Welcome to another installment in my "TACKY TABLETS" series which I look at very questionable tablets and see if they are worthy or not. Oh boy this one is painful. Does anyone have the app card for this? I'd love to just try it out to see what happens or if it's in the system files and can be triggered, let me know! And let me know how useful you think this tablet is...I say "TABLET" there very lightly. Next video is a cheapo laptop. Prepare yourselves for that one. TIMESTAMPS: Introduction, Timestamps & Disclaimers: 0:00 The "Tablet" and main feature: 1:27 Around the "Tablet": 3:02 Power On, Display Quality & Setup: 4:38 The UI & User Manual: 6:50 More about the UI & Onboard Apps: 8:23 Settings - Connections, Wallpapers, The Display is BAD & Storage: 9:27 Settings - Battery, System Apps & Accounts: 10:40 Settings - Accessibility & About Device: 12:12 Theme Selector & Parental Controls Fail: 13:12 Photo Editing Tool: 14:42 The Camera: 15:53 Camera Test: 17:19 Lock Screen, Parental Controls do work & Camera Quality: 21:24 Aldiko Book Reader, APK Manager & Browser Crashing: 22:36 Proper Browser Test: 23:35 More Apps & MeeGenius: 25:05 Speaker Test & The rest of the apps: 26:41 The Play Store and how things quickly go downhill: 27:57 This is how Painful the Tablet is: 29:55 UA-cam Test...in the browser: 31:20 Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 33:50 Checking the Specs: 36:55 QuickShortcutMaker Shenanigans: 39:23 Conclusion: 43:07 Teardown: 45:29 Full Specifications & Does it still work?: 47:34 Is it Tacky? Further Rambling: 48:24 Thank you for watching, timestamp stuff etc: 49:33 Next video & Outro: 50:30 CPU & System Apps are in the description above! As well as the extracted files from the thing! Be good people!
Vivitar used to be a distributor of photographic equipment many moons ago. Actually some good quality stuff. They went bust in 2008. The brand name and IP were sold on. I used to have a Vivitar branded camera in the late 90's.
I have a late 90s Vivitar camera, I also have a 6 month old SD card reader. The camera still works perfectly fine with no qualms whatsoever, the SD card reader works 40% of the time and requires a sketchy app to use.
Thanks for this! I thought I was misremembering the Vivitar brand 🙈 I mean, I lived through their cheap camera era.. but I THOUGHT I used good stuff with the name Vivitar on it. Glad to hear I wasn't being crazy or suffering from stupid Mandela effect bs 😂
That only occurred to me while editing the video. But that stuff is more aggressive nowadays than it was then. Like warnings about sound levels were on Android 6+ I think?
I remember Christmas 2010 getting myself a 4.3 inch HTC Evo 4g. At the time that was considered a HUGE phone.. This thing coming out 5 years later as a tablet is laughable. But like Smoorz, I would love to have this in my collection.
HTC wanted to put "hand warmer" into smartphones by overclocking the CPU. Luckily, they removed this feature quickly before any user would destroy their CPUs.
It looks like it is using either a GEN 5 or GEN 6 LCD screen you'd see in mid 2000s palmtops, that is why it has colour distortion on the angle, it is a *really old* LCD design, wouldn't surprise me if it has visible banding too but obscured by the glass in front of it, so likely the same kind that was in first generation video ipods from 2005 as well as palmtops of the time period and they're using new old stock or an old manufacturing facility producing them in bulk for poor countries. Likely worth $2 now, that is obscured by having a glass panel in front of it, the most expensive item in that tablet is likely the glass. Considering this was in 2014, it isn't much of a stretch to come to this conclusion.
Fucking hell. That brings back memories! This thing was SO SLOW! All the bloat Vivitar loaded on it ate though what little resources the tablet had. Edit: CONTEXT TIME!!!! Years ago, I was in a toysrus, more specifically, the electronics section. Quite a few "tacky tablets" on display, including Windows RT ones that I regret not choosing! Anyway, this camileo thing roped me in on account of how TINY it was! Something something sirens. From minute one I was disappointed. Right after android's OOBE the bloatware presented itself. Tbf, back in the mid 2010's it wasn't THAT sluggish. But even a couple months in technology had marched forward enough where software was getting too heavy for the thing. I distinctly remember this one night where I couldn't sleep so I decided to watch youtube on this thing. The play store ended up stalling the CPU pipeline 90% of the time and trying to download the APK off the web browser was only marginally better. I think I ended up going to the youtube website, which crashed the browser multiple times and dropped frames. That said, it ran Windows 3.1 under aDosbox surprisingly well! And it did _launch_ the then modern version of Minecraft bedrock (which was pocket edition back then). Garbage framerates though. Well, the thing ended up meeting my golden screwdriver and was probably pitched sometime later. ---- Fast forward to today, and I have a "Polaroid" brand PMID4312 "mini tablet". It was everything I was hoping that Vivitar would of been back then! Clean, mostly stock android, pre rooted, tiny, easy to understand and already unlocked bootloader, etc. Other then the lack of ram and the digitizer being slightly below average (phantom touches!) it's great! Here's something weird though: On paper, it's lower speced then the Vivitar, only having ~360MiB of ram available to user space and a single core CPU maxing out at 1.2ghz (going above that in kernel adiutor hanged the tablet). Despite this, that Allwinner A13 still kicks the ass off that garbage dual core "no name" SOC in the Vivitar. It even almost emulates Crash Bandicoot 2 at full speed!
Oddly enough, that reminds me of an old "tablet" my nan bought me when I was like 10 or 11, it was called the Kurio 4S, and that one had only a 3.9 inch screen. Absolutely horrendous now, but that was my mp3/camera/notepad nugget for a while.
My brother forgot about his and it was left at the bottom of his toybox because he was too young for it still. Strict parents didn't let me online even into my teens despite not having that restriction for my younger siblings (depression), so I slapped CyanogenMod on it and it was a surprisingly beastly little nugget. I got in a lot of trouble once they realized it, but that thing kept me from failing three classes. It was worth it.
Oh damn, I had a Kurio tablet as well, I can remember playing World Of Goo on there and all the other classic mobile games that were pre-installed on there, Like the original Angry Birds and Cut The Rope.
