After being officially launched a few days ago, the Viewsonic ViewPad 7 got previewed during the IFA Berlin press days (just before the show opens for general public) and seems like a very decent product. The strong points mentioned are build quality, something we start to miss a lot those days in high tech gadgets. The supplied Android version is 2.2, as we’ve mentioned before, with no customizations. Viewsonic says that their 7 inch tablet will have full Google Marketplace support once it will be launched, which makes us happy.

    The whole case is very good put together, but the thing is a gigantic fingerprint magnet due to the glossy plastic used on the back. And speaking of the back, it resembles the iPhone 4 with its design simplicity, featuring only a 3 megapixel camera. The bad part of the ViewPad 7 is the 600 MHz Snapdragon CPU that does an adequate job of moving the device, but it feels sluggish at some points. Here are the two hands on videos we’ve found for you: