You're probably thinking where are the tablet reviews they've just disappeared
from the channel and the website well no it's because there hasn't really been
anything decent out there but I did manage to find this one which is the
Onda Obook 11 Pro now this has a Core M3 7Y30 in there 4 gigabytes of ram and
it does have 64 gigabytes of internal emmc 5 storage which you're probably
thinking oh that's slow yes but there is an M.2 SATA3 drive bay in there so
we can put our own SSDs in there to increase the storage capacity and the
speed there now it does have I think wireless AC it is an optional keyboard
it's running Windows 10 home and has a unibody rear housing on it the screen
isn't fully laminated not at this price point this one I got here from Banggood
and it cost me $299 USD which I thought was reasonable considering it has got
the higher powered core m3 in it so let's check this one out here and see if
it's a decent tablet or not so unfortunately it doesn't have the
original box so I can't show you that because they repackaged it at least I
know that this way it should have no damage to it so that took a minute or so
to cut around the box here I kind of do which they would use the original
packaging because getting it like this it feels almost like a used tablet even
though it's not it's just not as nice having the original packaging would be
so much better of course so we've got a power plug in here which is the 2 prong
us-style they've included a type-c adaptor and here's the power supply so
type C charging rated to 12 volts and 3 amps there's something here about micro
SD card are the slot there at the bottom just to tell you where it is user manual
in Chinese and Chinese okay even though it says use a menu in English there is
no further English on there okay and certificate of quality so hopefully
someone's done their little inspection on this
so here we have the tablet so you can see it's got a ten port Pogo pin
connector at the bottom for the keyboard so you can reverse it around and you
still have the USB ports on that keyboard hopefully I'll be able to show
you that and the final review of this tablet when it arrives so starting here
from the right side of it where all the ports are we've got a microphone micro
SD card slot full-sized USB 3 port now great to see this on here because other
corian tablets like the cube mix + lactis and only use a USB 3.1 type c
port never got a status LED there micro so many HDMI out and then a type C port
in there for charging and data a bit it'll only be USB 3 spec it won't be
handling I don't think it will be handling at least video outs because
they've already included that in mini HDMI there and this is one of two
speakers either side of the tablet now on the left side we just got the speaker
grille the second speaker and then another microphone here so it looks like
it's got good stereo separation for the microphones there one on the left and
one on the right on the top right-hand side we've got the volume buttons and
then the power button now unfortunately these to me feel like they're made out
of plastic they have a little bit of play to them they aren't exactly quality
feeling buttons give a little bit of a cheap feel to them so on the back of it
it's all made out of an alloy here feels quite solid but unfortunately only comes
in that champagne gold color which I'm not particularly fond of this part along
here which is a different tone of gold this is where the wireless antenna is
and Bluetooth antennas of course made out of plastic so we don't have any
problems with the reception in range of those antennas and then lastly on the
front we've got these rather large bezels I mean they're not too bad I have
seen larger and definitely not fully laminated the screen unfortunate I can
see a bit of a gap between the digitizer glass on the front end in the eyepiece
below of approximately I would say around one millimeter it's not the
slimmest and it's not the largest but still not that great front facing camera
is a to make a pixel one that should be
capable of 720p video and then of course down below the capacitive home button
there the windows home button okay so it powered up very quick it already has a
pre created account on there so that's been good I think they've gone and
they've done their inspection a test it's an account called G if you're not
happy with that you can do a factory reset of course for me I'm not too
bothered about that because they shouldn't have put any spiral and
heating on there but if you're one of those people that wants to be safe then
definitely recommend doing that so we have free space here 38.5 gigabytes
which is not a lot that is really quite poor considering that we've got a quarry
m3 on here as well we'd want to have at least 128 gigabytes but as mentioned in
the start we've got that m dot 222 by 42 SATA 3 if is d bay on there so we'll
probably be using that because 38 gigabytes
let's face it that's not enough once you start installing your applications and
things that will run out really quick and windows 10 home fully activated so
they haven't used the dodgy Windows 10 license or one of those temporary
licenses and lady have to use your own key which is great don't have to worry
about that now over into the device manager now there is a pleasant surprise
here we've got a dual band Intel wireless AC chipset in here but it's not
the typical three one six five this one here is the 72 65 which we often see in
more higher-end devices this is the same chipset that's in my shell me me
notebook 2.5 and performs really well even better than the already good Intel
wireless AC 3 165 that's a nice surprise there the EMC drive is a Toshiba 0-60 4G
38 and that's e MMC 5 spec so I was curious on just how fast that emmc would
be and those are the speeds there so clearly it is an emmc v speak because
it's got sequential 259 reads but the write speeds there are quite low
was 62 only four case aren't too bad but I can say so far yeah I think I will be
putting in a set of three SSD in this now I wanted to have a look at the
screen here to just to show you the quality of it and it's not a bad i PS
panel that they've put in here eleven point six inches 1080p and the
brightness at the moment is on 75% so here we go that's a hundred and at two
percent very dim so that will be great for late use so nighttime you think that
that should be perfect for that that kind of low brightness which I'm happy
to see manufacturers doing a lot aren't putting that lower brightness on there
anymore and then back to 75% so colors that's a video that on there looking
good reasonably deep blacks the panel itself looks
I wouldn't say warm white or even cool white it's almost neutral maybe slightly
towards the cool white but not bad and the viewing angles IPS shouldn't be too
bad although you can see it looks a bit darker there but I think that's because
I've got the two screen protectors on the first layer that I'd need to pull
off which we'll do later on now if you're worrying just how thick it is it
comes in just under ten millimeters and the weight of it is 881 grams so
slightly heavier on the heavy side really if you combine that with the
keyboard which will probably have a counterweight in it it's probably going
to end up being well over 1.5 kilos or even 1.8 or something like that with a
combined total weight I'll find out when I get my keyboard eventually so both
battery bar and HW info are reporting that the battery capacity is 48 watt
hours which I don't believe is possible that's not going to fit in here with it
now Vanguard's websites say that the battery capacity is six thousand
milliamp hours perhaps it's to six thousand milliamp hour cells
so our battery capacity could be somewhere around 38 what hours I'll have
to check that out in my final review I'm going to have to sit down and use the
and drained the battery at the moment it's giving me a full runtime of about 5
hours and 44 minutes which I'm leading to believe that figure actually because
most of the quadtest to get around five and a half to six hours max so if you
look really close at the screen the IPS panel you will see individual pixels you
can see right have it zoomed right up into the screen here and if you have a
look for example the notifications there where you can see the three in a circle
that yeah that's not going to be as sharp as one of those ultra high-res
screens or anything about having a 1080p panel with a core m3 should help our
performance okay so the weakest point of this tablet so far seems to be the
speaker's maxing out at 71 decibels max so far which is not really that loud
they are quite quiet I wish they're a lot louder than that so that is
disappointing the speaker's not good at all
now let's have a look at the internals here and how to add our own m to SATA
SSD so there are two screws on the bottom which I have already removed I've
got a pry tool which is just a plastic credit card which I see an old SIM card
or a guitar pick actually works really well too and a suction cup I'll show you
why you need that so with the suction cup it's a little hard to do with a
camera tripod in my way here but pull down on here you can see how that's
opened up between the plastic where the antennas are and then I'll be able to
insert this card here into that gap that's opened up now and go along to
proceed to unclip all those little Clips being extra careful not to damage
anything and you just have to go around the whole edges here now the corners
will be the most difficult part from experience doing this on the cube mix
plus another similar tablets just take your time go around real easy and best
to use this to start because I found that just using the car by itself wasn't
going to work okay so once you get both of the sides
unclipped then you can just use the back panel and push it down because we've got
of course that tin pan Pogo pulled on the bottom there and that then should
slip the fill out just like that and I can see that actually look they've used
a little thermal pant there to transfer heat onto the back of the case which is
a good move and something I would do and a very thick looking copper heat sink
here right there you can see so that's our heat sink and there is our set of
slot there so that's the M.2 22 by 42 is what you're going to need there
just zoom into that for you and you'll put your SSD in there remove that one
screw slide it in and you'll have to reinstall windows onto that or the other
method is take a Windows image backup or use a Chronos backup or other backup
programs and then restore that on to the SSD but overall here the build quality
looks reasonably decent I like that they're put a very sick copper heatsink
on there and the thermal pad that's something I would do internal metal
frame here too as a support there for the motherboard the outer frame of
course is plastic that everything's screwed into and there are the two
battery cells which look to be I just judging I'd say maybe four thousand
milliamp hours each something around that sort of figure but I will have the
full battery life and my up and coming full review now just testing here I've
removed the screw that holds the SSD in place to see if we could fit a 22 by 60
mm one here which is the medium sized m dot - it is d and yet it would fit in
there but you're going to have to get a dremel or something to cut down that
screw thread in there so if you level that smooth that out then this will fit
in just hold it down with a bit of tape or something it should be fine because
the slot itself will hold that in place this of course that's and perfectly
that's the 22 by 42 and then you screw that in place and you set I recommend
going with a train seen brand one this is 256 gigabytes
because it's the fastest you could have course bought up to 512 I think it's the
largest size and 128 but I would personally go for 256 gigabytes because
I feel that even 128 won't be enough for most people and just a tip here when you
put it back make sure you start with a pogo port pins at the bottom so you slot
that in first then clip in same way as we took the cover off it as you start
off from the bottom work your way around the sides and finish with the top be
careful with the plastic buttons two up there so it does support a stylus and
it's like this one here it's one of those active styluses that you charge up
with a micro USB cable now these styluses are not very good this isn't
the official one this is the tech last one and it doesn't work on it none of my
stylus is that I have work I'm not going to buy the stylus for this because they
know that it's quite useless these styluses are just more like an accurate
pointer that's it because there are no pressure levels and the palm rejection
only works when the status is touching the screen there is no hover function
they are really quite bad these kind of styluses so I wouldn't be buying this if
you wanted to use the stylus check out the Wacom enabled Cube mix + or the i7
book for that ok guys so that's the video there so far it's looking like a
decent tablet considering the spec you're getting ok only 4 gigabytes of
RAM so shame it doesn't have 8 gigabytes but then it does sell for around 300 us
and I think you're getting a reasonable tablet so far but I've got to check out
thermals of course benchmarks and then the keyboard so I'll be back with all of
that and the full review but the positives are so far that it seems quick
and snappy the touchscreen is accurate it's responsive to touch no problems
with that not a bad IPS panel their views the 11.6 inch one now we do have
an emmc on there which is a shame that it doesn't come with a SSD of course
it's a lot faster but we can install our own
however it's not for everyone of course having to crack the tablet open it's not
that easy and then you can of course and storage but you know it's a bit of a
mission to get in there we've got a slightly better wireless AC chipset than
we normally see normally we see the Intel wireless AC dual band 31 65 and
this is the 72 65 which has does better performance overall so those aspects of
it are looking quite good as mentioned I'll be back in the fall of you with
everything else thanks a lot for watching and I do hope to see you back
what the full review and more up and coming videos that I'll have on the
channel