days later. Moral of the story....Merrimobiles BAD! PandaWill GOOD!
Battery Life
While reading the thousands of reviews of the ZT-180 I realized that the most highly criticized aspect of the Epad is the battery life. There were many horror stories of the epad only keeping its charge for 15 minutes but that never happened to me. The box the Epad came in promised battery life of around 3 hours. I find when I use it for games and internet browsing I get around 2.5 hours. When watching Movies also about 2.5 hours. The battery life may be a drawback to the product but in my opinion it is the only drawback and a perfectly fine sacrifice to make for such a great product at such a great price.
Resistive Touchscreen
Many people have said that the resistive touchscreen ruins the whole 'Tablet Experience'. No it doesn't. Whether I think this because the phone I have had for the past 2 years is also a resistive touchscreen, and I have just gotten used to it. Sure the ipad has a capacitative touchscreen, but it also cost $500. The resistive touchscreen is perfectly natural to use with this device.
Browser
Th Internet browsing on this device is amazing! The pages load quick, you can scroll, zoom, change font size, rotate the Epad for horizontal or vertical viewing, bookmark webpages, and minimize the browser and come back to it later. Overall the Browser is just as good as any computers.
Games
Games on the Epad vary by whether or not the game was designed for a tablet or a phone. The games designed for tablets work perfectly. The best example is angryBirds which I got from utorrent (read two paragraphs down). it works perfectly with the resistive touchscreen and takes up the entire screen when played. But when you get a game that was meant for a phone it takes up only 1/4 of the screen. Usually this is not a problem because the screen is 10 inches across and you can still see and play the game like you normally would.
Apps
Apps on the Epad work very well. Many came preloaded on the Epad and some I downloaded form android market(which is also preloaded on epads from PandaWill). My favourites are torrentfu(next paragraph), taskmanager, comic readers, ereaders, Word PowerPoint & Excel viewer, and many others.
Utorrent!
This is by far my favourite part of the Epad. I use utorrent almost daily and so to have a tablet that helps me use it is fantastic. If you have an Epad and you use utorent then you must get the App Torrentfu. This App let's you download and organize torrents from your home computer all on your Epad.
And for those of you who do not know what utorrent is I suggest looking into it. I got over 1,000 free games and Apps for my Epad from it which I downloaded to a Usb Jump Drive and plugged into my Epad. Its Awesome!!!
Movies
Movies on the Epad are crazy amazing. The screen is so big that it feels like your at a movie theatre. (Okay maybe not that big) but still watching movies on this is just fun. I watched I, Robot on my Epad last night and even though I had seen it before it was just fun to watch on such a big screen sitting in your lap. Of course I'm used to watching movies on my ipod video which is like 3 inches across.
Music
Music is also very good on the Epad. I usually keep music on a jump drive instead of downloading it to the actual epad so I can save room for movies nad other things. If you have an Mp3 player you will most likely still use that to listen to movies but for long road trips if your browsing the internet and you want to listen to some music you can with ease.
Pictures
Pictures are great to have on your Epad because you can set them as the background of the menu. Mine currently is a picture of my puppy dog Abby.
TF/Micro SD Card
This is Important! Depending on how many things you are going to put into your Epad you HAVE to buy an Micro SD card. I currently have a 16gb (or is it 18?) Micro SD card in my Epad which I use for movies, pictures, games, apps, and pictures. The memory of the Epad is only about 1gb so if you are going to want a movie watching, game playing, picture viewing crazy awesome machne then a Micro SD card is a MUST HAVE.
Keyboard/mouse/usb drive
The usb port on the Epad is what makes me love this product 20 times more than any other tablet (yes that includes the ipad). Theoretically the Epad has unlimited storage. Why you ask? Because if you buy 1 usb jump drive you can download things onto it put it into your Epad, watch a movie or whatever, go back to your computer put something else on it and plug it back into your Epad and so the Epad 's Usb port is the greates asset to the product. You can also plug in And keyboard(which is how I am typing this) and mouse into the usb port to use with the Epad.
Overall Product
Overall the Epad is one of the greates tablets out there. Its cheap if you find the right price (got mine for 179.99) screen is beautiful, menu, homescreen, and browser work like a dream. Battery life isn't perfect but if you keep the charger handy you won't even notice. Games and Applications Are fun to use and if you have Android market (Mine came preloaded when bought From PandaWill) then you're set for life. Movies are AMAZING with such a large screen in your hands. Music and pictures are both a nice thing to have with such a large screen for picture viewing and an earphone jack in case you left your ipod at your house (or something). And my favourite part of the whole entire Epad is the Usb port. It increasesyour Epads memory exponentially (that's a big word) and is great for use with keyboards and a computer mouse(/mice). This ZT-180 Epad is a Fantastic Product and Is easily worth any where around the $300 dollar mark. If you get it for a good price (watch out for scammers and fakes) then you're golden.
(Typed with usb keyboard plugged into Epad)
I will review:
Where to buy
Battery life
Resistive touch screen
Browser
Games
Applications
Utorrent
Movies
Music
Pictures
TF/Micro SD Card
Keyoard/Mouse/usb drive
Overall product
Where to Buy
A feew months before christmas I started looking into tablets and found the ZT-180. I read hundreds of reviews of this product and watched many youtube reviews as well. So on November 26 I ordered this product with the promise of a 2 week delivery time from Merrimobiles. Well Christmas came along and still no Epad. January came along and still no EEpad. It had been over a month and a half and it still hadn't arrived. I had been calling regulary (2-3 times a week) and they wouldn't give me a straight answer. So on January 19th Ireordered the Epad but this time from PandaWill. The one I ordered from PandWill arrived 3 days later. Moral of the story....Merrimobiles BAD! PandaWill GOOD!
