you may have more intimate knowledge of these specific chipsets in use than myself... I don't know... but from my knowledge the AML8726-M3 SoC has a NEON SIMD co-processor on it. Unless JXD has asked for it be removed from the SoC AMLogic provides, then I'd think it's there as a chipset standard, not just because it's a cortex a9 standard.
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The controls on this aren't "bad" necessarily.... they're just not as good as the pandora. I can give you plenty of examples of actual bad controls odroid, wonderswan, wiz, ngage, etc.
The stability of the andorid 2.3 port is perfectly fine, or at the very least acceptable, the updated android 4.0 port is pretty horrible though. Also to JXD's credit, they are doing a good job of keeping the os up to date and fixing and adding things in firmware updates. A lot better than my previous experience with their other non-android devices. I do have a problem with the bundled software as most of it is illegal roms and blatantly pirated apps. After downloading emulators from 3rd party sources.... these run emulated games extremely well. And when I said "not as good as the pandora" I'm really really nitpicky about my emulation. For example I can spot the difference between 30 and 60fps I don't think most retro gamers really care as long as it's playable at a decent framerate. It's nitpicky difference in performance, not full speed vs jumpy/laggy. leaps and bounds better than the dingoo, psp, caanoo, wiz or anything else in it's class. Pandora still got's it beat though.
the build quality is also pretty good for a <$100 device, what concerns me though is the QC on these though... There is a extremely high failure rate of DoA's and devices falling apart shortly after being used a couple times. The actual quality of the build is fine on mine for example, but I've heard other people say their shoulder buttons are failing, battery being loose. I take these issues with a grain of salt because you see these kinda things on mainstream devices as well and even more niche products like the pandora. just these seem to happen in higher rates with these cheaper devices. Of the 10 people I talk to that got a S601, I know 4 of them that has had a different hardware failure of some sort that is not present on mine and had to send it back to the reseller to fix/replace.
the target and advantage is absolutely the price point... and for the money 1/5th of the price of the pandora... it's a really good buy if you can't afford the pandora. Can it compete head to head with the pandora? Not even slightly.
