The 7 inch MatrixPad tablet comes with a powerful Quad-core processor, delivering smooth videos, quick app launches and great overall performance. 3000mAh battery together with the low power consumption CPU enable you enjoy up to 8 hours of reading, watching TV shows, surfing the web, playing games, etc.
Unlimited Kid-Appropriate Content: The Z1 kids tablet offers access to a range of age-appropriate and up-to-date fun content including games, videos, paintings and educational apps, kid-safe websites, which are designed to hone in on math skills, reading, music, puzzles, and creative arts. The 2,500mAh battery ensures 8-hours of mixed-use on a single charge, making it portable and ideal for long flights or road trips.
Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 Tablet Review – MBReviews
The Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 is an entry-level 7-inch tablet that wants to persuade you to leave behind the Amazon environment, as it does seem to go directly against the Amazon Fire 7, but that’s not an easy feat to accomplish since the retail giant does provide excellent support and it’s not afraid to lose some money in the process of ensuring that you’ll be a long-time user, so Vankyo does have to offer some serious performance at a very acceptable price (that didn’t really happen as the tests will reveal later). The premium tablets usually come with metallic frames, Gorilla Glass-protected 2K or 4K screens, small bezels and stylus support, but when you go under $100 (and close to $50), it’s obvious that some corners had to be cut and you’re not going to see any of those elements.
And that’s the case of the Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 which does feature a plastic body covered by a black matte finish and with a soft texture to ensure that it won’t easily slip out of your hands, while on the front, the screen doesn’t seem to be made of glass, instead I’m pretty sure we’re dealing with a transparent plastic cover which does have its advantages, such as the serious resistance to damage (as we saw with the Motorola Moto Z2 smartphone), but it also can be easily scratched, so you should put a screen protector immediately (that’s why Gorilla Glass is the preferred option in most cases).
On the rear side, Vankyo has added a couple of cut-outs towards the bottom for the single speaker and towards the top, there’s a camera bump (not that significant, but it still pushes the camera outwards) – the speaker is not powerful and the sound is tiny and underpowered, so I do suggest to use headphones (Bluetooth earbuds will also work quite well and I experienced no disconnections up until I reached the usual failing point which is around 30 feet).
The metallic cases look better, but they often have a problem with the heat management, while plastic is a bit more forgiving – the Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 did get warmer near the ports area when I ran some benchmarks and some games, but it didn’t get hot to the touch. In reality, the display does not impress in any way since the low resolution on a relatively large screen will allow you to easily notice the pixels (and you will, especially on the white background), but that was to be expected on a budget device. The tablet does have an Eye Health option that can be activated from the top menu and it does make the color warmer and the blue light is less aggressive, so it will be useful for when you’re reading books before bed (so it won’t affect your sleep). Inside the case, Vankyo has equipped the MatrixPad Z1 with a quad-core processor and the CPU-Z app has revealed that it’s a Rockchip RK3066 (quad core ARM Cortex-A35 clocked at 1.51GHz) and it works along the Mali-G31 GPU, 1GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage memory. Still, I doubt that Vankyo intended to build a powerhouse at the current budget, so I suspect that the applications for this tablet are less for gaming or other intensive apps and instead, it will feel more at home with some light browsing (there’s still that annoying lag), media consumption (Amazon Prime ran quite well and if the WiFi is good in the room, then the connection will remain solid) and lastly, I think that this tablet also intends to be an book reader – there are no PDF programs installed by default, but after installing a free one, I could easily scroll through various books, without experiencing any stutters.
What I did like and I didn’t see on other tablet is the additional set of buttons next to the usual Back, Home and Overview which do offer a bit of flexibility in various applications. The Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 is equipped with a 2-megapixel front and a 2-megapixel rear camera and, considering that most of you don’t go around taking pictures with your tablet (I will judge you if you do), the only useful application should be for video conferences. The Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 has a 2,500 mAh non-removable Li-ion battery which can be recharged from 0 to 100 % in about 2 hours and 40 minutes, so there is no Fast Charging technology involved.
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