Le Pan TC970 Overview
Obviously the first thing you notice when you get the tablet out of the package is the large screen. The TC970 features a 9.7-inch (4:3) capacitive multi-touch LCD screen that gives you a resolution of 1024 x 768. On the right side of the tablet you have 4 touch-sensitive buttons. Starting at the top you have back, search, home and menu. Also on the top center of the tablet is the 2.0 mega-pixel camera.
When you first pick up the tablet it does have some weight to it, as it should. It also has a great feel to it. This is because most of it is made of aluminum, not plastic. The entire back of the tablet is bushed aluminum, which not only gives it a good look, but protects the tablet as well. There is a a Le Pan logo at the center and to the left are 2 stereo speakers. On the right side there is a hook where you can attach the hand-ring.
Along the top you have all of your buttons and connections. From left to right you have the power button, hold slider, volume up / down, the microSD card slot, USB power connection and a headphone jack. The microSD slot already has a 2GB microSD card installed, but you can switch it out for a larger microSD card up to 32GB.
For those of you that are not aware, the manual is located in the HELP section of the tablet
Externally the Le Pan looks nice but I technical support is no existing and difficult to contact.
Do yourself a favor, do not buy the old version of the LePan Tablet. I had one and would freeze quite often. Spend the extra $70 and get a LePan II. Much more powerful and enjoyable. You will not regret it.
amazon.ca:
Le Pan original: 48 one or two star reviews out of 272 total reviews or 17.6%
Le Pan II: 11one or two star reviews out of 36 total reviews, which is 30.6%
I’d say that both are pretty unreliable, but according to the numbers, the original actually seems more reliable than the newer version.
Le Pan: http://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/B004PGMFG2/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Le Pan newer version: http://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/B0067XX3AI/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
However, as amazon has great customer service and refund/exchange policies, this may not be that much of an issue.
Update on my purchase of the LePan 2 Tablet. After having used the LePan 2 Tablet for about a week, I decided to return it for a full refund. In order to make this tablet to download videos from various TV channels, ABC, CBS, CBC, NBC, MSNBC, you need to have a very strong wifi system at home. While the Tablet performed very good when I had it at work, since the workplace is very much super wired for wifi, and had no problem downloading various TV shows from different TV stations, the same was not true when I was trying to do the same at my place. I have wifi at home at about 3 to 6 mbps, and yet it was not powerful enough to download various videos. I think, I will stick to my laptops. I have 3 of them at home and never had any problem downloading anything. No more Tablets for me.