So I've got with me here a very familiar-looking 7.9 inch tablet no it's
not an iPad Mini 4 but it kind of looks like one doesn't it because it's using
the same display no this is not the JD Tab jo1 I reviewed last year this is
that model but completely rebranded as the Alfawise Tab so this is exactly
the same model as that one from JD com that I reviewed last year same specs oh
it's got a quad-core MediaTek 8173 CPU in there with a maximum turbo 2
gigahertz 4 gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage which is not
expandable so this does not have a micro SD slot on here which is disappointing
they really should have that on there and it does not have HDMI out which I
like to have on my tablets but moving along now looking at the screen so it's
2048 by 1536 resolution it has a maximum brightness of 440 Lux good looking
screen it does produce some very nice colors and the blacks look quite good on
this it's fully laminated covered with a scratch resistant glass inside the
gorilla or dragon tail or similar kind of brand there now you will notice that
around the edges there is a little bit of this IPS glow at lower brightnesses
so this could vary from unit to unit if this bothers you then well it's just
really a bit of a lottery whether you're gonna have an issue with that or not my
unit has a little bit there so looking at the front of it now we do have rather
large looking bezels yes it looks a bit dated now especially we're in 2018 with
business being the most popular trend worth displays and now 18 by 9 so we do
have a 5 megapixel camera at the top there with an ambient light sensor right
next to it which is great to automatically control the brightness I
love to have this on tablets really for me it is a must we have a capacitive
touch menu keys down the bottom making use of that large barrel there and they
look just fine there no problems with them once we have a touch accuracy and
response of the screen is also really quite good now the ROM it has on here is
stock Android 6 so it's dated now isn't an Android six it really
should be at least Android seven because then we're going to have the
split-screen function we're missing out on that with this particular model and
security patches and things like that so don't hold your breath expecting this to
get updated to Android 7 or Android 8 honestly I don't see that ever happening
so moving on to the build of it it's rather premium it has a unibody that
weighs only 379 grams yes I weighed it and the thickness is
7.5 millimeters also very good so it's nice and portable light no Crick's in
the design whatsoever very solid feels good in hand with the
all-metal build metal buttons as well on the right hand side for volume up and
down a metal power button on the top we've got a little strip here you can
see there that is for the wireless antenna reception and Bluetooth by the
way it has wireless AC on here dual band and then a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
with microphone support so this outputs really good audio effect I didn't have
any static on this it sounds really good to me it's quite loud as well on the
left hand side we have a another microphone here so on the back we've got
the second microphone next to that 8 megapixel camera with autofocus which
takes really average photos and video give you sample that later on nothing
amazing from that to be expected from a tablet and then down the bottom we have
this 2 grills here those 2 girls there and this outputs really nice sound those
speakers they have any so dual speakers not great stereo separation but they
make up for that with good loudness really good some meds and even a little
bit of bass I think these could actually be harman or AKG branded speakers
because they are exactly the same as the ones that were in the JD tab that I
reviewed and those were AKG Harman speakers we have a type C port here now
it's only USB to spec so there's no display out or anything like that either
no quick charging it only supports 5 volts 2 amps the charger and it will
take exactly 4 hours and 25 minutes to fully charge this tablet which is
that's slow by today's standards I would have liked to have seen some mediatek
pump Express here or quit charging at least the tablet chips in a very plain
box as you can see and all we get in here is simply a QuickStart guides a 5
volt 2 amp power supply this is an EU one so you plug and then I'll type C
cable in white here now the wrong performance on the Alpha wise tab here
is exactly the same as the JD tab I won with the quad core processor maximum to
over two gigahertz the four gigabytes of RAM it performs well so Chrome loading
pages ARP scrolling and because it's quite a sharp display it all looks
really good on there even reading those tiny little comments and text find no
issues with the performance of this ROM multitasking going between your various
different applications that is also very quick and overall a stock rom that is
fast and performs perfectly fine I haven't noticed any lag or any bugs
there's something unexpected was GPS support on here it has a GPS module but
it does not have a hardware compass but it still worked ok accuracy down to 3 to
4 meters and I did test it out going for a little walk with that and it didn't
seem to have any problem tracking me at all now any car I guess without the
compass it won't be as good but tracking your turns and things but it should
still work perfectly fine for that so you can use this tablet for navigation
now antutu did test that out got a score of 70,000 that is pretty much the same
as any other mtk 81-73 more or less the internal storage isn't particularly far
so it's e MMC 4.5 spec so the sequential reads here of 145 they aren't too bad
and then 84 of Rights and the 4k random reads as well not bad for this kind of
speak of Drive I did test out the wireless I had a little bit of trouble
connecting up to my wireless AC here in the studio and these what the speeds I
managed to get out of it so 88 to meters per second download
around 78 upload not the fastest here but it did
to my wireless AC at home without any issues so not too sure why it didn't
like the wireless router here in the apartment now on to battery life so I
managed to get 8 hours and 41 minutes it sadly powered off at 1% before I could
take any screenshots but I did around about 6 hours of gaming so I was pushing
it quite hard so if you're looking at for example just watching videos or like
