Tablet huawei tablet s7. Review of MTS Tablet: Huawei Ideos S7, modified and improved. Breaking down the bones

Introduced last year, the Huawei S7 tablet was finalized, as a result of which a continuation of this model appeared. A device called Huawei Ideos S7 Slim offers a more interesting set of options. So, instead of a resistive screen, a capacitive one was installed, the size of the device was significantly reduced, and the functions of the phone were also preserved.

Design and features

Traditionally, the tablet is made in a monoblock case, where plastic prevails. The dimensions of the device are as follows: 200 x 109.5 x 12.5 mm, weight 400 g. For comparison, last year's Huawei S7 had dimensions of 209 x 108 x 15.5 mm, it weighed 500 g. As you can see, the difference between the models in practice is very palpable. The gadget noticeably lost weight, became lighter. The device lost metal parts, due to them they removed excess weight. This has had a positive effect on ease of use, now it has become more convenient to carry a tablet with you. Of course, you can't put it in your jeans pocket, but it's still not a phone. However, the device can be put in a jacket pocket, given the approaching cold and the need to change the summer wardrobe. The plastic shell of the device causes only positive emotions. Here they did not play tricks with materials and offered a simple and functional solution. The sides of the device, as well as the back, are made of matte plastic. This means that the user does not have to worry about possible scratches on the surface. The front part is traditionally covered with gloss, it is tedious to wipe it regularly so that there are no traces of touch. The build of the tablet is very good. The back cover fits very tightly, it is quite difficult to remove it, a significant condition is required. There are no other removable parts here, the case is monolithic and feels like a single whole.

The tablet display has retained its original dimensions. It offers WVGA-resolution, which is 800x480 with a diagonal of 7 inches. Now the screen has become capacitive, there is no need to use a stylus. The display responds well to touch, accurately handles pressing without erroneous actions. The picture is good and bright. The maximum backlight level is sufficient for comfortable work indoors. Horizontal viewing angles are flawless, but vertically the picture is distorted, as soon as you turn the tablet slightly away from you.

The fact that the tablet is designed for the user to take it in both palms will be indicated not only by the weight of the device, but also by the location of the buttons. The keys are arranged in a column on the right. The set is standard for the Android platform. These are Home, Options, Back. The touch buttons are backlit, which helps in the dark. Pressing may be accompanied by vibration. On the other side of the screen there is a light sensor and a VGA camera.

Each of the sidewalls of the tablet is distinguished by the presence of additional elements. There are stereo speakers on the left and right sides. You can also see a miniHDMI connector and a microUSB port on the left side. Moreover, the gadget does not know how to charge from the latter. For this, a special socket for the charger, located on the left corner, will be used. On the right there is a small screen lock key. It also turns off the device itself. At the bottom, you can find a slot for a microSD memory card, which is inserted into it, while a protective plug is not provided. There is also a proprietary port that will allow you to connect the tablet and the docking station. On the right side there is a useful 3.5mm headphone jack. Below is the volume control button, which is made almost flush with the surface of the case.

The back of the tablet is divided into two unequal parts by a steel insert. It marks the belonging of the device to the line of Ideos models in silver font. A square cutout is also made here, in which the camera lens is located. The battery is under a large removable plastic cover. It is very tight and comes off with a lot of effort. The tablet has a slot for a SIM card. To insert it, you will need to remove the battery and install a card in a special groove.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: User interface

The tablet offers the user to plunge into the world of the Android platform. Version 2.2.2 is installed here, which offers a proprietary shell. The main screen displays all the necessary information. Information is displayed in the upper right corner. There are icons for wireless connections, quick adjustment of the brightness level, a battery indicator. In addition, with one touch, you can open a large auxiliary menu. It will consist of an extended list of icons that correspond to a variety of connections, a notification graph and a column will open where running applications are displayed. Right from here you can open the program or stop its functioning.

In total, the tablet offers ten desktops, which in turn are divided into five categories. This is the main page, Internet, entertainment, communication, favorites. In each section, you can add not only standard widgets, shortcuts or folders. Among other things, branded widgets are installed for added convenience. Initially, a ready-made screen design style is offered, but if desired, you can change it, setting it up in the most convenient order for yourself. Elements are inserted both through the pop-up menu and by holding your finger on the screen. You can decorate the background with the help of pictures that are selected from the photo gallery. In addition to static images, you can also choose animated "live" wallpapers.

