Chris here with Chuwi's second Helio X27 tablet so this time around we've got
the same CPU like the HiPad but we have a much better screen we have four
gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage with this one here it is also dual SIM
and most importantly the modem that's in this one this is the European model does
support your European bands including band 20 LTE which is great
microSD card support on this as well it does have GPS and I have the optional
keyboard dock stand case what do we want to call it for this and it turned out to
be quite a nice keyboard - I didn't expect it to be as good as what it is
the overall the package is nice the build is good but as you see later on in
the review that the performance is still lacking here with that Helio X27
the template comes out of the box with a pre-applied screen protector just
outlining some of the key specs here but you can see those now listed on the
right-hand side of the screen we also get a Type C cable in the box and then
our charger this is an EU charger because I've got the EU spec it's ready
to 5 volts 2 amps and sadly it does not support media Tech's pump Express so it
takes over 5 hours to fully charge so it's very slow
you can also buy two optional extras which is the keyboard which is quite a
high quality keyboard as you can see it looks a little bit like the iPad pro
keyboards and then we have the hype nh3 which is the optional stylus that has
1024 levels of pressure sensitivity the keys on the keyboard here do have
reasonable spacing and the quality and feel of them is good they have about 1.4
millimeters of key travel and it's a felt like suede material that I have
used on the inside and then a rubber type material on the outside with the
chewy logo you can see right here and here is our five pen Pogo port and the
docking stays so when you have that keyboard doctor into the tablet you can
see that it brings it right up the keyboard to the screen so again similar
to the iPad pros the keyboard can be then folded up to protect the screen
like so but it doesn't protect the rear of the tablet as you can see that is
still exposed and could be scratched the tablet weighs 543 grams and then with
the keyboard case that brings it up to 841 grams under Aikido that's not too
bad now it is about 8.9 millimeters thick and with the case that brings it
up to 15 millimeters thick the tablet has nice rounded edges that feels good
in hand and we do have these volume buttons that are made out of metal which
is good often they're plastic right here is a 5 megapixel autofocus camera it
takes average photos I will give you a video sample of the front-facing camera
later in this review and you can see this little tiny slot here well that is
one of the two loudspeakers the screen does come with a pre-applied screen
protector and yes as you can see it is super reflective and it's going to be
picking up fingerprints as well what we have here too is a type C port now it
does not support display out sadly and there is no micro HDMI or mini HDMI out
on this tablet manufacturers from China seem to be dropping that recently which
is a real shame and then on the top there is also a 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack which supports microphones so you of course can use that for voice calls
and this does have voice calls it's got a diner on here it's dual sim with 4G
and it does have the European bands right here you can see I have just
pulled out the SIM card tray and it will take either two nano Sims nano SIM or
micro SD card the output from that 3.5 millimeter headphone jack isn't actually
too bad for a media tech device there's no static on my unit but it's still not
the best quality you would get the rear of the tablet has the middle alloy
housing on here it has a matte black paint job so it feels good in hand its
grippy but of course it's going to be leaving a lot of smudges and
fingerprints down the bottom you'll find the Pogo port connector 5 pin with the
two little holes either side that's for the stays and overall their build
quality of the tablet is really quite good I do like it so the screen is a
common one I've seen it in quite a few other tablets here this is a sharp IPS
panel and has a resolution of 2560 by 1600
now the bezels they're not going to win any awards now for me this price range
it's we find this is not trying to be an iPad
pro 11 inch model no but what we do have is a very decent screen because the
gamma checks out at 2.2 which is spot on there and it also has a maximum output
brightness of about 360 Lux which is also very good and it is a fully
laminated display images look very good on this screen and I've noticed too as
well that the touch response a little bit like the high pad just isn't quite
there it needs some optimization now sure we did mention to me this is chewy
support on Aliexpress I did email them and told them that I'm having a few
performance issues with this tablet as you'll see later on and they said that
there is a patch in the works for this particular model that's going to help
improve things I'm crossing my fingers for that we've got a similar patch with
the high pad and it did actually help a little bit so I roll this screen this is
really good it makes this tablets just a shame that the performance is you can
see here would touch see that choppiness that it's just not as smooth as it could
be considering the fact that we have the same spec with other manufacturers using