Ah, I don' t have time to watch more than the first few minutes of this just yet. But as a father of two, I just wanted to say some things about the design choices that you mentioned at the beginning. Why is this thing so small? Honestly it's the perfect size to toss in a bag or your glove box and forget about until you need it. Why give them a bottom of the barrel tablet instead of your phone? Kids are sticky and they make things they touch sticky (and if they don't make it sticky, they'll make it broken). Do kids put the camera on and go 'Look, I'm taking several photos of everything? My daughters 2000 pictures of the same blurry cat says 'yes'. Kids are endlessly entertained by the ability to take low quality photos. Why no front camera? A lot of parents aren't crazy about internet connected devices and front facing cameras for their kids. I haven't watched anything with the tablet powered on, and I have no doubt that it is useless garbage. But just from the physical design, can say that I don't hate the idea of a tiny tablet with an external SD card slot, headphone jack, and camera all for a price of a dinner at the restaurant that is about to kick out my noisy kids.
I dont have kids but I saw some of these points while watching this vid. I think that if the parents were to download some episodes of whatever theyr kids wanna watch on it and let them use it, with wi-fi off, the kid could have a blast (And the parents, peace).
I'm a parent with a daughter just out of high school, and about to have her first kid, and I'm also an uncle/great uncle with my oldest niece in her mid 20's with my great nephew about to turn 5, so I can say for more than 2 decades of raising a kid, and helping my sister/niece with their kids, I don't EVER want to hand a small child my phone with a SIM card in it that can dial 911(or whatever the number is in your country), as my great nephew did that messing around with his mother's phone once when he was 2, while him, and my niece where staying with us during their house move, and I got had 2 cop cars, and a fire rescue truck out in front of my house at 4am on a Sunday morning, thus causing all kinds of havoc 😅. So I bought him a Walmart ONN branded Android GO tablet with a kids account on it, and it's been a GODsend to keep him quiet.
Tablet is a term not dependent on the size of screen but rather the aspect ratio. In other words, if it resembles an actual Tablet (the original ones used in Egyption Old Kingdom, that were made of stone and had carved inscriptions).
Vivitar is a name I don't think I've thought about in 30 years. When I was a kid my mother had a Vivitar 110 camera that used ENORMOUS flashbars when you used it indoors.
Buying your children one of these before giving them something nice will make them understand when they get something nice to respect it better because they know to take care of their nice devices or they’ll end up having garbage like this.
Dodgy Chinese apps translation: Repeatedly drive AnTuTu 3D stress test (fo) 20.00KB Automatic sleep wake-up test 24.00KB Automatic restart test 36.00KB
UA-cam app test, my Google Nexus 10 by Samsung struggled beyond the 480p. Worked fine in Chrome like that. That was a high-end of late 2012. Having paid almost $500 USD.
For me Vivitar brings to mind things like camera lens filters, tripods and other camera accessories. I didn't even know they did electronics like this.
The brand folded in the mid 00's and was sold off kind of like Polaroid at the time, and slapped on low end Chinese OEM electronics. I worked a 2nd part time job at the time doing retail for Dollar General, and every Christmas season we got their cheap junk dumped on us to push, but I always made sure to warn people before buying it so they did not get ripped off, but so many did not listen, and only saw the cheap prices as something for their kids, and a few would come back pissed when it broke a few days later, but store policy did not allow us to take the items back, and they had to contact the OEM who made it which is Sakar, and I'd tell them good luck with that.
@@CreeperG3 Agreed, but when you live in a small southern US town, there are almost always those Jane, & Bubba Rednecks/trailer trash/ghetto kangs/queens(no bias all races have them) who think they know better than everyone else living paycheck to paycheck almost always buying the cheapest crap they can afford, and never learning their lesson of just working harder, saving up, looking at reviews, and buying something better for their money that's gonna last, and when something goes wrong in their life they want blame someone, and/or something else other than themselves!!!
About the chipset: the iMAPx820 is not even a proper chipset, but a application processor from 2008. I am actually surprised Android 4 runs _at all_ without making the device selfcombust. Inside the "chipset" there are two Cortex A5 at 1 GHz and a 300 MHz Mali-400 rated at 1.5 GFlops.
When you mentioned that there's a Frozen version of this "Tablet". I went and looked it up and apparently there's also a Monster High and My Little Pony version of this thing too
I remember seeing 4.3" tablets like this pop up in electronics and computer parts shops in the early-2010s. It's was an interesting form factor for the time: larger than an iPod touch, but more pocketable, portable and cheaper than a 7" tablet, which would have made it great for media consumption. The problem is that those tablets were woefully slow (even for low-end Android tablets), and often shipped with Android Froyo (2.2.x) or Gingerbread (2.3.x), when even white-box low-end Android tablets were shipping with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.x). And they weren't that much cheaper (or even cost more) than 7" tablets anyway. From what I remember though, this form factor ended up not making much headway, as 7" budget tablets got cheaper and cheaper, and "phablets" started to become more popular.
Yep they went bust in the mid 00's like Polaroid, and were snapped by a Chinese OEM called Sakar, I know this as I use to work for Dollar General as a 2nd part time job during that time, and during the Christmas season we would end up with their junk on our shelves, and people would say that's a good price!!!(remember I live in a small southern US town where walmart is a 30 mins drive, and some people's income/IQ levels are not that high LOL), and I would warn them against buying the Vivitar/Sakar/Polaroid branded junk, but a lot of them would not listen, and yep at least a few of them would be back a few days later, or right after Christmas day trying to get their money back, but store policy at the time did not allow us to take it back, and I would tell them get the info for Sakar off the packaging, and good luck, and some who got snotty with me, and I knew I had warned them, I would say well sir/ma'am I did warn you!! 😅
ONN sells the perfect tablet for kids. 8" for $69.99. If the kid breaks it you are not out much. You don't want to give toddlers a Ipad to watch UA-cam bump your knee videos.
I would say it would be a fun little device for emulation if the specs weren't terrible and didn't nearly catch on fire while processing the most mundane programs.
Unfortunately recently google killed support for android 4, 5, 6, and 7. So that's why you could not install UA-cam from the google play store anymore because when you reviewed older welcome devices they still had UA-cam support however now they don't just to put that out there
This isn't a tablet. It's what happens when an iPod touch and a digital photo frame love each other very much and have a baby. Even more disappointing than the Toshiba Camelio H10, which Ashens reviewed many moons ago, was a rebranded Chinese camcorder, and also had the word "Camelio" in its name.
