First impressions
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Ok. I was finally able to retrieve my PineTab from the 3rd Party delivery service DHL uses for last-mile in areas they don't directly service.

  1. I have no wifi problem with or without keyboard attached
  2. I do not have a plastic film over my display or, if I do, I cannot find the edge. PINE64: if you ship with a plastic film over the display on production model (I don't care whether you do this.), please be certain there is some kind of pull-tab to get the thing off.
  3. The door to access the micro-SD card slot is way oversized and super-awkward. The depth of the slot is going to make working with SD cards almost (not quite) as bad as with modern phone SIM-card drawers. There must be a better way to handle this. Maybe a snap in port cover more like what is used on battery ports for AAA and AA battery devices?
  4. The system image doesn't fill the emmc.
  5. Like others, I have trackpad issues. Specifically, it cannot access approx 25mm along left edge and 10mm along top edge of the display. The rest of the display is fully accessible.
  6. Any kind of pop-up window in browser, settings, or anything else appears with it's lower-right corner partially visible in the extreme upper left of the display. I have not figured out to "grab" it to drag into a location where I can use it. Swipe-from-right task switcher stops working, but swipe-from-left launcher does. Hmm. 
  7. I installed the sound recorder app from the UT app store and... it cannot record. Error report I can most easily see says "Internal data flow error (resetting settings will fix this" but hiding behind is another error with something about permissions and I cannot see it any better.
  8. Cameras don't work
  9. I have not yet got round to playing media, streaming or no, on it.
that's all I can think of right now. There were other observations to make but I can't remember them. I made the mistake of sleeping before typing this up. More later.


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First impressions - by eaglecup - 09-08-2020, 10:29 AM
RE: First impressions - by tophneal - 09-08-2020, 10:45 AM
RE: First impressions - by eaglecup - 09-08-2020, 10:57 AM
RE: First impressions - by tophneal - 09-08-2020, 11:21 AM
RE: First impressions - by Ktaadn - 09-08-2020, 12:18 PM
RE: First impressions - by guenther - 09-08-2020, 12:58 PM
RE: First impressions - by blabux - 09-12-2020, 08:06 PM
RE: First impressions - by guenther - 09-13-2020, 01:43 AM
RE: First impressions - by GreyLinux - 09-08-2020, 01:51 PM
RE: First impressions - by gimy16 - 09-08-2020, 03:29 PM
RE: First impressions - by hexdump - 09-08-2020, 11:40 PM
RE: First impressions - by bartgrefte - 09-09-2020, 03:19 AM
RE: First impressions - by hexdump - 09-09-2020, 04:48 AM
RE: First impressions - by andybleaden@gmail.com - 09-09-2020, 05:43 AM
RE: First impressions - by Ktaadn - 09-09-2020, 06:04 AM
RE: First impressions - by guenther - 09-09-2020, 06:30 AM
RE: First impressions - by Ktaadn - 09-09-2020, 06:45 AM
RE: First impressions - by andybleaden@gmail.com - 09-09-2020, 07:56 AM
RE: First impressions - by Ktaadn - 09-09-2020, 08:03 AM
RE: First impressions - by andybleaden@gmail.com - 09-09-2020, 08:06 AM
RE: First impressions - by guenther - 09-09-2020, 09:27 AM
RE: First impressions - by andybleaden@gmail.com - 09-09-2020, 09:51 AM
RE: First impressions - by guenther - 09-09-2020, 10:12 AM
RE: First impressions - by ashley123 - 09-09-2020, 12:40 PM
RE: First impressions - by eaglecup - 09-09-2020, 03:12 PM
RE: First impressions - by peperjohnny - 09-10-2020, 01:13 AM
RE: First impressions - by mattpenn - 09-09-2020, 03:27 PM
RE: First impressions - by bartgrefte - 09-10-2020, 03:15 AM
RE: First impressions - by pjsf - 09-10-2020, 03:22 AM
RE: First impressions - by eaglecup - 09-10-2020, 03:43 AM
RE: First impressions - by andybleaden@gmail.com - 09-10-2020, 05:16 AM
RE: First impressions - by sunrunner - 09-11-2020, 03:42 AM
RE: First impressions - by Paraplegic Racehorse - 09-11-2020, 10:17 AM
RE: First impressions - by mithbre - 09-11-2020, 09:26 PM
RE: First impressions - by bartgrefte - 09-11-2020, 10:39 AM
RE: First impressions - by wispoffates - 09-11-2020, 10:41 AM
RE: First impressions - by guenther - 09-11-2020, 01:54 PM
RE: First impressions - by quipacorn - 09-11-2020, 12:26 PM
RE: First impressions - by bartgrefte - 09-11-2020, 12:44 PM
RE: First impressions - by Paraplegic Racehorse - 09-11-2020, 01:15 PM
RE: First impressions - by tophneal - 09-11-2020, 08:50 PM
RE: First impressions - by andybleaden@gmail.com - 09-12-2020, 12:58 AM
RE: First impressions - by GreyLinux - 09-11-2020, 03:35 PM
RE: First impressions - by n3rDy - 09-11-2020, 08:22 PM
RE: First impressions - by wd5gnr - 09-11-2020, 09:50 PM
RE: First impressions - by wd5gnr - 09-11-2020, 10:07 PM
RE: First impressions - by sunrunner - 09-12-2020, 12:52 AM
RE: First impressions - by wd5gnr - 09-12-2020, 07:16 AM
RE: First impressions - by GreyLinux - 09-12-2020, 08:03 AM
RE: First impressions - by wd5gnr - 09-12-2020, 09:04 AM
RE: First impressions - by ImaPagan - 09-12-2020, 11:51 AM
RE: First impressions - by mindwave - 09-12-2020, 03:57 PM
RE: First impressions - by rocket2nfinity - 09-13-2020, 06:22 AM
RE: First impressions - by mithbre - 09-13-2020, 12:43 PM
RE: First impressions - by mike-451 - 09-13-2020, 08:40 PM
RE: First impressions - by mike-451 - 09-14-2020, 07:15 PM
RE: First impressions - by mindwave - 09-16-2020, 10:33 AM
RE: First impressions - by rocket2nfinity - 09-16-2020, 05:31 PM
RE: First impressions - by eaglecup - 09-20-2020, 09:35 AM
RE: First impressions - by mindwave - 09-30-2020, 02:22 AM
RE: First impressions - by dhosh - 09-20-2020, 07:40 PM
RE: First impressions - by Pinoideae - 09-23-2020, 04:33 PM
RE: First impressions - by Jeffersoniantoo - 10-04-2020, 07:39 AM
RE: First impressions - by jazzmans - 10-06-2020, 06:18 PM
RE: First impressions - by Mr_Yuzu - 10-06-2020, 07:07 PM
RE: First impressions - by jazzmans - 10-06-2020, 07:52 PM
RE: First impressions - by lennie - 10-07-2020, 06:18 PM
RE: First impressions - by jazzmans - 10-08-2020, 01:33 AM
RE: First impressions - by mindwave - 10-11-2020, 03:55 PM
RE: First impressions - by demure - 10-13-2020, 10:23 PM

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