We live in an age of tablets and have models to suit all tastes, purposes and prices. And we live in a country where the price is a deciding factor for purchasing a new product, we decided to test a tablet that is with considerable sales sites buying and selling products on the web, Kyros MID7015 Coby, who is one of alternative models with cheaper price in the market.
But as the cliche, "sometimes you get what you pay for", and Coby Kyros can represent this to users who have ever experienced in life the most exciting tablets. We will prove this in the analysis below.
Design
The Coby Kyros is even well-intentioned in that direction. He is a tablet beautiful and elegant, offering up a cover of leather to protect the device (and not every manufacturer does this). He has the traditional center button, which brings a certain famous tablet, and side buttons for Home and Menu necessary for management of Android 2.1, which manages the device. All slots, connectors and button on / off are at the bottom of the product, all well located and with an organized distribution, to facilitate the user's life.
We stress here that the Coby Kyros has slots and connectors that other tablets do not offer, such as USB, microSD card reader and HDMI output. That is, you can save your video card or USB stick in and turn on the tablet. Or even connect the tablet on TV so that videos are displayed on a larger screen.
Screen
Its 7-inch screen does the job, displaying the contents clearly. Obviously, qualifies as a normal LCD screen, without giving anything special. You can view YouTube videos so comfortable, and you add the videos to your microSD card running without any problems. Depending on the file format, the tablet does the job. Few crashes were noticed in the archives at 720p and 1080p. Reading books on the tablet is quite acceptable, with good balance of brightness and contrast.
The big problem with this screen is that it is resistive, with a low precision. You tend to get angry at the time of typing a single Internet address. In tests, the user experience in this regard was very bad, worse than most mobile phones with resistive screen on the market.
Performance
Here is the great problem of Coby Kyros. According to its published specifications at the official site of Coby, MID7015 model has a 800 MHz processor, and works with Android OS 2.1. That is, theoretically, he should have a performance at least reasonable. Far from it. Are slow to transition from pages of applications, the tablet takes to boot, slow to open applications and crashes for some applications available in your store.
Speaking of, here we have another serious problem: Kyros has no compatibility with the Android Market. For it to work on the product, you need to upgrade your system (something not easily done), which if not done accurately, the user simply loses the product. With that, who will be purchasing this tablet with limited options to add applications in the product.
Battery
Here, more problems: autonomy of use with the WiFi off the product can reach the good of autonomy, at least two full days of use. This is explained by its battery of 3,200 mAh, which is what the page shows the product specifications. However, with WiFi turned on, Kyros has a range of just over 2 hours of use, which is unacceptable for a product that, theoretically, has most of its features online.
Cost-benefit
For users who have tested an iPad or Galaxy Tab in life, you better not get near the Coby Kyros. It is synonymous with a headache for sure. Unless you want to use a good alternative to the device, such as reading books and watching videos in bed. Moreover, it is worth noting that, despite being sold in Brazil as a "tablet," Coby's own ranks as an "Internet Multimedia Device," which is more tuned to watch videos, listen to music and reading books, without giving much importance for its processing capacity.
Maybe it falls in the taste of users who can not buy a tablet "top", or novice users who will be attracted by the price and what the product promises. But is that kind of product that we launch the alert: go shopping, is at your own risk.