Whoever made Xeny... absolute banger job... that is actually very cool. I must say the video output surprised me in a positive way. I expected a res of 320x240 maximum.
Yeah I remember a generic version of this being available for under £20 in the UK around this time. I was actually tempted to buy one as a remote/smart display but thought better of it and used an old first gen smartphone instead. Glad I did!
Oh wow... this destroyed all my good connections with this brand. I had their lens and used some other, and they were always at least usable and providing good price/performance ratio (most of them were made by Tokina or other brands). Didn't know they ventured into electronics with such a shitty product.
Thank you so much for oentioning Talkback in the review! I have used a couple of these devices in the past, primarily the PMID4311 and 4312 4.0 Android tablets, and the experience was slow with Talkback, but was made worse when Talkback wasn't even installed, causing me to need to keep an SD card with Talkback apk files as well as TTS resources and sighted assistance to even install the services and enable them. I'd love if Google would put in an adb command to just enable Talkback and reboot.
Does anyone remember the Biglots 7 inch tablet which came with a keyboard case and had a full-sized USB A port to connect the keyboard? Sold for $89.99 back in 2012, 2013 era.
You are too critical to this thing. Remember it is from 2014/15, and it was cheap tablet you throw to your kids in order to have some peace and quiet. 512 MB RAM and 4 GB storage is something you would expect. Games tested should be 2D, not 3D, something cartoonish appropriate for 5-8 years old. Camera is not for selfies, it would be for kid to take pictures and discover world. Battery is old, and likely lost half of its original capacity. UA-cam, especially modern youtube, is a no go.
I have seen it all now ..from Digital Vivitar camera that are terrible to Android tablet that is completely useless even for 2014, and holly molly- I am starting to think the cpu in this tablet is the same 1 that's inside their digital camera's albeit with 1 extra core with extra memory!! And yes, I have collection of Vivitar digital cameras that were expensive for the time and even back were utterly useless.
I remember a similar tablet that (iirc) was made by Archos. It had reasonable specs on paper, 4.3" screen 1g ram 8 g rom & Android 4 but it ran like drugged snail! £50 back when Ice-cream Sandwich was a fairly new OS.
yup. been there, spent the money on archos, and watched it die within 6 months of owning it. a friend of mine bought the same tablet and his died at exactly the same point mine did. archos support was on many levels of iffy and apologetic, (and I was the go-between to sort my friends tablet out, so I had to commit things to memory to fix his) but given that two of their devices had died with just regular day to day use, I vowed never to touch another archos product ever again - even if it was free. the Samsung tablet that I replaced it with might be old, but at least it still works! (ok, it's massively slow, but it's better than Vivitar... 🤣 )
@@audiocoffee The funny thing is I've still got a a 7inch Archos tablet running Honeycomb that is fairly snappy & has good battery life. Only problem it's almost impossible to go on line as it's so outdated. ☹️ I also had a 10inch one that died so I know what you mean. 😁
@@ericpode6095 however, if you want pure irony, while this video was playing, I've been trying to set up a bluetooth connection between my main laptop and a recently purchased lenovo tablet (loooove cashies - best £40 on up-to-date tech I've spent this year). ironic because laptop - to - set top box = matter of seconds. same with tablet to set top box = matter of seconds. but the two won't chuffing well pair up together - so now I have the ultimate non-workable solution to the headache that is my current set up. everything pairs up to the wrong things. as for smoorez next video on cheap laptops = done. £20 ex Win8 laptop w 500Gb hdd. works flawlessly with linux lite on it. bought it for a dare because it had no operating system - the only flaw with it. 🤣
man i remember my first speaker it was a viviparous vwatersp speaker. It went from that to JBLS to kickers to installing woofers in cars to being a dj.
Same, because as someone who salvages used gear as a hobby(I always check the e-waste bin at my local county recycle drop off site) I've seen my fair share of cheapo laptops, netbooks, and tablets, but sometimes I enjoy seeing what some of the laptops, and netbooks can do with a bit of TLC, a cheap SSD(sometimes a RAM upgrade), and a good lightweight OS like Manjaro Budgie, Q4OS Trinity, or Chrome OS Flex.
@@yankis. That‘s why I started collecting older Archos devices earlier last year. They‘re just so different and yet similar to most of the portable electronic devices from this era I‘ve seen. Unfortunately Archos are not what they used to be, they kinda turned into a boring low-end brand.
Please more Smoorez doodles, I’m sleep deprived and have been laughing at #1 Dad and his horrible little snotbag of a kid for about twenty minutes with no sign of stopping any time soon. Perfectly captured the manic, repugnant energy of small children. 10/10.
The Vivitar Camelio Android Family Tablet Features Running Android 4.2 (JellyBean) with automatic upgrades, the Camelio features a 1.1 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM, along with a 4 GB flash hard drive that is expandable up to 32GB using SD cards for storage.
Oh boi this was painful af! Which reminds me of a shitty tablet that i bought when my brother was a little one, one day he was just playing with it but got so hot when he just touched the screen it shattered in pieces XD. I wasn't expecting nothing more from "sakar", dankpods prepared me for this lol.
Man i actualy had that thing way back and i can just say it was pure garbage and it fell out of my brothers hand from 10cm hight and it l8terealy exploded the screen was destroyed it pooped out and the back was cracked as f
My daughter before she was one had a tablet the same size but it wasn't bad at all and it actually had a nice screen it was Snappy and responsive and it had 32 GB of storage I was impressed so I got it for her and she loved it but this one looks the same from the front but the back of mine was completely different and had different memory card slots that actually had protective covers but I didn't play around on it just to play around on it and see what it could do but mainly all she did was watch little kitty shows on UA-cam and she would control it herself pick this shows she wanted now she's a complete dork at 8 years old she can run any computer any tablet any phone with ease she literally grew up with a tablet and a cell phone and a laptop in her hand from literally day one
Oh hey! I had a 4.3" mini tablet somilar to this one but withut the avengers. And the camera was lanscape only. I got it as a joke, and turned out it indeed WAS a joke. Pathetic battery life and thing couldn't run most apps. Yeh, i said most apps.
