For Sale Wikipad 7-Inch Gaming 16GB Tablet powered by NVIDIA Tegra 3
(Controller included)
Wikipad 7-Inch Gaming 16GB Tablet powered by NVIDIA Tegra 3 (Controller included) Review
Take full control of the gaming experience with Wikipad. Combine tablet touchscreen convenience and console-level game play with Wikipad's precise dual-analog stick controller. The Wikipad is the evolution of gaming and tablets in one revolutionary product. It combines the best new hardware and software available with great innovative design to make a tablet that marries perfectly with its controller. Ultimate responsiveness equals ultimate game play.
Price : $249.99
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Wikipad 7-Inch Gaming 16GB Tablet powered by NVIDIA Tegra 3 (Controller included) Feature
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, 7 inches Display
- NVIDIA Tegra 3.0 1.3 GHz
- 16 GB Flash Memory, 1 GB RAM Memory
- 1.433 pounds
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Fun Device
By Mitch H.
This is pretty cool tablet to use. Screen is nice, speakers are positioned correctly and the controller is more comfortable than first thought.
I did have to call customer care to help with a small issue. They were great. Called back to make sure was working right after a couple days. Who does that now? I spoke with Dave, Awesome.
Be advised that when you touch the power button on top to put unit in sleep mode your battery will drain if still connected to controller. To put asleep and have minimum battery loss, first disconnect from controller.
It is late in the life of Tegra3 to introduce a new product, but the T3 is an awesome processor. I will probably buy a NVidia Shield when it becomes avail, however I think they already dropped the ball with a mere 5 inch screen.
Back to the wikipad.
Build Quality: 9/10 Solid unit
Weight: 7/10 A lil on the heavy side w-controller. But you have a CONTROLLER
Screen: 9/10 Nice and bright when needs to be.
Battery Life: 6/10 I'd love to have some more juice with this baby
Cust. Service 10/10 Just awesome. Good job Dave-
Size: 8/10 I thought I would like an 8in. But they did good homework and the
size is nice with added controller.
Hopefully it sells well and we can look forward to a unit with a T4 :)
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Wikipad?!
By Majed Saif Abdulla Hamed
I'm not a stranger to portable retro gaming on various devices. I've owned rooted iDevices, android phones, hacked game consoles. The works. I also dabbled a bit with the GPH series of handhelds, the JXD series, and have kickstarted the GCW Zero (still waiting on that one!).
Therefore, once I finally got my hands on a Wikipad, I wasn't expecting much right out of the box. This thing was delayed and then pushed back even more. However, once it was out of the box, everything changed.
The build quality is simply phenomenal and it caught me by surprise. The device has a nice balance to it, the screen is lush, and the controller is fantastic! I knew that the controller would make or break the wikipad and honestly I can't recommend it enough. The responsiveness and feedback are top notch and it never feels too heavy to hold.
Now to the interesting part, the emulators!
It ran everything I threw at it from the NES era until the Playstation One without a hitch (except for some well known games that have inherit comparability issues). I got a 64GB SDXC card, formatted into FAT32 and filled it to the brim with games. MAME is also supported and runs splendidly on this Tegra 3 powered device.
The two main weaknesses that I have found were the speakers (solvable by wearing earplugs or headphones), and no button mapping support (which is currently being worked on by the Wikipad development staff).
Finally, the device has also been rooted, so you'll get even more options to install.
Buy it, and enjoy. :)
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Very nice
By G. M. Volk
Ever since I first saw the Wikipad, I wanted it. I looked at lots of tablets, Kindle, Nexus, Sheild, etc. I always came back to the Wikipad. I ordered mine as soon as it was released, from Walmart. Got it a couple days later and while there were a few disappointments, overall I like this tablet and I am finding ways to do things on it so I don't have to use my laptop.
First the good: as a tablet this is up there, similar in design to the Google Nexus 7 but add in a micro-SD slot. Now you can't intstall and run apps from it, but several apps have given me the option to store there data files to it, Bards Tale for instance wanted a whopping 3.7G of extra files to download! So the SD slot is a must now-a-days. The screen is very vivid and colors look great watching movies or playing games. Touch response is better than I expected, my kids both have sub $100 tablets and touch sucks on those.
Second the not so good: Sound, it's stereo, but as expected with a tablet this size the sound is very tinny. Never seems to be loud enough, and when you go to loud it sounds bad. Use headphones. On the headphone side, I have a decent pair of bluetooth headphones that I wanted to use with this tablet, the Artic p311. For movies they work well, and can even pause/play using the button on them. With games, there is a noticeable lag and I have to use wired headphones. So I plug in my Sony earbuds, don't recall the model as I bought them a long time ago. These I have always used with my Sansa Clip MP3 player and they have always sounded excellent. On this tablet, they sound distorted and clicky. Touch taps sound like static and all in all are not useable. I have a pair of cheapy headphones, sub $10(maybe even sub $5) and they actually sound pretty damn good! Go figure! Now the bluetooth is only BT 3.0, as I think that is the highest Android supports. I use a BT 4.0 adapter on my laptop and with the Artic P311 I have no problem with games or movies.
On to the gaming controller. This is a mixed bag as far as I am concerned. The control are OK, not xbox quality or anything but not bad. At first I was disappointed in them. They felt sloppy and awkward. I was almost ready to return the Wikipad as I really wanted it to play games. I was playing Shadow Gun, which comes with the Wikipad, and found some settings to tweak and to get the controller mapped how I wanted(still fiddleing with it). With the controllers, I can usually place in the top 5 on Shadowgun, once I came in first on deathmatch and out of the two Zone games I've played I've been first in kills on them. I tried playing without the controllers and I was dead-last everytime! So they controls do make a difference, but they took me some time to get used to. The other bad thing is that not all games support controllers. I bought Bards Tale, since Tegra Zone claims it had controller support, plus it was one game I really wanted. Well it does not support the Wikipad! I have also downloaded Dungeon Hunter 4, and while it does not specifically state it supports controllers, I was surprised when I was able to move the character and cast spells with it. Now you can't customize it, and not all buttons work but to be able to use the left thumbstick to move while using touch to attack/spells/etc does make the game a little better. Hopefully the folks at Wikipad will get an app that allows mapping touch to the controller for whatever app/game you use, that would be cool.
Final thoughts: this is a very solid tablet. I have found my self using it for more things than I thought I would. Initially thought I would only use it for gaming, but I use it for Reddit,GPS, Email/Gmail, news and weather, watching movies, web surfing, banking, etc. It's convenient as I can put it in my pocket and have it with me when I need it(need to get a mobile hot-spot next). The game controller is usable, and games are enjoyable with it, but it's by no means the be-all/end-all of controllers. This does have the Tegra 3 CPU/GPU and that has been out for quite some time, but I don't feel this is a downside as I don't really see tablets utilizing massive CPU/GPU, as least not yet. Don't let that stop you from buying this versus waiting for "next-gen", you'll always be waiting.
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