the same exact Helio X27 that deca core core chipset with the male 8880 GPU
clocked at 875 megahertz i mean on paper it sounds wonderful we
should have decent performance here but you're just gonna see this sluggishness
in the UI and everywhere it's just not as smooth as it could be which makes the
tablet a little bit frustrating so it is running stock Android which is great
this is Android 8 the security patch level is from July so it's a little old
now so hopefully they can fix that but I wouldn't hold my breath on this ever
getting Android 9 you're never going to normally see this with these budget
tablets they never ever bother and that performance pulls through into things
like Chrome here so you can see the scrolling on that I mean it's ok but you
will notice that it's just not as smooth as say a snapdragon 616 Ablett and if
that gone chewy with a better chipset in this this
would really be I feel quite a good tablet video streaming services so
YouTube YouTube we're going to get that in 1080p and you're also going to have
apps like Amazon Prime video here that I have I'll be watching some episodes of
Vikings and this has been working out well so it'll start off in a poorer
quality I think there's something like 480p when it starts
out and then it eventually improves the quality up to 1080p and it does look
really good so no issues with streaming now Netflix I have tested out Netflix
I've had this on here and you're only gonna get standard definition because it
does not support Google's widevine level one it's stuck on level three and
it means Netflix will only be standard definition sadly I've got a few of you
asking me about PDF support so this is a relatively large PDF file but nothing's
gonna match of course the iPads like the iPad pro is just the absolute king at
looking at PDFs that CPU that it's got on it the newer ones and even the older
ones just fly through PDF files so you can see that it looks really quite good
because of the screen now when you double tap in it works fine you know
there's that make it a little bit of animation I started there and when you
start to scrolling it really quick it's gonna need a little bit of time to catch
up as you can see right there but overall at your normal typical reading
pace if you were going through it like this I find it's fine and I will give
you a close-up on what that text looks like and as you can see here because of
that screen resolution it does look very good after all this is a very nice panel
that chewy has selected for this tablet now this keyboard after using it now for
four days is quite good it's very practical so much better than using the
on-screen keyboard of course and I do find that once you get used to this
layout now we do have a slightly crammed in here when you look at it we've got
some handy shortcuts as well so we've got ones here to control the screen
bonus you've got copy and paste here you've got a shortcut there for email
browser media keys and even the volume there and to lock er this is good this
is handy so it's a practical keyboard yes it's a little close to the screen
but once you adapt it's certainly better and then nothing and a little similar
has mentioned to the iPad pro keyboards that you get to the layout but I
actually like the feel of these keys better they're what I would call more
proper keys or as the ones on the iPad pro when I was using that one they have
a bit of a different feel to them because they they're all like sealed now
that's probably to keep dust and stuff out of that but overall actually quite a
decent keyboard on first boot with the tablet you get approximately 57
gigabytes free and of course micro SD card support I've tested up to 128
gigabytes I've done a few file transfers with it
it is a little slow but there's no issues with that and that internal
storage it checks out it as MMC four point five point one spec and you can
see that these read and write speeds they are good for this type of storage
now wireless it does have wireless AC and very good speeds for this chipset
over just over here 200 megabits per second which is great and I of course
have tested out 4G so there are your 4G speeds now you probably get faster with
your own network here as mentioned a few times I'm using orange with this
particular SIM card and even my Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus can't really get much
faster than this so that's good range and signal strength does a check out as
well so this is just in the studio here in the normal room I recorded and went
over to the other side of the apartment the signal does drop off as course you'd
expect but it works out fine we're not losing too much speed here and it does
have GPS onboard that's something that's part of the Hallyu x27 and they have it
enabled but we don't have a hardware compass on this one it gets an accuracy
of around 4 to 3 meters which is fine it doesn't lock on to all of the satellites
and it is very slow to first get a lock but it's good to have this option it's
just a shame there's no hardware compass which would make it even better and here
is our antutu score so close to a hundred thousand and that checks out
it's on par with other hey Leo X 23 or X 27 chipsets there so that is fine and
then on to battery life so I was using wireless here so if you're known on
wireless the whole time if you're using 4G expect about 20 maybe even 30 percent
lower results here but I managed to get 10 hours now this was with the
