Hi guys Chris here back with another tablet so I've not given up on tablets
yet and neither has AllDoCube Chinese manufacturer previously known as
cube so this is the KNote 8 it's a 13.3 inch Windows 10 tablet that
has a fully laminated screen on there with a resolution of 2560 by 1440 it's
powered by an Intel Core m3 -7Y30 so that should give us some reasonable
power a lot more powerful than the typical Intel Celeron the Apollo 8 that
I commonly review this is about twice the power of this it's got eight
gigabytes of RAM which is great to see 256 gigabytes of storage you can buy an
optional keyboard for it which I happen to have right here to unbox and check
out and a stylus now the stylus I don't currently have so I'll start off here
with the power supply so this is individually boxed which is unusual
normally they come within the actual box of the tablet and you can see it's got
the two-prong style and this is rated to 12 volts 2.5 amps and it has that three
millimeter plug on the end of it so it'll be positive in the middle and
negative on the outside but you should also be able to charge this tablet with
type C with the type C port on it but I'll check that out in this video so the
keyboard is known as the model number C D K 11 don't know why they've called it
that and it is a backlit keyboard so it's a type cover style so similar to
like a Microsoft Surface pro 3 or the 4 and you can see there's the keyboard
shortcuts and it does have gestures according to this information guide here
so the keyboard is actually looking really good the build quality is
excellent it's right up there now the keys themselves they have a matte
plastic the paint job you can see that's gray and here's the shortcut there you
can see on the Zed there so you have to use only function Zed there to get the
backlit keyboard to turn that on and the touch pad is of reasonable size it has a
smooth feel to it and clicky left and right mouse buttons so we've got
shortcuts here for pretty much everything you can think of at least
we've got the home page up and down and in keys here delete right there and also
a Print Screen button which I real like to have controls here for these
screen brightness as well and then volume and media control so now the
travel on these keys seems quite good but it looks like the keyboard does not
actually have another level to prop it up so normally there's another like
magnets in here so you can clip it in and then prop it up to another level but
I'll show you what the keyboard looks like attached to the tablet of course
but before I show you them together I just wanted to show you the underside of
it so it's made again with this matte coated rubber to it now let's take a
look what we get inside the box so rather large tablet of course 13.3
inches and it feels rather heavy but I'll put that too aside for just a
second and have a look what else we get in here so hopefully this says a USB 3
hub in here that would be nice and I can see this is just for obviously
instruction manuals leaflet whatnot I don't look and see what we get so k note
8 and possibly all of us is in Chinese yes it is so there's just outlining
where the buttons are what the ports own everything like that is pretty
straightforward and lastly in the box we've got a Type C 2 USB 3 Delta
ok so just quickly check the weight of it before we have a look at the build of
the tablet so it's one point zero 5 kilos while that is quite heavy for a
tablet and then of course the keyboard which most people would probably have
with them and that brings the total up to one point four four kilos so rather
heavy for a tablet so taking a look at the thickness now of it there's a course
with the keyboard so that's 16 millimeters and then without that
keyboard on it it's 10 millimeters which is not bad at all for a corium powered
tablet so you can see the tablet it's got rather large bezels on it down the
bottom we have the poco port of course that's for the keyboard and then we have
a camera at the top so this camera at the top here this is 2 megapixels and
either side a little bit hard to make out on camera here there are two little
holes so that's jewel ray microphones which is great to see here so hopefully
the sound quality should be good when recording or using the webcam and on the
back there's also a 5 megapixel autofocus camera on the left side is
where you'll find all the ports so firstly we have dcn
for charging of course then type-c USB 3.1 so their supports data video and
charging I will check that out on this video 3.5 millimeter headphone jack this
of course is a micro SD card slot and then that little grill you can see
towards the bottom that is one of the two loudspeakers that is side facing
ones hopefully they're not gonna be super weak and bad like the K note was
so we have metal volume up and down and power buttons they have originally a
good feel to them not bad at all now this here the frame this part of the
frame is actually made out of plastic so this part here in this part here so the
whole frame around it is made out of plastic however the rear material so
this right here that is metal which has got a plastic protector on its to stop
it from getting scratched up in the factory and in transit and you'll also
notice that where the hinge comes up if I can get it up there's a little gap on
either side to get your fingernail and and then that comes up and you see this
hinge mechanism as well this is also made out of metal and overall the build
quality does feel decent this part here again is metal so the kickstand is a
multi-position one but it doesn't actually recline back that far so it's
definitely not an surface pro territory there that's the maximum angle you can
get which I feel probably most people would use this angle right here so it's
a shame that it doesn't go right back if it could go right back then that we've
better of course with a stylus use so I'll just show you now how it docks in
