Hi guys Chris here back with an Android tablet so this is the latest model from
Chuwi it's called the Hi9 Air and it has a 10.1 inch screen that is 2560 by 1600
in resolution it's an IPS panel and it is fully laminated so it should look
quite good the most interesting thing for me with this tablet is as it has
dual SIM support 4G but it also supports LTE bands that are very common here in
Europe so we'll have band 20 and a lot of more popular you could say bands
around the rest of the world because the problem was a lot of these tablets like
the audio cube x1 that I checked out it's got 4G support but very limited
band support because it's mostly just the Chinese ones and not the case with
this one here so it has a tin core processor which is
the mediatek helio X20 with Mali T 880 GPU on there 4 gigabytes of RAM 64
gigabytes of storage 8000 million hour battery and it also has wireless AC gps
FM radio and of course you can make voice calls with this so let's have a
look and see what you get in the box so it comes in the typical chewy packaging
just a plain brown box and it should have this wrap around it that means that
no one has opened it up of course so we have the tablet
we've got press and lift out it says on this ok this comes up here so here we
have our cable and this is a micro USB cable so no type C on this unfortunately
and a European charger this one here is rated to 5 volts 2 amps so we're not
going to have media ticks pump Express so the tablet and we do have a leaflet
in here this will just be the warranty card and information right here from
chewie so yeah there we go warranty card product inspection report and something
else here that is in Chinese and also should be in English which it is so
checking the weight of it 561 grams that's not too bad for a 10.1 inch
tablet so the thickness comes in to be eight point four millimeters do you not
know where we got the seven-point eight millimeter
figure from they must have been measuring it right on the edges or
something so taking a look at the back here this is all an alloy they have used
it's a matte paint job that it has so it does attract finger prints and it feels
a little bit light here a little bit hollow under this but it's not too bad
the quality it's definitely like super high-quality premium quality no it's
it's not and right here we've got a 13 megapixel camera with an LED flash now
this is a Samsung sensor with autofocus so along the top here we've got the
speaker grilles there's one here and one here they're very small so I don't
imagine they're gonna be great sounding speakers but I will test them here in
this video 3.5 millimeter headphone jack there with microphone support micro USB
2 in there for data and charging so in order to add your SIM cards all you need
to do is just clip this up comes off quite easily that plastic it's a little
bit thin and flimsy feeling and then you just slot in your SIM cards right there
and a micro SD card will go there too but what ports missing on this and a lot
of manufacturers are doing this lately they're not putting HDMI out on these
anymore on the upper right hand side here you'll find some plastic volume up
and down and power buttons they feel okay but because they're plastic they'd
only have a super quality feel to them just below them you can see a tiny
little hole there that's for the microphone so up the top of five
megapixel front facing camera I don't know whether this one's a samsung I
think it could actually be Omni vision or something similar and they've got
this transit screen protector on here well the first layer of that the unit of
course pull that off so overall the build quality in hand it feels okay the
weights not bad there's no flicks or creaking within the case which was
happening on the Chui hi9 that one had an old plastic case on the rear it tend
to add a bit of movement on it it feels good it's just not super high quality
and what disappoints me is that there's no micro HDMI out on this they should
have included that and the port location here
well that isn't really the best at the top and because we have the 2.5 D glass
while the curved edges on here this is going to happen with the screen
protector so it won't to go right down and connect with the
display there so you're gonna get that ugly little gap around the outside of it
which is going to collect us so just going through first boot and you can see
the boot animation that they're using here is a stock android logo here so
that's a good sign so hopefully this is going to be a completely stock android
oreo wrong so first boot did take a long time it
took about two minutes and had me worried it was boot looping you can see
already that I've got 4G signal but not a lot and the screen so far does look
really good so this is great we do have stock Android on here and it's Android
8.0 so it's not 8.1 I thought it might have been that I think some advertising
material did show that and here all the applications we have so it doesn't
really have any real bloatware in here unless you consider for example maybe
photos playing movies and TV and play music to be bloat so we have fifty six
