Onda V812 uses Allwinner A31 chip, has a RAM of 2GB, so large 3D games and long HD videos can be played smoothly. Users who like playing games can enjoy in the games world. 8 inch IPS screen can ensure the viewing angle and the touch feeling which benefits video playing and games playing.
Looks like Allwinner has the A31 shipping (finally). Currently there are 8'and 10' tablets listed on Aliexpress for shipment on March 1. Prices for the 8' tablets start at $130 minus shipping. The 8' tablets have a 1024x768 screen with 2GB/16GB. The next up in price is the 10.1' tablets with 1280x800 screen by Onda and also Ainol at about $175. Those also have 2GB/16GB.
The top models, also by Onda and Ainol and also a few others, have 9.7' high-res 'retina' screens with 2048x1536 resolution, also at 2GB/16GB. Those average about $275 minus shipping. Android should run quite well on these tablets. But don't expect GNU/Linux to work. Contrary to the specs in some of the listings the A31 uses a PowerVR SGX544 GPU, not Mali. That should give good performance in Android. But Linux drivers will definitely not be forthcoming.
An A31 might perform well as a headless Linux box, although benchmarks are not yet available for it, but tablets are the target market for this SoC, not Mele-type devices. It is always interesting, however, to see what kind of new devices arrive. Quote The Android TV stick also struggles with 1080p video playback when using the XBMC media center app for Android. According to GeekBuying, their test unit also randomly rebooted a few times. The Antutu benchmarks for A31 are around 10915 vs.
12042 for ATM7029 and 18000 for RK3188. Huge difference for the RK3188.
Shows how much having a high-clocked A9 core helps vs. Cortex-A7 or A5 (ATM7029). I.MX6q has quad-core A9 like RK3188, but it's only clocked at 1.2GHz. So far not too impressed with A31.
I.MX6q is still faster and looks like a better choice for GNU/LInux. RK3188 best for tablets. Quote However the power consumption should be much better for A31 Well, looks like battery life for A31 is about 4-5 hours with a 8000 mAh battery. The ATM7029 with a 4000 mAh battery is 7-9 hours. The RK3188 reportedly gets about 6 hours with 8000 mAh battery.
So far I would say A31 is worst for battery life. Power consumption of the three is by far the best with ATM7029, where the battery should last several more hours than in A31 depending on battery size. But the performance is not so great with ATM7029, especially with the GPU, which is no better than dual-core Rockchip. Even then the ATM7029 has a faster cpu than the A31. The A31 is better by far for GPU, but that GPU is not ever going to be Linux-compatible like GC1000 in the ATM7029, or the Mali in the Rockchip SoCs. So far the RK3188 beats them both by far in cpu performance. I have not yet seen exact head-to-head comparisons on battery life for A31 vs.
But they will assuredly be coming soon! Personally I would likely choose RK3188 for a tablet even if battery does not last as long as the others.
I would rather have the better performance and a more open GPU. IMX6q is really not suited to tablets due to the excessive power usage and GPU, but it should be best for Linux on HDMI dongle or board due to the better support. Personally, server-wise, I'm looking forward to seeing what Exynos 5 devices arrive.
They have SATA3. Quote kennyn Battery life - can't say to much about it yet other than that is is down to 57% after 1 3/4 hours of of surfing/wifi on and screen on full brightness. So a little bit more than 4 hours with the new firmware might be possible if the screen brightness is reduced. OTOH the RK3188 is getting Antutu scores of 0+. The Vellamo score is about 1500. It seems fairly accurate. Most other RK3188 reviews show similar results and that it easily trounces the A31 in most tasks - especially anything cpu related.
Battery life of the RK3188 is 5-6 hours with the following conditions: fully charged, brightness adjusted to the highest level and connect to wi-fi network. Playing the same 1080p video continuously. Try that for 5-6 hours with an A31 tablet and see how it goes(dies). Allwinner made a big mistake using 40nm for the A31 instead of using 28nm like the RK3188.
Expect A31 tablet prices to drop fast as additional reviews pour in.
Hi Guys, Today we get the first ICOO ICOU10GT sample device in the market. And make the first reviews. First, let's show you a demo video of the tablet. Recently, china market is full of quad core tablet news, the Allwinner A13, the Rockchip RK3188, and most of the brand tablet factories, like Onda, Ployer, ICOO, Cube, Ramos all released their new information on quad core tablets. But from the information we get, the Allwinner A31 will be the first one to release to market, Allwinner total release 10000pcs A31 chip, most of the chip has been ordered by ICOO and Onda.
And the rest will be shared by different small factories. For Rockchip RK3188, the chip will release to market on 20th Jan. So the sample device which launch with RK3188 have to be seen in market in the end of Jan. So ICOO and Onda will be the first two factories which real release A31 chip tablet. And ICOO will focus on the 10.1 inch tablet, Onda will focus on 9.7 inch and 8 inch ones.
It seems those factories have all agreement to share market. So today what we get is the first 10.1 inch ALLWINNER A31 quad core tablet pc, model is. ICOO ICOU10GT uses the newest ARM architecture quad-core processor, this machine is using PowerVR 8 core engine, as well as dual-channel 64bit memory support a 4K video decoder as well as the latest power management chip, super configuration performance. Packs with nice design with ultra-thin for ultra-portable device, the body material based on metal with only 9mm thickness. The ICOO ICOU10GT super board is also equipped with the top eight-core GPU performance beyond Tegra 3, this tablet also packs with Retina Display technology. Support for 3D game since this tablet using 8-core Power VR SGX544 graphics chipset. As we know, Apple iPad series, Kindle Fire tablet also uses the same Power VR GPU chipset.
ICOU10GT equipped with 10.1-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels (16:10) and is based on a new 4-core AllWinner A31, and also got 2 GB of RAM. It is worth noting that the tablet is not quite high thickness - 9 mm. The novelty is responsible for running Android 4.1, but soon will be upgraded to Android 4.2.
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