Battery Life
While reading the thousands of reviews of the ZT-180 I realized that the most highly criticized aspect of the Epad is the battery life. There were many horror stories of the epad only keeping its charge for 15 minutes but that never happened to me. The box the Epad came in promised battery life of around 3 hours. I find when I use it for games and internet browsing I get around 2.5 hours. When watching Movies also about 2.5 hours. The battery life may be a drawback to the product but in my opinion it is the only drawback and a perfectly fine sacrifice to make for such a great product at such a great price.
Resistive Touchscreen
Many people have said that the resistive touchscreen ruins the whole 'Tablet Experience'. No it doesn't. Whether I think this because the phone I have had for the past 2 years is also a resistive touchscreen, and I have just gotten used to it. Sure the ipad has a capacitative touchscreen, but it also cost $500. The resistive touchscreen is perfectly natural to use with this device.
Browser
Th Internet browsing on this device is amazing! The pages load quick, you can scroll, zoom, change font size, rotate the Epad for horizontal or vertical viewing, bookmark webpages, and minimize the browser and come back to it later. Overall the Browser is just as good as any computers.
Games
Games on the Epad vary by whether or not the game was designed for a tablet or a phone. The games designed for tablets work perfectly. The best example is angryBirds which I got from utorrent (read two paragraphs down). it works perfectly with the resistive touchscreen and takes up the entire screen when played. But when you get a game that was meant for a phone it takes up only 1/4 of the screen. Usually this is not a problem because the screen is 10 inches across and you can still see and play the game like you normally would.
Apps
Apps on the Epad work very well. Many came preloaded on the Epad and some I downloaded form android market(which is also preloaded on epads from PandaWill). My favourites are torrentfu(next paragraph), taskmanager, comic readers, ereaders, Word PowerPoint & Excel viewer, and many others.
Utorrent!
This is by far my favourite part of the Epad. I use utorrent almost daily and so to have a tablet that helps me use it is fantastic. If you have an Epad and you use utorent then you must get the App Torrentfu. This App let's you download and organize torrents from your home computer all on your Epad.
And for those of you who do not know what utorrent is I suggest looking into it. I got over 1,000 free games and Apps for my Epad from it which I downloaded to a Usb Jump Drive and plugged into my Epad. Its Awesome!!!
Movies
Movies on the Epad are crazy amazing. The screen is so big that it feels like your at a movie theatre. (Okay maybe not that big) but still watching movies on this is just fun. I watched I, Robot on my Epad last night and even though I had seen it before it was just fun to watch on such a big screen sitting in your lap. Of course I'm used to watching movies on my ipod video which is like 3 inches across.
Music
Music is also very good on the Epad. I usually keep music on a jump drive instead of downloading it to the actual epad so I can save room for movies nad other things. If you have an Mp3 player you will most likely still use that to listen to movies but for long road trips if your browsing the internet and you want to listen to some music you can with ease.
Pictures
Pictures are great to have on your Epad because you can set them as the background of the menu. Mine currently is a picture of my puppy dog Abby.
TF/Micro SD Card
This is Important! Depending on how many things you are going to put into your Epad you HAVE to buy an Micro SD card. I currently have a 16gb (or is it 18?) Micro SD card in my Epad which I use for movies, pictures, games, apps, and pictures. The memory of the Epad is only about 1gb so if you are going to want a movie watching, game playing, picture viewing crazy awesome machne then a Micro SD card is a MUST HAVE.
Keyboard/mouse/usb drive
The usb port on the Epad is what makes me love this product 20 times more than any other tablet (yes that includes the ipad). Theoretically the Epad has unlimited storage. Why you ask? Because if you buy 1 usb jump drive you can download things onto it put it into your Epad, watch a movie or whatever, go back to your computer put something else on it and plug it back into your Epad and so the Epad 's Usb port is the greates asset to the product. You can also plug in And keyboard(which is how I am typing this) and mouse into the usb port to use with the Epad.
Overall Product
Overall the Epad is one of the greates tablets out there. Its cheap if you find the right price (got mine for 179.99) screen is beautiful, menu, homescreen, and browser work like a dream. Battery life isn't perfect but if you keep the charger handy you won't even notice. Games and Applications Are fun to use and if you have Android market (Mine came preloaded when bought From PandaWill) then you're set for life. Movies are AMAZING with such a large screen in your hands. Music and pictures are both a nice thing to have with such a large screen for picture viewing and an earphone jack in case you left your ipod at your house (or something). And my favourite part of the whole entire Epad is the Usb port. It increasesyour Epads memory exponentially (that's a big word) and is great for use with keyboards and a computer mouse(/mice). This ZT-180 Epad is a Fantastic Product and Is easily worth any where around the $300 dollar mark. If you get it for a good price (watch out for scammers and fakes) then you're golden.
ThePearl99
Lurker
Great Post - I agree with most of what you have said, but have not tried some of the things you have. Mine was delivered in 3 days from China to Canada - could not believe how fast it was. I also got one of those keyboard cases - they are great and make the tablet so user friendly.
Main reason I got the model I did was for the Android 2.2 to get flash, but that does not work yet. The other was for the HDMI output so I could show youtube or movies etc on my bigscreen. I cannot get it to work.
Main reason I got the model I did was for the Android 2.2 to get flash, but that does not work yet. The other was for the HDMI output so I could show youtube or movies etc on my bigscreen. I cannot get it to work.
gtpdjw
Android Enthusiast
I will go and get a mini HDMI cable to work on this and let yo know what I find
ThePearl99
Lurker
Thank you - I just spent $55 on a cable that has no use to me at all if I can't use it with this tablet.
I got this model as well for android 2.2 and flash any ideas when flash will be working . i thought 2.2 was compatable with flash
gtpdjw
Android Enthusiast
as I say earlier