Archive: Quick experience with my Asus ZenPad C Android tablet (2016)

You probably recognize if I actually used to have yet another Android tablet besides both of those old Advan ones that I mentioned in some of my older posts that featured them? Obviously no, thanks to that one nearly 9 year old Blogspot article that explained about it and those of the other two aforementioned tablets that I made from 2016 (though I accidently deleted all of those pictures of themselves, leaving them with just "❗" marks), which coincidently also the same year where I purchased this particular tablet. Without further ado, let me tell my own quick story about the aforementioned device itself right away... (yes, "quick" because why not)

A. Purchasing the device itself...

Believe or not, I purchased this particular tablet because I used to look at one of those popular physical catalogs that featured the review of it before, simple as that. Although I noticed some weaknesses that this thing delivered according to how they initially reviewed it in there, but that didn't stop me for purchasing it from one of the local cell phone stores in my hometown, which costed around IDR 2.000.000 (which means it was my most expensive tablet that I ever purchased among all of them).

B. Specifications...❓

Unfortunately, I couldn't remember the full specifications for this particular tablet. However, I still remembered the model number of it, which was P01Y, and it originally ran on Android 5.0. The amount of RAM was probably similar to what my old Zenfone 5 had, but I'm not 💯% sure. Also, just like many average Android devices that they were available on sale in those times (or even today), it had two SIM card slots and a single microSD card slot, respectively... As of the other stuffs that originally came with it from it's own box, it came with it's own microUSB cable, adapter, instructions, and the 1-year warranty card.

C. The experience of it, but...

There's not much else that I could particularly say to it apart from the fact it performed almost identically to what my old Asus Zenfone 5 would do when it comes to basic stuffs in general (including game tests, albeit it was much less amount of time), except it's own internal storage space was 4 GB lower than that of my old Zenfone 5. Which means, if I put too much files or apps on it, it eventually led into that dreaded insufficient storage space notification. There were no absolute option apart from the fact I must uninstall bunch of apps that I didn't need in there (including some of those bloatware ones). Unfortunately though, I was unable to uninstall them because I'd only able to disable them natively by myself instead of doing so straight away (unless if I had a knowledge to access some third-party apps or certain methods in order to do so).

As for the camera itself, the quality of it was roughly similar to my old Zenfone 5, with an exception of how this one simply didn't have the autofocus on it's own single rear camera... The picture quality of it was mildly mediocre, and so for it's own video recording too (which was somewhat lower volume but noisier sounds compared to my old Zenfone 5). Even if this particular tablet had THAT exact amount of internal storage space, at least I was able to save my saved pictures and saved videos separately on my own microSD card that I used to equip in there (coincidently, the microSD card that I used to equip in there is the same one that I'm currently using on my Asus 📱 that I'm heavily using it right now since 2019, which I also used it initially on one of my old Advan tablets too since I purchased that particular microSD card from then).📷📹

(this was taken when it crashed right after i unlocked it from it's own lock screen...)

Apart from that major insufficient storage space issues that I mentioned just earlier, it also had another issue where I tried to unlock it right from the lock screen, it immediately crashed the entire operating system then rebooted straight after by itself for some odd reasons. This occurred numerous times, and it eventually fixed by itself for unknown reasons that I had no clue about how come it initially occurred just before... With the weird state that it specifically had, I only used it for several months by myself until I decided to give it away to my cousin in the same year where I purchased it instead of selling it to someone for mildly steal price like what I did with my old Samsung Galaxy Y (or on the worst cases similarly to what I did to one of those Advans, smashing it), but he probably didn't satisfy by how it performed which caused he ended up purchasing his own better Android device later on (though he also used to have his old Evercoss tablet that performed similarly to one of my old Advan tablets).

Since then, I had no clue whether if he still keep it or not, due to the fact I no longer noticed the aforementioned tablet itself anymore after few months later... Well then, that concludes about my short archive story particularly about this Android tablet that I used to own there for several months within that year. With plenty of those flaws that it specifically had, I doubt it if I can purchase another Android tablet again, since most of those modern day Android devices will perform much better than one of those. Although there are some modern day Android tablets out there, but I absolutely have no clue about which one that I want to purchase in case if I need it...... Only the time will tell about the actual truth particularly about it soon.