Disclaimer: I received this product free for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.
I entered a contest on Getfresh.com to get to review this tablet. After my fabulous readers and friends voted for me I won this opportunity to review it!
This QOOQ tablet is an expensive product, so I naturally assumed it would be made of high quality materials. While the main body of the tablet seems sturdy enough for kitchen use, there is a rubber port cover that is very cheap and very annoying. Anytime you slightly touch it, it opens. It is very nice that the tablet comes with these ports. The QOOQ can hook up to ethernet, it has a USB, SD card reader and a headphone jack.
After playing around with this tablet for several days I have developed quite an opinion about it. It is amazing in the recipe department. There are tons of recipes to search. You can even go online and add your own recipes that you love to the line up on the tablet. You can search through the included recipes in may ways (for example, by type, by ingredient, by level of difficulty) I love that feature. The touch sensitivity of the tablet is very rough. Perhaps because of the “splash guard” the tablet boasts. Since it is to be used in the kitchen around water and other potentially fatal things to a regular tablet, the QOOQ is protected by a splash guard. This might be the cause of why the touch capabilities are very hard. I often have to make several attempts to “click” something.
I love the “feet” on the tablet. In case I do spill while cooking the tablet won’t get wet at all. The liquid will simply run underneath it. I also love the kickstand. It is nice to have the tablet mostly vertical while I am cooking. It makes reading the recipes much easier. The name “tablet” is really being used quite liberally in this case. Do not get this tablet and expect to do anything really other than look at recipes. While it does have facebook, twitter and browsing capabilities, it can’t actually handle doing it. Every time I open facebook it crashes. I have managed to get the internet browser to work as well as twitter. Since social media is so important in this day and age I was very disappointed with it’s lack of handling it. I think a camera would have benefited the QOOQ greatly. The ability to take pictures of the food I have created would have been awesome. And where do I want to share those pictures? Facebook and instagram. I love the concept of the QOOQ tablet I just wish they would have made it a more full functioning tablet. Overall it is great, but probably not worth the $400 price tag.
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