This right here is the Alldocube m8 so it is an 8 inch 1920 by 1200 IPS screen
tablet it runs Android 8.0 and it has dual SIM support on here it's got LTE
band 20 and even has been for in a couple of the American bands GPS you can
make voice calls on it it has the helio X 27 Deca-core chipset with Mali T8
80 it's not the fastest chipset around but this particular tablet for the price
does actually offer quite a lot it's selling for about a hundred and twenty
hundred and thirty US and it also has a slightly larger five thousand five
hundred million hour battery so let's check it out and see whether this one is
any good in the Box you will find a Quick Start Guide a microUSB to USB
cable the tablet where they pre applied screen protector and that's it there was
no charger included they mate weighs 354 grams and is eight point six millimeters
thick so let's take a look at the build it is mostly plastic so the frame all
around the outside it is all made of plastic but this backing here that is an
alloy they've used it's got a matte coating to it and it does pick up
fingerprints along the top you will find a micro USB answer no type-c with this
one here 3.5 millimeter headphone jack there with mic support and a rear five
megapixel camera and then the top cover comes off to reveal then our two micro
SIM slots your micro SD card slot as well tested 128 gigabytes working
without any problems and the micro SD card can be set up as the internal
storage but only got 32 gigabytes on this model so it's not a lot once you
start to install some of those big games and up the top yes we do have a rather
large top and bottom bezel there's a camera here it's 2 megapixels as a fixed
focus and again not wonderful your mobile phone is gonna take a much better
video or photo on the right we've got plastic volume up and down and power
buttons that little hole below is a little reset button now these buttons
they're plastic so they don't have a quality feel to them but they don't at
least rattle around and then down the bottom we have a single speaker here now
the loudness of this is okay I'll give you a sample later on in the video but
it's not a quality speaker so stereo speakers and no micro HDMI out is
on this either which is unfortunate now for this price point and being a budget
tablet I did not expect a fully laminated screen and here we have a gap
between the touch digitizer glass and then the IPS panel below of
approximately 1.5 millimeters on screen pushes out a respectable 400 Lux which
is not bad normally these budget tablets are only pushing out about a hundred and
ninety sometimes I need 200 or 250 at max so brightness does check out and if
you look at real world images they're alright it's not too bad we get a lot of
reflection of course because the screens not fully laminated and I do have still
the pre-applied factory screen protector on here I roll
I mean it's an OK panel it's not anything amazing and it's just a shame
that it's not fully laminated you know it does have a stock Android 8 ROM and
these are the apps you get so there's no real bloatware on here and you will note
- FM radio so yes if you plug in a hit set you can listen to FM radio the tuner
doesn't seem to be super powerful it'll pick up the strongest frequencies but
ones a little bit hard to get and it tends to be quite a bit of interference
and static but overall it's good to have this option on this tablet if you take a
look at the security patch level it's February the 5th 2018 so that's almost
one year old there and don't expect this to ever be updated even though it does
have a wireless update system I did get this patch come through which was a 16
megabyte update so at least audio cube are fixing some of the bugs they have
encountered when you take a look at free storage we've only got about 23
gigabytes free on here but as I pointed out it does support micro SD cards up to
128 gigabytes tested and you can use it as the internal storage which is good so
here is our geek bench for score it's not bad for this chipset single core
score and the multi-core score that's right
and this is the open CL score here and then of course our GPS which is onboard
here which is great oh and to to score this is very similar to other hey Leo X
27 even the X 23 and X 20s get a similar kind of score so this is somewhere
around a snapdragon 625 it's not a particularly powerful chipset
and of course it would not be one of my videos without testing the internal
storage speed so it's using even see four point five point one spec and for
that kind of type of drive these speeds here are reasonable they're respectable
and I just wanted to point out here that you can see at the top I've got two
three G's right there you can see so I did have dual sim running in this and I
was running perfectly fine no problems and I even made a voice call you can see
I just called someone and the sound comes out of the loudspeaker because
there's no earpiece but if you plug in a headset and then you can make a call at
least in private and it does work fine I found the quality to be just like a
mobile phone and this one here was to be expected so wide vine security level
three they haven't got a level one cert Aldi cube they wouldn't were the tablet
of this price range in most Chinese tablets in fact do not have this so you
cannot play Netflix in Full HD or HD you can get YouTube in HD but just not
Netflix and here's our battery life so it has a five thousand five hundred
million power battery which is actually a little bit larger than what you
typically get in this category of tablet norm you only get about four thousand if
you're lucky maybe four thousand two hundred four thousand five hundred so a
little bit larger there and that means I was able to get here you can see this is
50 sorry forty four percent and I had four hours and 44 minutes of screen on
time and this is the end result here that I ended up getting so eight hours
of screen on time now this was kept on a relatively low brightness here and most
of the time it was on wireless so if you're gonna be using data using LTE a
slightly brighter setting than what I had expect I would say about six to
seven hours of on-screen time but I'm just showing you the maximum you can get
if you really look after that battery then you're able to squeeze out eight
hours here which I feel isn't too bad ok so it's all very well those benchmarks
but what about the actual ROM performance well it's for the most part
actually quite smooth you can see here normally you get a little bit as
sometimes touch important and has been really choppy on some of the hey Leo x27
tablets I've looked at now why this is running a little bit better I feels
