Allview Viva H7 Xtreme – test tablet review

Although small, because of the good specification Viva Allview H7 Xtreme is a versatile device. Serve every maniac mobile entertainment, searcher one device with wide application – but whether each task fulfilled equally well? We checked.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Viva Allview H7 Xtreme is the first tablet of the brand, which I test and honestly admit that in the beginning was for me a great unknown. The device can be purchased through the manufacturer's website for the price of 799 zlotys , that is, for the amount, which ranks in the forefront of the most expensive equipment 7-calówek in our ranking, according to the prices suggested by Ceneo.pl. Have found here in the company of the Nexus 7 (2013) and Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0. H7 Xtreme is at the same time almost twice more expensive model from Lenovo S5000 3G, which shares certain design solutions. 

CONSTRUCTION / WORKMANSHIP

The tablet has a very compact housing that – you have to admit – it is pretty and nicely done. Great device in your hand – without any obstacles, we can hold them in one hand only. The front of the tablet has been designed with the idea (though I will not dwell on this, where was taken "inspiration" – curious refer to test Lenovo S5000). Around the 7-inch screen running wide frame (much thicker than in the case of, for example, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0), which translates into greater – in my opinion – the usability of the tablet: you can freely arrange his finger at the screen without having to worry about it that he accidentally touched. Won my sympathy idea to cover the entire front glass, which meets at the edges of the plastic joining.covering the front of the glass itself is not so strong and hard to defend against a stronger emphasis finger. Manufacturer himself questioned the strength of the cover, because the tablet has a factory applied protective film – it reveals the presence of a notch in the place of the front of the camera. The latter was located above the screen, next to the multimedia speaker (in our tests emit sound intensity of up to 70 dB), whose position in that particular place is not accidental. The tablet has a feature phone, just a pity that the proximity sensor is not installed. What is the lack of this element? When we apply the tablet to your ear, the display will not be popping off and will respond to the touch of our cheek. At the beginning I did not see the big problem, but when I started to call more often using H7 Xtreme, no sensor has become persistent.Returning to the issue of dimensions must admit that the tablet is very slim. Side edges have been cut and given the streamlined shape, and any additional elements – sockets and buttons – practically landed on his back of the tablet. On the left side you will find a slide-out tray, which is used to mount the microSIM card. In the same place, but not with said tray mount microSD card. The tray is slightly different in color from the rest of the body, but it is firmly seated. A different situation occurs in the case of physical buttons deposited on the opposite side. Senses as you move the finger and this applies to both wake button and volume control. On the upper edge among audio port 3.5 mm, and the lower slot microUSB. Plecki tablet probably made of plastic (a stylized aluminum). The main camera has a dual LED Illuminates. In the middle of the back plate is shown protruding manufacturer's logo, while the lower part of the subtitle separated Certification device (it is worth noting that the color of the font securely fit into the design of the device – a small part, but it has an impact on the aesthetics). All parts fit is not perfect – equipment gently creaking, no weapons are also against bending. [Temperatura_obudowa product_id = "20186"] During the intensive operation of the device, the cabinet slightly begins to heat up, especially around the main camera. Even under heavy load, the temperature of the rear panel, however, does not exceed 31-32 degrees Celsius.

CAMERA

Available to obtain an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED Illuminates, which is rare on the tablet market. Photos will do with a slightly modified application offering a variety of options, although the possibility of software ASUS Memo Pad 7 (ME176C) Allview yet a little lacking. The manufacturer advertises the option Full HD video recording, and as our tests have shown, is indeed the case – with a "but".

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Examples of photographs present themselves very well – they have a decent amount of detail, and the amount of noise is small. The colors are natural, and even more difficult lighting conditions do not affect the final result – unless there is a photograph of the night. Two examples of photos taken after dark shows that the camera has problems with the appropriate object sharpening, but even then the images and they are quite good. Dual LED Illuminates look no further than – well lit object that remained in the dark. Movies filmed the main camera are saved to the file to 3GP with 1080 vertical lines. There are, however, good quality – both filmed during the day and at night. Suffer from very low detail, see there are some problems with autofocus. While promising, the camera fell when shooting video mode so far outgrown it altogether.