brightness at approximately 30% which is still reasonably bright probably what
you're looking at more or less now and I feel it's quite a good result here
considering that this is a 20 nanometer chipset it's not the most efficient it
has 10 cores but of course it has those lower clock calls as well that's why the
result here is quite good now it's gonna be gaming then expect this result to be
halved but gaming is very demanding and that is using all of the cores then so
you probably get about 5 hours max but overall I feel it checks out for a
better life and if you're using it offline and on a lower brightness I can
see people getting easily over 12 hours of continual on screen time so this is
what the camera is light you the quality is it's okay it's average
and they do have I feel an optimized angle here for the camera considering
it's only got that one position when you put it in the stand so that is okay now
if you switch over to the rear camera you get a lot of you find a lag and the
focus can be a little bit slow but at least it does have an auto focus but as
I say most of these videos that your mobile phone will take a much better
photo and video with the rear cameras of this one they're only 5 megapixels and I
roll this front weights facing we cam I feel there's fine for Skype and use like
that which I've tested it in it works so that's the main thing though China and
Plus here has two speakers on the rear their rear outwards firing and they
actually sound okay normally speakers on these tablets are pretty bad but these
ones I would rate as above average for this particular tick that I review but
here is a sample of them
when it comes to gaming games like shadow fight 3 here you can see it's
playable but there's a bit of noticeable lag now all the games out there is gonna
be able to play this particular chipset now let's take a look at a more
demanding game which is pub G what I mean at least it is playable on this
Highway and it is performing a little bit better than the high pad with its
three gigabytes of RAM of course with this particular tablet we've got an
additional gigabyte and it's got a total of four and that is helping out but if
you're after the smooth is best kind of performance on a game like pub G then
you're gonna be disappointed and even though it was slow I did manage to get a
win here against mostly bots so what about that stylus so this stylus we know
it supports 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity is the hypeeeee NH 3 it's
been used on other chewy tablets but here it doesn't seem to support the
pressure sensitivity when I ride on it now and you can see look at that input
lag this is a dope sketch by the way you can see it's a little bit slow but if I
press down harder it makes no difference now the accuracy of the nib tip is good
and if I'm writing there and then touch the screen it does seem to have some
level of palm rejection but the detection is very poor of the stylus
because it only seems to happen right when it's touching
there's no hover feature as well so you don't see that little tiny dot when you
hover around like you do with other statuses now handwriting with this I
have done a test and I'll just do a little one right now is very poor and
not really recommended so I wouldn't be getting this particular tablet for the
stylus sadly it's not really there as it would no pressure sensitivity and that
palm rejection only working when it's touching it without that holo feature
makes writing just so difficult so there we go sadly we've got such a nice
package here really ok the bezels are you know there look like 2014 or
something but we have a very nice panel and as the gamma checks out and it is
also very bright it's fully laminated and good color
it is a really good decent screen even the bill quality is nice I like what
they've done with the rounded edges 4G support we've got GPS and we can also
make voice calls there's a lot of things going for this it's got the European
bands as well very nice keyboard but it all doesn't really matter when their
performance of the tablet it's just a little bit sluggish it's a little bit
leggy at times when you start to do some heavy multitasking you really notice it
too so it's the wrong optimisation I feels where it's lacking I know with the
tick last g20 that I reviewed that has the same chipset the same Ram it does
run a lot smoother so it's not the hardware partly the hardware but it's
more the software I feel so if so we can optimize it and that patch will come
through I hope you soon for this that does pick up the performance then it
would be a recommended tablet and what is really sad to see why are they not
going with if they can stretch their budget out a little bit more I'm sure
people would happy to be paying another 1520 us whatever the cost is going to be
to have the hello at X 30 the x2 DS got a better GPU in it and even a Snapdragon
if they could swap over to Qualcomm I wouldn't even be bothered if it was a
Snapdragon 625 would still run a lot better than the Holly or X 27 in this
I'm pretty sure and if they could stretch out to say this six three six or
even the 616 and they would have a very decent tablet then thank you so much for
watching this review now I do have two other reviews of some other Android
tablets or one right up here which is the me paired four and that is the high
paid up here which is that other Helio X27 tablet that I reviewed from Chuwi
bye for now