LINux on MOBile - Hanvon A116LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.Zola2011-03-06T11:50:00+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/hanvon-a116/feed.xmlCeBIT 2011: Hands on with Hanvon A116 7" Android tablet2011-03-06T11:50:00+00:002011-03-06T11:50:00+00:00https://linmob.net/cebit-2011-hands-on-with-hanvon-a116-7-android-tablet/<p>The device I played with for the longest time at CeBIT 2011 without being bothered by booth people was the 7 inch tablet <a href="https://linmob.net/tags/hanvon-a116/">Hanvon A116</a>. Despite its specs sheet says that this device has some decent hardware inside (1GHz ARM Cortex A8 (Samsung Hummingbird according to ARMdevices.net) + 512MB DDR2 Ram) this thing ran Android 2.2 in a horribly slow way—this maybe due to Hanvons customizations or bad drivers. </p>
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<p>Here's my video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArqHlfseAb8">Hanvon A116 Hands On</a></p>
<p>I apologize for the quality of the video I shot—but at least I typed the spec sheet data into its description—so it might be helpful to some people. <a href="http://www.netbooknews.com/21052/hanvon-hpad-a116-7inch-android-2-2-tablet-hands-on/">netbooknews.com/tabletblog.de shot a better video</a>, and the <a href="http://armdevices.net/2011/03/02/hanvon-hpad-a116-7-capacitive-android-tablet/">video from ARMdevices.net</a> is clearly the best.</p>
<p></a>Hardware specs are nice, but nothing special: 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 SoC (unnamed), 512MB DDR2 Ram, 2G SLC NAND, MicroSD up to 32GB, 7" 1024x600 wide angle TFT, 2D capacative (optional: Electromagnetic Resonance) touch screen, front camera: 1.3 MP, rear camera: 5MP with auto focus, WiFi 802 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Optional built in 3G, GPS: optional, Battery: 3.7V 3300mAh LiPolmer (12.2 Wh) for 6 hour video play, 8 hour reading estimated battery life, I/O: micro USB, mini HDMI, 3,5 earphone jack, dimension: 199 * 126 * 11.8mm </p>
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<p>Interestingly enough the datasheet has information on anything you can think of but the weight—the device felt pretty light, on par with other 7" tablets (350 to 450 grams). </p>
<p>Hardware aside, Hanvon has been doing some work on the Software—on the unit I went hands on with, parts of this ran annoyingly slow—in fact, the homescreen replacement ruined the whole user experience for me—it seems to run much better in the video Andrzej shot for Netbooknews.com, so this might have been a faulty device (I had this thought at CeBIT, but when I came back later, all tablets were switched off and wouldn't power on). But they also added in their own office solution and their ebook store (they are THE player in China's e-reading market), so they are trying to add value, which is always a good thing (as long as you can remove the “added value" if you don't like it, but with Android you should be able to do so).</p>
<p>No real information on pricing (“30% less than Galaxy Tab" (street price or launch price?)) and availability, though it might come to Europe, as Hanvon has a German subsidiary.</p>
A day at CeBIT. Again.2011-03-04T08:11:00+00:002011-03-04T08:11:00+00:00https://linmob.net/a-day-at-cebit-again/<p>I am starting this very subjective write up sitting on a chair in the Webciety’s Bloggers Lounge and I feel pretty tired and exhausted - it's just as it has been the years before. You walk around all day and spend time out there, go hands on with the few devices you are interested here, talk to booth people… There are great moments and less great - this time there were few less great ones, even the sun was shining all the time, which I never experienced in CeBIT seasons Hannover.</p>
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<p>After having strolled around many booths in many halls, I visited a place that is a must for a guy writing about Linux, the Open Source park, which is a rather small area full of people that show off their more or less popular projects. Among many business related projects (including some I've never heard of, as I am a little bit ashamed to admit) and more popular ones like Firefox 4 and LibreOffice I stumbled on a small Enlightenment corner and there on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Haitzler">Carsten "raster" Haitzler</a>, who, as some of you may remember, was once involved into the Openmoko project. I talked to him for quite some time, first in german (as his father's german) then in english about Linux, Android, toolkits on mobile devices. As you can read on his <a href="http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News">website </a>as well, he's with Samsung now, who are investing heavily into Enlightenment to build a platform on - which will actually be <a href="https://linmob.net/2011/02/mwc2011-day-1.html">LiMo r4</a> compliant (there is EFL in LiMo r4, not only GTK+, cairo, clutter and so on). He showed me some EFL demos on an obviously Samsung built device on par with Galaxy S (using Hummingbird and an (approx.) 3.7" WVGA screen) - most likely a developer model of the never released<a href="http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-i8330-aka-vodafone-h2-limo-phone-leaks-2687073/"> Samsung H2 / GT-i8330 hardware</a>, which was supposed to be released during last summer, but didn't make it (at least on Vodafone in Europe). I think I will write a dedicated article about what we talked about as soon as possible, because it really was great to talk about the downfall of MeeGo (back to Moblin, mostly - a fact he wasn't too unhappy about, working on LiMo, which is certainly a rival to MeeGo on handsets.</p>
<p>Besides that, I didn't hang out for too long in CeBIT's OpenSource paradise (it was so crowded!) and headed on to webciety to get a little rest while listening to some panels I didn't plan to listen too (at the one I had on my schedule, one about tablets with the MeetMobility guys + 2 others (a Qualcomm representive + @petweetpetweet) I arrived late, just to get a rest after all these tablet hands ons (in fact I used my partly broken (headset jack) Palm Pre to capture a hands on with the Hanvon A116 tablet, but I will have to edit it before uploading, so don't expect that before saturday) and walking (I liked both ASUS Android tablets I wrote about recently (the MeMO and the Transformer, of which the latter really features amazing build quality and a really great finish), and then went on to have a look at some more devices before coming back late to the panel I just mentioned. After that, I managed to talk to<a href="http://twitter.com/sascha_p"> @sascha_p</a> for a few minutes, exchange business cards and head on to Huawei, were I had a look at their Android devices, entry level and up before "winning" a Vodafone 246 dumb phone at the stand of a popular german PC magazine, which was about the last thing I did before heading out to catch my train.</p>
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<p>Edit 2023-07-23: Turns out, I also took a video of some Windows Phone device:
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