Sample Images

 

 

Sample movies

SCREEN

Allview H7 Xtreme has a 7-inch screen running at a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels, which is higher than Full HD. The tested model thus belongs to a very narrow range of tablets with high-resolution screens, with such a small size. And that translates into a high pixel density ratio, which in this case is 323 ppi. For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy Tab offered S 8.4, where the matrix displays the image with a density of 359 ppi and 323 ppi value Retiny belonging to Apple's iPad Mini installed in the 2nd gen. And 3 gene. In this respect, we deal with the screen high quality. The text reads very nicely due to the smooth fonts, and browsing the web version of the computer is comfortable.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

No small tablet price seems reasonable, when you consider that at a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels IPS device has a matrix. So we can not only enjoy vivid colors, but also a wide viewing angle. H7 Xtreme persists here tabletom others in its category. Nor do I have any objection to the color profile to be used. The display color palette is suitable for most tasks – including viewing photos or watching movies – should, however, take an amendment that the factory white point is shifted toward the cool colors and the tablet does not allow self-calibration image. For the price, however, is really decent.  screen is still one thing that no doubt include a plus – strong backlighting. Made by our measurements showed that the maximum luminance is 572 cd / m2. With regard to our recent test of 25 7-inch tablet, Allview H7 Xtreme would put in first place in this category right next Nexus 7 (2013). Slightly worse presents the minimum value that goes to just 80 cd / m2 (the best result in our test was collecting 5 cd / m2 registered in the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 3G 3), which will not please fans of reading in the dark. The uneven illumination is average at around 11%.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

I can not complain about the lack of a proper responsiveness of the screen. All commands issued by me are correctly interpreted. Screen successful record even the smallest brush. It is also worth noting that the panel supports up to 5 points touch and digitizer traces are difficult to see. The screen is definitely a strong advantage of the test tablet. Interesting fact: there is an option to activate the device by double-tapping the screen – more about this in the section which deals with the system.

EQUIPMENT

In addition to access to the network using the built-in modem that is compatible with the Aero 2, we can also take advantage of the WLAN module compliant with 802.11 a / b / g / n – relevant typical equipment for this price, the unusual is that the card works in two ranges, ie. 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. This means that if we have the right router, we can count on more bandwidth transfer. In the course of using the tablet had no major problems with the stability of the Internet connection. We subjected the three-stage equipment, maniaKalnemu test – in the last scenario, when the tablet was on another floor relative to the AP Internet connection has been completely lost. [Test slug = "wifi-Tablet" axis = "negative" product_id = "20186"] Built-in GPS receiver needed less than a minute to locate the tablet.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

An exemplary record of the route shows that the receiver is mounted slight trouble with an accurate representation of the device position on the map. You can see subtle shift in relation to the route you went through – it should run the middle of the pavement, and then passing through the belts. Faithfully was put back to the starting point. The worst tablet came out at the very beginning – traveling this route would require me to jump over the fence ambiguous. 

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

The device has 16 GB of built-in internal memory. Part of this area is the system, so the user is available, in practice, about 11.6 GB. We can use a microSD card, even with a capacity of up to 128 GB (we have used in testing the media Kingston 128GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-1 Class10 ), although the same manufacturer declares compatible only with 32 GB cards. Tablet offers the possibility of porting applications to external memory or record them on the default media therein. Since both slot – microSD and SIM card – adjacent to remove the external memory, we must remove the insert from the tray. Fortunately, removing the SIM card does not result in rebooting the machine, but you need to keep in mind that the connection is established through a modem is broken. Allview Viva H7 Xtreme also allows you to support OTG accessories, including storage devices – USB flash drive and hard disk drive with its own power supply, if they have been formatted to FAT32 file system. We can also connect a mouse or keyboard, and also use the hub-and active or passive. 

BATTERY

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme has a battery with a capacity of 3500 mAh, which in an 7-inch tablet is a common value. In view of the assembled media library system, whose processors have never been particularly greedy for power, we can count on a very good mileage on the battery. Tablet withstood eight hours surfing the web, using Wi-Fi or 6.5 hours after switching to packet data. Thus, the equipment would be placed among the best in our arena siedmiocalówek, matching models like the (re) ASUS Nexus 7 (2013) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 3G 3. [Test slug = "battery" virtual = "internet-3g-wifi internet, messenger-wifi, loading-ac" product_id = "20186"] In everyday use, we can successfully rely on the tablet endures all day working with the appropriate energy supply for the evening. Occasional use of the device may allow for a two-day exploitation without having to connect to the charger. I think, however, that in most cases the daily charge will be a necessity. On the other hand, left in standby mode, the tablet used only 7% of the battery after more than two days.

