A 10.1-inch device powered by a quad-core ARM processor

Apr 23, 2013 12:14 GMT  ·  By

Just like India is trying its best to carve out a share of the tablet industry by making its own low-cost tablets, Romanian company E-Boda had officially revealed the first tablet made in its home country.

Called Supreme XL400QC, it uses a chip called ATM7029 Quad Core and which has a clock speed of 1.2 GHz. The processor is a fairly little-known model made by Actions Semiconductor.

Or, at least, little known compared to the likes of NVIDIA Tegra, Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos.

The chip is backed by 1 GB of RAM (random access memory) and a multi-core graphics processor.

Furthermore, storage space is provided by NAND Flash chips with a total capacity of 16 GB. Some of it will be reserved for the operating system, but most should be available for storing videos, music, apps, etc.

Speaking of the operating system, E-Boda settled on the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean version, compatible with Flash Player.

It doesn't have all the perks of Jelly Bean 4.2, but it should be enough given the price of 999.9 Lei / $297 / €229.

Moving on, the newcomer has a screen with a native resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, which might not seem like much, but is actually more than sufficient.

True, tablets today tend to get Full HD panels just for the sake of principle, but people tend to forget the higher resolution doesn't do much on a panel of only 10.1 inches in diagonal.

More important is the IPS technology the panel is based on, as it ensures wide viewing angles.

As for the touch support, the panel can track up to 5 fingers at one, and recognize gestures. Not the same as 10-point systems, still better than no multi-touch at all (capacitive panel, for whoever is wondering). Finally, the battery is a 6.6 mAh power source (unclear about charge life).

Other specs of the E-Boda Supreme XL400QC include a pair of cameras (0.3 MP front, 2 MP back), Wi-Fi, USB (for 3G USB sticks) and pre-loaded Adobe Reader, Documents to Go, and ES File Explorer.