To Hardware:
The device is expected to be about the size of an A4 page and unfortunately a bit more difficult than originally announced. On my copy (without UMTS) I weighed 1008G. The next thing you notice when switching is the fact that the unit has a fan. The running time and also not only whispers, but is clearly audible. Is there anything more to be done, about to load a more complex website, it turns sometimes properly and is noisy. My notebooks are compared silent or at most just as loud as I had on a tray with a 5 watt CPU significantly different expectations. The display is large and easy to read, as long as you look perpendicular to it. Is the WeTab in front of a on the table, you can see similar little as when looking at a notebook display at an angle from below. This is normal for a TN panel, disturbs here, but a lot because you do not want to keep for a long time in the hands of a device with this weight.
Software:
After switching on and the mandatory setting up the wireless connection you have to register compulsorily. Curiously enough, that is in this case asked for the email address, but the onscreen keyboard offers no @ symbol. Then an update has been loaded, which lasted with me with DSL 13000 just over an hour. After the system finally ran, walked a lot, but there was also a lot of limitations and lack of functionality:
- No user management, there is only the scale when setting up users
- No password protection for the system or personal data
- Rudimentary mail program, dominated after all IMAP, but not encrypted connections, subfolders are not displayed, sort and screen layout very impractical and can not be changed
- Resetting to the factory settings or delete personal data from the device is not provided
- Multitouch is missing completely
- Webcam slideshow
- Annoying prompt to create a screenshot as soon as you touch the upper-left corner of the device
- Rudimentary file browser that only cluttered shortened filename displays hidden files and embezzles
- Navigation with the sidebars is at least getting used to
- Rotate the display only goes just as in a few applications
- A part of the applications, such as OpenOffice is not adapted to the touch operation
- Flash is available and not switched off, because some nerves website quite pretty
Definitely, you can extend a bit the list yet. I could live with many of them, but I do not like it when features are announced full-bodied, then not turned exist. The knock-out criterion for me is rather the hardware, especially the fans, because it can be combined with updates change anything.
I would add even more to the distance of a few days a few points:
- The mail program is absolutely not prepared for touch operation. To scroll in a mail you have to take the narrow scrollbar on the edge, a touch in the text leads to highlight the text. So there touch actions are simply converted into mouse events and that is in practice simply no sensible solution. The same applies mutatis mutandis to present virtually all applications, except for the browser.
- The thumb navigation is useless, at least for me. The navigation on the right side, which refers to the Staertbildschirm, behaves at least consistent. It bothers but that is absolutely positioned there, that is the moment of contact, the image will snap to another not exactly selectable position. The direct push on the home screen is much more intuitive and actually sufficient. The navigation with the left thumb, there is only in the browser and it works much less useful. Firstly, it reacts too coarse, so that you can bad control how far you move the page. On the other hand, there are also websites that offer scroll areas within the page and the browser it fails miserably. Mir is especially noticed in Google Reader, which is practically inoperable with my Wetab.
- In your browser, you can scroll directly by touch gestures, the issue is not always (again the negative example Google Reader) and it is only possible if Javascript turned on. Obviously that was thus built only in this way in the browser.
- The fan runs with me above all always in higher pace when a web page displays advertisements via Flash or otherwise is sufficiently complex, Heise and Spiegel Online would be typical examples.