so I did say that my Atom reviewing days are completely over however I'm
going to make an exception here and this is for the GPD pocket so this is a
pocket-sized 7-inch Windows 10 laptop it's had a lot of interest a lot of
people have been asking me to review this one so I've finally given in and
said ok yeah we'll check it out even though I did say that no more atoms but
it will definitely be the last one so it's powered by the Z 8750 it's got 8
gigabytes of RAM 128 gigabytes of storage wireless AC apparently has a
full metal build on it full size USB 3 port and a 1080p 7 inch touchscreen on
it so you're probably wondering why I am not showing the original packaging and
why this is a retake here because what happens as I exposed the CD key which
they put right here inside the box for the world to see now yeah I couldn't
post of course edit that out but I feel it's just a bit easier for me to do it
this way so I haven't looked at it yet I just saw that and thought I'm going to
have to redo the video so here we have the power supply nice and small are us 2
prong of course I'm going to need a power plug adapter for that one and that
is rated to 12 volts 2 amps and then a type C to type-c cable and then here of
course we have the little laptop if I can get it out and an instruction manual
here there's just outlining the specs of a day you can see so the battery size is
seven thousand milliamp hours so the weight of it is 504 grams which isn't
too bad at all definitely a lot heavier than a mobile phone of course alright so
the build of it that looks a lot better than the GPD one that I looked at and
unboxed so all-metal the top here feels quite solid in hand on the front this is
a little Ridge there to open it up and on the right-hand side we have
the ports here so that's apparently this is an exit vent here for a little fan
that's in there just like the wind that was also fan cool but it was kind of
just blowing hot air around there should be an intake okay there we go on the
bottom four rubber feet and type C port micro HDMI and then we have a coarse 3.5
millimeter headphone jack with microphone support by the looks of that
logo and then a full-sized USB 3 port I what you can see later on in this video
if it will power an external hard drive along the back here nothing this part
looks to be plastic for the antenna reception I would say or perhaps as the
design choice there and no ports on the left hand side so it is missing for me
one crucial port or slot you could say and it's a micro SD card slot would have
been very handy on this I mean I know you do have a hundred and twenty eight
gigabytes of storage even so I would have really liked to have had that but
so far yeah very portable just have a look now and see how thick it is comes
in at eighteen point four one millimeters that's without the rubber
feet there this is the thickest part really and with the rubber feet 20
millimeters so 20.6 there that isn't bad at all so time to open it up and have a
look at the inside here so the hinge on that that's quite stiff but not bad I
like to have more of a affirm feeling hinge last thing you want us to be all
loose and floppy so the maximum angle will recline well is actually a lot
better than those thought goes almost all the way back you can see there and
if you have a look at that keyboard that actually feels quite good very firm so
the build quality so far is impressing me it's a lot better than that wind
model so we've got a touch point there I think that's what you call them isn't it
like the IBM's the Lenovo ThinkPad series so this acts as like the mouse
pointer so using pressure there I'll have to test it out when I power it on
of course then your left and right mouse buttons there I can see a logo here for
the microphone but can't see any really input for it'll hole it must be just
below perhaps one of these keys here which is a little bit awkward
so there's may compromise as you can see here with the keyboard to layout at
least this still full-sized arrow keys which is going to
help of people on a 19-2 game honored whatever but there are some keys along
here the caps lock is very small shift key quite small as well but with this
space and real estate they've done a pretty good job here actually and we
still got shortcuts for the audio controls they're print screen which I
would like to have and yeah typing on this of course isn't going to be so good
compared to a full-size laptop keyboards have really had to shrink things down
anyway let's power it up and have a look and see how long it takes to boot up and
that screen looks to be fully laminated
yeah I think it's safe to say that is fully laminated the screen which is
great okay so it did take some time to get to this menu I've got to go through
the Windows 10 setup so you can see the a languages we've got here we've got
English Spanish French Chinese and that looks to be about it well Korean too and
the touch screen working so far all right
let's run through that set up and we'll have a look at the device manager free
available space okay so setup was a little bit slow as
it can be that window set up decided to also download some update so it had to