Sakar produced all those crappy products in the late 00s to mid 10s, they made a lot of horrible mp3 players, not surprised they made this thing, most of their products were deals with companies like Lego, Sanyo and Matell
This is e waste and shouldn't be bought simply for that reason. Parents surely wouldn't have used it and it's very likely that the kids would be turned off immediately and still want to use their parents' phone.
I had the crappy Iest Vivitar camera ever. Two of the crap Iest cameras ever that were both Vivitar cameras. Yes, one was a handheld kit video camera and one was a larger video camera that was more like the type of camera. My mom had except it was a digital version and it was a Vivitar camera. my mom’s was a different brand. And mine had my buttons on it. Where is my mom‘s was half with buttons and partly a touchscreen. Worst company ever for cameras. I also had their earbuds once and those sucked to because they weren’t noise canceling. I just needed an emergency pair of earbuds so the sound quality was just fine for that. the camera quality is really bad. It’s about as bad as the camera on my VTEC in our tab system why it Hass to be the same quality as the VTEC in our tab, I don’t know, but it is. It buffers a lot like a VTEC camera. If you are a teenager, I wouldn’t recommend it. The iPhone camera is way better than that. And I have an iPhone 11. I meant the camera on this tablet is the same quality as the VTEC. Inotab 3.
Tablets are usually 7 inches or larger this is 4.3 inch the same number the software is at i do know the emojis are black and white blob android logo like emojis
I ended up getting a Vivitar camera after that happened and it was one of the worst cameras I’ve ever used. The one I got from 2011 was one of the worst. The smaller one that I had that was the same brand was a lot better. Sound quality wise. This tablet reminds me of a kids tablet called the gizmo tab from Verizon that I had to set up for my severely autistic and blind sister. It was so bad that you had to use three fingers to touch the screen when text to speech was turned on and it did not work like a normal tablet. it was plastic and the screen was kind of a weird texture and was squishy. It took me like an hour or so to use because it was so terrible and I had trouble working it. I’m glad my sister‘s group Home staff switched her to a Apple iPad because That is 10 times better than that stupid gizmo tablet. And some of the stuff on there was from 2015. Then I gave my sister my old Samsung galaxy tab 2017 and my guess is that it wasn’t the greatest tablet for my sister, so that’s why they decided to switch her to an Apple iPad, which has been, more of a success for her than any other tablet from what I’ve heard anyway. What I mean by that is it lasted a lot longer. She still doesn’t like having to use a tablet or phone but she’s getting used to the idea. Usually all she does on her tablet from what I’ve been told is watches videos, and TV shows on Disney+ and streaming apps like that. My mom and I are planning to get her an MP3 player to listen to music. I know she could just do it on her tablet but for her she does not understand that kind of thing and she only likes to watch videos on her tablet. She does not like electronics in that way. Her house is teaching her the benefits of having a tablet which is nice. So is my mom.
Does this cheapest laptop use Windows ce? I remember some VIA cpu based very cheap laptops. btw some years ago I got broken tablet from friend, I scored from this wifi card, just solder usb plug and it works, I still use it sometimes.
Welcome to another installment in my "TACKY TABLETS" series which I look at very questionable tablets and see if they are worthy or not. Oh boy this one is painful.
Does anyone have the app card for this? I'd love to just try it out to see what happens or if it's in the system files and can be triggered, let me know! And let me know how useful you think this tablet is...I say "TABLET" there very lightly.
Next video is a cheapo laptop. Prepare yourselves for that one.
TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction, Timestamps & Disclaimers: 0:00
The "Tablet" and main feature: 1:27
Around the "Tablet": 3:02
Power On, Display Quality & Setup: 4:38
The UI & User Manual: 6:50
More about the UI & Onboard Apps: 8:23
Settings - Connections, Wallpapers, The Display is BAD & Storage: 9:27
Settings - Battery, System Apps & Accounts: 10:40
Settings - Accessibility & About Device: 12:12
Theme Selector & Parental Controls Fail: 13:12
Photo Editing Tool: 14:42
The Camera: 15:53
Camera Test: 17:19
Lock Screen, Parental Controls do work & Camera Quality: 21:24
Aldiko Book Reader, APK Manager & Browser Crashing: 22:36
Proper Browser Test: 23:35
More Apps & MeeGenius: 25:05
Speaker Test & The rest of the apps: 26:41
The Play Store and how things quickly go downhill: 27:57
This is how Painful the Tablet is: 29:55
UA-cam Test...in the browser: 31:20
Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 33:50
Checking the Specs: 36:55
QuickShortcutMaker Shenanigans: 39:23
Conclusion: 43:07
Teardown: 45:29
Full Specifications & Does it still work?: 47:34
Is it Tacky? Further Rambling: 48:24
Thank you for watching, timestamp stuff etc: 49:33
Next video & Outro: 50:30
CPU & System Apps are in the description above!
As well as the extracted files from the thing!
Be good people!
*Better Than My Current Tablet I Have*
Have you ever checked out anything from Craig?
If you get network errors in youtube or play store make sure time and date is correct.
@@ligametis yes
@@ligametis it's probably also because the OS is out of date & unsupported.
Vivitar used to be a distributor of photographic equipment many moons ago. Actually some good quality stuff. They went bust in 2008. The brand name and IP were sold on. I used to have a Vivitar branded camera in the late 90's.
Polaroid moment
I always remember them selling budget cameras
@@samuell.foxton4177 They had some well regarded lenses back in the 70s or so, such as the Series 1 range. The 90 f2.5 macro and 28 f1.9 are up there!
I have a late 90s Vivitar camera, I also have a 6 month old SD card reader. The camera still works perfectly fine with no qualms whatsoever, the SD card reader works 40% of the time and requires a sketchy app to use.
Thanks for this! I thought I was misremembering the Vivitar brand 🙈 I mean, I lived through their cheap camera era.. but I THOUGHT I used good stuff with the name Vivitar on it. Glad to hear I wasn't being crazy or suffering from stupid Mandela effect bs 😂
This would've been a great PDA in the early 2000s. I actually like the narrow viewing angle because it's good for privacy.
true lol
Vivitar... look how they're dragging my boy's name 😭
The funniest thing about this tablet is "Sakar" means "Clumsy" in Turkish...
