Monday, December 1, 2014

Shinco Spad-miniQ obtained

Hmm, the technical specs are somewhat the same as another tablet which is Onda V818 Mini Quad Core that uses the different brand. However, the knowledge about HC Shinco is that it is likely to be a local brand that started in the late 90s in which they were manufacturing DVD players and other media players but nowadays, they're manufacturing mobile devices. If this tablet may look like the locally published version of that China tablet, perhaps it may be appealing to the customer service if there was a minor modification like brand change and nothing else, you don't want that. There might be local forums about this and I'm not sure if they could be used as evidence of product comparison. However, rip-off with major difference or completely original, it can't probably mean that the product is bad unless it is done poorly on the main portions of it. The original tablet which is Onda V818 Mini has the firmware support in which you can upgrade that tablet but I'm not sure if you can do the same to Spad-miniQ as according to Hardwarezone forum, it may seem that Shinco doesn't offer their version of that.
Decent thing about this tablet is that it is the clone of the Ipad Mini and that it offers UHD video playback and quad-core CPU but those were the only special parts of the technical specifications and not anything else. The highest resolution for video filming will be Full-HD resolution.
Then, about the inside. It is unfortunate that not all Android 4.2 and 4.3 devices support the Miracast so this tablet's a fat chance for me for the lack of that but at least I did have the HDMI cable along with HDMI to mini-HDMI thingy so that I can hook that up to the TV. As part of the promotion, the tablet also came with Power Bank, Mini USB to USB extender cable, power adapter which didn't work at all, external 3G/4G which makes the internal mobile device design kind of bullshit for the lack of internal one as most of them should already have the SIM card slot with 3G/4G/5G inside of them and of course, the mini-USB to USB cable. As the power adapter that came with it didn't work on me, I can probably use my previous Android device's power adapter for charging this new one with that mini-USB to USB cable although it may be risky that way for using anything like that for non-Samsung devices.
Unfortunately, there was some touch screen problem when I bought this tablet as if your touch point's surrounding area would be tapped too. It's not the hard tapping or hard holding that was causing the problem, it was something else I don't know that caused it. The moment I started to use the tablet, the problem was already there and that can ruin my opportunity to play games on this tablet. However, there should be a solution for this by making contact with the company directly as the staffs at Singapore Expo were apparently doing promotions and sales of Shinco products.