PERFORMANCE / FUNCTIONALITY

MediaTek systems are rarely installed hardware gamingowym Jam – despite this, the equipment tested model in the 8-core processor clocked at 1.7 GHz and a Mali-450 GPU with main memory capacity of 2 GB is a major step forward in specification typical inexpensive tablets from last year, which also relied on media libraries (4-core MT8382 and MT8312 2-core) Mali graphics (for 25 tablets tested by us under the manic arena, 12 had a Mali-400 graphics). A common feature of these devices was mediocre gaming performance, but the correct culture of the system.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Comparing Allview H7 Xtreme models based on MediaTek previous generation processors, we can see an increase in efficiency and better results in synthetic tests. In the test Ice Storm Unlimited, MT8389 3G S5000 Lenovo reported result 2581 points, while Allview H7 Xtreme won over 7 thousand. points. Mounted in the test model MT8392 system coped better video playback. Material 4K video is no longer such a problem, but there are still cases of a frame-image.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

W Real Racing 3 can be seen slightly simple graphics, but I have not encountered any jams, regardless of the setting of the camera. Even in the perspective of a car, the amount of FPS was so great that the game was very enjoyable. The same situation occurred withModern Combat 5 – here or image has been truncated, but the game is not disturbed the liquidity of any jam. Asphalt 8: Airborne suggests medium settings and on their game runs completely smoothly. [Wptab style = "4" title = "key test"] [test slug = "peacekeeper" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "android-antutu" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "gfxbench-fps "virtual =" t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen, manhattan-3-offscreen, manhattan-3-onscreen "product_id =" 20186 "] [test slug =" 3dmark " virtual="3dmark-ice-storm-total,3dmark-ice-storm-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-physics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-total,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-physics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-total,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-physics" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "PCMark-android" product_id = "20186"]

Multimedia Playback

Marked in red unsupported formats:

– Mkv, 480p, xvid, 1mbps, he aac, subtitles; – Mkv, 720p, h264, 600kbps, aac / mp3 audio dual; – MP4, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, aac; – Mkv, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, vorbis, subtitles; – MP4, 720p, h264, 6Mbps, ac3; – MKV, 1080p h264, 10Mbps, dts (no support for DTS); – MKV, 1080p h264, 40Mbps – mp4, 4K (3840×2160), h264, 34mbps (delicate Caged); – Mp4, 4K (4096×1716), h264, aac, 35Mbps (illiquidity). [/ Wptab] [wptab style = "4" title = "All tests"] [test slug = "peacekeeper" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "SunSpider" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "kraken "product_id =" 20186 "] [test slug =" quadrant "product_id =" 20186 "] [test slug =" android-antutu "product_id =" 20186 "] [test slug =" gfxbench-fill "product_id =" 20186 "] [test slug = "gfxbench-fps" virtual = "t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen, manhattan-3-offscreen, manhattan-3-onscreen" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "3dmark" virtual="3dmark-ice-storm-total,3dmark-ice-storm-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-physics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-total,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-physics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-total,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-physics" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "anomaly-2" product_id = "20186"] [test slug = "PCMark-android" product_id = "20186"]

Multimedia Playback

Marked in red unsupported formats:

mkv, 480p, xvid, 1mbps, he aac, subtitles; – Mkv, 720p, h264, 600kbps, aac / mp3 audio dual; – MP4, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, aac; – Mkv, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, vorbis, subtitles; – MP4, 720p, h264, 6Mbps, ac3; – MKV, 1080p h264, 10Mbps, dts (no support for DTS); – MKV, 1080p h264, 40Mbps – mp4, 4K (3840×2160), h264, 34mbps (delicate Caged); – Mp4, 4K (4096×1716), h264, aac, 35Mbps (illiquidity). [/ Wptab] [wptab_end]

