Category:
Model:
hipstreek Flare3
Manufacturer's Website:
http://www.hipstreet.com/hipstreet-9-quad-core-gms-multimedia-tablet-flare-3/
Short Description:
Excellent tablet for introductory android users.
Physical Description:
Specifications: 1.3 ghz quadcore/2gb Ram/8gb storage/1.3mpx reer and 500 kpx front cameras/32 gb microSD/Kitkat/9 inch display/,
Materials: plastic and regular glass,
ports: headphone, usb hdmi combo, card slot, microphone,
Box contents: I'll put this in soon.
Accessibility Features:
Complete stock accessibility.
Experience:
This is a great way to get people into android. If it will eventually get lollypop, that will just be the icing on the Cake. Full review below.
Comments
Great introductory tablet!
I looked at about 15 or 20 tablets in this price range and really wasn't happy with any of them on paper. Chocking it up to "you get what you pay for", I was telling my mom to buy whatever she wanted since she doesn't really need the accessibility features for herself. That's when we found the hipstreet flare3 at walmart.
I was happy enough because the processer was a cut above and it had Kitkat. My mom liked the price, about 100 bucks.
My mom has a surprising number of apps for someone who never had a tablet before. It took her a couple of days to set it all up but part of that was trouble connecting to the wifi in the house. I swappedin an old router of mine and that seems to have taken care of it.
The tablet has only a mono speaker. The audio volume is OK for applications like talkback but one of my mom's mainstays is skype, and it's just not adaqut for that. An old set of pc speakers took care of the skype audio volume, though of course that creates some loopback for the other person in the conversation.
I was immediately disheartened on waking up the tablet for the first time to see that the accessibility shortcut did not work. I guided my mom through the set up process and she did most of the work of installing apps herself.
The next day, we looked around in the settings and discovered that the full suite of kitkat accessibility features is available. Talkback came right up speaking and the tutorial workd just fine. We did set the large text options and I tested the accessibility short cut. This worked just fine in the real show, so I'm not sure why it failed on the registration screen.
I didn't play with it too much as it isn't really my toy, but I did get to use the launcher and the play store which are basically the stock google experience.
I'm really please with the thing. Ideally you''d want a camera good enough for OCR and a bit more storage, but as an introductory tablet it's stock, stable and very accessible.