Ainol Novo 7 Tornadoes – Tablet Computers by Ainol Electronics
It is Ainol Electronics, a Chinese company, which manufactures the Novo 7 series of Android tablets. Since the screen size of these tablets is 7 inches, the company has given the name of Novo 7 to this series of computers. It was in June 2012 when the company brought Ainol Novo 7 Tornados to the market. Let us see some of the features of these tablets.
Before Ainol Novo 7 Tornados, the company manufactured Novo 7 Paladin, which was the world’s first Android 4.0 tablet. The company launched it in the second half of 2011. But, as for the Ainol Novo 7 series, the first ones to be manufactured were Novo 7 Basic and Novo 7 Advanced and the company launched them at the beginning of 2011.
The company brought out other Ainol Novo models like Novo 7 Mars and Novo 7 Elf2 along with Novo 7 Tornados. They all come with ARM processors. The internal storage capacity of these tablets is 8 GB. As the name implies, all three tablets have 7-inch screens.
You may be wondering if there is any difference between Novo 7 Tornados and the other Ainol Novo tablets. The basic difference is in the speed of the Central Processing Unit or CPU. There is also a difference in screen resolution. Common features across all three tablets are that the processors on all three are ARM processors, internal storage is the same, and all three tablets have 7-inch screens. But, if you look at the difference in screen resolutions, Tornado comes with an 800×480 pixel screen and Mars comes with a 1024×600 pixel screen. Tornado and Mars have 1 GHz single core processors, but Elf 2 comes with 1.5 GHz dual core processor. But, Elf 2’s screen is a 1024×600 pixel screen, which is the same as the March.
According to experts, all Novo 7 tablets are low-end models. This is because its specifications are lower than those of other contemporary tablets. If you compare the prices of other tablets with the Novo 7 models, you will find that the Novo 7 tablets are priced lower. All Novo 7 tablets support WiFi. But there is no 3G support built into any of the Novo 7 tablets.
The Novo 7 series tablets use the updated Android 4.0.3 v1.0 from Ainol. It was at the end of March 2012 that the company released this updated software. This software is capable of fixing almost all bugs of firmware v4.0.3 v0.9. Ainol released this firmware during the first week of March 2012.
The processor of Ainol Novo 7 Tornados is the latest 1GHz AMLogic AML8726-M3 Cortex A9 processor. 1GB DDR3 is the RAM in them. The RAM memory comes with a preloaded Android 4.0.3 operating system. The Ainol Novo 7 Tornado’s 7-inch capacitive touch screen supports 5 touch points.
The main features of Ainol Novo 7 Tornados are:
– The Operating System of these tablets is Android 4.0.3.
– The Central Processing Unit is Cortex A9 AMLogic AML8726-M3 1GHz.
– Mali 400 is the Graphic Processing Unit of Ainol Novo 7 Tornados.
– While the RAM memory is 1 GB，DDR3, the storage capacity is 8 GB.
– The cover of these tablets is made of plastic.
– As the name suggests, the screen is 7 inches and it is also a capacitive LCD touch screen with 800×480 pixels.
A study of the above features will help consumers make their decision on purchasing these tablets.