with the keyboard there are magnets there but it doesn't clip in as good as
some other keyboards you have to give it a little bit of a helping hand there so
I've just powered it on and gone straight into the BIOS this gives you
good idea of those large bezels this has so with a sixteen by nine screen and the
weight of this tablet - you do need some bezel around it but it would be nice if
they trim down perhaps the bezels on either side and made it a little smaller
so here are the BIOS you can see that it is in fact fully unlocked which is
really good I've just had a quick look at this so we have power limits disabled
on this so you can see it whatever Parliament you want but of course do
this with a lot of caution because if it gets too hot it will overheat any
definitely just reseeding or something like that so you have to be very careful
I don't know the thermals on this at the moment so I don't know
if it's possible to tweak those power limits to help boost performance hold
the turbos a lot higher for longer and one other thing also that I noticed is
there's Thunderbolt configuration here but it is disabled so I don't know where
their neighboring this is going to actually work probably won't because I
don't believe this has thunderbolt sorry hardware on here will be nice of it did
and your various other settings in here a lot of these of course can get you
into trouble so I recommend just not touching them at all and leaving it but
it's great to have these options here so here's a quick look at that keyboard now
backlit and all you can do is just simply turn the backlighting on or off
now it's not an area of the camera at the moment it is actually a darkish blue
almost purple like backlight on this which is a nice change here and it does
look good it's sufficient enough but it's not super bright the back lights on
them and each key is individually lit up here you can actually see the two LEDs
behind most of the keys there at the current angle I have my camera now
straight away I've discovered something rather stupid I think it's probably a
design flaw perhaps or just the way the PCB layout is with a micro SD card
reader but a little bit hard to make out on camera here so what's happened is
I've accidentally somehow pushed the micro SD card in between the rear case
and then the actual slot is inside there now you can see just how bad this design
has this should not happen this is a real crappy micro SD card slot you can
see my micro SD card I've managed to get it using a needle to about here
hopefully now I can just pull that out but it's still gonna be a real struggle
so this slot the design of it is bad really bad or it's so luckily disaster
avoided here but have a look at this you can see how where the SD card reader is
look there's a gap either side so you have to use the inner one and somehow
when I push it in here it went to the outer gap there which is actually the
gap between the outer part of the middle of the card reader and then the case
right here so this is really bad and if I push it in like this hopefully that's
going to get it in there properly I have a little bit scared now to put micro SD
cards in this tablet okay so let's take a look at the screen so first
impressions it's very good it's a lot better than the keynote screen it's much
bio right now I'm on one perceived brightness and I've just
turned down the ISO of my camera so I can capture the screen correctly now the
screen responds and the touch accuracy to me it's really good this is not bad
at all I can minimize maximize things perfectly fine and just having a look at
the colors to the reproduction on the screen is really good deep blacks -
because it's fully laminated you know going to get reflections or sometimes
with the non laminated panels those blacks often look gray instead of a nice
deep black but here you can see good now these this is a very saturated red
naturally actually when I took this photo this was with a samsung galaxy
note 4 and yeah it's coming out exactly how I remember it and all of these
Volkswagens here this is looking good - a nice screen so we have a look at a few
other things here with the tablet so we've got enter wireless AC city 165
this is a very common chipset it's not a bad chipset it gets a maximum normally
of around about 400 megabits per second depending of course on your wireless
router that you have you need wireless AC for that too
now let's the SSD drive as a setter is hiss D so it doesn't mention what brand
of SSD it is but I know from experience that when it just says SATA SSD that's
are gonna be for C or B when brand so these are manufacturers in China that
manufactures these SSDs it will be 22 by 42 m2 spec the drive and these are the
speeds you can see right here so these are actually fine perfectly fine I mean
the writes aren't the fastest you will see for SATA 3 spec but the MDOT twos
spec tends to be a little bit slower because they are smaller now you get
free space 220 gigabytes and you can see here that it's telling us that it's got
10 touch points the screen and pin support but unfortunately I don't have
the stylus for it but it will be a stylus that's 1024 levels of pressure
sensitivity so very similar to the stylus that is used by the Chui a chai
13 for example it's not a bad stylus I don't know whether I will be reviewing
it or actually get that stylus but it certainly won't be good as the Wacom
styluses or the intricacies you'll find on the Microsoft Surface product for
example I one more positive here - so while ram is running in dual channels
they're going to get the full memory bandwidth and the speed as well 1866
megahertz is what it should read so that's better than
some coring trees they set the RAM to only 1600 megahertz you missing out on a
little bit of speed here but not here at least now one thing I wanted to point
out here with the screen like okay I'm running it at 100% brightness and you're
probably thinking why are you doing that I'm having an issue with the camera of
