i have with me here probably the best affordable tablet that you can currently get we've seen a lot
of the tiger t 618 powered android 11 or android 10 tablets this one here from Teclast is their
T40 Pro and it has 8 gigabytes of ram with that unisoc t618 chip it's got lte support so dual sim
with lt band 20 bluetooth 5 it also has gps a hardware compass with that gps
fm radio you can place calls texts on this so quite a lot is on offer here the screen is a 10.4
inch screen with a 2000 by 1200 resolution it's quite bright there are four speakers and it has
a 7 000 milliamp hour battery this to me is right now the best of the affordable tablets you can get
with android 11 that it ships with included inside our box you'll find a user manual we have a
charger which is a type c one and then a type c to type c cable there's also this optional
extra that tech class do sell for it which is a cover case for it so it has this that flips
right back so you can use it as a stand and then the back just a standard kind of tpu style case
it does fit the tablet perfectly of course coming from the manufacturer for an affordable tablet
this one really has a nice build to it so it's got this nice alloy on the back of it very smooth
finish and i love the fact that it's got rounded nice curved edges all along the edges of it 13
megapixel camera right here there is a strip of plastic at the top that's for the bluetooth
5.0 the lte band 20 supporting 4g antennas and then wireless ac that it has on board with it
so it does also have a hardware compass with gps built into it and the build very good for this
range it's even better the build quality than this here which is the audio cube i play 40 pro same
spec but this one definitely steps it up with the build quality that you have with it now it does
weigh 480 grams the thickness is 9.5 millimeters and when you take a look at the front of it here
bezels they're not bad okay they're reasonably slim for these kind of tablets they're not
super chunky what we used to see before so eight megapixel camera hit the front and this is another
area where it's superior to other models is it does have an ambient light sensor built within it
so it is nice and thin about 9.5 millimeters so we have two speakers here at the top and then
our sim tray so the sim tray takes micro sd cards if you give up on that micro sd card you can then
run dual nano sims here so 4g lte band 20 is mentioned support is there and it supports a
lot of popular bands which is great i do have the european version here then down the bottom we have
a another two speakers and i'll give you a sample of just how they sound
then on the left side we've got our type c port as mentioned charge times about two hours for
the seven thousand hour battery and what i think is a little reset button inside there
volume up and down and power buttons are made out of metal so the build quality is excellent
love those rounded corners the fact that they've gone with alloy on the back of this
and when you give it a bit of flex it doesn't flex there's no creaks it doesn't make any noises
it does not feel cheap at all in fact it feels really like a more expensive or
mid-range tablet the build quality that tecla's gone with yet at the affordable category
now we have an excellent screen in this tablet from teclast that is 10.4 inches the resolution is
2000 by 1200 it is an ips panel now i don't have any problems with the touch response or accuracy
it is really good and it is a bright screen too if i just get out of that and go into the settings
here and turn it right up it's going to completely overpower my camera it is bright okay 540 nits
is the peak whites that i'm measuring and that is excellent so we don't normally see that but
now recently a lot of these brands are starting to use much better panels and it's paying off
because we really want a great screen and a tablet of course so if you go into our display
settings there's a few little options that we do have in here so your typical eye comfort mode
dark theme colors and contrast so we can go and tweak that white balance to your own preference
there which is great now what i do like to see is this adaptive brightness it's sometimes it's very
handy now it does work quite well it will set that brightness automatically so you don't have to go
and keep changing it if it's too bright in certain scenarios it's going to be all automatically
it's a pretty standard thing but most affordable tablets wouldn't actually have that there is also
this backlight power saving now this is supposed to save quite a bit of battery as it helps to
just tone down on the brightness there in certain scenarios just to save a bit of battery life so
good to see that options there now what about the rom then so it is an android 11 rom that we are
running stock android there's just one criticism with this rom from me the performance is very
good but i just wish with the launcher at least i could get rid of this here and have it maybe at
the bottom so you're not unable to do that the fix of course is using something like nova launcher or
apex launch if that is still around you can use that and then of course you do have all your apps
there and an app drawer performance is good and you'll see here too fm radio so we've got fm radio
gps hardware compass lte there bluetooth five it does offer quite a bit this chipset and that's why
we're still seeing in 2022 now brands going with the uh unisock tiger t 618
and then the multitasking on this it's quite smooth especially going along to your recent apps
here no real noticeable lag here if you're not running anything too heavy that is of course now
if you've got a game going on in the background then it might bog things down a little bit
free available ram you get quite a bit on first boot more than uh the current four that i've got
because i've got a few apps open there but normally it's around about six or so you get
it does have eight gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of emmc 5.1 storage so i get onto some
benchmarks here let's take a look first at what we get with free available space so you're looking at
approximately a hundred and fourteen hundred and fifteen gigabytes and of course you can expand
upon that with a micro sd card now the antutu score here shows that this is low end okay so
it is a 236 000 points now it does actually perform reasonably well this chip now we used