For devices aimed at kids, speakers are often deliberately quieter than the adult counterparts
That only occurred to me while editing the video. But that stuff is more aggressive nowadays than it was then. Like warnings about sound levels were on Android 6+ I think?
I remember Christmas 2010 getting myself a 4.3 inch HTC Evo 4g. At the time that was considered a HUGE phone.. This thing coming out 5 years later as a tablet is laughable. But like Smoorz, I would love to have this in my collection.
I think "Avengers" is some rural Chinese factory and they "Assembled" cheapest components they could get and called it ""Marvel-ous"...
HTC wanted to put "hand warmer" into smartphones by overclocking the CPU. Luckily, they removed this feature quickly before any user would destroy their CPUs.
It looks like it is using either a GEN 5 or GEN 6 LCD screen you'd see in mid 2000s palmtops, that is why it has colour distortion on the angle, it is a *really old* LCD design, wouldn't surprise me if it has visible banding too but obscured by the glass in front of it, so likely the same kind that was in first generation video ipods from 2005 as well as palmtops of the time period and they're using new old stock or an old manufacturing facility producing them in bulk for poor countries. Likely worth $2 now, that is obscured by having a glass panel in front of it, the most expensive item in that tablet is likely the glass. Considering this was in 2014, it isn't much of a stretch to come to this conclusion.
Let's play a game. Drink a shot every time something crashes on this tablet.
The total amount of alcohol would be that of a full bottle
Fucking hell. That brings back memories!
This thing was SO SLOW! All the bloat Vivitar loaded on it ate though what little resources the tablet had.
Edit: CONTEXT TIME!!!!
Years ago, I was in a toysrus, more specifically, the electronics section.
Quite a few "tacky tablets" on display, including Windows RT ones that I regret not choosing!
Anyway, this camileo thing roped me in on account of how TINY it was! Something something sirens.
From minute one I was disappointed. Right after android's OOBE the bloatware presented itself.
Tbf, back in the mid 2010's it wasn't THAT sluggish. But even a couple months in technology had marched forward enough where software was getting too heavy for the thing.
I distinctly remember this one night where I couldn't sleep so I decided to watch youtube on this thing. The play store ended up stalling the CPU pipeline 90% of the time and trying to download the APK off the web browser was only marginally better. I think I ended up going to the youtube website, which crashed the browser multiple times and dropped frames.
That said, it ran Windows 3.1 under aDosbox surprisingly well! And it did _launch_ the then modern version of Minecraft bedrock (which was pocket edition back then). Garbage framerates though.
Well, the thing ended up meeting my golden screwdriver and was probably pitched sometime later.
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Fast forward to today, and I have a "Polaroid" brand PMID4312 "mini tablet". It was everything I was hoping that Vivitar would of been back then!
Clean, mostly stock android, pre rooted, tiny, easy to understand and already unlocked bootloader, etc. Other then the lack of ram and the digitizer being slightly below average (phantom touches!) it's great!
Here's something weird though: On paper, it's lower speced then the Vivitar, only having ~360MiB of ram available to user space and a single core CPU maxing out at 1.2ghz (going above that in kernel adiutor hanged the tablet).
Despite this, that Allwinner A13 still kicks the ass off that garbage dual core "no name" SOC in the Vivitar. It even almost emulates Crash Bandicoot 2 at full speed!
Oddly enough, that reminds me of an old "tablet" my nan bought me when I was like 10 or 11, it was called the Kurio 4S, and that one had only a 3.9 inch screen. Absolutely horrendous now, but that was my mp3/camera/notepad nugget for a while.
we have a smol nugget too but like it was just stock android and like whoever was using it really put some wack games on it
My brother forgot about his and it was left at the bottom of his toybox because he was too young for it still. Strict parents didn't let me online even into my teens despite not having that restriction for my younger siblings (depression), so I slapped CyanogenMod on it and it was a surprisingly beastly little nugget.
I got in a lot of trouble once they realized it, but that thing kept me from failing three classes. It was worth it.
Oh damn, I had a Kurio tablet as well, I can remember playing World Of Goo on there and all the other classic mobile games that were pre-installed on there, Like the original Angry Birds and Cut The Rope.
@@Hyporsheck the outer space edition of angry birds tho 😩👌
@@CelesteWuff I've played that version as well.
Ah, I don' t have time to watch more than the first few minutes of this just yet. But as a father of two, I just wanted to say some things about the design choices that you mentioned at the beginning.
Why is this thing so small? Honestly it's the perfect size to toss in a bag or your glove box and forget about until you need it.
Why give them a bottom of the barrel tablet instead of your phone? Kids are sticky and they make things they touch sticky (and if they don't make it sticky, they'll make it broken).
Do kids put the camera on and go 'Look, I'm taking several photos of everything? My daughters 2000 pictures of the same blurry cat says 'yes'. Kids are endlessly entertained by the ability to take low quality photos.
Why no front camera? A lot of parents aren't crazy about internet connected devices and front facing cameras for their kids.
I haven't watched anything with the tablet powered on, and I have no doubt that it is useless garbage. But just from the physical design, can say that I don't hate the idea of a tiny tablet with an external SD card slot, headphone jack, and camera all for a price of a dinner at the restaurant that is about to kick out my noisy kids.
I dont have kids but I saw some of these points while watching this vid. I think that if the parents were to download some episodes of whatever theyr kids wanna watch on it and let them use it, with wi-fi off, the kid could have a blast (And the parents, peace).
I'm a parent with a daughter just out of high school, and about to have her first kid, and I'm also an uncle/great uncle with my oldest niece in her mid 20's with my great nephew about to turn 5, so I can say for more than 2 decades of raising a kid, and helping my sister/niece with their kids, I don't EVER want to hand a small child my phone with a SIM card in it that can dial 911(or whatever the number is in your country), as my great nephew did that messing around with his mother's phone once when he was 2, while him, and my niece where staying with us during their house move, and I got had 2 cop cars, and a fire rescue truck out in front of my house at 4am on a Sunday morning, thus causing all kinds of havoc 😅. So I bought him a Walmart ONN branded Android GO tablet with a kids account on it, and it's been a GODsend to keep him quiet.
Interesting that they call it as a tablet since it's smaller than a typical today's smartphone. :D
Tablet is a term not dependent on the size of screen but rather the aspect ratio. In other words, if it resembles an actual Tablet (the original ones used in Egyption Old Kingdom, that were made of stone and had carved inscriptions).
