Ainol Novo 10 Hero II Cheap sale

Half a year ago it all started, my Ramos W17 Pro had just died due to crushing my touchscreen. And almost immediately I felt that I would need another (bigger) replacement. Enough choices, that’s for sure, and this would later proven to be the problem: what to choose? Every month again, many Chinese tablets hit the market and all of them have something new or something better: all potential perfect tablet. And every time I decided to wait longer and longer, until I ‘snapped’ and bought the Ainol Novo 10 Hero II in a blink of an eye. The Quad Core would be a good point if I later decided to sell this tablet to replace it with another one. I paid only 160 euro’s (211 dollar) including DHL shipment (via aliexpress). So it was cheap too!

Ainol Novo 10 Hero II

First try:
Booting the tablet was easy and went very fast. The Ainol logo is displayed for a short while and then you’re at the ‘homepage’. The tablet comes with Chinese bloatware and can not be removed yet. The tablet seems rooted and Play store works perfectly fine. To be short, the tablet is ready for usage, language is set as English and it’s just a matter of finding the right Wifi spot and you’re off to go and design a good working space. Until now I’ve not experienced any problems with apps or whatsoever.
The build:
In comparison with the Ramos W17 Pro, this is a little pearl. Not only because of the bigger screen, which is above my expectations, the usage of different materials is really nice. The screen is on the same level as the black bezel which makes it easy to swipe and it looks pretty good. All in- and outputs are lined on one side of the tablet. The frontcamera is just somewhat to the left of the center of the tablet, probably because of the backcamera, which is centered in the middle (on the back ).
There are three buttons, one for turning on and off, the volumebutton and a home button. I think I don’t really need the last one but some think it comes in hand. All of them are on the left of the upper side of the tablet.
The back is made out of a metal panel, which is nice to hold and apart from the little Ainol logo, the brownish teint makes it nice to look at. I haven’t noticed real heat problems with this tablet yet. At last, there are two separate speakers on the upper back side, far apart from eachother. I don’t really use them but they sound alright.
Experiences thus far:
The display of this tablet is pretty nice. The IPS produces good viewing angles and its colors are perfectly well in my opinion. The brightness is alright, when I am reading in bed (with the lights off) I have to put the brightness entirely down (because otherwise my eyes hurt). I haven’t really had experience with reflections of sunlight but I can imagine it’s hard to read then.
In the beginning there were some small hickups in the system, it lagged sometimes. But now it becomes more steady. Although I have problems with turning a page in Aldiko, which seems laggy and sometimes takes some time. Overall, the performance is alright. Most things work immediately and without problems. The wifi seems so have its little problems. Youtube is loading slow but that might be because of my bad internet connection. I’m positioned at 6 meters from the router with a little wall in between.