Android
With Android 2.2 Froyo slowly rolling out, it’s a bit disappointing to see Android 1.5 on the Ramos W7. Nevertheless, besides the lack of multitouch and Flash, there are only few things you’ll miss on the W7. Flash videos still work fine, there are tons of (free) apps available and Ramos added some nice touches. Unlike some other Android devices, the Ramos W7 comes with the application market, so you don’t need to jump through hoops to get some apps. With Android, you can easily change the language although there are a few Chinese apps pre-installed. The keyboard also has some Chinese characters, but you can easily download another keyboard from the app market.
Software
E-book reader
There are several reader apps available for Android, but my favorite is Aldiko and it works very well on the Ramos W7. It looks slick, has some nice animations and a lot of options.
Internet
The default internet browser works very well. Most sites are rendered perfectly and zooming and scrolling is quite smooth. If you want a browser with more capabilities, you can download Skyfire, which adds features like Flash video playback. Opera Mini is also available. It renders the sites less good, but it’s very fast compared to the other browsers.
Besides web browsing, there are tons of apps available for Facebook, Twitter and instant messaging. I didn’t encounter any problems with those.
Audio and video playback
Ramos has created some apps for Android that mimick the looks of the Ramos media players, but with an added cover flow effect. Audio playback is flawless, but video isn’t as smooth as on the dedicated portable media players from Ramos. The Ramos W7 supports high definition videos up to 720p, but while most of them were still watchable there was some jerkiness to be found here and there.
Gaming
There are tons of free games available for Android. Unfortunately, most games currently don’t run very well on the Ramos W7, because of a screen rotation problem, which switches up landscape and portrait screen modes. So games that are designed to run in landscape mode are stretched to portrait, often with elements positioned incorrectly on the screen. Most 3D games also run really slow, possibly because of the low clocked processor. Luckily not everything is bad. Emulators for NES, GBA etc ran suprisingly smooth. The absence of multitouch makes it hard to control most games, but for games that don’t require multiple keypresses at the same time, it works very well. Especially turn based games like Advance Wars work very well and it’s always fun to catch all those Pokémans.
- Introduction
- Hardware and design
- Android and applications
- Conclusion
subtitles don´t work.