7" 2GB Rockchip 2808 Dual Core Android Tablet PC with HD video playback and Wi-Fi

For starters, this tablet PC is generally known as an APad iRobot. This YouTube video shows you pretty much what you're going to get (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMI6ZywOvyo&feature=player_embedded).

If you do decide to order this, I wouldn't recommend going for the Express Delivery option. Mine took 5 working days to arrive which doesn't really shout Express Delivery to me.

I'm going to talk about the whole experience I found when using this product. You'll have to take into account that some of the things I mention are out of the control of the product, like the Android apps or the OS itself.

The build of the device itself is a mix between feeling well made and really cheap. The case is made with sturdy aluminium and has a nice heaviness about it without feeling like you're holding a brick. The buttons, switches , lights and ports aren't superbly finished and they really do reflect the item's price. The camera is ever so slightly too big for the box and causes a bump in the front panel. Nothing significant, but it's there.

The device is certainly a lot smaller than the iPad. It's three times as big as an iPhone and roughly about the size of a Kindle.

No instructions are supplied so you're on your own. It took a few of us to figure out how to turn the thing on and I'm still not entirely sure how we did it. My advice is to charge it for a bit and then hold your finger on the buttons for a few seconds until you see the Android logo. Don't forget use the On/Off switch too.

The touch screen is actually a surprise. It's not brilliant but once you get used to the sensitivity required, navigating through the OS is pretty smooth. It is certainly not a frustrating experience, my biggest concern when I purchased the device.

There are plenty of applications already supplied out of box. The good news is that the Android Market place is there so adding more apps is a walk in the park. As the device is using the old Android 1.5 be prepared for a few apps to fail horribly on you. I couldn't get any of the comic book readers to work but the Aldiko book reader did.

There is a certain amount of glare from the screen but it's a decent enough size and I read through a few pages last night without wanting to stick forks in my eyes. I was reading PDF files rather than an eBook and I'm hoping the experience improves with a dedicated book format.

WIFI works fairly well but the range is slightly worse than my iPod touch. It's a lot, lot quicker though and browsing the internet is a much better experience with a device this size.

After the initial charge I was pretty much playing with the tablet all day. With WIFI turned on in the evening the device became a lot thirstier but hovered between yellow and green for a long time before asking for more power. Oddly, the battery meter went from yellow to green a few times too. Either the battery is a bit flaky or the device has mystical powers of recuperation.

It's easy to be critical of the device. It's a cheap, iPad rip off from China and has all the hall marks of one - right down to the dodgy European power supply and adapter. However, it is unfair to compare this product with devices that cost over £400. For the price you pay for this product, you get really good value for money.

I've seen a lot of comments about Android Tablets in particular the Chinese ones. The iPad is just far too expensive in my view so I gave this little device a go. For £100 you're NOT going to get the Apple experience. However, I have to say this little device works really well. I've tried another Chinese tablet and I had all sorts of problems with it, the biggest being the touch screen. This one I found quite good and easy to scroll through. It's quite a fast device loading web pages reasonanly quickly and I found quite a few apps on Market works well (Twitter apps and the like). Google Mail works well as does a few other apps I use on my Android phone.

The device is light, reasonably well made (you're not getting Apple build quality for £100) and the screen works well in well lit conditions.

It worked quite nicely off the BT Openzone hotspot in my local Costa Coffee. One point, if you find the browser won't load up BT Openzone hotspot make sure the browser is in classic mode not mobile (at the bottom of the Google home page) then it will work just fine.

The bad points? Very few, the camera is awful but that is not something I'm interested in anyway, I found the built in mp3 player not very good but I downloaded a couple of others and they work fine. It came with a charger, a 4meg micro SD card, headphones and a small instruction manual.

I did find the device didn't pick up my Nokia phone (I have Joikuspot on it for creating a WEP hotspot) but my Android phone can't detect it either so I think it's an Android issue. You can apparently connect a Keyboard (you get USB cables with it) and I've seen a couple of site who reckon you can connect a 3G USB dongle although I couldn't get that to work. So I've got a MIFI unit for it.

Th other issue is it doesn't have Bluetooth, but again that is not the end of the world for me.

Overall I think it's worth 4 stars. If you want a portable device that fits in a pocket is reasonably light, cheap and easy to use, perhaps to surf the net in bed or in a coffee shop and listen to a bit of music, I think this device is hard to beat and it costs about 20% of an ipad.

Arrived in a slightly battered box and had minor cosmetic scratches on the back....so not a good start! The installed operating system was infuriating to say the least. Whenever I altered any settings (e.g. the wallpaper) everything reset when the tablet was switched off and on again. Cured this with a restore factory settings which seemed to lose me a few icons but believe me it was worth it! The good...nice build quality, decent ibook reader, plays videos well and good choice of apps via the android market. The bad.....this unit has android 1.5 installed so no flash video when surfing the net! Also the speaker is AWFUL, the sound output is dire although in fairness much better via headphones. The wifi is clearly of poor quality as its range is about bluetooth level i.e. if out of site of the wifi unit it doesnt work. E.g. my iphone shows a four bar wifi signal and the apad barely one. That said its ability to surf the web is reasonably good. Battery life is poor. Web surfing and you're lucky to get an hour. Ebook reading is better at about 2hours. To summarise this 'aint the ipad but then it 'aint the ipad price range! At about the same price as a kindle but with much more functionality this is not a bad buy. That said when the apad's with android 2.2.become available I may well look to upgrade.