RCA Voyager III Android Tablet Unboxing, Teardown and Review!!!

[@vicserr1]

Man I still own an RCA Voyager III, this was Walmart's to go Tablet brand before they decided to add tablets to their ONN brand, I got mine one Black Friday sale many moons ago and in my case it was running Android 7 Nougat and just like yours probably slow and just to run light tasks.

[@devhackmod]

They really built this thing down to a price! A friend ended up buying a whole truck load and gave me a bunch, the quality control sucked. Some don't have working sound, some don't record (microphone bad or missing). I remember he complained to me about stuff like this. I opened up a few to see what is going on, still can't figure it out. Seems like maybe he got a batch of returns or rejects. In any case, it's fast enough for light tasks and watching lo-res movies in MPG format but forget about playing HD MP4's using VLC Player on them. It's just way too slow. Good to browse the web, listen to music/MP3 files but not so much for KZbin as any higher-quality videos will significantly slow it down. eBooks/PDF files will read fine. I'm sure back then, and especially today, you could get a much better device for the same or slightly more cost so I'm not so sure this thing was even a good deal, to be honest. It seemed overpriced given the lousy specs... I would have expected it to be much much cheaper.

[@bimko.]

hi came across your channel while trying to make a game called live for speed work on ubuntu. your tutorial is great however the game crashes when loading a map. do you have some fix for this by any chance?

[@devhackmod]

I'm not sure what is going wrong, but this may help: en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Running_LFS_on_Linux. I haven't run the game for a while but I'll try to install it again and see if it works. Note that I was using LFS_S2_6J version, whereas the lastest is LFS_S3_7E (I'm downloading it now). Maybe you need to try an older version as they changed something that is incompatible with WINE.

[@bimko.]

@@devhackmodive alredy found a flatpak of lfs on some website and it works perfectly. thanks for reply tho.

[@VintageSG]

You think that's bad. I bought an RCA Voyager III in the UK that in comparison, yours are at least vaguely useable. I paid £19 for it, brand new, in box. I knew it'd suck harder than a lady of the night, but even I was surprised just how awful it truly is. Unlike yours, mine 'features' an Intel Atom CPU. This is the sole reason I bought it. X86 in tablet form?, Ubuntu a possibility? Battery life, from new, was less than an hour. Given the tiny battery, I'm not surprised. Screen response under Android to touch or swipe?, think at least a second and you'd be being kind to it. Open a menu?, two seconds. Launch VLC to stream some tunes?, over a minute to launch followed by 30 seconds to open the DLNA connection. Bluetooth audio you ask?, why yes, it'd connect to a soundbar, providing the soundbar is within 2ft. Glorious mono with the sbc ( suck balls completely ) protocol. Decoding FLAC?, bwahaha. Decoding MP3?, yes, it'd do that, but FLAC had dropouts. KZbin? Nope. Wifi?, within 6ft of the access point. E-Reader?, it's 7" screen causes eye fatigue. If you ever happen across the Atom powered, 7" screen variant of the Voyager III, pass it by. As for Ubuntu, well, I got it to boot to a shell and the on-screen keyboard and wifi worked-ish, but it was too slow to use. I watched your video out of curiosity. Your Arm variant kicks my Atom into the weeds! I found this sorry e-waste in my spares box today and wondered if anyone had ever managed to do anything with one. I'm ever the optimist 🙂 I have an original Pi Model B that perform so much better, it's not even funny. That runs RISC/OS, Raspbian and even an old version of Android. My RCA?, not even the battery is worth salvaging. Good luck with your adventures.

[@devhackmod]

I enjoyed reading your summary of the Atom CPU powered version of the RCA Voyager III. I thought mine sucked but reading through your experience made me realize there is no low to how crappy some companies can make their products for the sake of cheapening the price. I'm glad you got Ubuntu on there... that's on my main work-horse, a 12 year old ASUS K56CA and still going strong!