*Better Than My 2022 Tablet My Aunt Gave Me💀*
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How bad is it🤣
Vivitar is a name I don't think I've thought about in 30 years. When I was a kid my mother had a Vivitar 110 camera that used ENORMOUS flashbars when you used it indoors.
Buying your children one of these before giving them something nice will make them understand when they get something nice to respect it better because they know to take care of their nice devices or they’ll end up having garbage like this.
Doing that once before the age of 10 should actually be a legal mandate for every parent.
Doing it more than once should be morally wrong.
Dodgy Chinese apps translation:
Repeatedly drive AnTuTu 3D stress test (fo)
20.00KB
Automatic sleep wake-up test
24.00KB
Automatic restart test
36.00KB
This tablet is textbook Disney:
Prop up total crap with OMG BRAND NAMES U RrcOgnizE!!1
UA-cam app test, my Google Nexus 10 by Samsung struggled beyond the 480p. Worked fine in Chrome like that. That was a high-end of late 2012. Having paid almost $500 USD.
For me Vivitar brings to mind things like camera lens filters, tripods and other camera accessories. I didn't even know they did electronics like this.
The brand folded in the mid 00's and was sold off kind of like Polaroid at the time, and slapped on low end Chinese OEM electronics. I worked a 2nd part time job at the time doing retail for Dollar General, and every Christmas season we got their cheap junk dumped on us to push, but I always made sure to warn people before buying it so they did not get ripped off, but so many did not listen, and only saw the cheap prices as something for their kids, and a few would come back pissed when it broke a few days later, but store policy did not allow us to take the items back, and they had to contact the OEM who made it which is Sakar, and I'd tell them good luck with that.
@@CommodoreFan64thats hilarious they shouldve listened more
@@CreeperG3 Agreed, but when you live in a small southern US town, there are almost always those Jane, & Bubba Rednecks/trailer trash/ghetto kangs/queens(no bias all races have them) who think they know better than everyone else living paycheck to paycheck almost always buying the cheapest crap they can afford, and never learning their lesson of just working harder, saving up, looking at reviews, and buying something better for their money that's gonna last, and when something goes wrong in their life they want blame someone, and/or something else other than themselves!!!
Have you tried ADB and fast boot for a wipe?
The WIFI Antenna is just a generic USB wifi module that you can find cheap online and it works (probably) with 3.3v
About the chipset: the iMAPx820 is not even a proper chipset, but a application processor from 2008. I am actually surprised Android 4 runs _at all_ without making the device selfcombust.
Inside the "chipset" there are two Cortex A5 at 1 GHz and a 300 MHz Mali-400 rated at 1.5 GFlops.
When you mentioned that there's a Frozen version of this "Tablet". I went and looked it up and apparently there's also a Monster High and My Little Pony version of this thing too
I had a chepo wifi calling tablet in 2015,the tablet's name was 'Datawind'.
I had one back in 2017, it's the ubislate thingy. Cheap, crappy unbranded chinese tablet and an indian brand slapped on it.
@@bakary_gassama yes
I remember seeing 4.3" tablets like this pop up in electronics and computer parts shops in the early-2010s. It's was an interesting form factor for the time: larger than an iPod touch, but more pocketable, portable and cheaper than a 7" tablet, which would have made it great for media consumption.
The problem is that those tablets were woefully slow (even for low-end Android tablets), and often shipped with Android Froyo (2.2.x) or Gingerbread (2.3.x), when even white-box low-end Android tablets were shipping with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.x). And they weren't that much cheaper (or even cost more) than 7" tablets anyway. From what I remember though, this form factor ended up not making much headway, as 7" budget tablets got cheaper and cheaper, and "phablets" started to become more popular.
Vivitar used to b famous for lenses back in 35mm days ... presumably they went bust and their brand got bought and abused.
Yep they went bust in the mid 00's like Polaroid, and were snapped by a Chinese OEM called Sakar, I know this as I use to work for Dollar General as a 2nd part time job during that time, and during the Christmas season we would end up with their junk on our shelves, and people would say that's a good price!!!(remember I live in a small southern US town where walmart is a 30 mins drive, and some people's income/IQ levels are not that high LOL), and I would warn them against buying the Vivitar/Sakar/Polaroid branded junk, but a lot of them would not listen, and yep at least a few of them would be back a few days later, or right after Christmas day trying to get their money back, but store policy at the time did not allow us to take it back, and I would tell them get the info for Sakar off the packaging, and good luck, and some who got snotty with me, and I knew I had warned them, I would say well sir/ma'am I did warn you!! 😅
ONN sells the perfect tablet for kids. 8" for $69.99. If the kid breaks it you are not out much. You don't want to give toddlers a Ipad to watch UA-cam bump your knee videos.
I would say it would be a fun little device for emulation if the specs weren't terrible and didn't nearly catch on fire while processing the most mundane programs.
That HT7 M7 still be looking attractive, damn.
*edit: HTC M7. HT7 sounds more like a wish welcome device
Unfortunately recently google killed support for android 4, 5, 6, and 7. So that's why you could not install UA-cam from the google play store anymore because when you reviewed older welcome devices they still had UA-cam support however now they don't just to put that out there
This isn't a tablet. It's what happens when an iPod touch and a digital photo frame love each other very much and have a baby.
Even more disappointing than the Toshiba Camelio H10, which Ashens reviewed many moons ago, was a rebranded Chinese camcorder, and also had the word "Camelio" in its name.
Whoever made Xeny... absolute banger job... that is actually very cool.
I must say the video output surprised me in a positive way. I expected a res of 320x240 maximum.
Yeah I remember a generic version of this being available for under £20 in the UK around this time. I was actually tempted to buy one as a remote/smart display but thought better of it and used an old first gen smartphone instead. Glad I did!
Wow you really brightened my day by making my laptop that can barely run minecraft look like a 6000 dollar gaming rig compared to this.
Oh wow... this destroyed all my good connections with this brand. I had their lens and used some other, and they were always at least usable and providing good price/performance ratio (most of them were made by Tokina or other brands). Didn't know they ventured into electronics with such a shitty product.
Can't believe they're now selling garbage under Vivitar's name. Their camera equipment was fantastic.
