10inch ZT-180 Android 2.1 Touch Apad Epad Tablet PC
Review by SystemGuy : Bargain

Have had it for a week. Like it a lot. I needed the big screen since my sight is not great. For that reason I cannot comment on screen quality, but it seems good to me.
Negatives:
In landscape mode the viewing angle is good from side to side but limited up and down.
I have not yet figured out how to invoke airport mode - 3G uses 70% of the battery at least according to battery usage.
Initial settings timeout the screen fast (10sec?) when running on battery. Annoying but easy to change.
Positives:
Great price $200 for what you get.
Wireless N is fast enough to stream video. Wireless G does not seem to be.
Android marketplace, YouTube work.
Kindle reader is as good indoors as Kindle.

10inch ZT-180 Android 2.1 Touch Apad Epad Tablet PC
Review by Kiem Nguyen : good product if you know how !!!

I just got a ZT-180 ePAD for a day. After half a day fiddling with it, here is my opinions:
BADS:
1) definitely not for people who are not familiar with using PC.
I took me quite a lot of fiddling to navigate and figure out to use it (no manual needed) as I know nothing about Android OS or Android phone. Maybe it is easy for Android phone owners.
2) user manual is exactly an useless manual, if you can call it a manual and if you can read the tiny fonts in it.
3) too small internal memory, about 512MB available for usage, need to add more with TD flash card
(the good part, extra memory does not cost as much as Apple would charge their iPAD customers)
4) short battery life. I did turn OFF all the background apps (learning from iPad tricks) such as WIFI and the battery last about 2.5 hours (reading books). The unit has a menu option to show any app that consumes power recently and showing any app that is running. This helps the user to shut them off.

GOODS:
1) low price
2) large screen size (I measure 10" diagonal, not 10.2")
3) pretty good as a color eBook reader, I only read PDF files (and some MS Word files), not Kindle eBook format. I had a Kindle eBook reader and it does only that. Can zoom in for larger text/music sheet view.
4) play video, photo slideshow quite well, have no problem with it
5) play music (I only tried MP3 so far), speaker quality is just better the phone speaker. Better to use head phones for high quality listineng
6) can record voice, quality is not for singing recording
7) Internet access (I only tested via normal Internet connection with cable) works as expected, screen quality is great
8) can read files/folders from USB thumb drive
9) can add more memory with external TF flash card. It took me a day to find out TF card is simply microSD card. So I took the "TF card" from my cell phone and stick it in this unit, it recognize all its contents.

This one does what I need (eBook, play music, video, access Internet) at low price (I paid 165$ brand new). iPAD would cost 4 times as much. I am quite happy with this ZT-180. Now it remains to see how long this unit last with my frequent travel.

I do not have iPAD but I am certain its quality got to be at least 4 times better.

10inch ZT-180 Android 2.1 Touch Apad Epad Tablet PC
Review by Lori Palm : Great Product for the price!

I just bought the Tablet on e-bay at a great price and am very happy with. He picks up the Wifi is everywhere in my house and receive signals around so I must have improved greatly as others have said you were in your review, to be near the router. Not the case. I've already loaded some apps and e-books and is working great. Except to the extent that the downside is if the battery dies, the time off and reset, but big deal. I can not figure out how to get Yahoo IM to work on it, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. It came with 4GB of memory, so I'll probably get the mini SD card for it. The only reason I have not given it 5 stars because I have not owned it long enough, but so far I am very happy.

10inch ZT-180 Android 2.1 Touch Apad Epad Tablet PC
Review by thunderc45 : Zenithink ZT-180

I ndáiríre is é seo is mó a táirge go forleathan ar a dtugtar an Zenithink ZT-180 Android Tablet. Is é an t-athbhreithniú atá bunaithe ar a bhfuil úinéireacht amháin ar feadh míosa agus cur amach a fháil ar na gnéithe, tairbhe ag a bhfuil eolas roimhe seo ar an gcóras oibriúcháin Android. Is é mo rátáil réalta atá bunaithe ar an fheidhmiúlacht ar fáil vs an praghas a íocadh ó d'fhonn úsáideora An Ríocht Aontaithe.

Déanann an tablet ar 10 "scáileán tadhaill resistive agus ritheann Android version 2.1. Crua-earraí atá luaite mar-180 ZT próiseálaí ARM11 1GHz le 256MB RAM DDR2, tá sé` Nandflash 'thiomáint inmheánach ag 2GB cé caithfidh sé a bheith sa bhreis Micrimhilseogra SD cárta (suas go dtí 16GB) a cuireadh isteach chun tacú le beagnach gach feidhmiúlacht. Tá cárta SD micrea riachtanach ón tús.

Áirítear ar an tablet Wifi 802.11b / g cumas, Ethernet, Mini USB & poirt 'DTS' USB, micreafón, headphone soicéad agus cainteoirí 1W steirió.

Is é an ceallraí a leagtar hinmheánach.Ba cheart rochtain a bheith ag teastáil riamh tá sé riachtanach a bhaint as an chlúdach cúil i gcrích ag unclipping tríd an dhá pholl rochtain beag ar foirceann amháin.