The lock screen allows you to see service data, including time, date, and carrier name. Two icons located to the left are responsible for unlocking the screen and putting the device into silent mode. To do this, you need to swipe up or down while holding the icon.

In the lower right corner there was a place for an icon that opens the device menu itself. It consists of numerous program shortcuts, which are lined up eight pieces per line. Icons are ordered alphabetically by name. As new applications are added to the device's memory, the matrix of icons becomes larger.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Phone book

The tablet will allow you to use it not only as a multimedia gadget, but also as a means for making calls. The speaker will allow you to talk on the speakerphone, since there is no separate conversational speaker here. The scenario of using a headset for conversations is more likely, this option is much more convenient. To dial a number, large keys are used, where only Latin characters are applied. Search by name does not work here, but the device allows you to select suitable contacts based on the order of the entered numbers. Once the numbers have been entered, the number can be stored in memory by adding to an existing contact or creating new record.

The history of phone calls is grouped into a single list. In it, the same numbers are combined into a common section, in which the number of calls is marked. The list contains the number and approximate time of the call. On the same line, the name of the caller is indicated, as well as his number. A visual icon shows the type of call: incoming, outgoing or missed. By selecting one of the items in the list, an additional window will open, which displays the full history of calls to a specific number, indicating the time and date. From here, you can add a number to the phone book by creating a new contact or adding to an existing one.

The phone book consists of a list of names that stores an unlimited number of contacts. It is complemented by kinetic scrolling, as well as a quick search bar. By touching it with your finger, it is easy to select the desired letter of the alphabet and select the desired recipient. The device offers to store maximum full information about the subscriber. The first step is to choose a memory for storing data. It can be a SIM card, the tablet itself, or Google account data, without which using the device is impossible in itself in principle. Here you can find a speed dial for 8 numbers, as well as several ways to organize names. The operating system settings allow you to select the necessary contacts to display, hiding the extra ones. As for the information itself, which can be entered, these are the following:

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Organizer, office

Pictures, as well as pictures from the camera, are displayed in the general section. Here they are sorted by date, folder or rating. The gallery separately shows pictures from the memory of the tablet and the card installed in it. Any image from here is sent to social networks or via wireless interfaces. It can be reduced in size or rotated, and set as a contact picture or wallpaper. The slide show mode offers to arrange an animated display of files, supplementing it with musical accompaniment.

When creating a new alarm, you can select the days to be triggered again, the volume of the melody, the type of notification: combinations of sound and vibration. Additionally, a text note is set. In addition, in order not to turn off the sound when you wake up and fall asleep, you need to solve a small problem by clicking on the numbers in a certain sequence.

The calendar displays scheduled events for a month, a week, a day, or a general list. All days except weekends marked in red are greyed out. The current date is highlighted with a blue cursor. If you point it at the day where an event will take place, then information about it will be displayed at the bottom of the display. When you create a new calendar entry, it is assigned various information: date, time, location, participants, snooze period, reminder, and description. The application settings set the default view and the first day of the week. In addition, the type of notification about various events is changed.

Notes store text entries that are created on multi-colored backgrounds. You can also draw something here by swiping your finger across the screen.

The calculator will help with simple calculations. Additionally, a functional panel with a variety of mathematical operations is offered.

It is convenient to view various types of documents on a large screen. As an aid, the Documents to Go application is used, which opens files various types. Data editing capabilities in installed version no.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Communications

The tablet supports work in networks GSM/UMTS. The Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g wireless module works well, no failures were noticed. The device remembers passwords, automatically connects to networks if it is within range. Works with WEP/WPA/WPA2 encrypted networks. Data is copied to a computer via USB 2.0. Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP support ensures stable data transmission.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: GPS

To determine the coordinates on the ground, Google Maps is used, which receives regular updates and an increasing number of functions. The first launch takes about five minutes, later this task will take even less time - about 30 seconds. A feature of the program is the need to download data, which affects the consumption of traffic. At the same time, the maps are able to display the traffic situation, displaying information about the congestion of the streets. The application is able to calculate the route map in various ways.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Browser

It should be said right away that support Adobe Flash, there is no. Multi-window mode is supported. You can open up to eleven tabs. Separate bookmarks highlight the history of pages viewed, a list of resources stored in memory. Implemented adaptation of the full page of the site to the screen mobile device when the site borders fit the screen width regardless of the selected font size. You can download data directly through the browser, saving files in the device's memory. An additional menu with settings will help optimize your browsing experience.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Camera

The 3-megapixel module located on the rear surface can only be launched from the Screen menu and acts as a viewfinder. On the right side there is a shutter button and a key for switching between photo and video shooting. The virtual controls on the left open the options menu. The display displays data not only in landscape, but also in portrait orientation. The front 0.3-megapixel camera is launched from the menu.