Thank you so much for oentioning Talkback in the review! I have used a couple of these devices in the past, primarily the PMID4311 and 4312 4.0 Android tablets, and the experience was slow with Talkback, but was made worse when Talkback wasn't even installed, causing me to need to keep an SD card with Talkback apk files as well as TTS resources and sighted assistance to even install the services and enable them.
I'd love if Google would put in an adb command to just enable Talkback and reboot.
It's not an Android tablet for your family, it's a tablet in the Android family. Cheap Android product lawyers got us once again 😂😂😂
For a VGA camera the details are surprisingly good and I like the colour, looks more analog like.
i had a red Vivitar camera and it was decent, but i didn't know they also made electronic E-Waste like this thing
Does anyone remember the Biglots 7 inch tablet which came with a keyboard case and had a full-sized USB A port to connect the keyboard? Sold for $89.99 back in 2012, 2013 era.
You are too critical to this thing. Remember it is from 2014/15, and it was cheap tablet you throw to your kids in order to have some peace and quiet. 512 MB RAM and 4 GB storage is something you would expect. Games tested should be 2D, not 3D, something cartoonish appropriate for 5-8 years old. Camera is not for selfies, it would be for kid to take pictures and discover world. Battery is old, and likely lost half of its original capacity. UA-cam, especially modern youtube, is a no go.
You do realize what channel your watching right?
@@So1 I do. Maybe you do not ;)
@@aleksazunjic9672 ive watched him since 2020
Awesome video. Can't think of a better way to spend 50 minutes
I have seen it all now ..from Digital Vivitar camera that are terrible to Android tablet that is completely useless even for 2014, and holly molly- I am starting to think the cpu in this tablet is the same 1 that's inside their digital camera's albeit with 1 extra core with extra memory!!
And yes, I have collection of Vivitar digital cameras that were expensive for the time and even back were utterly useless.
11:23 truly an \uffle *chinese text* moment
This is even worse than my 1st gen ipad mini 😂
I remember a similar tablet that (iirc) was made by Archos. It had reasonable specs on paper, 4.3" screen 1g ram 8 g rom & Android 4 but it ran like drugged snail! £50 back when Ice-cream Sandwich was a fairly new OS.
yup. been there, spent the money on archos, and watched it die within 6 months of owning it. a friend of mine bought the same tablet and his died at exactly the same point mine did.
archos support was on many levels of iffy and apologetic, (and I was the go-between to sort my friends tablet out, so I had to commit things to memory to fix his) but given that two of their devices had died with just regular day to day use, I vowed never to touch another archos product ever again - even if it was free.
the Samsung tablet that I replaced it with might be old, but at least it still works! (ok, it's massively slow, but it's better than Vivitar... 🤣 )
@@audiocoffee The funny thing is I've still got a a 7inch Archos tablet running Honeycomb that is fairly snappy & has good battery life. Only problem it's almost impossible to go on line as it's so outdated. ☹️
I also had a 10inch one that died so I know what you mean. 😁
@@ericpode6095 however, if you want pure irony, while this video was playing, I've been trying to set up a bluetooth connection between my main laptop and a recently purchased lenovo tablet (loooove cashies - best £40 on up-to-date tech I've spent this year). ironic because laptop - to - set top box = matter of seconds. same with tablet to set top box = matter of seconds. but the two won't chuffing well pair up together - so now I have the ultimate non-workable solution to the headache that is my current set up. everything pairs up to the wrong things.
as for smoorez next video on cheap laptops = done. £20 ex Win8 laptop w 500Gb hdd. works flawlessly with linux lite on it. bought it for a dare because it had no operating system - the only flaw with it. 🤣
@@ericpode6095 forgot to mentiom, my 'go to' mp3 player is my android froyo phone. Crap for everything else though. Use it every day.
The size makes it rather reminiscent of the ipod touch, the last gasp of the era when we thought kids shouldn't be given mobile phones.
Another Auzzie once said, "It's like the biggest companies make the crappiest products." or something like that.
man i remember my first speaker it was a viviparous vwatersp speaker. It went from that to JBLS to kickers to installing woofers in cars to being a dj.
The name Marvel Assembly Line Scavengers would have fit this piece of junk better. Frozen is also a good name to describe the performance
Definitely looking forward to the laptops. I've gone through my share of cheap ones
Same, because as someone who salvages used gear as a hobby(I always check the e-waste bin at my local county recycle drop off site) I've seen my fair share of cheapo laptops, netbooks, and tablets, but sometimes I enjoy seeing what some of the laptops, and netbooks can do with a bit of TLC, a cheap SSD(sometimes a RAM upgrade), and a good lightweight OS like Manjaro Budgie, Q4OS Trinity, or Chrome OS Flex.
HTC One M7 my beloved. My first smartphone and she was absolutely beautiful :')
I used to have the Tokio Tablet 2... it was just as bad as this, at least it was 7 inches though. Couldn't even web browse on it.
Wow, I guess this screen is even smaller than a Nintendo Switch console and still called a "Tablet"? SHEESH!!
Switch is 7 inch. This is literally the same size as the galaxy S3 *mini*. A mini version of a phone from 2013....
@@papnroblox5326 This "TABLET" is more like a cheap crappy alternative to an iPod Touch rather than a rational tablet!!
24:10
The "the random website's" address is quite fitting...
You should try getting your hands on an Archos 5 internet tablet, one of the first android tablets with some weird features.
Oh wow, this one brought back memories. Archos 5 looked so high-tech back in the day, I was begging my parents for one haha
@@yankis. That‘s why I started collecting older Archos devices earlier last year. They‘re just so different and yet similar to most of the portable electronic devices from this era I‘ve seen. Unfortunately Archos are not what they used to be, they kinda turned into a boring low-end brand.
Mountain mode isnt macro it's landscape/infinity mode.
AccCali is abbreviated for “Accelerometer Calibration”
That tablet is as small as a Panadol tablet that you could actually swallow
Please more Smoorez doodles, I’m sleep deprived and have been laughing at #1 Dad and his horrible little snotbag of a kid for about twenty minutes with no sign of stopping any time soon. Perfectly captured the manic, repugnant energy of small children. 10/10.
So I hate to say it, but I think this is adorable 🤣 I’d buy this in a heart beat … if it wasn’t an android and especially a Vivitar.
Babies when they play on this tablet: oh my god this thing is super big!