Tá cumas ríomhaire glúine tipiciúil i láthair ar an táibléad - feidhmeanna brabhsáil Gréasáin, r-phost, fuaime / athsheinm físe, a íoslódáil, am / dáta, eagraíocht, áireamhán, doiciméad, bainistiú comhad agus suíomh. Éilimh sé 1080P athsheinm físe i bhformáidí éagsúla lena n-áirítear AVI agus MPEG chomh maith asMP3, WMAs fuaime agus formáidí eile. Amharc ar na Stáit Aontaithe Zenithink suíomh gréasáin le haghaidh an treoir soiléire.

Oibríocht Is trí simplí AR / Off cnaipe a bhrú ar an taobh a tosaithe suas nó síos, tá freisin a chur ar athrú scoránaigh anseo a bhfuil feidhmeanna éagsúla ag brath ar cad atá ag rith! Go criticiúil go bhfuil poll bioráin athshocrú rochtain a shárú ar an corr `urghabháil 'go bhfuil tú cinnte chun freastal. This reset powers down the unit instantly

The instructional literature supplied is very, very basic albeit with a section in English, and covers the earlier Windows 6 CE operating system which is now irrelevant.

Android rev 2.1 Operating System is fine once familiar. Like all Far and Middle Eastern sourced products 'Android Market' (the major Android Apps store) is not present but other Android apps download sites are out there and the major one, SlideMe, is already installed. Even so the internet identifies means to load `Android Market' on the ZT-180 and it looks simpler on this tablet than other devices. Obvious stuff but an important point to remember is that the capability of a tablet like this is reflected by the quality of applications you go on to download and install. Out the box the unit has the very basics applied. My tablet now offers very good capability based on the Apps I have since loaded, and all are free!
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rLCD Resistive screen - not capacitive, can be insensitive but responds OK once you get the knack of point selection / dragging with your finger nails, easy to leave things behind though. Would drive someone familiar with the Apple IPOD screen manipulation crazy!
rBe careful, the screen can scratch relatively easily with jagged finger nails and the stylus supplied with mine left faint lines on the screen. I stopped using it. Screen protectors are available on the auction sites but with a relatively insensitive screen to begin with, these could only add to user frustrations.
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r1080p High Def LCD resolution seems a tall claim. I have not yet truly assessed the Tablet at HD video level. Screen resolution on normal computer functionality however is very good.
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rThe main body is not Aluminium - it is ABS plastic. Build quality at best can be described as adequate

Battery life - Around 3 hours in typical continual use I make it. You can manage to some extent by killing background processes.

Internet usually runs fine and stable on Wifi BUT you need to be virtually next to the router. The main negative point with the pad is the ridiculously low Wifi sensitivity. Get more than 5 meters from the router and connection drops! - no auto re-connect either. A software fix and power setting change is out there - search TXPower Fix on the web to improve range. I have applied this and it does improve the situation to a small degree, but only by another 5 meters or so. The lack of auto-reconnect is very annoying, you need to reapply the setting manually, but I understand a latest firmware update may help here. The tablet is generaly OK and stable on wireless provided you are close to the router with a strong signal!

There is no installed flashplayer. Adobe is not compatible Android 2.1. Dynamic web page content is not accommodated although embedded videos can be played - there is a third party application called `Skyfire', you need version 2.2 or greater downloaded directly from the web and installed. This can play video links within web pages e.g. BBC News & Youtube.

Some applications include internal players. Streams - some work, some don't or only work in part, ie audio only or video only. As examples (BBC) Beebplayer App will not play live streams but past programmes do play without sound?? Very odd! The good news is Catchup TV plays great using Realplayer with only a minor issue of audio very slightly out of sync' with the video.

General Video & Audio playback - Android Youtube app with integral viewer usually no problem in picture or sound, although HD level streams may seize or not load at all, only sound. Music Junk - a superb App gives no problems with downloading music but streamed listening is hit or miss. General downloaded Audio and Video files are usually no problem on installed players.

General Playback Audio quality - 1 Watt integral speakers obviously limited in sound quality and volume not great. Headphones work fine on both counts. Uses 3.5mm standard, stereo jack.

Not managed to get the microphone operational with any apps and,according to web searches, nobody else has either!!.

SUMMARY ....
Compare this ZT-180 to an Apple IPAD and they are not in the same league. If this is your benchmark don't even consider it! BUT I paid about 20% that of an IPAD, including delivery. At that money, once you have sussed the functionality it's a good buy but I wouldn't have paid much more. Performance update improvements are always ongoing! Clever people are out there determining software and background setting tweaks and all are available as free downloads from the web forums if you are prepared to search. Functionality is progressively improving all the time and by the time you read this some fixes may already be in place. In view of that, if you are considering buying a ZT-180, a confidence in applying background changes and firmware updates is a bonus..

10inch ZT-180 Android 2.1 Touch Apad Epad Tablet PC
Review by Ean R. Schuessler : Largely non-functional

I've also tried upgrading the firmware and making other recommended changes to make this product function. Reading reports on the web it seems like some units are mostly OK after a lot of fiddling but others are totally unstable. For me, this product was a waste of money. You are probably gambling if you choose to buy one. Buyer beware!

10inch ZT-180 Android 2.1 Touch Apad Epad Tablet PC
Review by jdavis42336 : Horrible product

Total junk. The product is definately not ready for prime time. Nothing works correctly. Probably the worst electronic equipment I have ever purchased.