Ainol Novo 10 Hero 10.1 inch Jelly Bean tablet announced!


Chinese tablet brand Ainol have long been one of the better brands with its great range of 7 inch Android tablet which boast both high-end hardware and the latest Android OS. Ainol have now announced their first 10.1 inch tablet! Full details of the Ainol Novo 10 Hero Jelly Bean tablet after the jump!

The new Novo 10 series of tablet will debut later this month with the first device becoming available being the Ainol Novo 10 Hero a 10.1 inch tablet with Android Jelly Bean priced at 999 Yuan ($160).

Coming equipped with a 10. 1 inch 1280 x 720 resolution display, 1.5 Ghz dual core CPU, 1GB RAM along with front and rear cameras the Novo 10 Hero looks set to be a popular choice for those wanting a larger tablet.

Although the price is quite low, Ainol have managed to fit the latest Android flavor in their new tablet, in this case 4.1 Jelly Bean, along with an impressively large 8000mAh battery which is said to offer 8 hours of video playback.

aino novo 10 hero 10.1 inch android tablet

Ainol have also announced that they will launch the Ainol Novo 10 Hero II later in the year which will get a quad-core CPU and Android 4.1.1.

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48 Comments

  1. plikmuny
    November 6, 2012

    Andy, according to you which one do you think is the best among these 2 ?
    Ainol Hero 10.1″ or SmartQ T30 10.1″ tab ?
    i feel the latter is more powerful & has good battery life…. there are many many advantages of smartq t30 compared to ainol tabs… its clearly Smartq T30 who is the winner… what do you say ? you want me to post the reasons for it ?
    first i will wait for my post to appear which was posted 3 days ago…
    then i will update my comment…

    • November 6, 2012

      From my experience Ainol tablets are a good bet.

  2. Tony Wills
    November 6, 2012

    Hey Andi do you know the price for the new Ainol Novo, do you think its a good buy? Please send the recommended price and the Release date of the new Oppo find 5 X909 and the price. One more thing will it be able to work on all networks of the world?.
    Thanks.

    • November 6, 2012

      Hi no I don’t know the prices yet. I’ve used a few Ainol tablet and they all seem good. Plus there seems to be a lot of support for them too on English forums. As for the Oppo Find 5 we will just have to wait and see 🙂

  3. Randy Fabros
    November 6, 2012

    yeah I heard about Ainol releasing some quad core devices, but they will be using Vivante GC series GPU’s which is a pretty poor GPU (mali and power SGX scores way better benchmarks). Thier CPU will be from a new player (action I think). So no one knows about how the performance of these CPU will be. So I wouldn’t be too excited of their quad core series.
    By the way Andi can you do more on tablets there is soo bloody many tablets in China it’s so hard to decide and has very little info can be found. I have been trying to find a tablet to use for work and it is so hard to decide.

    • November 6, 2012

      Yep I will def do more tablets, but like you said there are millions of them and it’s hard to find some that really stand out to report on. I’ll try though:)

    • November 7, 2012

      The hardest part for me is to find a chinese tablet with 3d built-in… i think they are few

    • Jason
      November 11, 2012

      ACTUALLY AINOL DITCHED THE GC1000 – I think that was from some early print material before Specs were finalized – they are going with a much better GPU

  4. TC
    November 6, 2012

    Great!! – one of the first places I see in the US that carries this product is http://www.tabletsprint.com — Can’t Wait! I get two for Holidays

    • November 6, 2012

      Are they trustworthy? Looks like that site has been online for about a month…

      • Rod
        November 7, 2012

        I bought three Novo 7 Flame through them for work last month – got tablets quick and they answered a few emaij questions right away

  5. Guest
    November 6, 2012

    Andy, according to you which one do you think is the best among these 2 ?
    Ainol Hero 10.1″ or SmartQ T30 10.1″ tab ?
    i feel the latter is more powerful & has good battery life…. there are many many advantages of smartq t30 compared to ainol tabs… its clearly Smartq T30 who is the winner… what do you say ? you want me to post the reasons for it ?
    first i will wait for my post to appear which was posted 3 days ago…
    then i will update my comment…

    • Guest
      November 7, 2012

      From my experience Ainol tablets are a good bet.

  6. Guest
    November 6, 2012

    Hey Andi do you know the price for the new Ainol Novo, do you think its a good buy? Please send the recommended price and the Release date of the new Oppo find 5 X909 and the price. One more thing will it be able to work on all networks of the world?.
    Thanks.

    • Guest
      November 7, 2012

      Hi no I don’t know the prices yet. I’ve used a few Ainol tablet and they all seem good. Plus there seems to be a lot of support for them too on English forums. As for the Oppo Find 5 we will just have to wait and see 🙂

  7. Guest
    November 7, 2012

    yeah I heard about Ainol releasing some quad core devices, but they will be using Vivante GC series GPU’s which is a pretty poor GPU (mali and power SGX scores way better benchmarks). Thier CPU will be from a new player (action I think). So no one knows about how the performance of these CPU will be. So I wouldn’t be too excited of their quad core series.
    By the way Andi can you do more on tablets there is soo bloody many tablets in China it’s so hard to decide and has very little info can be found. I have been trying to find a tablet to use for work and it is so hard to decide.

