Android tablet computer by Dixons Retail
The
Advent Vega
(also known as
P10AN01
) is an
Android
-based compact
tablet computer
produced by
Dixons Retail plc
. It features a 10.1-inch (260 mm)
LCD
touchscreen
,
Wi-Fi
capability, a 1.0 GHz
Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
processor, and a 1.3
MP
front-facing camera. The Advent Vega was released on 19 November 2010 in the
UK
.
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Hardware
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The tablet is enclosed in a black
plastic
body weighing a total of 700 grams (1.5 lb).
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The screen has a 1024 x 600
px
resolution
and supports two-finger
multi-touch
. It has a flash internal storage of 512
MB
and comes with a 4
GB
microSD
card which can be used to expand its storage.
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Its
CPU
is a 1.0 GHz
Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
with 512 MB of
RAM
.
The tablet has a 1.3 MP front-facing camera, 802.11b/g
Wi-Fi
,
Bluetooth 2.1
and EDR connectivity. It also has a
HDMI
port and
USB
port, but does not have a Home button and
3G
connectivity.
The battery features 6.5 hours of video playback or 16 hours of audio playback time (with the screen powered off). On standby, the battery will last up to four days.
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Software
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The Advent Vega runs on
Google
's
Android 2.2 Froyo
operating system and was never upgraded to newer versions of Android. The installed Android version has been stripped of some functionality compared to similar tablets running on Android 2.2,
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most notably the absence of the pre-installed
Android Market
service, which was supposed to be corrected with a future update of Android.
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The device instead featured the Archos AppsLib store which contains over 5,000 apps.
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Several custom ROMs (e.g. Corvus5, MoDaCo) were available to improve the experience on the Vega by giving access to the Android Market.
Android 3.2
,
4.0.4
and
4.1.2
have been successfully ported to the Advent Vega as "VegaComb", "VegaCream", and "Vegabean" by individuals in the user community,
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providing access to the
Google Play Store
, along with full hardware acceleration provided by the Tegra 2
system on a chip
(SoC).
Early impressions
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The Advent Vega had good first hands-on impressions
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and was considered a strong rival to other tablet PCs released earlier in 2010, such as the Apple
iPad
and Neofonie
WeTab
, considering both the competitive announced price and the later generation dual-core CPU.
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Advent also simultaneously released the Advent Amico, a smaller and slower version of the Advent Vega. The tablet ran on Android 2.1 and had an identical look to the Vega but with a 7-inch (180 mm) resistive touch-screen.
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Availability
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The Advent Vega was added to the
Currys
[11]
and
PC World
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web sites on 19 November 2010.
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It was also sold in Turkey under the name Exper Easypad.
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In the Netherlands, as well as in other countries where
Point of View
operates, released their clone named Mobii 10.1".
See also
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References
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External links
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