because it's running that resolution of only 1920 by 1200 the other
that I have been testing out if you see my reviewers have been 2560 by 1600
which is really quite demanding so for the most part it's gonna be smooth like
this when you start to multitask a little bit heavier start opening things
up you notice the a little bit of lag there it's not as fast as a snapdragon
616 ablet and if i just go out of this again and when you do do some
split-screen I've noticed for example file later go into Chrome that's when
you see things start to just get a little bit slower there and it does tend
to bog down a little bit so I've got legends in the background actually
they're running which is a game of course so just get back to the home
screen and real one chrome and I just Emin straight that this is where things
can get a little bit choppy you're pushing really the limits of this
particular chipset so I'll just bring up my website get that to load in now the
wireless performance I've had no problems with the wireless range the
reception 4G as well is working really good here so no problems with that so
here in the split screen you can see I'm able to scroll here I've got the gallery
open go through that and you get a little bit you can see a little bit of
slowdown just coming in there but overall this is I'd have to say one
other slightly better performing Helier x20 tablets that I have reviewed again
because I feel of that lower screen resolution now looking at a PDF file so
for your ebooks your PDF files you're not going to get amazing performance
with super large PDF files but the screen is ok the resolution is not the
sharpest you can see the text here fine and we do have to remember that built
into the ROM at least we've got a couple of settings up here to help with your
eyesight so we've got that blue filter on there which is called iComfort you
can turn that on and then you've also got reader reader just makes everything
black and white as well this may perhaps save a little bit on battery life so for
a light test like this like ebooks PDF files this is probably where you going
to get the best kind of battery life because it's very light use and here's
just a quick closeup of the text so you can see that when you zoom in you are
going to see pixels if you look at the screen really close so the task manager
seems to be reasonably good at keeping things in RAM even though we've only got
three gigabytes of RAM I've noticed that it's actually performing a little bit
better and not killing off things as quick as even some mobile phones a lot
of mobile phones will just kill very quickly you can see that now I've
got legions still there running in the background so that's taking up a bit of
the RAM the game of course and when you go through here you get just a little
bit slower now but it's not bogging down completely and I'll give you an example
now of just streaming so this is one of my videos and it's in 1080p and it'll
stream just fine no problems I tested out Amazon Prime video as well that's
gonna work you can see it looks good here okay so
what about audio normally these speakers they're terrible right yeah we've only
got one mono speaker on the bottom it doesn't have any base but the loudness
actually checks out it's alright and depending on what content you're playing
for example some games it is really loud but here's a sample of it
so as you can hear from that sample there's a bit of volume to it
not too bad and the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack as well the output is
clear no hiss no static and it does have an okay amount of volume to it as well
now demanding games like shadow gun legends here so on the lower settings
it's playable but it's not exactly running at a full 60 frames per second
or even 30 at times you can see the framerate definitely does dip down so
this is probably one of the most demanding games out there at the moment
that I'll test and then pub gee this is on the lowest setting of course that's
all you want to run with the Helier X 27 or any of the hell your chipsets here
and it looks to be playable I mean I think so far the framerate is keeping up
there towards 30 a few little stutters here and there a couple of little bits
of lag that I've noticed already and I was going to show you some gameplay
before but I died instantly and I said yeah look around and there's
a little bit of lag there and when you're going with the scope and move
it's gonna be playable but really just only just I feel and load of titles like
shadow fight 3 for example you can see here this one still has a little bit of
lag to it so it doesn't have the best gaming performance this tablet this is
sample now of that front facing webcam so you can see the quality is not
amazing you get a lot of lag with the viewfinder if you need to use this for
Skype calls or any other voice chat apps or whatever it's going to be possible
it's going to be alright as you can see and this is the microphone as well
that's been recorded on the microphone is actually on the front bezel right at
the top so there we go guys that is the audio cube m8 it has your typical
shortcomings of a Chinese tablet a budget one at that price to run 125 us
so we have middle on the back but we do have a plastic frame around there
plastic buttons the screen is non laminated and the speaker is just a
single speaker so no stereo speakers the slowness is okay to reasonable than our
high quality speaker webcams aren't that brilliant the performance you do
sometimes get a little bit of stutter here and there especially when you do
split screen some games are going to be a little bit laggy entropy as well but
for the most part games out there that I've tested they
will at least be playable so all up I feel for the price the features are
getting okay GPS, LTE so my two micro Sims can go
on this and a microSD card and you can make voice calls and it does have LTE
band 20 and even some of those bands for the US as well so that's a positive
you're getting a lot I feel for the money out of this yeah it's got Android
eight it's not the latest not the latest security patches 'evil either and it
will probably never get Android 9 either Android pipe or they wouldn't never come
through to this it does at least have OTA updates so all up a good tablet yeah
it's a good tailor but an amazing tale but no definitely not but for the price
as I mentioned I feel yeah it's not too bad if you don't expect the absolute
best performance thank you so much for watching this review here and I do have
to catch you back in the channel with more up-and-coming tablet reviews bye
for now