reboot two or three times or something and yet was pretty slow there being an
atom it's not exactly as fast as the Apolo legs either or the core ends so
I've just put a couple of files on here to test out a few things we wanted to
show you first the screen which looks really really good now fully laminated
1080p super sharp and this is 100 percent brightness at the moment which
looks very good not bad at all and here we go down to zero percent brightness
which to me looks bit to them sorry too bright it should be dimmer really for
nighttime use I find that that's going to be about too bright and it's 25
percent 50 75 then 100 there now you'll notice that down in the taskbar my
wireless AC range is quite poor there so I feel that this is going to probably be
the biggest con this is just my first impressions here but it looks like
because it's a full metal body a very small device the wireless
reception the range is just not really that good so far that's going to be my
biggest complaint just looking at it so here I have the device manager just
wanted to show you quickly that the internal storage is a Samsung this is
the DJ in b4r have a look on the internet if you want
to find out more information on that and the wireless is Broadcom wireless AC so
it's good to see why less AC on an adam device especially at this price range
it's got to be wireless AC I feel so we can at least maximize on those speeds
there but again yeah that range is going to be a little bit concern than just how
well is going to be perform I'll tip it out my full review so the process of
course is for threads that the z80 750 and nothing else really of interested to
show you so I am benchmarking that drive and it's just finishing up now so yeah I
can see from that that it's e MMC 4.5 spec but those speeds dicen those reads
are quite good and the Samsung is normally are so it's not one of those
cheaper bwin drives which can sometimes cause a few issues so the memory we've
got 8 gigabytes of RAM but I've noticed a con and both a a pro here first I'll
start with a pro that it's two slots there so that means it's going to be
dual channel that will help the integrated graphics however the speed
faster supported speed is 1600 megahertz this is 1066 now normally with these
devices on the addams you could go onto the bias and set higher speeds there so
hopefully I'm able to tweak it up to the next level and will get slightly
improved performance there but maybe they've toned it down for a reason for
battery life for heat or something like that and windows have a look and see
that it seems to be fully activated and this is the latest image they are using
so the vent on the right side I can feel a little bit of air coming out of this
so it's definitely doing its job but whether or not that's going to stop it
from thermal throttling I have to check out later I need to do a lot more
in-depth tests gaming and things like that just to see
what's going to happen there but better heat coming out and I can feel a little
bit of heat on the underside - that's transmitting through the red base now
these ports here I have tested this this is a proper type C port so it's
supporting both charging data and the good thing here display out so that
means it can be used as a docking port and with one of these type C hubs this
is one I've got here from heaven and it works well
1080p maximum resolution that's all that you can get out of the the cheery trails
there so they're not supporting higher resolutions up to 4k like you get with
the Apollo Lake so it's a little bit of a shame they didn't use that CPU in this
particular model and just to confirm that the USB 3 port yes will indeed
power a one terabyte external hard drive keyboard is going to take some time to
get used to typing on right now I just did a typing test before and I noticed
the biggest problem for me is the space bar I've been tapping the track pointer
by mistake and it just seems quite awkward
it's very cramped so I would not be wanting to type out a massive novel on
this thing that's definitely not going to work you're going to end up probably
throwing this out a window if you do that but of course they've made
compromises understandably with this kind of size and also the the track
pointer is a little fidgety at time now you get used to it I'm going to need a
bit of practice and I found that also trying to click the left and right mouse
buttons that sometimes I would end up clicking those two space bars there so
the keyboards cramps we don't have a touchpad on here but we have a
touchscreen of course however I found that it's a little tricky to use because
of the size here now I can increase the Windows 10 scaling to help but at the
moment with the default scaling where 1080p at 7 inches remember that is very
small it is a little difficult sometimes to get things to minimize or maximize
and overall it's just not as accurate you're going to have to have two or
three attempts at times to click things so there are speakers located just down
here there is a little grill inside here and the sound transmitted upwards which
