Dragon Touch A93 9” Quad Core Google Android 4.4 KitKat Tablet
I’ve been a big fan of tablet computers for a while. I have actually used for years the original Windows tablets soon after they first came out. However, once I bought my first iPad I instantly got converted to this much more convenient and user-friendly form factor and OS format. I have been using that first generation iPad for years, and in many respects it’s still a pretty decent tablet. However, it has increasingly become slow and hard to use. I have been considering buying one of the latest iPads, but since I don’t use it for much more than web browsing, news and document reading, and some light writing and e-mail, I have been reluctant to invest that much money into a whole new product. This is why I am so happy that I came across this Dragon Touch Android tablet. It exactly satisfies my needs. It is also a very affordable tablet, especially in the 8-9” tablet category.
I have not had much experience with the “brand” Android tablets, but from everything I’ve read and seen online I think that this tablet tries to imitate the Samsung line of tablets. This is particularly noticeable when it comes to the esthetics of its back – it looks like the “faux leather” back of Galaxy tablets.
This is a fairly large tablet for the “small” tablet category. It’s screen is as long as some 10″ tablets I’ve used, but it’s noticeably narrower. The screen is probably the least attractive feature of this tablet IMHO. It looks a bit washed out, and the digitizer (the part of the screen that detects your touch) is noticeably set apart from the visible part of the screen. Nonetheless, the screen is good enough for most of my content consumption purposes – watching videos, browsing the web, reading ebooks, etc.
One great thing about this tablet is its processor and OS. The tablet feels very fast. All the tasks I used it for were very quick and responsive, – loading the email and web pages, editing a document, watching videos, etc. In fact, the processing power is a bit of overkill for my purposes.
The tablet features two cameras – one back facing and one front facing. Their resolution and image qualities are decent, but nothing spectacular as far as I can tell. They work fine for taking of some impromptu photos or for Skyping.
The sound quality is probably one of the least appealing aspects of this tablet. It has fairly small and soft sound. Due to this sound I have not been able to properly enjoy watching movies on it.
At 16 GB this tablet also doesn’t provide you with a lot of onboard storage. It’s very easy to fill up that amount of storage with apps and photos, especially since the tablet comes with a lot of preinstalled software. Furthermore, unlike most other Android tablets and phones that I’ve come across, SX9720 has no micro SD expansion slot. This is one aspect of iPad design that I wish they had left out.
The tablet has quite a few preinstalled apps, but most of them were unfamiliar to me. I decided to erase most of them and install the more popular apps that I was familiar with. Unfortunately, I still think that Android tablet apps are not nearly as smooth and well developed as their iPad counterpart. Be it Gmail, Facebook, or the News Reader app that I am using, most of them seem less refined than the corresponding iOS apps.
This is a pretty decent tablet for some very basic tablet uses. I have been using it daily ever since I got it, and really enjoy having it. However, it has its share of shortcomings and for a hundred dollars or more you can get a substantially better designed and more powerful tablet. However, if you are on a budget and just need a decent 9” tablet than this one would be a great one to have.
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