to get before some mediatek chips some of the other ones that uh well older generation ones
octa-cores that wouldn't even perform as good as this or didn't actually offer as many options as
we've got with this particular chipset i think it's fine just using it now for quite a few days
it's definitely a chipset that general kind of use is pretty good now it's not gonna be a gaming
monster and i'll get onto the gaming performance later on so there is gps built into this which is
really good now it's not the greatest gps chipset it will take a long time to get that accuracy down
at the moment here i had six meters the longer you wait the better it's slowly eventually going to
get now it does have a hardware compass built into this which is normally missing a lot of tablets
and even sometimes flagship ones will have gps but no compass so that's great to see that it's even
on board with this and then here we go wireless speeds wireless ac um not amazing so it is able
to achieve relatively normal kind of speeds for this particular chipset around 145.50 maximum
and in the area downstairs still getting reasonably good speeds but i like to see
at least over a hundred so it's a little bit slower there but it's held up well and it didn't
cut out either the wireless probably because they've got that plastic along the top where
the antennas are located so that's why they've gone with that of course so emmc 5.1 spec storage
these speeds are pretty good here considering the spec of this tablet they're not too bad at all so
it's not going to be holding up this system the storage the bottleneck is of course the chipset
itself and now then okay wide vine already pointed out that before so yes level three cert only so
netflix amazon prime video all of that stuff and standard definition it is the definite
con of this device battery life 7 000 milliamp hour battery it goes from this fixed test for
almost 11 hours which is a good score so you can squeeze out just over 10 hours on this
with battery life i still had 17 left when i took this screenshot so the battery life
good okay there's a lot of positives with a tablet like this it's just not a powerful tablet and not
a huge beast of a thing but good battery life ebooks and pdf files how are they on the screen
so not bad i do think they look quite good fully laminated nice screen to look at and the pdf file
speed this is a very large file that i like to test out and i've been testing this one for years
isn't exactly a speed demon if you need to really skip ahead a lot of different pages
but it does an okay job there now of course if you zoom in a little bit that text does
look quite sharp and i'm happy reading that not a problem let's take a look at ebooks
same story with google books here that the ebooks are just fine they look good and i can happily
read them with this now you've got of course the eye care mode you can invert this to be a black
background white text if you wanted to do so and then you can also flip it around it does have of
course the accelerometer in there it's going to sense that so you can use it in portrait mode like
so for reading ebooks which this tablet is going to be pretty good at it's not too heavy and i will
be happy to hold this four hours on end reading with this but it's not as light as some of those
dedicated ebook readers of course those are much lighter but then this can do a lot more than those
and a sample of our front-facing camera so this one's 8 megapixels and it can shoot
720p so hd video with this front facing camera the rear one similar kind of quality to this
your mobile phone will definitely take better video and photos so i wouldn't really bother
too much with it but it's not that bad i mean it's it's okay at least it's 30 frames
per second here what you're listening to is the built-in microphone with the t40 pro from Teclast
and then gaming performance on it well i've managed to get six kills here in pubg i have
the ultra frame rate option which seems well smooth enough for the speaker tablet and i've got
really no problems at all looking around i've experienced no serious lag there's been a couple
of definite frame dips and i'll just get into this car oh no i won't and looking down the
scope when you move around um it seems good okay no real lag so for light titles like this
the t 618 octa-core it's going to game just fine with the mali g52 graphics i think it is
and then the thermals on it well it gets a little warm just around this area here
but this chipset doesn't really have enough power to generate enough heat to have a problem or an
issue and because it's all metal it's dissipating that heat a lot better i think than the plastic
build of the likes of say the iplay 40 pro all right so it does have a lot going for it over
my old best affordable tablet for 2021 was the Alldocube i play 40 pro now this model here has
a superior build quality to it it's got the metal unibody on it when you give it a flex
there's no creaks or anything that autocube's all plastic and certainly feels so much better in hand
we have slightly louder speakers it has 800 milliamp hours more of battery capacity
versus the iplay40 pro it has a hardware compass built in which the other model does
not and then the storage random reads and writes are a lot faster that's four reasons right there
however the storage capacity is half of what you get with the iplay 40 pro which is 256 gigabytes
this one's 128 so we do have dual lte support really good to see band 20 you can place voice
calls text messages gps hardware compass and even fm radios built into it so you get a lot
from this chip from that tiger 618 performance wise for general tabling needs it's very good
the ui is smooth it's fluid it's stock android 11 it will probably never get android 12 update
t-class don't normally do that they will probably have a new model by the time they
would get around to actually doing that they just pump out a new model that's how it is
so cons here with the teclast t40 pro no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack there is no wide vine
level one cert so netflix sadly in standard definition which is a real shame considering
this is such a nice screen that it does have so there we go that's the full story of
teclast's t40 pro this is now my pick as the best affordable android 11 tablet for 2022