This budget 8.9 inch tablet as the Alldocube Freer x9 it's selling for around
about a hundred and sixty nine us and it's got this lovely display on it
it's 2560 by 1600 resolution so the panel as you'd expect for that kind of
resolution in 8.9 inches is very sharp it has a maximum output of 540 lux which
is very bright now it's not fully laminated so the blacks won't look as
deep there is a gap between the panel the digitizer glass on the top and then
the IPS below but overall very good screen the touch is also responsive
works well and it is fluid so a minor complaint is the bezels on this aren't
exactly slim they are a little large and you'll notice that down the bottom there
is what looks like a fingerprint reader right here but it's not it's just a home
button that's it's only function which is sad because they did have the space
there to put a fingerprint reader so there's no hardware navigation keys
either side you just need to swipe up and bring up the software navigation
keys so the ROM on it is both a pro and a con here now the reason I say it's a
con is because if you check out the version of it it's running Android 6 so
this isn't exactly the latest that you'll find of course we're up to now
Android 8 and its security patch level is from the 52017 so not exactly recent
there either but the good thing about it is that if
you have a look that it has zero bloatware and the rom performance is
really quite quick too so the only accessory you get in the box is a USB
type-c cable and banggood at least did supply a charger an EU one rated to 5
volts 2 amps so the tablet is 8.3 millimeters thick and 772 grams light
which is quite good making it very portable and as a pre applied screen
protector over the glass now it is glass not plastic and the front-facing webcam
is a 5 megapixel one the whole rear is made out of this metal unibody giving it
a good feel and the edges of it are curved
as you can see they're making a little bit more comfortable to hold the rear
camera is a 13 megapixel one autofocus it takes a very average photo and can
shoot up to 1080p video I honestly would not really be using it for photos only
for things like Skype calls which it works ok so on the very top there are
two antenna lines a loudspeaker and a micro SD card slot now the micro SD card
slot it's a bit of a pain to insert cards into I had to use a tiny little
screwdriver to push the card right in because my fingernails at the moment are
really short you will notice to along here that there's this little strip that
is plastic for antenna reception for the wireless AC it has then on the bottom a
type C port for data charging no video out I could not get that to work at all
microphone 3.5 I'm going to be the headphone jack now the audio quality out
of this jack is reasonably loud and it is clear and then our second loudspeaker
my only complaint with the build is this right here so our power and volume
buttons they are made out of plastic and they don't have a particularly quality
or good feel to them especially that power button on my unit they feel a bit
cheap so the tablet has 64 gigabytes of EMC storage four gigabytes of RAM and
the chipset is a media tick 81-73 so it has two arm cortex a 72 calls on there
and then another two which are the a 53 which clock slightly slower the GPU is a
power via rogue GX 60 250 and for sensors well not a lot to report on here
only has an accelerometer so no gyroscopes no GPS either scrolling speed
on a heavy website like my own here with lots images is reasonably fast you will
now and then notice a couple of little stutters and I do have some things going
on in background also which will have an impact on that but overall it's most of
the time generally smooth unless you're on a very demanding website and then you
will notice those tiny little stutters here and there so the table that has
those speakers left in right so good stereo separation they're not
very loud and at 107 volume they do distort and of course they lack bass as
expected but I'll give you a sample of them now
now what about YouTube can it playback 1440p without any stuttering or problems
some of the previous generation chipsets the other media tech ones the weaker
ones had a lot of trouble with that but at least 1440p here my testings working
perfectly fine it is smooth and no issues here with YouTube playback video
files and ebooks they look good on the screen because it's so sharp that
performances as a large PDF file then testing out here is recently good it's
sometimes takes a while to load and the pages especially if you skip ahead
really fast like you see now there will be a bit of a delay there but overall
not too bad for the price of this tablet now on to a few benchmarks that I always
test out with these tablets so this is the end to to score and see it's nothing
amazing I have seen scores of 70,000 of this exact same model on retailers
websites but that's the score I got there's 64,000 and here is the Geekbench
full score single core score is actually quite good that's faster than a polar
lake and 3450 but the multi-core score isn't a little bit slower and here is
the compute score so this is using the GPU now the internal storage is one of
the weaknesses here of this tablet only 34 megabytes per second reads and
sequential 34 writes isn't exactly fast but it doesn't seem to slow the tablet
down at least now wireless range and speeds I found to be good it's not the
fastest wireless AC that you'll come across but still decent speeds here and
I did test it out from the other side of the apartment and it seemed to perform
well probably because they do have that plastic on the rear where the antennas
are located battery life is never a strength of these smaller tablets
because they have smaller size batteries so 5500 milliamp hours is good for
around 4 hours of heavy use 3 hours of gaming and about 6 to 7 hours of light
use of light we abuse with the brightness down on the lowest setting is
about the best you can get out of this tablet which I would rate as being ok
it's not really the greatest is it you want a little bit of gaming so
Mortal Kombat is one of those games that will scale up to the native screen
resolution so this is running at 2560 by 1600 and as you can see it is very fluid
and playable so Ashwell that you can see is playable this is another game that is
running at the full resolution it's not super smooth you can see some slowdown
to be expected from this chipset but the main thing is it is at least playable
modern combat as well as playable but it does have a little bit of slowdown as
well and this last title I'm having a look at this as heroes of incredible
tales another demanding game and you will see now and then and some tiny
little micro stutters but I've seen that even on the Snapdragon a35 s so this
wraps up my time here with the free x9 overall it's a decent tablet for the
price so you have an amazing screen on this well it's not fully laminated I
don't see it being too much of an issue because it's really bright the gap
between the IPS and then the digitizer glass is only around about one
millimeter or even less there so it's really a non-issue
now the brightness on it gets up to 560 lux which is super bright in fact I find
this screen to be too bright I mean that sounds crazy
but for late night time use the lowest setting is way too powerful just burning
out your retinas almost so I have to go in to download a store application there
you can get certain apps that will actually put a filter over the screen to
help you lower the brightness and that helps out there so at least it's fixable
there so the Android ROM Android 6 from March the security patch that has on
there that's not good I mean we're late into 2017 now we should be at least on
Android 7 and the other thing too that the ROM
list has no below and it performs really well it's fast we've got the full
gigabytes of RAM the EMC storage is a little slow the wireless decent speeds
good range on it and I haven't had any issues with that so that's the main
thing and that's another thing to know bugs and the ROM that I have seen on my
time using it and testing it and there's nothing's crashed on me everything seems
to be working fine Playstore of courses on there and overall a good experience
on this tablet even when it comes to gaming with demanding games on this
really huge high resolution for this chipset it actually works fine which is
good so the battery life is probably the gray area of this tablet here I mean the
book quality is good but the battery you're looking up to seven hours it all
depends on your use so if you game on this solidly because of that resolution
and the five thousand five hundred million hour capacity then really you
can only get about three hours gaming on this if you take it easy on then you're
just looking at a bit of YouTube and you're looking at some PDF files and
Internet then you can squeeze out your six to seven hours maximum it all
depends on how you have that screen brightness as well because of my testing
I had it on the lowest seating and which we just mentioned you know is quite
bright anyway so overall yes 460 us it's not a bad tablet at all okay it's
missing a couple of things like we have no video output from this and no micro
HDMI there fingerprint readers not there there's no gyro there's no GPS but again
if I mean for this price you can't really expect to have that so yes a good
tablet and thank you so much for watching this review here hope to get
you back in the channel or plenty more up-and-coming reviews bye for now