The following settings are available:

Video settings:

The quality of the pictures makes you think about the advisability of having a camera in the tablet. You can shoot something, but looking at such pictures even on the tablet screen is not interesting.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Applications

The voice recorder saves voice memos in the device's memory.

The file manager has all the necessary features to operate with data not only in the built-in memory of the tablet, but also on the flash card installed in it.

The news section will acquaint you with the headlines of the latest events, you can follow the link and read the note in full. Another tab is responsible for the weather report.

Electronic reader Aldiko will act as a pocket library. It is beautifully decorated in the form of shelves on which books are presented. Extensive settings allow you to optimize the backlight level and choose a convenient font size.

YouTube is for watching streaming video.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Multimedia features

The music player offers categorization. Among them there are tabs with albums, artists, playlists, releases, genres and a general list of all songs. In the general list of tracks, the cover art assigned to the album, the name of the song itself and the name of the artist are displayed. The search bar will allow you to quickly navigate among the volume of the music library, divided into sections with letters, and find the right melodies. As soon as you start listening to music, a large animated album cover will appear on the screen. Under it, information is indicated, including information about the author of the track, the album and its name. The shuffle and repeat mode is immediately activated. It is included both for one song and for the whole album. The volume is changed by separate keys on the side of the tablet. At the bottom is a scale with an indication of the duration of the song. Three dedicated keys at the bottom are responsible for controlling the player. These are the standard rewind and pause buttons.

The video player supports only basic codecs. These are H.263, H.264, MPEG4, WMV formats. Accordingly, if you want to watch movies without necessarily converting them to one of the supported formats, you will need to install a third-party player. The tablet offers a simple and understandable gallery, in which all the data is organized into sections, provided with illustrative pictures, information about the duration of the file and its format.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Hardware features

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor and is equipped with 512MB random access memory. Almost 3 GB is available for storing various applications in the device. In addition, a little less than 5 GB is attached for a variety of data. The microSD slot is designed to work with volumes up to 32 GB. You can evaluate the performance of the platform on the attached pictures.

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim:: Overview:: Impressions and conclusions

Concluding the story about the device, it is worth looking at the battery life of this device. With a complete Li-Ion battery of 3250 mAh, the device can last about 4 hours in video playback mode. On average, you need to charge the device every evening if you use the various functions of the tablet during the day. Not very much, however, it is worth considering the large screen size and not the most capacious battery.

If you look at Huawei Ideos S7 Slim, given the experience of last year's model, it should be noted that the company has made significant improvements, increasing the usability of the device due to the capacitive screen and reducing weight. At the same time, tablets are still far from the most popular gadgets. The cost of 11,000 rubles today seems high. Models with Android version 3.2 are already on sale, there is no support for many video formats, the operating time is also not the most outstanding. The original feature that allows you to use the tablet as a phone is interesting. However, in practice it is unlikely to be much in demand due to the weight of the device and the need to connect a headset.

If we examine the base model of the Huawei Ideos S7 tablet, we will notice two key flaws in it. First of all, it is a processor with a low frequency, as well as a resistive screen. It is clear that for the Russian consumer, these shortcomings more than cover any advantages.

Fortunately, both of these shortcomings are corrected in the MTS Tablet. Let's make a reservation right away - we will briefly call him that, because even representatives of the company differ in their testimony. In the MTS online store, it is called SmaKit S7, in ordinary stores - MTS Tablet, in the search for prices - Huawei Ideos S7, and in early announcements they even said that its name would be MTS 360. The full name sounds like MTS Huawei Ideos S7.

So, instead of a resistive sensor, a capacitive one is installed in it, and the processor is overclocked from 768 MHz to 1 GHz. Agree, it's getting interesting. However, first things first.

Appearance and controls

Now it has become fashionable to call each new tablet "iPad killer". Even if the device is frail, and even peaceful at all, the next stamped headlines still come out from under the newsmen's keyboards. So in the case of Huawei S7, such a comparison is not very true - initially this tablet was not going to kill anyone, which is very clearly seen in the design.

Those who created the design of the tablet were clearly inspired by devices from science fiction films 90. I remember seeing something similar in the game Privateer 2, something like this could look like a PDA from Bill Gates' book "Road to the Future". Now this approach looks original and distinguishes Ideos S7 from other tablets.

