We found it impossible to stream music, watch videos, or even navigate the internet. With the web browser as it is, you will indeed needs lots of patience.
Also, you cannot actually pinch and zoom because the only way to interact with the screen is with the Stylus. So you have to use the scrolling bar to look down a web-page, but it does not allow you to scroll down unless a web-page is fully loaded.
Most of the buttons and slots are at the very bottom of the device. Considering it only had a single VERY small mono speaker it actually did play audio back fairly well.
Lets talk about the battery life; it really only gives you around 13 hours from our tests doing normal tasks and can be enhanced if you turn the WIFI off. This is not the type of device that does landscape and portrait mode on the fly, like many other tablets and e-readers. Most of the functions are done in portrait mode and the only application to take advantage of landscape is the internet browser. What I really liked about this device was the overall build quality.
It is fully done in piano black and does look sleek and sexy. The eee NOTE is bundled in a really nice case with a magnetic clasp. One of the drawbacks is that the case and the unit are interlocked. We currently can find no way to actually remove the unit from the case.
It has in all four corners these sunken grooves that clasp the case physically into the unit. There must be a way to remove it from the case, but at the risk of breaking it in a berserker frenzy, we abstained from this process. The Asus eee Note EA runs on a Linux based operating system, so it is a departure from most tablets out there that run Android. This device is actually more comparable to an e-reader than a tablet in our minds.
Mainly this is due to the grayscale only interface with no color at all. There are many applications that come bundled with the eee Note that give you a ton of functionality right out of the box. You basically use the stylus and assign functions to it, such as a pen, pencil, highlighter, fountain pen, marker, and more. As we mentioned, this is a mainly a grayscale device. You can assign gray, white, or black as the colors. That means even if you wrote on a lined page, the lines won't be there when you look at the GIF it spits out yes, they are output as GIFs.
Overall, we like the note app, but wish it did more to help you organize your notes. Among the things the Eee Note doesn't do but should are:. The audio recording app is called voice memo and perhaps the reason for that is the microphone's very limited range.
When we sat in a small office and tried to record a loud speaker phone conversation that was taking place about 10 feet away, we could hear the conversation on the recording but it sounded distant.
Meanwhile, the scraping noise made by our stylus touching the screen practically drowned out the conversation. It's hard to excuse this kind of poor recording quality when our Droid phone, which is not designed as a note-taking device, does a much better job of picking up and prioritizing sounds.
We have to wonder whether the recessed position of the mike or the actual hardware is to blame, but either way, the weak audio might be the biggest disappointment because it doesn't seem like something a software update could improve. Even worse, the device exports the audio as. We couldn't find a single application that could play them on our PC. The 2-megapixel camera took lackluster, blurry pictures. And other than a digital zoom feature, it doesn't offer any settings to help you improve your shots.
However, the pictures are in color, even though they don't appear to be when you view them on screen. After launching the camera app, you get a preview window and a menu with a zoom and capture button. After you hit capture, you are given the option to cancel or save an image. There are no editing features on the Eee Note itself. Aside from Notes, Camera, and Voice Memos, there are a few other apps that weren't impressive.
Reader lets you read ePub or PDF books, which we haven't tried yet. There's no bookstore for this device that we could find, but you can import eBooks when you sync the device with your PC. Text Memo allows you to type with the virtual keyboard post-it notes, which don't seem to have much use. You can't hand write on the memos, and we're not sure what to do with them when exported. Photo album allows you to view whatever pictures or screen shots you've taken with the device. Music player allows you to play MP3s you imported, but we didn't try it out yet.
Calculator gives you a giant, on-screen calculator. Dictionary provides an English-language dictionary, which seems decent. However, we wish there were translation dictionaries for language-learners. Trash Bin allows you to view and restore files you deleted. Bubble Breaker and Sudoku are two casual games.
We really don't see the point of having them, but if you're desperate for a game to play, you can try them.
Finally the web browser, which is prominently labeled as experimental, allows you to surf the web over Wi-Fi. Asus will be launching a new device in the North American market in the next month that will solidify the place of pen and paper e-readers. Asus is billing this device to be the best device to be used in classrooms and aimed at students. It will also showcase new Anti-Glare technology to be visible outdoors. The Eee Note has a fairly large 8-inch greyscale display with a resolution of x pixels and on top of the screen sits a Wacom digitiser.
A digitiser is a type of touchscreen, but unlike your average touchscreen, a digitiser is pressure sensitive and requires the use of a special stylus. Asus claims an accuracy of 0. This brings us to the primary function of the Eee Note: it is a digital notepad. This might sound dull and somewhat out of touch with modern technology, but actually it can be rather handy.
There are no less than 42 templates available ranging from college ruled paper, to advanced options such as pie charts and various calendars. Despite the greyscale display, the camera takes pictures in colour, although if you add them to a note, the pictures will be converted to greyscale too. However, Asus said that they are looking in to options that might enable this in the future.
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