Chris here back with another tablet review so this time around it is Chuwi's
latest which is the hi9 pro so this is one of those mediatek helio X 20 tablets
I've looked at a few now the chipset is okay it does have a lot of features like
GPS FM radio and dual SIM LTE about the GPU it's paired up with the old Mele T
880 isn't exactly the fastest but as you see in this review that you can still
play games as long as you're on the lower settings with demanding titles
like pub G so it has an 8 megapixel camera on the rear of it five up front
it even has an earpiece and could be used as a mass of 8.4 inch mobile phone
so the screen resolution is 2560 by 1600 it's a fully laminated IPS panel so it
should look very decent and the battery capacity is a five thousand milliamp
hours and it even has a type C port on it so really the only thing this tablet
is missing to me is micro HDMI out or at least HDMI out by the type C port which
it doesn't unfortunately support so let's take a
look what we get in the box the tablet they obviously in a sleeve
we'll have a look at that in just a minute we've got a little pouch in here
and this will have your warranty your guarantee cards a little quality
inspection certificate thing there and this is in both Chinese by the looks of
it and English as well that's just all your specs and it's also showing you
that SIM tray slot so it's either micro SD card nano SIM or 2 nano SIM
just like the Helio x20 mobile phones I've reviewed floating around in the box
of course is the SIM tray tool which I'm going to need and then in the side pouch
here we get a black type-c cable really good to see it's using type-c by the way
and not micro USB and then our tiny little charger here which is rated to 5
volts 2 amps so this does not support media ticks pump Express this tablet
even though the chipset does so weighs 375 grams and is around about 9.35
millimeters at the vicars point so the hi9 Pro has this
metal alloy on the rear but the tops and bottom are made out of plastic that's
for the wireless antennas of course and then the LTE antennas so along the
bottom you'll find just a single mono speaker here now if this is anything
like the hi-8 or they chain own speakers this is going to be pretty bad and
perhaps the biggest con of this tablet so well rear camera here is in a samsung
8 megapixel one autofocus and you'll see up the top here we've got the sim tray I
just wanted to pull that out just to show you that it is actually made out of
metal I thought it might be one of those really cheap plastic ones so good to see
they didn't resort to plastic here the same goes for the buttons again made out
of metal I thought they might have been plastic considering the price of this
tablet and is a tiny little hole there that you probably can't actually make
out it's a little hard to get on camera and what that is to me it looks like a
reset button perhaps right on the top you'll find a 3.5 mm a headphone jack
with microphone support then the type C port for data and charging it's only USB
2 spec here you can see something we don't normally get on an 8.4 inch tablet
and that is an earpiece so yes it can be used as a phone it has a proximity
sensor and perhaps even an ambient light sense I hope it does and there's a
camera there as well which is a five megapixel one and you're probably
wondering where that microphone is for calls and video it's right here to the
tiny little hole there so overall for the price the build quality is actually
a lot better than I thought it was going to be I expected to see plastic buttons
at least and they've got the texture on that button too painted it red just to
give it a bit of a gamer look perhaps and there is no perhaps a tiny little
bit of flex there and the case but I can't hear any creeks or anything so I
roll the build is a very decent so it does come with a pre applied screen
protector you can see but normally the factory gets this right the first time
and they put them on really well but you can see here there's a lot of air
bubbles so I will probably just have to yeah look at that that's an absolute
mess I'm just going to have to go with no screen protector so first glimpse at
the screen yes the left and right bezels do look bit larger than air Press images
we're getting a lot of this aren't we from people who tryna come he's from
China that just tend to tweak those images to make Bissell's look a little
slimmer I wish they would stop doing that so we've got all your languages on
there that you normally get this is stock Android eight which is great and
it also uses Google's G board which is great too so no funny custom keyboard
here so here we go in Android its stock Android of course now I just wanted to
update you that yes there is a haptic feedback motor in there you get a very
slight vibration it's not a lot but it's better than nothing I just noticed it
when I was typing with the keyboard to set up my Google account and everything
so it is running you can see stock Android as mentioned and those are the
