The Advent Vega (also known as P10AN01) is an

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-based compact

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produced by

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. It features a

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capability, a 1.0 GHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, and a 1.3 MP front-facing camera. The Advent Vega was released on 19 November 2010 in the UK.

Hardware

The tablet is enclosed in a black

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body weighing a total of 700 grams (1.5 lb). The screen has a 1024 x 600 px

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and supports two-finger multi-touch. It has a flash internal storage of 512 MB and comes with a 4 GB

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card which can be used to expand its storage. Its

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is a 1.0 GHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore with 512 MB of

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. The tablet has a 1.3 MP front-facing camera, 802.11b/g

, Bluetooth 2.1 and EDR connectivity. It also has a

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port and

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port, but does not have a Home button and 3G connectivity. The battery features 6.5 hours of video playback or 16 hours of audio playback time (with the screen powered off). On standby, the battery will last up to four days.

Software

The Advent Vega runs on

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's Android 2.2 Froyo operating system and was never upgraded to newer versions of Android. The installed Android version has been stripped of some functionality compared to similar tablets running on Android 2.2, most notably the absence of the pre-installed

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service, which was supposed to be corrected with a future update of Android. The device instead featured the Archos AppsLib store which contains over 5,000 apps. Several custom ROMs (e.g. Corvus5, MoDaCo) were available to improve the experience on the Vega by giving access to the Android Market. Android 3.2, 4.0.4 and 4.1.2 have been successfully ported to the Advent Vega as "VegaComb", "VegaCream", and "Vegabean" by individuals in the user community, providing access to the

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, along with full hardware acceleration provided by the Tegra 2

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(SoC).

Early Impressions

The Advent Vega had good first hands-on impressions and was considered a strong rival to other tablet PCs released earlier in 2010, such as the Apple

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and Neofonie

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, considering both the competitive announced price and the later generation dual-core CPU. Advent also simultaneously released the Advent Amico, a smaller and slower version of the Advent Vega. The tablet ran on Android 2.1 and had an identical look to the Vega but with a resistive touch-screen.

Availability

The Advent Vega was added to the

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and

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web sites on 19 November 2010. It was also sold in Turkey under the name Exper Easypad. In the Netherlands, as well as in other countries where

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operates, released their clone named Mobii 10.1".

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