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Everyone wants a tablet nowadays, even though most don’t really need it. Secondly, people want the “iPad experience” for cheap which is why we are suddenly witnessing a surge of sub-20K tablets flooding the market from brands you’ve probably never heard of before. Of course most of them have tried and failed miserably. We’ve even reviewed one of them like the Creative ZiiO which made a good PMP, but coudn't be take seriously as a tablet. Today we have another such contender from Splash Telecom Pvt. Ltd called the Zinglife E-Pad ZL101, a 10.1-inch tablet running Android (Froyo). Priced similar to the Creative ZiiO 7, will this be able to win our hearts? Let's find out. Design and Build  Look familiar?
The E-Pad comes bundled with just a charger, data cable, a USB-to-Ethernet adapter and a carry sleeve. You’ll notice a striking resemblance to the iPad right down to the ‘Home’ button at the bottom. Even though it’s a bit chunkier, it's a lot lighter than the iPad. There’s a front facing camera for video chat but no rear camera. You’ll notice the bezel is quite thick around the screen so it’s easy to hold in any orientation.  Good set of connections
On the top, we have a micro-SD card slot (up to 32GB), power button, port for LAN adapter and volume rocker. Coming to the right we have the power port, mini-USB port, standard USB port, headphone jack, reset switch, mini-HDMI port and microphone port. The speakers are placed at the bottom and covered by flimsy aluminum grills that dents easily when pressed. The power light is annoyingly bright just next to the button and sadly there’s no way to turn it off. The overall build quality is strictly average with slight creaks here and there when you press it. Features Interface  Stock Froyo interface
The Zinglife E-Pad runs Android 2.2 Froyo but not too well. Despite the 1GHz CPU and 512MB of memory, it's quite sluggish to use. The boot up time is not great either - it takes at least a whole minute (if not more) for the job. Switching from portrait mode to landscape takes forever even with all the animations turned off. The viewing angles of the screen are pretty bad. The color changes too much when shifted even slightly from left to right. The same goes for the vertical viewing angles. The screen does have a decent resolution though (1024x600) so it doesn’t look too bad. It’s still a resistive screen so no multi-touch support. The tablet comes with stock Froyo with no customizations done on it. Standard apps include Alarm clock, Calculator, Calendar, OfficeSuite, OI File Manager, Notepad and Google Translate. Thankfully, we get the true Android Marketplace and not some custom built nonsense. |
Tags: Tablets , ZINGLIFE (Splash Telecom Private Limited) , Zinglife E-Pad ZL101 review , 10.1-inch tablet , Android 2.2 , Froyo , tablet , review , 3G data card support , USB , HDMI
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