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Velocity Micro Cruz T301 7-inch Android Tablet Review

Velocity Micro Cruz T301 7-inch Android Tablet Review
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Velocity Mirco, makers of custom PC’s and Laptops have their own line of Tablets called Cruz.  I think the main reason behind these tablets were to give away with the purchase of a custom PC or laptop.  Whatever the case we have the Cruz T301 7-inch tablet in for review today.  It features a 7-inch TFT Capacitive Touch screen, 256MB of memory, 2GB of internal storage and is running Android 2.2.  Let’s check it out.  Special thanks to Geeks.com for providing us with the Velocity Micro Cruz T301 7-inch Android Tablet to review.  Geeks.com is a great place to find an Android Tablet.

Specifications
Display: 7″ TFT Capacitive Touch
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (800X600 pixels)
Dimensions: 7.5″x 5.6″x .57″
Operating System: Android 2.2
Browser: Yes
Accelerometer: Yes
RAM: 256 MB
Built-In Storage: 2 GB
Memory Cards: SD/SDHC
Wireless: 802.11n Wi-Fi
Battery Life: 6 Hours of Video
Audio Playback: MP3, AAC, WAV
Video Playback: MPEG-4, AVI, MOV
Reader Formats: PDF, TXT, HTML
Stand: Included

Packaging
We received the Cruz T301 from Geeks.com and as always everything that comes from them comes quickly and in nice condition.  I love that they use air bubbles instead of packing peanuts!

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The Cruz T301 comes in a nice retail package, on the from there is a photo of the tablet and it lets us know that Kindle for Android is pre-installed.  On the back there is a list of specifications and an overview of features.

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Opening up the package you have the T301 tablet, carrying case, power adapter and stand.  I do like that Velocity Micro has included a stand.

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Cruz T301 Overview
As I said before the T301 is a 7-inch tablet.  Picking it up for the first time I did notice that it has some nice weight to it.  The screen itself has a nice glossy finish to it.  The back has a rubberized finish, which makes the tablet easy to pickup and hold.

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The T301 is pretty thick for the 7-inch size.  On the bottom you have the speakers, power connection and headphone jack.  At the top you have the power button, factory reset button, miniUSB connection and SD card slot.  On the right side you have volume up and down buttons.

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  • http://www.metaksan.com Metaksan
    Good competitor for Ipad.
  • Anonymous
    This tablet looking very promising. Well I am going to buy this in shop next week.
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  • Synchronster
    Sorry, I’ve had this tablet for awhile.  It’s OK for basic surfing, email, reading books, and playing music.  Youtube Videos won’t last for more than 40 seconds before they freeze.  In fact, you’ll be pressing the thumbtack sized panic hole many times to reboot it for anything processor-intensive.  Finally, the headphone jack only plays back left speaker monorally, not stereo and I can confirm this with other T301 users.

    Synchron.

  • Bott Randall
    I have this tablet it works fine no freezing youtube plays fine and headphones play left an right audio u obviously got a faulty unit
  • alli marie
    i recieved my micro cruz t301 in the mail yesterday and it will not turn on. i tried charging it for hours still nothing… any suggestions?? :/
  • Stormspace
    Hit the reset button.
  • disappointed
    still doesn’t work…all I have is a baby blue screen with a white dot in the middle…going back tomorrow!! Very disappointing christmas present
  • Msshavonne79
    That is the exact same thing mine does. But mine is a black/grayish screen and i cant restart it or anything and i got it for christmas.
  • Cruz-in
    I received this as a christmas present.  Seems to be working just fine. It does appear to be very “restricted” in what it can do. With a little playing around, im sure i can make something of this.
  • Love this tablet!
    http://dealoftheday.webs.com/
     
    This sight has the micro cruz for only about 70 dollars. In there listing they give the option to contact them and make a offer. I got mine for only 50 dollars and it looked even better condition than i thought. I love it because of the option to add memory with a SD card. I also went to a game store and bought a touch screen pen for the nintendo ds and it works great with it. I highly recommend getting one if you dont have one.
  • jennifer
    not really. mine and a friends has the same problem
  • Jmcr2014
    exactly
  • Eflores
    I had mine for 2 weeks (also got it for christmas) and all of a sudden the touchscreen does not register any type of touch.  I was told that they can’t do anything for me and that I need to send it back (at my cost!).  So frustrating! 
  • cass89
    I bought mine for my son n can’t download anything n it won’t stay on the browser n goes to home pop age tried to master reset it n it won’t even do that

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