Chris here today you're looking at a budget tablet offering from Teclast so
this one is called the m89 it's a MediaTek powered tablet it has the hexa core
MTK8176 so that six cores paired up with three gigabytes of RAM 32 gigabytes
of storage that is expandable so on the left side of the tablet we have a micro
SD card slot so you're able to put up to 256 gigabyte micro SD cards in there
which is great it runs stock Android 7 and it also has a camera on the back
which is 5 megapixels autofocus - up front and a very common now I've seen a
lot of them Retina screen on this it's fully laminated with Gorilla Glass on
the side we do have these plastic volume up and down and power on buttons but
they've got a ok feel to them and that's really the only plastic we get on this
tablet so you can see also there is of actually a strip there for the antenna
reception so down the bottom of this little plastic liner you can see that's
for the antennas and there is a microphone there as well you know at the
top here you'll see the loudspeakers we have Micro HTML which is really good to
see where so many manufacturers are dropping HDMI out support on their
tablets which is an error so great to see that as here type C port as well and
overall the build quality does feel really decent it's solid in hand I
cannot hear any creaks between the joins or anything like that so overall a very
decent build let's take a look at what you get in the Box you've got the tablet
that isn't a nice protective or plastic wrap there's to stop it from getting
scratched out now it does have this pre applied screen protector from the
factory which is good great to always have these on there so you don't have to
put one on yourself and if you're anything like me you probably hopeless
at putting on screen protectors without getting air or dust underneath and in it
so right here we've just got an instruction manual and they tool there
so this what looks like a sim tool was the same kind of thing has actually for
the tray for the micro SD card you got a little warranty card there and whatnot
that's all in Chinese and here we have the power supply so this is gonna be a
Chinese one obviously that's been a Chinese mobile sorry tablet and this is
rated - five volts - amps so standard charging
rate and inside the last little box a white and great type-c cable for
charging and data so the screen is a very familiar one it's the same as the
iPad Mini 4 for example and we've seen so many tablets with the screen now but
even after all these years this is still a very decent screen really good it is
fully laminated has Gorilla Glass the resolution is 2048 by 1536 the gamer
comes out to be around about 2.1 so it's just under it should really be 2.2 and
it does ship with mirror vision and what mirror vision is is an app that is from
mediatek and it allows you to tweak the display to your own personal preferences
so the white balance saturation contrast you can change all of that and really
get this display to look quite good and reasonably accurate so it is of course
four by three aspect ratio the same as an a4 sheet of paper so it's quite
squarish whites look good darks reasonably black here you can see
the difference between the black of the bezel on the top and bottom and then of
the image but for this type of panel this is really quite good now the
maximum brightness tops out at 330 lux which is decent this is good and because
it's fully laminated it's not so susceptible to reflections like the ones
that aren't fully laminar they tend to be a lot more reflective so there's no
gap between the digitizer and the IPS panel below this is optically bonded and
overall after all these years as I said still a really good screen so I would
say that this is probably the biggest con of this tablet that it's running now
a dated Android 7 security patch level is April the 5th 2017 so that's a long
time ago no custom launches and we only have three Chinese bloatware
applications two of which can be uninstalled the only one you cannot
remove is this right here which is some sort of security app so we don't get a
lot of free space here 23 gigabytes but at least of course you can install the
micro SD card so it has three gigabytes of memory on board and typical kind of
views it gives us around about 1.8 gigabytes free drm info reports there
the Widevine level is security level 3 and what this translates into this
jargon is that Netflix and HD will not be possible with this tablet and it does
not even come up in Play Store because it's not supported so the wrong
performance is really quite decent this tablet is actually a lot smoother than
the recent decade core tablets they have been looking at now YouTube here for
example I've noticed that there are no options for changing the resolution it's
just captions there so you can't increase it which a little bit of
disappointment there with that but otherwise it really is quite smooth
getting around the ROM and as mentioned yeah it just feels so much faster than
the hell yo X 20 even though really it shouldn't because the X 20 when it comes
to your synthetic benchmarks like antutu for example actually gets a higher CPU
score here but the score for this one not bad at all so there we go you can
see we've got almost a hundred thousand which is about what the hell yo X 20
gets but when you look at the CPU score the Hollyoaks 20 will be a little bit
higher and the GPU score so comes out a little bit higher here this is 15,000
which you could say is a little bit low but synthetic benchmarks always take
them with a pinch of salt it really is down to world performance real world
performance sorry and you'll find that things are very smooth multitasking you
can also do split screen because this is of course an Android 7 tablet which
introduced that feature now on the toggles for the ROM here so when you
swipe down this is your typical Android they've got a few other things in here
so I comfort it's pretty straightforward I'm sure most people know what this is
so it's removing the blue from the white and a lot of people like this for
nighttime readings so apparent it's not going to keep you up at wake because
your eyes aren't seeing that blue and the other thing is here reading mode so
what reading mode does is kind of similar but it's just gonna turn
everything into black and white only and we also have an ultra battery saver mode
now if you use this as I'll show you later on with my battery pushing out the
review you can get up to a possible 8 hours of battery life so your ebooks are
going to look good on the screen because it's quite a sharp screen the high
