iBerry Auxus AX02 Review

Making it to the first batch of Android Ice Cream Sandwich-based tablets to emerge in India, the iBerry Auxus AX02 follows the Zync Z990 and Ainol Novo 7 Paladin, straight into our review labs. After dishing out a piece of the Gingerbread, the company was quick enough to launch the Auxus AX02 and it wouldn't make you grin over the price, which is well intact at Rs.10,000. To know if the tablet is worth every penny, and how it fares against its competitors coming with price tags that read Rs.1,000 to 2,000 less, here’s the review of the iBerry Auxus AX02 tablet.

Newest ICS tablet

Design and Build quality
The newest iBerry tablet with Android’s newest flavoured operating system looks like the usual 7-inch tablet. The Auxus AX02 equips a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen on the front side with a steel circular button, giving this tablet a distinct look, compared to the most recent ICS tablets that we’ve got to lay our hands on. Besides, the front side also shows the secondary VGA camera for video conferencing. Flip it, and the backside imprints all logos and certifications, and before you overlook, there’s the 2 megapixel camera, speakers and the reset button. It was nice to see the physical, steel volume controls, while the right side has been embedded the power button, charging port, microSD card slot, headphone jack, HDMI and mini USB port.

Ports and power button on right edge

This iBerry device maintains the sturdy build that we saw in the BT07i. It feels solid when held in one's palms, but it leaves us wishing it were lighter in weight. It appears sleek and solid, but once you pick it, you’d only wish it had been lighter. Also, the sturdiness has taken away the smooth edges, or so. The device has some sharp edges on the backside, luckily the front side is smoother. The buttons and ports also seem well integrated. The 800 x 400 WVGA touchscreen is responsive, but we were left wishing for a better display quality. The display of this tablet is a fingerprint magnet.

Features
User Interface
This iBerry is fuelled by a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and 1GB RAM. Running on the Android 4.0.3, iBerry hasn't customized the UI a lot for the AX02. The homescreen shows the Google Search icon on the left upper corner, while the Menu icon stays on the right side. A click on the icon, and you are taken to choose between Apps, and widgets. Here you will also find the Android Shop icon for quick access to the Market.

The user interface

The UI is slick and we didn't find it lagging and the navigation is smooth, too (owing to the quick responding accelerometer). On the lower right side, you will see the Back, Home and recent apps touch buttons. The AX02 scored 3095 on conducting the AnTuTu test. The scores are far better than most of the tablets in the same class. In fact, it's better than tablets posing a much higher price tag. In the Linpack benchmark, the single thread test emitted a score of 15.57 MFLOPS, while the multi thread score was 14.39 MFLOPS.