The Vivitar Camelio Android Family Tablet Features
Running Android 4.2 (JellyBean) with automatic upgrades, the Camelio features a 1.1 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM, along with a 4 GB flash hard drive that is expandable up to 32GB using SD cards for storage.
The fact that the "tablet' has earphone jack make it far more sophisticated than almost every other smartphones these days
Table? Not really. Phone? Possibly.
This channel is like a mix of DankPods and Liam Huang ( Plainrock124 )
yep
Now we know what Santa brings to misbehaved kids
Oh boi this was painful af! Which reminds me of a shitty tablet that i bought when my brother was a little one, one day he was just playing with it but got so hot when he just touched the screen it shattered in pieces XD. I wasn't expecting nothing more from "sakar", dankpods prepared me for this lol.
The tablet runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, but the location of the navigation keys and the status bar made it look like it's running 4.1.
it actually makes it look like android 3.0
@@countryland69 That too.
Bro, how is that a tablet that’s really small smaller than a tablet?!
did someone count the pixels? cuz i didn't
Man i actualy had that thing way back and i can just say it was pure garbage and it fell out of my brothers hand from 10cm hight and it l8terealy exploded the screen was destroyed it pooped out and the back was cracked as f
10CM DUDE......
Used to have one of these. I learned that the WiFi module is literally just a USB dongle soldered on (hence the four connections)
oh Vivitar... how you have fallen...
I'm watching this from Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite.
THE TABLET IS SO SMALL! 😂
Vivitar is like another RCA.
My daughter before she was one had a tablet the same size but it wasn't bad at all and it actually had a nice screen it was Snappy and responsive and it had 32 GB of storage I was impressed so I got it for her and she loved it but this one looks the same from the front but the back of mine was completely different and had different memory card slots that actually had protective covers but I didn't play around on it just to play around on it and see what it could do but mainly all she did was watch little kitty shows on UA-cam and she would control it herself pick this shows she wanted now she's a complete dork at 8 years old she can run any computer any tablet any phone with ease she literally grew up with a tablet and a cell phone and a laptop in her hand from literally day one
The horrific in the title is epic I love it
2:18 Of course the parents could've just given their PREVIOUS phone for the kids to play with...
I swear i had one of those
I got a cheap Vivitar camera for my brthday about 10 years ago. The pictures it took make this tablet look like a DSLR by comparison.
0:07 bro used Resident Evil 1 DualShock Basement Theme, masterpiece
Oh hey! I had a 4.3" mini tablet somilar to this one but withut the avengers. And the camera was lanscape only. I got it as a joke, and turned out it indeed WAS a joke. Pathetic battery life and thing couldn't run most apps. Yeh, i said most apps.
4 inches is big 😢
Sakar produced all those crappy products in the late 00s to mid 10s, they made a lot of horrible mp3 players, not surprised they made this thing, most of their products were deals with companies like Lego, Sanyo and Matell
This is e waste and shouldn't be bought simply for that reason.
Parents surely wouldn't have used it and it's very likely that the kids would be turned off immediately and still want to use their parents' phone.
My worst experience with a phone : polaroid before android and IOS like I smashed it it’s not worth my collection 😂
I had the crappy Iest Vivitar camera ever. Two of the crap Iest cameras ever that were both Vivitar cameras. Yes, one was a handheld kit video camera and one was a larger video camera that was more like the type of camera. My mom had except it was a digital version and it was a Vivitar camera. my mom’s was a different brand. And mine had my buttons on it. Where is my mom‘s was half with buttons and partly a touchscreen. Worst company ever for cameras. I also had their earbuds once and those sucked to because they weren’t noise canceling. I just needed an emergency pair of earbuds so the sound quality was just fine for that. the camera quality is really bad. It’s about as bad as the camera on my VTEC in our tab system why it Hass to be the same quality as the VTEC in our tab, I don’t know, but it is. It buffers a lot like a VTEC camera. If you are a teenager, I wouldn’t recommend it. The iPhone camera is way better than that. And I have an iPhone 11. I meant the camera on this tablet is the same quality as the VTEC. Inotab 3.
Tablets are usually 7 inches or larger this is 4.3 inch the same number the software is at i do know the emojis are black and white blob android logo like emojis
4gb? Even older 2013 Galaxy Tab 3 has more storage than that thing bloody hell even my stock Raspberry Pi 2 has more storage than that thing
Mmh when I hear vivitar then I think on camera lense.
But that give headache through the screen of my Samsung S21
I ended up getting a Vivitar camera after that happened and it was one of the worst cameras I’ve ever used. The one I got from 2011 was one of the worst. The smaller one that I had that was the same brand was a lot better. Sound quality wise. This tablet reminds me of a kids tablet called the gizmo tab from Verizon that I had to set up for my severely autistic and blind sister. It was so bad that you had to use three fingers to touch the screen when text to speech was turned on and it did not work like a normal tablet. it was plastic and the screen was kind of a weird texture and was squishy. It took me like an hour or so to use because it was so terrible and I had trouble working it. I’m glad my sister‘s group Home staff switched her to a Apple iPad because That is 10 times better than that stupid gizmo tablet. And some of the stuff on there was from 2015. Then I gave my sister my old Samsung galaxy tab 2017 and my guess is that it wasn’t the greatest tablet for my sister, so that’s why they decided to switch her to an Apple iPad, which has been, more of a success for her than any other tablet from what I’ve heard anyway. What I mean by that is it lasted a lot longer. She still doesn’t like having to use a tablet or phone but she’s getting used to the idea. Usually all she does on her tablet from what I’ve been told is watches videos, and TV shows on Disney+ and streaming apps like that. My mom and I are planning to get her an MP3 player to listen to music. I know she could just do it on her tablet but for her she does not understand that kind of thing and she only likes to watch videos on her tablet. She does not like electronics in that way. Her house is teaching her the benefits of having a tablet which is nice. So is my mom.
So basically this is worse than my old Samsung Galaxy Tab4 7.0 wifi with Android 4.4.2
Does this cheapest laptop use Windows ce? I remember some VIA cpu based very cheap laptops. btw some years ago I got broken tablet from friend, I scored from this wifi card, just solder usb plug and it works, I still use it sometimes.
Me watching in my 13.5" surface book 3 a tablet that's smaller than my 6.1" iPhone 13