resolution that has things do look great the colors the reproduction images here
this is a rather heavy magazine and the performance is good so
it's going to keep up with your reading pace but skipping ahead really quick you
can see it will take a little while and load in but overall the performance of
PF files as long as they're not super heavy once I'm talking over 100
megabytes and things like that then it'll be be perfectly fine even with
that location of the antenna being at the bottom of the tablet so if you use
it in portrait mode your hands will probably block it I have found the
signal strength to be decent it's good I haven't had any issues now connected up
to my wireless AC router at home no problems with the throughput you get up
to a maximum of around approximately 230 megabits per second but this has
happened I have been disconnected three times or so now in the three days using
this it will happen now and then I get disconnected and it reconnects very
quickly but this should not be happening so the wireless is not 100% stable for
internal storage the m89 uses e MMC four point five point
one spec it's not the fastest it's a little bit dated but it's what you'd
expect and this price range of tablet and you can see these sequential reads
and whites writes here they are they're perfectly fine for this type of storage
and it's not really going to cause any bottlenecks taking a look at the battery
times now that you're able to achieve from the m89
whether it's four thousand eight hundred and sixty milliamp hour battery in it
screen on time maximum that I managed to get on the ultra power saving mode you
can see right here this is this figure here eight hours just over eight hours
really pushing it that was mostly Chrome YouTube streaming some Amazon Prime so
very light use there are screen on time averages six thousand forty six minutes
but it is really about six hours I believe five to six hours depending on
what you're doing if you're gaming non-stop so I played pub G lineage to
revolution and I managed to burn through the battery in to just over three hours
so it really depends on what you're doing there now charge times it takes
just under three hours to fully charge the battery as I showed you in the start
of the video we have those two top words firing speakers and depending on how
you're holding it that you can block them but it doesn't
tend to make too much of a difference because the speakers seem to be situated
internally they don't sound brilliant the volume on them is also average but
here is a sample
now the headphone jack quality is also average here we do have a little bit of
static coming through on the line which does annoy me now it's not excessive but
it is definitely there and once you hear it you cannot unhear it and more
demanding games you could say like lineage to revolution you can see is
playing on the high settings with a normal frame rate perfectly fine in fact
it is smoother than the Helio x20 that one has the MALI T880 GPU in it and I
just find that the performance of the hexa core the mediatek 81 76 to be
slightly better in fact quite a lot smoother so this translates into much
smoother gameplay when you play games like pub G here I roi a much more
enjoyable experience just got some bots here trying to kill me you don't see all
those stutters and lag that you often see with the Helio X20 and by the way
it's running on the medium framerate on the HD setting so after 20 minutes of
PUBG it gets up to 35 and 37 degrees on the front so it is getting warm we
check the rear of it now does get warm just around that where that camera is
here so the back is actually a little bit cooler than the front of it and
here's a sample from that front facing webcam so the audio quality average the
quality of the video as well as average that it will be sufficient and now for
things like Skype and that's all that really matters at this price point so
there we go that is the tick last m89 and I feel that overall for the hundred
sixty nine us you're getting a decent tablet and why that is well you've got a
good screen the Retina screen maybe a dated screen now it has been used for a
long time since the iPad minis they made their way into Android tablets years ago
but it still is very very good even in 2018 okay with mirror vision it helps
because you can tweak the white balance the saturation and the colors to your
own liking it's 330 Lux bright which is
fine but it's fully laminated so that just makes it a little bit better and it
does have Gorilla Glass on here so you could actually just probably get rid of
the screen protector that is on there their build quality is good speakers on
the top aren't wonderful 3.5 millimeter headphone jack does have a little bit of
hesse which does irritate me but kind of to be expected in this price range of
tablet battery life can be anywhere from about three hours worst case scenario
just full-on gaming right up to almost eight hours or eight hours with the
battery saver mode and just looking at YouTube and very light you so on average
you're gonna get around five six hours I feel with mixed use so some gaming some
YouTube some streaming looking at say ebooks and things like that is when the
battery tends to last a little bit longer there so the front camera on it
and the camera on the rear there average your mobile phone will be so much better
I'm pretty sure you know that you wouldn't be buying this these kind of
tablets for their cameras anyway as a general package it's looking good there
is a little problem with the wireless that it will disconnect now and then now
would happen maybe once a day then it connects up again really quickly but
even so very irritating when I was in pub key and I was in again for 20
minutes lost my connection and that really did annoy me there so that's not
wonderful to see okay we've got type-c on there which is good that's more
modern and we have HDMI out great to see because so many manufacturers are just
dumping that saving obviously cost savings why they're doing that so good
to have that on board good to have the GPS there as well
I feel go for a tablet like this because the 8176 mediatek hexa core chipset
just performs better it's smoother gaming is better PubG the demanding
games are just overall a lot smoother than that Helio X20 you go for the
Helio X20 tablets probably for the LTE the 4G support and that really
is about it so I would stick to these ones the Master T10 check out my review
of that one up here and my latest videos thank you so much for watching bye for
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