point six gigabytes free on first boot so out of the box go into the wireless
update because there is a bug fix right here you can to see that it's minor bug
fixes and I noticed that the cameras not launching when I got to launch it it
just crashes so it should fix that now so yes the update did fix the camera it
will now launch and it runs you can take photos of average quality and videos of
average quality as well there now you notice how mass of the camera UI is this
is a game because of their dpi that chewie have said so I think I want to
route this actually and just lower that dpi these are the typical settings
you're going to get with the camera the the ones you get with mediatek phones so
to show you that when I go back home here and then just bring up actually
recent apps that it's not super smooth it is a little bit choppy at times
there's some updates going on and you'll see here look how large that on-screen
keyboard is now there is haptic feedback so when you type there you'll feel quite
a nice vibration which is a good touch it's good to have this on a budget
tablet taking a closer look now at the display so I measure the brightness and
it comes out at just over 200 Lux it's about 203 and this is a lot less than
Chuy's claimed I think it's on their website it said about 400 likes so
that's probably what this display is capable of but they have toned it down
a little bit but overall I mean it is a sharp display it's not a bad panel at
all very nice the fact that it's fully laminated now the screen protector
having that on there that degrades the quality of the screen a little bit and
the problem is that it's got a little bit of resistance to that screen
protector and as you can see here the reflection of my camera but you can see
it's picking up fingerprints as well so I'm probably actually going to end up
removing that screen protector and the screen does support 10 touch points so
multi-touch up to 10 so that's great so the camera app is working but I'm seeing
a lot of you find a lag a lot of just when you take a photo at lags a lot when
you try and record video this is what happened it crashes on me so at this
point of time at least the time of this video the OS isn't quite 100% stable
that the camera application at least is crashing since Android 7 we've had split
screen so you can have an app be decide if the app supported that as now the
performance of this it tends to degrade when you're running two apps side by
side a little bit and you notice that things aren't quite as smooth I mean
Chrome there the scrolling is okay it's not bad it's quite an image heavy
website my one so there's a little bit of slow down there with things loading
in but overall it's good I also to mention that the touch response and
accuracy that's perfectly fine I don't have any issues with that so it does
have hardware FM radio and yes it is working and it's one of few tablets that
you will find with FM radio on it so for playbooks which is what I'm using here
at the moment for graphic novel PDF files and things like that the screen is
good because it's nice and sharp and it's just going to be sharp of course
than say a 1080p display so it does look good so online streaming apps like
Amazon Prime video here for example that is working perfectly fine the wireless
range is good and it keeps up all over that fine no issues but I noticed that
when I switch over to 4G I run into a few problems because the 4G signal just
isn't great YouTube videos up to 1440p they play perfectly fine no issues with
that so we have jewel world speakers as I pointed out the start of the video so
one here one on the other side they don't actually sound too bad
perhaps this lack a little bit of volume but they are better than
and certainly not the best I've heard I'll give you a sample of them now so
just running through some info here this is DRM info so pause this if you need to
read all this information here we have Tribble so using the application called
Tribble check it's not supporting the seamless system updates because it
doesn't have access to both sets of the partitions only partition a here so GPS
it works well not as good as a mobile phone of course it has a hardware
compass this tablet does not have hardware compass in it it's just the GPS
module it's got so looking now at the wireless speeds they're decent for this
type of chipset and the wireless AC it has no complaints here wireless range is
also decent it's good but what I don't like is the 4G range so I found that the
signal strength is a good two or three bars less than my mobile phones in the
exact same position using the exact same SIM card now I'm using orange here in
Spain at the moment and their speeds have not been wonderful from my previous
sim card so you can expect this kind of speeds around seven upload and download
is all I'm able to get here but bear in mind that I don't have full signal
strength you can see there that it's really at the bare minimum internal
storage speed so not very fast it's only a MMC four point five point one spec and
finally here's the antutu score so almost 90,000 that's not bad for a
Hallyu ex 20 but notice the memory speed there there's a bit of a weakness not a
