[A7 General] unicough:
Ok, got my eLocity A7 this morning and I gave the UPS guy who delivered it a warm holiday thank you, played it for 2 hours, I’d like to share some thoughts. I gave this device very high expectation and after I got my hands on it I think I am really disappointed:

I am a senior graphics engineer so my eye is particularly sharp. The screen is totally crap compared to ipad (I am not an Apple fan, just want to be honest and tell you the reality). Couple of points:

1.	View angle is bad. I have read each single post of this 20+ page thread and I haven’t played Viewsonic g tablet, if the screen of g tablet is even worse than this a7, I really don’t know what to say, because I think the screen of this a7 is already unacceptable. It gets dark and over saturated very quickly when looked from below and becomes immediately washed out to a plain greyish color when looked from above.

a.	Ok you may think I over reacted because I got too high expectation. I am telling you I am not. I got a Droid, Nexus One, HD2, all I am asking is that a tablet should have the same quality screen as those on the phones. But this one is totally the worst, am I wrong?

b.	Screen looks like faded if compared to ipad or HD2 or Nexus One side by side.

2.	Color banding is severe. One example, if you tab the app list button on home screen and while the app list screen fades the background image, you can clearly see very obvious color crawling. If you don’t know what I am talking about, it’s like displaying a 32bit color image using 256 color display. We know that mobile device screen is usually only 16bit color depth, but to compensate the display driver does color dithering to reduce the banding effect. If you still remember the old days we only had 16bit color CRT display, ACDSEE did software dithering pretty well and could display 32 bit color image on 16bit color display without noticeable color banding, that was one important contributing factor why it stood out many other image viewing software at that time. Now dithering is already a well understood technology I am surprised to see on this modern tablet it is not there. I am holding the device until 24th’s update and see whether it is improved, otherwise it is going back to bjs no exception.

3.	Obvious LCD scanline. This is a little per person. If you can see it, you can see it, if you cannot, then you cannot. Basically, if you hold the device and move it from side to side a little bit you can see the LCD scanline going on. Every LCD has this adverse effect, it is just a matter of whether it is severe enough to be noticeable. I still remember on my HP2210 (WinMobile device from around 7 years ago), this scanline problem was the main reason I disliked it so much. 7 years went by, I am so surprised that such bad quality LCD is still in the market, I just feel so sorry…

4.	Touch response is bad, have to give it much more pressure to get response than ipad. Not real 2 point multitouch at this point. Because both in browser and pic gallery, it can only tell whether your two finger are expanding or shrinking, but it doesn’t know exactly how far you go, that's why many folks reported pinch to zoom often “over reacted” on this device.

Ok, enough ranting I still want to be objective, some pros about this device:

1.	Speedy, really speedy. Now I am a firm believer that Tegra 2 is going to change the game. If you played the 3D pic gallery that comes with Android 2.1, you know that the fps is not very smooth on Nexus One, (interestingly it is much more smooth on HD2 loaded with xda android builds, big thank you, I love you guys!) Now on this A7 it is as smooth as silk. I think I shall wait until a really decent Tegra 2 tablet shows up next year and pick up another one.

2.	Sound seems to be decent since it has two speakers so it gives you a sense of stero if you hold it correcly. Not much base though but that’s expected.