my camera at least that if I set this for example to 100% sorry to 0% this is
really super done which is great but look what happens around 25% 50 you're
seeing this shimmering and flickering now this is some pulse width modulation
is causing this now it's not happening in person so me looking at the screen at
different angles I cannot see any flickering at all on the screen it's
just happening on camera here and I also know that the maximum brightness I did
measure it with my little meter that I have here and it comes out at a very
healthy 415 lux which is really good this is a massive step up from the 220
lux that I had on the K note the first version the 11.6 inch version of this
tablet with the Apollo Lake so I've just been keeping an eye on the battery while
I've been using it it did come out with a hundred percent battery and here you
can see that I'm down to well what are we now eighty-eight percent and I've
only had it on for eight minutes at the moment that since 92 percent but of
course this is 100 percent of screen brightness and it's reporting a total
time of that battery being around 3 hours and 47 minutes which I happen to
believe so hopefully with the brightness down we're probably only looking at
about five hours maybe six but the coins freeze they tend to not have very good
battery life it seems to be the case with all of them that I have reviewed
and you see the battery capacity right here so it is 41 watt hours so that
works out to be I think around 11,000 milliamp hours the size of the battery
that's in here which seems fair enough but they could have put something a
little bit larger and considering this is a 13.3 inch tablet
so I've plugged in my have it type C hubby and I can confirm that I'm getting
charging display out up to 4k 30 Hertz and data all at the same time so that is
good to see no problems with that port there so if you have a power delivery PD
support type-c charger then you're able to use
that to charge the tablet as well okay so just a comment on this touchpad while
the size of it is alright sadly it does not support Windows precision drivers
and I find the accuracy with the finer movements to be a little fiddly it's not
quite as good as I would like it and so far not ended really an enjoyable
touchpad to use it's very average so I've done a little bit of typing now on
this keyboard and I must say it is actually really nice to type on and do
like it and very firm of course I just wish that we could prop it up that extra
level as I mentioned before all right so time to check out the side firing
speakers now hopefully they're gonna have more volume and a bit of bass to
them and not be as bad as the keynote speakers so let's test them out
okay alright so they've got some bass to them which is great but they are lacking
volume they still should be quite a bit more louder than that but they are
however an improvement over the K notes pathetic speakers that it had in there
so at least these are marginally better now if you use something like a DX audio
enhancer or other software you should be able to boost that volume up a bit and
make it sound better and so I'm good news here for people that want to run
Linux on here everything i've tested is working so the brightness controls here
for the screen the audio controls the touchpad is working the screen touch is
also working everything wireless it's all working which is good to see okay
guys so that is the K note 8 there from audio cube and overall as a package I
feel yes it is nice the keyboard is very nice to type on it's backlit which is
great to see cuz often we don't have backlit keyboards hardly ever on tablets
there's been a few that I have seen but not many touch pad mmm front barrel very
poor don't like the touch pad no not good it's just the finer movements are
frustrating and annoying for example highlighting text it's just
a bit of a nightmare I didn't like how I got really angry with it and I just used
my mouse I thought no grab your mouse plug that in but then it comes to the
problem with the ports you plug a mouse in with the adapter and you can't plug
in anything else so you have to get yourself a Type C hub now there's
something of course that MacBook owners might be used to but I feel they should
have put at least one full size USB 3 port on here at least worth that USB 3.1
type C port would have been great so there's a bit of a design floor in my
unit the micro SD card slot doesn't quite line up correctly so I managed to
push that micro SD card as you saw and behind the actual reader and get it
stuck there and luckily I managed to get it out that is not good to happen at all
the other thing is the speakers aren't really as loud as I would like them to
be they should be louder but the screen brightness is really good it's fully
laminated it's a very nice panel with that higher resolution than just your
typical 1080p and it's very obvious when you have a look at it close up that it's
a bit sharper especially at thirteen point three inches I feel that if we had
1080p that kind of size it wouldn't be good so
it's good to have gone with a 1440p screen deep blacks good color
reproduction and the touch accuracy and responsiveness also good in my books
there and maxing out around 415 Lux is great for this type of panel so that's
really nice that build quality overall is very decent as well with metal on the
back and overall good package here but the price of it as well so I mean this
is selling for about about 550 us at the moment on gearbest comm and that to me
it's just way too much really it should be about a hundred us less and perhaps
that even if it included the keyboard and the stylus would be a lot better now
the stylus I don't know whether I'm going to be buying that to check that
out but it should be very similar to the chewy HR 13 stylus and hopefully I will
see you back in the channel with more up-and-coming reviews on tech from China
thank you so much for watching bye for now