    • Guest
      November 7, 2012

      Yep I will def do more tablets, but like you said there are millions of them and it’s hard to find some that really stand out to report on. I’ll try though:)

    • Guest
      November 7, 2012

      The hardest part for me is to find a chinese tablet with 3d built-in… i think they are few

    • Guest
      November 7, 2012

      3g*

    • Guest
      November 11, 2012

      ACTUALLY AINOL DITCHED THE GC1000 – I think that was from some early print material before Specs were finalized – they are going with a much better GPU

  8. Guest
    November 7, 2012

    Great!! – one of the first places I see in the US that carries this product is http://www.tabletsprint.com — Can’t Wait! I get two for Holidays

    • Guest
      November 7, 2012

      Are they trustworthy? Looks like that site has been online for about a month…

    • Guest
      November 8, 2012

      I bought three Novo 7 Flame through them for work last month – got tablets quick and they answered a few emaij questions right away

  9. hunboy
    November 12, 2012

    Welcome,
    where you can order over $ 160??
    thanks

  10. Guest
    November 12, 2012

    Welcome,
    where you can order over $ 160??
    thanks

  11. William
    November 20, 2012

    This site has got a coupon code that drops the price down another $10. It’s good for the 7″ version as well.

    http://www.omnitechnews.net/2012/11/13/ainol-releases-novo-10-hero-speedy-android-tablet-budget-buyer/

  12. Guest
    November 20, 2012

    This site has got a coupon code that drops the price down another $10. It’s good for the 7″ version as well.

    http://www.omnitechnews.net/2012/11/13/ainol-releases-novo-10-hero-speedy-android-tablet-budget-buyer/

  13. Andre
    November 22, 2012

    I got my Hero yesterday, after used a little and turned off. When I turn on today it just shows the battery icon and if i keep power button pressed it turn on, but if I release it turn off again. Anyone knows how can I solve this?

    • Per, Norway
      November 23, 2012
      • Andre
        November 23, 2012

        Thanks, I managed to solve entering on recovery mode and flashing new official firmware, that intends to solve this and many other problems. Hope it solved my problem =)

        • Per, Norway
          November 23, 2012

          Thats great. Yes I saw the changelog for the new firmware, pretty good improvements.

  14. Guest
    November 23, 2012

    I got my Hero yesterday, after used a little and turned off. When I turn on today it just shows the battery icon and if i keep power button pressed it turn on, but if I release it turn off again. Anyone knows how can I solve this?

    • Guest
      November 23, 2012
    • Guest
      November 24, 2012

      Thanks, I managed to solve entering on recovery mode and flashing new official firmware, that intends to solve this and many other problems. Hope it solved my problem =)

    • Guest
      November 24, 2012

      Thats great. Yes I saw the changelog for the new firmware, pretty good improvements.

  15. Lynn
    January 16, 2013

    Hi Andi, I got my Hero last night but the problem I got are that I’m unable to download Twitter app from Google play store. They said my device is not compatible for the current version of Twitter? Next, I tried the per downloaded YouTube app but unable to play videos from there. The app just closed up and back to main screen. Someone told me it’s because jelly bean don’t support Flash play? But I can play YouTube via browser!

    • Per, Norway
      January 17, 2013

      Hi Lynn. You should flash your Hero with Cyanogenmod.
      Then you can spoof Samsung or Google Nexus on the Android market and make it “compatible” with most apps.
      http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/41600-cyanogenmod-101-jb-42-aokp-42-compatibility-zip-for-hero/

      • Lynn
        January 17, 2013

        Hi Andi, Many thanks for your advice. Will the Google App Play lost after I flash the tablet? Some of my friends told me that mostly the Google App Play will gone if I do flash the tablet….

        • Per, Norway
          January 18, 2013

          You will have the normal Play (Android market) when you add GAPPS (Google apps) as instructed in the link.

          The flashing procedure start with basic CM10, the adds GAPPS and a small compabillity file for the Hero.

          • michael
            February 19, 2013

            my novo 10 is in chinese language i have tried so had to change it to english but i cant can you please tell me how

  16. Guest
    January 16, 2013

    Hi Andi, I got my Hero last night but the problem I got are that I’m unable to download Twitter app from Google play store. They said my device is not compatible for the current version of Twitter? Next, I tried the per downloaded YouTube app but unable to play videos from there. The app just closed up and back to main screen. Someone told me it’s because jelly bean don’t support Flash play? But I can play YouTube via browser!

    • Guest
      January 17, 2013

      Hi Lynn. You should flash your Hero with Cyanogenmod.
      Then you can spoof Samsung or Google Nexus on the Android market and make it “compatible” with most apps.
      http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/41600-cyanogenmod-101-jb-42-aokp-42-compatibility-zip-for-hero/

    • Guest
      January 18, 2013

      Hi Andi, Many thanks for your advice. Will the Google App Play lost after I flash the tablet? Some of my friends told me that mostly the Google App Play will gone if I do flash the tablet….

    • Guest
      January 18, 2013

      You will have the normal Play (Android market) when you add GAPPS (Google apps) as instructed in the link.

      The flashing procedure start with basic CM10, the adds GAPPS and a small compabillity file for the Hero.

    • Guest
      February 19, 2013

      my novo 10 is in chinese language i have tried so had to change it to english but i cant can you please tell me how

  17. michael
    February 19, 2013

    my ainol camera is so poor what can i do?

  18. Guest
    February 19, 2013

    my ainol camera is so poor what can i do?