My ONDA Reviews - VX787

[louisnomad]

ONDA VX787 V.3


WOW

The new ONDA box! The new Jay Chow album!

My first VX787 (a V.2 8GB player from ebay seller) was filled with the first Jay Chow album. Now I have both albums from this Chinese artist (?) and love to play them to my friends as a joke… lol

There are just few differences between both editions, but all of them in a good way, I think…

The Touch Screen appears to be more responsive, now. That is a good thing, because you need to get used a lot with the V.2 about where the buttons are placed in the screen. I gave the V.3 to my girl and asked her to play a little bit (she does not like touch screen players) and she was using the controls without any problems, so, it is not me, used to the first version!

The fact of the player update the music library every time you disconnect from the computer is a good thing, too. The 16GB take a little bit long to update it, and that’s not cool when you get the player to listen some song and need to wait the update… Ok, I know! I’m a little hurried! :P

A bad side of the player is: SeaSprite does not have too much themes for V3.8 firmware! lol Just kidding!

There are few things to say about the player’s capability:

- Audio through the RK2706 is good enough to almost every ear in the world. It has Microsoft PlayFX, which gives you an incredible sound EQ. The downside is the poor User EQ setting, with only 5 bands going from -6 to +6 and jumping like 2 numbers each time you roll the bar (almost like every player I have tested, except the Meizu M6 SL).
- Video playback is good, if you have files with almost the same size of the screen. High resolution videos will not synchronize properly. And with FLV files you will not have fast forward or rewind, so… Get the S:flo to watch FLV videos!
- The FM Transmitter will work only if you are close to receptor (I think 1,5m).
- The E-book reader is quite annoying. Does not matter what you do, or the font you’re using, it jumps a lot to the wrong place in the file, and you need to search again where you were before the big jump…
- The game that comes with the player is really boring!
- The TV Out works, but I didn’t get the time to test it properly. You just have to press on the TV icon during video playback with the cable attached to TV.

If you’re into big touch screen players, then, go for the VX787. I bought the V.3 16GB from www.mp4nation.net for a very reasonable price (wish I knew the site before buy the first V.2 from ebay, thank god I just sell it for the same price I’ve paid). I like the player a lot (remember, this is my second one!) and for now is the best one I have tested from ONDA. I have the VX767 and VX525 (VX545HD and VX898 are coming home, now), and as far as I can say, the VX787 is the best one for video and audio. I will have a review for the others, soon, and you can compare the players, through the eyes of just one guy!

[louisnomad]

OK, that was a really nice clearance from www.mp4natio.net . It was so cheap that I just bought one… Well… Bad idea!

I need to be very honest with you: the player is not that bad (actually, is quite good) but when you have players like the VX787, OS-43, Ainol V3000HD and Hacha PC90 (just to talk about big screens) to compare, this player stinks! Lol

I will try to be the most impartial about this one.

First of all, the guys from ONDA don’t know how to sell a player. The “Jay Chow” pictures on the box just scary me every time I look to… lol. I already knew the box from my first VX787 V.2, but I was scared again! And what can I say about the pink carrousel horse… Come on, ONDA!

It is nice to see that ONDA always put a screen protector and a silicon case inside the box. Then you don’t need to search for some extra protection on the web.

I have tried this player because it was a button based with large screen, and I was intended to use it to read e-books… pfff… This player may work to English or Chinese guys, but to any language that uses accents (sadly like Portuguese, with all the á, é, í, ó, ú, à, â, ê, ô, ã, õ, etc.) it’s a pain to read on it. Al the accented characters turns into a Chinese one, just like the VX787 when you use ANSI codification (I solved the problem in VX787 changing to UNICODE). You will ask me why I don’t try the same UNICODE on VX767, and the answer is: It just accepts ANSI!!!!

A good point on the player is: You can use 2 earphones! You will loose a little power (battery and volume) but at least you can share your music with someone else!

The Music player is quite good. You will have a good sound quality (not so good like the VX787) and there is a feature that I like a lot: It can play all my folders straight! I was wondering if ONDA would make a player that can do that, and there was the VX767 all the time. The really good thing is that this player can really play .ape! It was the only one until now that plays for sure this kind of file. And my Skyclad albums are all ripped to .ape. I didn’t try the M6 because I just put 4GB of mp3 inside it… Maybe another day… lol.

The EQ settings are almost the same in the VX787, but I didn’t find the User EQ. And when you turn into highest volumes, even with the alphas I got some distortion in all presets.

The biggest points on this player will be the video playback and the built in games.

The player really can deal with a lot of video formats, and even with a resolution bigger than the screen it plays really smooth (but only through the Micro SD card. The internal memory is not that good to play movies and you will note a hiccup every 3 or 4 seconds on large files). I was watching a 2:30 hrs with 900 MB avi video and I didn’t notice any delay. Also a full video concert, with 1:30 hrs and 800 MB .dat. TV Out works perfectly, and together with the player’s capabilities can give you a lot of fun. Now I know why this player was Raz’ chosen one to play videos for so long!

The only thing is that it can’t play MPG and MPEG as the factory says. The video stops all the time and is almost impossible to watch something in that format.

About the games, OK, they are pretty simple, but at least they work! We have Snake, Tetris and some Brick game that can, in fact, be played! It is nice to have these simple games at hand when you don’t have anything to do waiting for someone in a restaurant, or traveling, or waiting in the backstage the right time to go on stage… The VX525 can play flash games, but I like these old and simple games… I will make a review to VX525 soon, and then I will say a little about those flash games.

If you ask me, I wouldn’t buy this player again (as I did with VX787, OS-43 and possibly will do with Meizu M6 8GB white version, just to combine it with the FiiO PS1120 I bought). Please, don’t misunderstand me! This is not a piece of crap. The only thing is that I have lots of better players to play around! But for the price I have paid ($74,90 with free shipping) it was a really good deal! Thanks Mp4Nation for that!