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The Android operating system, dressed in a proprietary MIUI shell, will give a lot of pleasure from managing and interacting with the gadget. Tablets run on latest versions OS;

A large amount of RAM easily copes with the launch of resource-intensive applications - the user is guaranteed high performance and no freezes;

Performance is provided by powerful processors that can cope with various tasks, whether it is running a resource-intensive game or heavy software;

Gadget screens have a user-friendly diagonal. The optimal size allows you to play games, watch movies, edit photos and more. The displays are covered with tempered glass, which allows you to confidently say goodbye to scratches, chips and other defects resulting from active use;

The possibility of expanding the built-in memory using microSD cards;

The presence of Bluetooth technology will allow you to pair with all kinds of equipment that supports this parameter;

Capacious batteries make it possible to use the tablet for all kinds of tasks throughout the day and more!

You can buy a tablet at an affordable price. The devices are functional, stylish and comfortable, so what is the reason for the low cost? Indeed, the models can be purchased on favorable terms, which is connected with the policy of the company, which, on the initial path of its development, stated that it strives to provide everyone with high-quality, but budget devices! And this idea was skillfully put into practice, turning from fantasy into reality! The price of the tablet barely reaches 20 thousand rubles, and for such little money the user gets a productive device that can cope with the most difficult tasks!

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The growing number of seven-inch tablets clearly shows us the new market trends: the ten-inch format is gradually being replaced, as well as all others. In addition, seven inches turned out to be the optimal size for the budget segment, which is its main supplier. New from Huawei, however, does not play by the rules to the end.

Review of Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim: "seven" for pensioners

Calling Huawei IDEOS S7 the word “slim” (thin), the Chinese comrades clearly got excited. Although its thickness is formal 12 mm, with a weight of 400 grams and rather rounded sides, they are somehow not felt. The tablet looks quite bulky, and after the thin and sleek models of Samsung's latest generation ( samsung galaxy Tab 8.9, Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7) this impression only intensifies. But let's be fair, in its price niche the tablet performs on an equal footing.

Huawei IDOS S7 Slim

From the front, the S7 looks like all other tablets and doesn't stand out much. Glossy black screen, to the right of which there are three touch buttons ("Home", "Menu" and "Back" - as in Sony Ericsson, Huawei prudently got rid of the "Search" button), and on the left - the front camera lens and the light sensor. A white plastic case and a rather wide metal (or metallized) strip running in the center at the back, which divides the case into two unequal parts. Under the removable lower part are the battery and the SIM slot, but under the top there is nothing at all that could somehow be taken out or moved: why it was made removable at all remains a mystery. But I must admit that from the point of view of design, the “back” turned out to be quite nice.

The tablet provides the ability to connect a docking station

On the left side there is a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a stereo speaker and a volume rocker. For some reason, the location of the latter turned out to be rather inconvenient - you can’t find the swing by touch at first. At the bottom is a proprietary interface connector with a magnetic docking station (hello Apple MagSafe) and a slot for hot-swappable micro-SD cards. On the right side, you can find micro-USB and mini-HDMI connectors, as well as a second stereo speaker. On top is the power button and the hole for the power adapter plug.

epic fail

The biggest and most noticeable minus of this model is the screen. If you have read ours (including preliminary ones), you have already noticed that they are slowly starting to acquire screens with a fairly high resolution: from 1024x600 (budget) to 1280x768 (premium). And it is all the more strange to see a screen with a resolution of 480x800 even in a new, albeit budget tablet today, which today is more typical of smartphones than tablets.

Screen performance leaves a lot to be desired

You can remember a year ago with almost the same screen - and emphasize the word "annual". The world of information technology does not stand still, and in 2011 to offer a spoiled consumer a year and a half old technology for today's price is an unforgivable miscalculation for the engineers of one of the largest electronics manufacturers.

Another disadvantage is the completely invisible without backlight touch buttons to the right of the screen. You can find them in the dark only if you get used to the gadget, but at first the user will definitely be confused.

And the last minus is the viewing angles. They are very small and the tablet placed at an angle loses all of its color. In defense of the screen, we can only say that it is not the worst in terms of tactile sensations: its sensitivity is at a fairly high level, although it certainly cannot be compared with more modern displays.

Connector set standard

Breaking down the bones

The first impression of the tablet, as you may have guessed, was not the most pleasant. Let's now see what Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim has to offer in terms of performance.

