Ainol is a popular Chinese brand and these tablets are available in India. The tabs look much better that the other low cost tablets and are competitively priced. The Ainol Novo 7 Tornados 7 is a 7 inch touchscreen tablet that comes powered by a 1 GHz processor, 1 GB DDR3 RAM and with 8 GB of internal storage.
The Ainol Tornados 7 comes for a price of under Rs. 7,000. This is different from the other tabs like the Micromax Funbook, Xtab A10, D10s etc., which are powered by an Allwinner CPU. The CPU on the Novo 7 is Amlogic 8726-M3L Cortex – A9 clocked at 1 GHZ with Mali 400 GPU.
Performance wise the Allwinner CPU is still considered the best. But the Allwinner tabs that we get for the same price band comes with 512 MB RAM, whereas in this case it’s 1 GB. Let’s have a look at the tab.
Box Pack
As mentioned before this is a very good product, it looks great, the finishing is superb and the performance as good as the other tabs. The box pack itself gives you the sense of satisfaction, simple and eye caching. Check out the Unboxing video, after the article.
Inside the box : The tab, headphones, USB to Mini USB cable for charging / connecting with PC, User manual and warranty card. There is no power adapter (you may need to buy it or you can use the PC to charge the tab.
Design/ looks
The tab is available in Grey-Black and white colours. The touchscreen edges have got a silver lining and are separated by a front panel (like a photo frame). The curves are perfect, the glossy finish gives out an elegant look and if you look closely at the buttons, ports, they are all perfectly placed; this is the type of quality you usually find on a high end tablet.
What is missing on this tab?
There is no HDMI port, no power slot – you can charge only via the mini USB port.
Anything new?
Yes there is the Haptic feedback, a small vibration when you press certain on-screen buttons. There is also a dedicated home button next to volume and power button.
CPU, GPU and Memory
The Amlogic 8726-M3L Cortex-A9 1Ghz CPU with Mali 400 GPU does the work pretty well. Add to it the 1 GB RAM further speeds up the system. You can play games, surf websites, listen to music and even play HD videos without any lags.
Internal / External Storage
This tab come with 8 GB internal storage of which about 5 GB is available for the users. You can use the microSD slot for adding additional storage of up to 32 GB.
Display Screen
A 7 inch standard display with 800 x 480 pixels resolution (but benchmark apps shows as 800 x 444 pixels). Touchscreen is capacitive, smooth and responsive along with heptic feedback. The display quality is as good as you have seen on other low cost tabs.
Connectivity
There is Wi-Fi and external 3G dongle is supported using mini USB, you will need to confirm which dongle will work. There is also an option to use the Wi-Fi as a hotspot. It’s in settings -> more -> portable hotspot. That is all the option it has, there is no Bluetooth and GPS.
Additional features
G-sensors with high sensitivity for 3G gaming, front camera of 0.3 MP resolution for video chats using SKYPE, supports MOV, MP3, AVI, MPEG, MP4, FLV and many other formats and built in speaker / mic.
Battery
The battery is 3,700 mAh Li-Polymer. Battery takes about 3 plus hours to fully charge. The battery life seems really good. This tab can play approx 5+ hours (6 hours in my case) of movie on speaker with minimal brightness. Web surfing with Wi-Fi will be approx 5 hours. Battery like is very good. Doing some more test.
Performance
I used two benchmarking tools the Quadrant and the Antutu. The Quadrant app gave it a score which was as good as seen on allwinner tablets with 512 MB RAM. But the Antutu gave it a higher score which is Xtab A10 Allwinner (512 MB RAM) = 2892, Ainol Tornados 7 (1 GB DDR3 RAM) = 3361.
1080p Videos playback was smooth. The rendering was a bit slow as you try to zoom in when viewing a webpage or viewing images. I played the angry bird which came preinstalled, was smooth. The sound quality and output is good, you can hear the sound comfortably when playing games, music or watching movies. When using heavy apps like playing games the tab gets heated up, this is a common issue with almost all low cost tabs.
Games
Shadowgun game worked smoothly, downloaded the game using Wi-Fi, the tab heats up when you play this game.
Angry Birds RIO was smooth, no lag.
Price
This tablet is sold by VeeDee for Rs. 6,990. Buy online click here.
Specifications
CPU : 1 GHz Cortex A9 ARM AMlogic 8726-M3L
RAM: 1 GB DDR3
ROM: 1 GB
Touchscreen: 7 inch capacitive 5 point multi-touch with haptic feedback resolution 800 x 480.
Internal Storage: 8 GB, 5 GB usable.
Others: External 3G, Wi-Fi, USB, Gsensors, 3.5 mm jack, microSD.
OS: Android 4.0 (ICS)
Battery: 3700 mAh Li-po.
Ainol Novo 7 Tornados in hand and Unboxing video
Games you can play on Novo7
Sandy
Gogi, any suggestions? Wanted a tablet under 10K with Dual Core Processing power and 1GB RAM and preferably the Mali-400 or better GPU. Eyeing the Ainol Novo Dream 8 very keenly.
mayilvanan
hi gogi this is mayil i want to ask about ramos tablet with quad core processor and is it good and how about the performance because they said its best in its class and how to check this out whether this tablet will be compatible with our indian mobile networks and internet connections so please help me out in this to come to conclusion and tell me the simple method to find the compatibility of any of the imported tablets with Indian networks and internet.
Vaibhav
Hi Gogi,
I wanted to buy a 10” tablet and was interested in buying Ainol Novo 10 Hero. I have checked their site ainolindia.com and many video reviews for this tablet.
I am quite impressed by the specifications.
I just wanted to confirm if this tablet is good and what is the warranty for ainol tablets ( I am a bit apprehensive of the fact that its a chinese tablet and it would be difficult to catch hold of anyone). I am residing in New Delhi and there are no service centers for Ainol here.
Please advise.
Thanks
gogi
Vaibhav, the website is new and seems genuine. But do check with them via email and even on phone.
Vaibhav
Thanks Gogi for the reply.
Can you also please tell me about their service and warranty they provide.
Thanks
Nilesh Jagdishaan
Hey Vaibhav, Don’t buy AINOL product before checking wifi n bluetooth, i had purchased novo 7 flame, and its came out to be faulty, even tab’s frame/casing is not qobust and is quite loose on left side, this defect same line of product as i asked for replacement and this got the same problem with new one too.
Sandy
Any updates on the same Nilesh? Is their service good? I was planning to invest in their Dream 8 tablet.
Gogi, any suggestions? Wanted a tablet under 10K with Dual Core Processing power and 1GB RAM and preferably the Mali-400 or better GPU.
Kislay
That’s a good benchmark but my penta ws-702c outperforms it with antutu score of 4256 and in quadrant with 1654…. for the same price
david
Dear gogi,
I have purchased after seeing review.
pros:
Web browsing and wifi is good(not too far access point should be).
battery life is good and charging time is also good.
screen resolution is too good we cant expect more than that for price.
output sound is also good nice to here.
cons:
only Micro Sd cards are detected no sdhc supported.
tablet gets heat easily even if u r using normal things.
headphones is not good even if use branded headphones also no use.
sometimes unable to power on we have to connect for charging and power on the tablet if battery is full.
Main issue is memory issues this really bugs you. filesystem is not stable. if you copy any data like songs video or audio or any data in internal storage 6.04GB is existing even if you copy 500MB data. and open play those things. tablet makes you crazy..
“LAuncher will not responding”
“settings will not responding”
NH
Can you tell me which one is best from Ainol Novo 7 tornedo And Ampe A76.