So have with me here today to unbox and preview the latest ordered cube tablet
this one's called the Knote and as you probably guessed yes it is another
Sauron in 3450 probably maybe hopefully the last one I'm gonna be checking out
on the channel so it has six gigabytes of RAM 128 gigabytes of storage and it
is a torn one so it does have an optional keyboard which unfortunately I
don't have at the moment hope to have it hopefully in a week or two so what you
can see what we get inside the box it's well packaged up so we have a charger
and then an instruction manual that is yes I can see that is all in Chinese and
they have included this type C 2 USB adapter USB 3 which is good of them to
do this because the tablet itself does not have any full-sized USB ports on it
which is one of the cons so obviously it doesn't come with the charger or my one
didn't come with a charger and what gearbest have done is they're just
thrown in this 5 volt 2 amp charger now this of course is not going to be enough
to charge the tablet that's it requires 12 volts 2 amps and there's also no
charge cable which is really disappointing to see so weighs 790 grams
and approximately 9 millimeters thick so it's reasonably thin for a tablet the
screens an IPS 11 point 6 inches with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 so 16:9 ratio
and it does come with this pre-applied screen protector on the bottom there's a
5 port Pogo pin so you can see the edges here are nicely rounded we have a DC end
port here for charging now this is probably the charger they should have
had in my box it's your typical 3 millimeter and the rating on the back of
the tablet that it says that it needs is 12 volts 2.5 amps and then we have type
C which does support data video out and charging simultaneously micro SD card
slot and one of our side facing loudspeakers on the top we have the
volume buttons power button now they do feel like these
made out of plastic to me but they've got a nice feel to them they do not feel
cheap then on the left our loudspeaker and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that
supports microphones on the back of the keynote you'll notice that there's this
plastic strip at the top this right here will be of course for the antenna
reception but it continues around the whole outside so the whole frame is made
out of this hard plastic material painted and silver with a matte finish
to it but then we do have this metal along here and here you'll find a five
megapixel autofocus camera lastly on the front we have front-facing 2-megapixel
camera which is pretty standard so the obvious comm with this tablet to start
with as we don't have any full size USB 3 ports on this which is a real shame so
you're gonna have to use something like this when you want to connect up more
than just one USB device and that is a USB type-c hub now this hub can also
charge an output HDMI up to 4k 30 Hertz so I thought it would take a look at the
buyers first and you can see that here we are pretty much locked out of it they
don't give us those advanced settings that we do get on some of the other
Chinese tech that I review especially with this chipset the end 3450 so no
control there over sitting for example the power limits we're going to have to
do the software override if you want to boost performance on this so very basic
settings here you can change your boot order and that really is about it just
changing the clock and things so disappointing notice taking a quick look
at the screen so fully laminated the blacks to look a lot deeper than the non
laminated panels it's still quite reflective of the screen I'm having
trouble of the reflections you can see myself there have reflecting away and
that black there do the fact that it's got the screen protector on there as
well now it's not Gorilla Glass that it has underneath this so I tend to leave
the screen protectors on as a result so you don't end up scratching that glass
but so far touch response seems really quite good the screen looks very nice it
perhaps is lacking in a little bit of brightness I'll have to measure that in
my full review but at 100% it seemed bright but definitely not the brightest
but overall looking a lot better than your typical Apollo Lake tablet screen
so six gigabytes of RAM installed and they have advocated a tiny little bit of
that to the GPU which is the Intel HD 500 GPU there so touch support with 10
touch points but no stylus support on this particular model so let's check it
out a few things here the emmc it has on here is e MMC 5.1 spec ace and as DF
41:28 and of course the Intel dual band wireless AC 3165 this is super common
and we have a look under sensors here there's just an accelerometer so there
is no ambient light sensor at all that can control automatically the screen
brightness so on first food here we have almost 99 in gigabytes free and I'm just
benchmarking that SanDisk eating embassy here we'll have a look at those speeds
so let's just finished up with very decent speeds here so sequential 272
reads and then 122 writes is very good and the 4k is there they aren't too bad
either so just checked out the speakers and they aren't disappointing it's not a
to be unexpected I guess with these tablets because I've listened to so many
and they hardly ever have good speakers but these ones just aren't loud enough
and extremely flat but I'll give you a sample of them now
so I didn't have some trouble getting my typical Linux distros to work so majora
didn't work and neither did Linux Mint they would not boot both of them but I
finally managed to use this one here this is anti-ghost
this is the latest build and it does work so sound is working Wireless is
working but as you can see here no touch support so the touch screen driver
you'd have to hunt around and find that one so it's going to be a bit of a
hassle so that's the unboxing there and just the first look at all the cubes
keynote so the screen on it eleven point six inches fully laminated it does have
deep blacks it has reasonably good colors on there and the touch accuracy
seems decent it does to me seem to lack a little bit of toppy and brightness the
full brightness seating is only around about 270 Lux which is I really want at
least over 300 so definitely it lacks a bit there and what is lacking is those
speakers the volume is terrible and they sound completely flat so really they
need to improve and step up on that hopefully in 2018 they're gonna focus a
little bit more on the speaker quality on these tablets from the Chinese
manufacturers so Linux support looks a little bit patchy there man Gero and
Linux Mint did not want to boot on this so we do have a fast emmc on here which
is that Sanders but sadly it's not an SSD so it's not as fast as other devices
that have SSD or SSD support in there they could have maybe put a slot on the
back of this so you could install one yourself like we see on the laptops it
is slightly slimmer of course than a lot of other tablets here it's not too bad
the almost what nine millimeters it had and the build quality is decent it's
very solid and well put together the battery capacity is 8,000 and milliamp
hours which is about 30 watt hours and that hopefully will give us at least
seven hours but that's a little bit less than other devices there so something
else to think on now of course I can't comment on the keyboard because I don't
have it I haven't ordered but should I actually
cancel that order should I forget about doing the full review of this model
because of those flat speakers and the fact that the screen really isn't as
bright as it should be there's no full-size USB 3 ports and is a bit of a
disappointing device here so let me know in the comments if you think I should
dedicate time to testing this out fully and doing my full review treatment here
or do you think I should skip it and move on to something better here but
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