very good score right here for memory so now I'll check out pump genie I'm gonna
go with the settings that they recommend so it's just gonna be on the smooth
option for the graphics details and then medium framerate so so far so good that
framerate is keeping up and nowhere near as choppy as the audit cube x1 but I'll
find out after 10 minutes of gaming when that one started to throttle so it's
like with the scope it's starting to get a little bit choppy and laggy oh I'm out
of ammo bad bad bad
okay I got lucky there with a headshot so after 20 minutes now I managed to get
9 Bott kills at this level I'm pretty sure their BOTS aren't they they they
seem quite easy to kill well and now someone's trying to kill me okay it is a
little choppy as you can see so it's not the smoothest experience definitely here
with pub G I mean this is a demanding game but it's nowhere near as smooth as
the Snapdragon 805 of course that's a premium high-end chipset but playable
definitely playable and yes you will be able to kill people other titles like
critical ops you can see here is running approximately around 30 to 40 frames per
second with Peaks up to about 50 60 this title here on the medium preset which is
World of Tanks is getting a decent frame rate it's close to what I think about 60
frames per second see if i zoom around here that that is quite smooth there's a
few little stutters there and yes I'm dead quickly checking the temps now so
after 30 minutes of gaming it's only getting up to about 30 degrees to the
touch the same goes for the front of the screen is to slightly warm so battery
life on mostly wireless AC you're looking around about seven hours with
light use if you're going to be gaming a lot then that's going to drop down to
about 4 to 5 hours of gaming so this right now is a sample from the front
facing five megapixel webcam I managed to record video on this one here you can
see the quality is I feel acceptable it's gonna be fine for applications like
Skype voice chat things like that and the audio you get as well from the
inbuilt microphone is acceptable so to recap here overall we have I'll start
with the positives we've got a nice screen the build quality is decent we've
got metal around the back so it's not all plastic like some of the other
tablets that were selling from chewy with a similar price range here you've
got ok camera performance but we've got a bug with the camera that it will crash
I noticed we're recording at least with the rear camera front-facing camera
quality seems decent enough for Skype and things like that
same goes for the microphone there so the performance of the tablet
is decent it's good so if you're gonna be gaming on it expect to have playable
framerates at least but it's not going to be the fastest experience out there
definitely not it can run a demanding game like pub G and it didn't run into
the throttling that I experienced on the audio cube x1 this one became very laggy
and choppy playing that game about 5-10 minutes into the game it would start to
happen and I played for half an hour and it's perfectly fine it doesn't get any
warmer so the thermals on this tablet at least chewy have got that right that it
just gets warm and it's gonna be fine better life seems to be okay so
depending on what you're doing so light use about seven maybe even eight hours
gaming four to five so it's not amazing there but it's typical better life
charge times are very slow because there's only five volts
two amps so the biggest problem for me with the tablet okay the screen
brightness it could definitely be brighter it's only around about 205 Lux
and they advertised at having about 400 so I think with the last update or maybe
the firmware that it's got currently on it they've toned down the brightness
maybe for improve battery life on here but the problem that I have with this
tablet at the moment is it's really good that it's got all those 4G bands on
there but the signal strength is quite poor I think it's just the antenna setup
on this or perhaps it's my unit but I'm noticing that I'm only really getting
while I'm getting actually about two or three bars less than my mobile phones
which I have sitting in the studio in here with me and so it should be a lot
better there the speaker's should be louder as well now that's a complaint
letter I have on all of the Chinese tablets they never really put good or
decent or powerful loudspeakers in there a 3.5 millimeter audio quality that is
better of course you get a lot more loudness out of that there's no hiss or
annoying static so that's another positive there so overall for the 200 us
220 that it's been selling for I feel it's a decent tablet it's going to give
you good gaming performance it has a nice screen and overall the build is
acceptable it's fine for the price I feel it's not amazing it's not a premium
tablet at all no but my favorite still will have to probably be tick lasts
master t10 it's got a better build quality and the screens a lot brighter
than this one right here so please do check
got my review of that one if you're interested in a similar tablet and thank
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