The “fiery engine” of the novelty is the well-known and inexpensive Qualcomm Snapdragon single-core processor with a frequency of 1 GHz. RAM - 512 MB, internal - 8 GB, there is also an expansion slot for micro-SD cards, as already mentioned above.

Tablet memory expansion tools familiar to many users

Wireless communication is provided by Bluetooth 2.1 protocols with EDR, WiFi (802.11 a / b / g / n), a GPS module with aGPS, as well as 3G, EDGE, HSDPA and HSUPA standards. The latter should be noted as a significant plus of the tablet - even today, not all "state employees" have the ability to install SIM-cards. The device has 2 cameras - a rear three-megapixel camera and a front camera with a resolution of 0.3 MP.

The battery of the gadget is removable, with a capacity of 3250 mAh. This is enough for about a day and a half of work in medium-intensity mode (games, applications, navigation, video, music). If you like to watch movies on the road, then the battery will drain faster.

By the way, about recharging. For power, a separate, monstrous-looking multifunctional cable is used, consisting of three cables ending in one full-size USB port. The solution is not common, but it has its advantages - if you like to take a bunch of gadgets with you on a trip, functional charging from the S7 will serve you well. Contrary to popular belief, the tablet can also be recharged from a computer via a USB port, but this is so slow (literally less than 10% charge per hour) that it is better not to do this. This certainly should be attributed to the merits, because. the closest competitors do not charge from the PC at all. In the case of the S7, this feature is implemented more to maintain the charge than to fully charge. But it is worth scolding for the length of the micro-USB cable, it is impossibly short - only 17 cm.

Not every tablet boasts a removable battery

Interface

Usually, interfaces for mobile operating systems still retain some features of the original. In the case of the S7, we are dealing with a very serious alteration, and one can even say that little is left of the original. In this, the tablet differs sharply from the IDEOS X5 smartphone, where no proprietary interface was installed at all.

To begin with, let's mention that the gadget from Huawei works on Android version 2.2, for which it can be scolded. But with a proprietary shell, for which, in general, it is not a sin to praise.

Home page widgets are cramped, but not offended

Take at least the traditional main menu window. In regular Android, as a rule, from one to seven main windows are offered, on which the user can add shortcuts and widgets. There is also a permanent group of shortcuts at the bottom of the screen. In S7, the main window has been slightly redesigned and presented with five groups: Main, Internet, Entertainment, Communications and Favorites. Each of these shortcuts offers to work with two windows related to its type. That is, formally, only two windows are allocated for ordinary shortcuts and widgets. In fact, these are 10 ordinary Android windows, divided into thematic areas, in each of which you can place any shortcuts and widgets. Nobody bothers to put a browser shortcut, say, in "Entertainment". Enough space for everything. Even despite the fact that branded widgets occupy half the window each.

If you go further through the windows, then in the "Internet" group on the first window, two widgets are preinstalled: news from Yahoo and bookmarks for the main Western services: Google, Picasa, Yahoo and MSN. In the next window - the main shortcuts to Internet applications. The group of labels "Entertainment" offers two large widgets for the music application and videos in the first window, the second window is entirely devoted to the gallery.

We need to dwell on the "Communication" label group in more detail, since here we are dealing with a proprietary application for Email emotion. "Branded" in this case does not mean that you will be required to create an account in some proprietary mail system: this is a pre-installed mail client that allows you to check mail and write new letters in any mailer (provided that you know all the necessary POP3 servers , SMTP and others). This group also allows you to write SMS, make calls (!), using stereo speakers (or headphones) and a microphone, and manage your notebook. In general, they tried to make such a bulky phone out of a tablet.

The last group of labels, Favorites, offers two large widgets - a calendar and a planner.

The set of applications complies with Android OS standards

Another was the status bar on top. The clock in it moved to the left corner, the traditional icons remained on the right, except for one - with the letter i. When you click on this icon, a window for managing wireless interfaces, auto-rotation and screen brightness with one button opens, in the right half of the window there is a task manager with the ability to end any application with a “one click”, on the left - notifications.

Convenience and discomfort

Even the regular browser has undergone changes, and here the developers need to be praised, because this only benefited the application. To be honest, the proprietary browser that Android-based systems are equipped with is extremely poor and offers very little to the user. Even tabs can be opened no more than four. In S7, the browser got a status bar at the bottom of the screen (and it does not include the address input line, which is traditionally located at the top), which is always present and contains all the necessary information: the number of open tabs, the forward / back buttons, the button to open a new tab (by the way , tabs can be opened not 4, but as many as 11) and a menu button with additional functions, access to bookmarks, time in digital format, etc.