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Manufacturer slightly interfered in the form of Android, version 4.4.2, so the layout of the system slightly differs from the standard. The main changes we notice when unlocking the screen. When wybudzimy tablet, you will see blue ball, which drag in the right direction will unlock the device, take us to the camera, box or SMS to Google Now. Yet we find the manufacturer's logo as an icon of the application that transfers to the net installed programs. In addition to these subtle alternacjami, changes in the graphic layer did not notice.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

preinstalled applications are not many: two separate programs to upgrade the system (one using OTA), Bitdefender antivirus protection and anti-theft (14-day demo) and Selfcare, which will take us to a web site where you will find the user manual tablet support (no Polish language version). In the settings in turn find added items, such as:

• HotKnot – allows for the exchange of data between devices by touching the screen of another device (see description taken from the tablet)
• Energy management, which will determine the battery energy management mode, including Intelligent mode allowing, inter alia, self-activation of saving battery when it is in the 80% discharged

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Gesture control – probably the most useful option of all, through which we will be able, for example, activate a tablet by double tapping the screen with your finger. It works great. We can also tweak the screen, using five fingers to exit to the main screen (almost like Apple;)). 

SUMMARY / EVALUATION / OPINION

In comments to the announcement appeared reviews often unflattering opinions to the tablet, especially because of its origins. Our test shows that they are in many cases unfounded allegations. Viva H7 Xtreme is a good device and in fact no one should be surprised – that Allview no long-service on the Polish market, after all, does not mean that it is a brand of "green ". On the other hand, the-reviewed equipment is not cheap enough to be able to forgive him some shortcomings typical low-cost devices: proximity sensor ran out and fold the housing should be better.

Allview Viva H7 Xtreme / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

In general, however, the settlement is a decent tablet – includes minor stumble, but in my opinion, the advantages outweigh the balance in favor of Viva H7 Xtreme. In the end, we get a 7-inch device with a screen full HD, 3G modem and a good processor that will not disappoint you in games, and in addition will watch movies in high definition. Paradoxically, if Allview not succeed with this model, it is more due to poor marketing, than the reasons strictly linked with the hardware. [Temperatura2 product_id = "20186"] [inne_propozycje product_id = "20186"]

Questions From Readers

krzysztofsf: It is worth comparing with Fonepadami Asus, this is also the shelf price. I would recommend ASUS Fonepada 7 (ME372CL) as an alternative to the test equipment. I put even comparing the performance of components in the test: 3DMark and GFXBench. I add also compare the performance of the battery.  [Test slug = "3dmark" virtual="3dmark-ice-storm-total,3dmark-ice-storm-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-physics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-total,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-physics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-total,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-physics" product_id = "20186, 20010"] [test slug = "gfxbench-fps" virtual = "t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen, manhattan-3-offscreen, manhattan-3-onscreen" product_id = "20186, 20010"] [test slug = "battery" virtual = "internet-3g-wifi internet, messenger-wifi, loading-ac" product_id = "20186.20010"] Nazir: I wonder how they feel about the comparison to the new GoClever Insignia 800M with 3G for 449 zł. That is we take to test this model GOCLEVER-and, soon to come back here to compare the two models.  Ivren: I'd like to know how the internet works from different operators on the tablet. When, where and for how much it [tablet - ed. ed.] will be available?I used to play cards, and because the model has 3G modem will feel not too much difference in the delivery of mobile services between operators – at least not in Krakow, where I live. If we had to deal with 4G Internet, then one could speak of the larger differences. For the record, I give the test results 3G connection speeds offered by the tablet: 6.65 Mbps downloading, sending 1.93 Mbps, ping 55 ms. The tablet can be purchased through the manufacturer's website. Patryk Wojcik: We would ask to compare it with the test now Lenovo S8-50L by you. Both tablets are the same shelf price. Curious about the differences in performance and duration of action. And differences in quality. We know that we are LTE vs 3G, but from my point of view it is a minor difference. Theoretically, lenovo is 8 inches, but I think definitely worth comparing tablets. Especially now that he hesitate to between one and the other. A and something else might know if any of them has a chance greater than zero to update the firmware? I do not know how Lenovo or even less Allview comes to such issues. Still I test S8-50L Lenovo, which is why I would even pause the definitive answer to this question. I'll come back to it after the publication of test Lenovo!