is good I mean you're not going to be blocking it if you have
to use it on your lap or anything so let's have a listen to how those
speakers sound all right so they're at the tiny attentive base it's almost
non-existent but there's a little bit there meds okay a little bit of treble
they're not wonderful sounding speakers however I will give them this that these
speakers sound a lot better than some of the tablets I have reviewed that have
terrible speakers it's good to see there are a little bit louder now it comes out
to be about 83 decibels now ideally I like to see around 90 but I find that
for such a small device the speakers are sufficient so it some bad news here when
it comes to increasing the RAM speeds here the advanced setting menu and the
bias is completely locked out to us so we're not able to change that right now
I've got Linux Manjaro build number 17 plugged in right here let's have a look
and see if at least I can boot this from the boot menu here in the BIOS and yet
it looks like it's going to work however the screen is still not displaying the
correct way up hopefully that will change so it took a long time to boot up
I'm talking about four or five minutes and this is as far as I've got here the
touchscreen is working the pointer also works so that's good news and it looks
like there's going to be a few little settings and things that need to be
tweaked so you're going to have to invert the screen around and mess about
with all of that but it runs it which is the main thing here there's a quick size
comparison so yes it will fit in at least my large pockets that I have
because I'm used to carrying around a six point four inch mobile which is my
xiaomi mean max here you can see the GPD pocket isn't really that much bigger of
course it's a lot thicker and means it's quite bulky but yeah it is possible to
put this in a large jacket pocket or large pants have large pockets now look
at the internals very well done here I do like this and this is quite funny to
me actually to see this on here a copper heat
transfer pipe and the cooling fans on such a small little device here it looks
good they've done a really good job I'm very pleased with the build quality the
internals here you can see the battery cell there which is seven thousand
milliamp hours and the hinge screwed in and the dual antennas which go along the
bottom here and seem to connect just to this part here so that is probably
explaining why the wireless reception on this does not seem to be very good at
all at least my initial first impressions of it are so the GPT pocket
clearly isn't a device for everyone it's a very niche market here tapping into
something ultra portable that people want a Windows 10 laptop that they can
take anywhere so the design of it is a massive step up from there when the when
I had issues with mine and I threw my challenge on the review because the
keyboard just stopped working I just gave up on that and for that's enough
and I posted that one back to China to get my refund I didn't like that at all
because that can happen to any device of course that you can get lemons out of
China but so far this unit is really good so the positives build quality is
excellent the materials used they travel on the keyboard keys is great no flex
it's got a little fan in there and very good internals the screen fully
laminated nice and bright super sharp however being seven inches I find that
sometimes it is a little hard to use it because it's just so tiny it's going to
take a lot of adapting to get used to typing on this keyboard and using the
pointer as well I will probably try and use touch when I can and then the
pointer for the more finer controls there at least we do have that option in
there design wise we've made a couple of choices I don't really understand the
biggest being why is there no front facing webcam on this I feel for your
video calls like Skype good want a webcam on this and it's a real
disappointment it doesn't have it so me personally it could also do with a micro
SD card slot but we've got 128 gigabytes of storage on us but my biggest area of
concern so far has to be the wireless perform
the range of it I've noticed to be pretty much terrible it's not that good
at all it's struggling other laptops and devices I have would have at the moment
full strength this is only getting one bar and I do believe because it's all
that metal design and the fact that the antennas when the lid is up like that
are being blocked because it's right here and having the medal in there
that's reducing the reception the signal strength is dropping and I need to test
that out more but really not too happy with that so overall is this a device
for you well it depends maybe or someone that wants a super tiny the world's
smallest Windows 10 laptop this is for you the price as well is another big con
I mean this is expensive this is selling for about 480 to 500 u.s. that's a lot
of money I feel for a dated atom chipset even though you do have eight gigabytes
of RAM it's got the type C on there thanks a lot for watching this preview
here and I do hope to catch you back in the channel soon with the full review of
this model