The Android Market interface in S7 differs from the standard one, but it differs unexpectedly - it duplicates the Market interface that you could see when working on an "adult" PC. It is quite possible that this is it, and Huawei developers simply did not bother with remaking the standard interface into their own. And this is rather a virtue, because. The interface turned out to be convenient and functional.

Unfortunately, networking requires additional settings.

Of the pre-installed branded applications, apart from the above widgets, one can only note the Aldico “reader”. Although reading on such a grainy screen is quite inconvenient.

The main question is: how convenient is it to work with all this? Alas, not much. The regular keyboard named IME is difficult to press due to a not very good screen, false hits are quite common, and the dictionary is very poor. Swype is not preinstalled in the system, and it also failed to install it over IME. In general, the convenience of the keyboard on a ten-point scale pulls somewhere in the four.

Two way communication

Communication with a computer in IDEOS S7 Slim is rather confused. First, when starting file manager(included) it turned out that the tablet has two flash cards: for one of them it takes its own gigabytes, and not all, but only 4 GB, the rest (about 3.5 GB) is given to the system. The user card is displayed under the name sdcard2.

uncomfortable touch keyboard affects the speed of the user on the Internet

Secondly, the first time you connect, it turns out that you need to install drivers, and it is advisable to install proprietary software called Hi-Suite, with which you can synchronize contacts, messages, view the list of applications (and also delete them from your PC), and also take screenshots . A quick glance at the application gives a positive impression: nothing is buggy, everything is quite modest and well done, all functions work - and in general there are no complaints about Hi Suite. For this, the tablet gets its piece of cake.

Past

Camera. It is precisely the interface of the three-megapixel camera that has not been changed at all, not to mention some improvements there. At the camera, you can choose the image size, quality, one of three effects, geotagging, white balance and 4x zoom. Which makes terrible pictures even worse.

Yes, alas, photography is far from the strongest feature of Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim. As well as video shooting - for example, it is programmatically limited to thirty minutes, and from the additional options there is only a choice of white balance and the same three effects. The quality of the photo leaves much to be desired, the autofocus is weak, the colors are faded, the pictures are fuzzy and blurry. And the video - guess three times - "jerky".

Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim camera test shots

Although you can make video calls using the front camera. For all its poor quality, it turned out to be very nimble.

Outcome

To summarize, the gadget turned out to be ambiguous. Weak screen (by the way, its speed is quite high due to the average screen, a good processor and sufficient RAM), a very high price (11,000 rubles on average) and almost no set of proprietary applications. On the other hand, there is a carefully redesigned proprietary shell, an interesting solution with a charger (and the very possibility of recharging from a computer is worth a lot). Here you can add a high-quality software package for synchronization with the desktop, acceptable battery life and interesting, various widgets. Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim would have the right to be a "hit" if it appeared on sale a year ago, or if it now has a price 1.5-2 times lower. However, for all that, he still has the right to commercial success, and let's not forget that in the class of inexpensive devices, rarely anyone manages to release an impeccable gadget.

Internet tablet Huawei IDOS S7 controlled operating system Android 2.1 and is based on a processor running at 768 MHz. The tablet is equipped with a 7-inch touch screen with a resolution of 800x480 with touch-screen support.

The tablet features good quality materials and assembly. The resistive screen is sensitive to finger pressure and stylus control, which allows you to enter information, both using handwritten notifications and typing them on virtual keyboard. The screen of the Huawei S7 produces good picture quality: rich colors with sufficient brightness and a decent viewing angle.

The tablet has a front-facing 2 megapixel camera for video chats. The tablet is configured to work in GSM networks, from communications it has support wireless communication WiFi, Bluetooth, HSDPA / HSUPA, GPRS/EDGE and USB 2.0.

To listen to audio files, you can use standard headphones with a 3.5mm mini-jack plug or an A2DP headset.

Huawei S7 is a pleasant and convenient device for entertainment. It is ideal as a terminal for communication in various in social networks: Facebook, Twitter, etc. It is less suitable for work or office functions, although with the installation of the necessary software, the tablet will cope with these tasks.

A single charge of a 2200 mAh battery is enough for intensive web surfing or reading with 3G or Wi-Fi modules turned on for 2 hours of work.