New & Exciting A9 Tablet: Zenithink E72 Hands-on Review

Zenithink E72 A9 Tablet

Zenithink just dropped a bomb on A9 tablets’ stage — Zenithink E72, an extremely low price A9 Android 2.2 tablet.

Overview

Appearance

Zenithink E72 looks like the 8-inch Zenithink E98 in design. Only one button at front, embedded in a gold border, rather like a gem when you look from far away.

The 7-inch 2 points resistive touchscreen has a resolution of 800×480 (16:9), featuring pinch-to-zoom functions when playing Angry birds and viewing web pages.

Price

Retail price of Zenithink E72 in local shops is only 599 Yuan (USD$97), and it’s now available at $129.99 with Free DHL 5-day Int’l Shipping on McBub.com. Based on the high performance of Cortex A9 chip, Zenithink E72 is obviously a quite quality to price tablet beyond compare, of which the price is amazingly 25% lower than previous cheapest similar A9 tablets in the market.

Hardware Configurations

CPU: ARM Cortex A9 1GHz

GPU: Mali-400

OS: Android 2.2 Froyo

Internal Memory: 512MB

Hard Drive Capacity: 4GB

Display: 7-inch 2 Points resistive touchscreen, resolution 800×480

Input & Output: HDMI 1080P output, USB2.0 Standard, 3G USB Dongle supported, etc.

Performance

Video Playback

Currently, ARM Cortex A9 is the latest chip architecture. Compared to ARM11, Cortex A9 is a world far beyond in terms of performance. In fact, Zenithink E72 almost has all the typical functions of mainstream tablets at such a low price. The A9 chip employed in Zenithink E72 has the most powerful video decoding capabilities, which is also the traditional advantage of China MID chips. Not only does it support 1080P video decoding, but also playback of videos in abundant formats, even like .RMVB format can play on it directly, while this format is seldom supported by the mainstream branded tablets for the authorization issue of RMVB.

Gaming

In addition, the integrated Mali-400 GPU also has a strong gaming performance, which has been optimized in compatibility with most of Android game apps. 3D Games like Thunder Racing are perfectly supported through Mali-400.