web views and things like that you can expect at least 9 to 10 hours of battery
life is really quite solid on this particular alpha wise tab here now we're
a tablet like this does stand out is ebooks and PDFs because it has that
really sharp screen with the PPI of 326 and a very good brightness fully
laminated display that it's great for e-books it's not the fastest device
you'll come across when loading very large PDFs but it certainly looks really
good and I just love the legibility of the screens it's really easy to make out
text because of that extra sharpness we have and of course using it in landscape
or portrait is perfectly fine portrait with the 4 by 3 ratio does fit the pages
perfect there you can see and that's probably the way most people will use it
of course it's personal preference there but I really do like this tablet for
e-books and PDFs and video streaming services such as Amazon Prime here they
run perfectly fine the wireless can keep up no issues with performance whatsoever
so finally get another tablet that actually has decent speakers out of
China most of the ones I review they have these horrible tiny little non
premium speakers these ones are premium speakers they are
loud they even have a hint of bass I'll give you a sample of them right now
now the families is where a major redesign has taken place here they are
slightly different when it comes to gaming performance most games run
perfectly fine and fluid however this game for example shadow fight 3 isn't
well optimized with power VR graphics so it runs a little bit laggy but as you
can see it's still perfectly playable just don't expect stellar performance
from those games that aren't well optimised for this particular GPU most
of the Android still games I found tends to be optimized more for the Adreno
Snapdragon chipsets
so the rear camera can shoot in 1080p and as you can see we've got focus
problems here so it's not focusing on there very well at all in fact I don't
think it's got a proper lock that is a big problem resulting in really poor
quality image and lacking in details here the other thing is that to detail
the video itself was a little bit washed out so honestly I don't see a lot of
people using it now the focus has come in here you can see that yes the
quality's average for 1080p you can use third-party applications like Open
camera to override the focus you can fix that to an infinity focus or to closer
up or macro or something like that and that does help solve some of that
problem you can see it still hasn't recovered there that focus is a real
issue on the rear camera so this is the front-facing camera I have noticed that
there's sometimes a little bit of you find an egg and choppiness and it does
drop frames depending on the lights it's 1080p as well just like that rear camera
and overall the quality is alright better than a lot of the other tablets I
have looked at in this similar price group of around 200 us so overall not
too bad from the front-facing camera it's good to see we do have that 1080p
and proscribed and things like that is perfectly fine ok guys so to recap here
very quickly there's a lot of things to like about this tablet the weight the
sliminess all VAT 7.5 millimeters all-metal build it is a premium tablet
very nice screen in here it's a little dated but it's the
an excellent screen offering a very sharp resolution with their 326 PPI good
brightness as well and fully laminated it really does make it touch response is
also excellent on here I like the ROM it's stock but I don't like the fact
that it's Android six now which is just too dated and really it should be
Android seven and I'd love to see Android eight which I don't think any of
the Chinese tablets at least ones I review have yet but of course that will
be coming this year now the camera performance is very average most people
will not be buying a tablet for its cameras but you'll get away with using
this with Skype especially the front-facing camera is perfectly fine
for Skype calls as well as those dual microphones and then the speaker's the
speaker's is probably one of the another solid positive of this tablet they are
really quite good they are very loud good output on them
and just so much better than the typical Chinese tablet that I reviewed normally
have flat quiet speakers and these offer a bit of meds and bass in there so that
is really good now the another area that I don't like is the charge time so it
takes four thousand twenty five minutes to charge
that's rather slow so a little bit bothersome there but at least this
battery does last for a long time now with my heavy-handed approach battery
test so I ran a lot of games just non-stop playing them and chroming
things like that and streaming with youtube I managed to still get an
amazing eight hours plus out of this which i think is really good now taking
a little bit easier on this tablet and keeping the brightness to around about
30-40 percent you should still be able to get at least nine to ten hours out of
this so for me for this size of tablet and the battery capacity and the chipset
considering all of that that it's a very solid battery life you get on this so
that's definitely one of the positives and really it's not a bad tablet at all
so it sells for about 200 us which is a lot cheaper than the JD tab jo1 which is
exactly the same that I reviewed last year I think that models still selling
for close to 300 u.s. which is really overpriced to me the price is more it is
okay of course if it was a little bit cheaper that would be even better so
really it all comes down to the fact that if you
a four by three aspect ratio tablet worth the premium build fully laminated
screen great speakers go for it but if Android six been dated now is going to
bother you the lack of the micro SD card support the fact it has no HDMI out then
of course this will be one to skip oh and almost forgot it has GPS onboard
which we don't often see so having GPS is great even though it does lack a
hardware compass it still is useful for things like maps and other GPS programs
on there so thanks a lot for watching this review if you want to check out the
review of the GT tab jo1 and then that's right up gear but it was basically the
same exact tablet so really more or less the same kind of results from that and
then check out some of my other recommended tablets like the lenovo
right here thanks a lot for watching this video and I do hope to see you back
in the channel soon bye for now