i dont rate he hudl 2 :(

[Guest N3M35I5]

i got my hudl last week. 

 

 

The ultimate test was yesterday we went to blackpool lights (uk members will know this) 

 

My son watched 1 film on the way there (2 hour drive) and then half of 1 on the way back before it went dead. 

 

When he passed it me back it was really hot like a laptop that had been encoding. 

 

 

i also noticed when its playing games i.e clumsy ninja the touch response is not very good

 

also noticed the hudl only supports single touch, if hes accidentally touching somewhere on the screen the touch goes to pot. 

now he wont touch it, hes gone back to the ipad mini. 

 

safe to say its going back in the box and staying there

[Guest Frankish]

Don't waste it in the box send me it?

In all seriousness though does it really only support one touch point? Can anybody use an app and test the touch points that's disappointing.

Edited October 19, 2014 by Frankish

[Guest]

Hudl 2 or Hudl 1 ? Cos I have the Hudl 2 and my toddler watched 1.5 hours of BBC iPlayer (cbeebies episodes) and it lost about 35 percent of its charge) so based on that about 8 hours battery. 

 

Of course it has multi touch. Just try pinch to zoom in on any webpage (if it didn't it would not work as you need at least two fingers for this to work.) it sounds like you had a wake lock somewhere and is more likely to do with buggy software than anything else. What player were you using to play the movie?

[Guest PaulOBrien]

I suspect the player was software decoding which would hammer the CPU and kill the battery fast.

Try the Intel build of VLC perhaps?

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[Guest sorc]

In all seriousness though does it really only support one touch point? Can anybody use an app and test the touch points that's disappointing.

 

At least 10 points on mine (I don't have any more fingers :)). In this day and age I'd be amazed if anyone releases a tablet without multi touch!

[Guest state-it]

After a few charge cycles the battery seems not bad at all.

 

The first day or so I had the Hudl 2 I thought the thing would be a lemon for this reason, but it turns out not :)

[Guest state-it]

Try the Intel build of VLC perhaps?

 

On the VLC site I can see a link to VLC for Android, but ti seems to only support ARM ?

 

Sorted - x86 is right there in the download directory  :wub:

Edited October 19, 2014 by state-it

[Guest seanspotatobusiness]

On the VLC site I can see a link to VLC for Android, but ti seems to only support ARM ?

 

Sorted - x86 is right there in the download directory  :wub:

 

I downloaded the VLC beta app from Google Play. It seems to work okay. Will this use the x86 code?

[Guest PaulOBrien]

Check out:

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/android-x86/

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[Guest jp_hero]

The Tapatalk app in landscape has a multi pane view and you can control them independently with two fingers

[Guest Simon O]

The Play Store VLC either supports both Intel and ARM in the same app or will download the Intel version. But I'd use the nightly builds just to be sure.

[Guest thefunkygibbon]

its clearly multitouch.   you can pinch to zoom on chrome/photos etc which you can't do on non-multitouch devices.

just tested to make sure on some silly drawing app for the kids an it drew with all 5 fingers.

 

plus my misses was watching Friends on it most of the day yesterday while she was decorating, so unless your son was watching Lord of the Rings Extended cuts then i expect you are running in software decoding mode (use a decent player like mx player) or you have a faulty unit.

 

i think if all of the hudl2's had those same problems then you'd hear a LOT more moaning about them by people.!!!