pre-installed apps so it is a very light ROM and you'll see that we've also got
right there FM radio you just need to connect up a headset that acts as the
antenna and then you're ready to go with that you don't actually get that on a
lot of tablets just like GPS too which is really good to have on this so you
get twenty five point six gigabytes free on this 32 gigabytes of storage but do
remember that you can at least add a micro SD card to this and expand upon
that storage now it is running android 8.0 not 8.1 unfortunately and the
security patch level is from June the fifth so let's take a detailed look now
at this display I think it's really good considering the price of this tablet it
does have pretty decent color reproduction now the gammas 2.1 and it's
not far off from 2.2 so the gamma is almost spot-on not bad at all maximum
brightness is where it's lacking I feel a little here it comes out of 250 Lux
for a fully laminated display that's fine indoors as you can see now but
outdoors really I would like to see a lot more brightness there so they have
toned that down with this panel another thing to note is that the DPI which is
the scaling and Android here is set to 320 which you normally see on mobile
phones and I feel for the 8.4 inches and the resolution that's good for me
personally but for some people that may not have the best eyesight you may find
text a little small and you probably noticed that already when I showed you
the settings and things at just how small the text is going to be
a lot of manufacturers will end up setting this to normally around about
480 the DPI here but overall it is a nice screen fully laminated so you're
not gonna have that ugly gap high resolution but that high resolution does
mean I am seeing a little bit of lag and stutter here and there I do feel that
this chipset is better suited to just 1080p or 1200 P the glass the views on
the display as well as 2.5 D so it has those nice rounded edges here and I
don't know whether it's dragon tail or gorilla glass it did come with a pre
applied screen protector so I would probably leave that on there if of
course it doesn't have all the bubbles underneath so sensors very basic here
we've just got an accelerometer and then a proximity sensor but when you use it
as a large mobile phone the display will also dim down very dim as you can see
now and this is going to be good for late time you so thumbs up to chewy for
setting it nice and low a lot of manufacturers still keep the lowest
setting far too high now before I go through my typical benchmarks I wanted
to talk about the performance of it I think this chipset is really struggling
with the 2560 by 1600 resolution so my website here does have a lot of images
you could say it's rather heavy and the touch response is good no problems were
there I haven't had any issues with touch response you just notice animation
lag Algar all with the tablet just feels a little on the leggy side a little slow
and you can probably see it just when you go thrinng ximena's basic
multitasking like right now I'm trying to close down on apps just to keep
things a little bit fluid but even when we just going through here and having a
look at your different applications and things you just notice that now and then
it's just not as fluid as it could be and this is especially noticeable going
from say Michelle Mimi pad 4 and then to this tablet it's just not quite as good
so YouTube Netflix that actually works I tested it out but it's only standard
definition because it's Widevine level one and I did test out YouTube to
YouTube that ever courses on here that comes with the ROM and you up to 1440p
now streaming as fluid it's going to have no problems with that it's going to
keep up with everything there so I'll just go to one of my videos and show you
and you can see now see how things just seemed a little bit slow when they
load through and for some reason I have a Spanish ad over my English video
because I'm in Spain of course but this currently is in 1440p and it does play
these videos really quite fluid and overall looks nice now those starters
come a little bit more obvious when you start to do for example multitasking or
split screen much like running at the moment so since Android 7 were got split
screen which is really great you can look at your emails look at a website
and still be watching for example one of my videos which I'm doing still in 1440p
and you notice that now when you go through the abscess see there's
noticeable stutter this lag it's just a little slow there and not the quickest
so I will go back into Chrome which should still be open here and you'll see
that the scrolling that is okay so you can read this about the performance has
degraded somewhat of course running two things at once all right so I did make a
phone call on this and it says expected I didn't expect it was going to be
amazing qualities so the if it's at the top I would say is not really loud
enough it tends to vibrate distort at the minimum so not great quality but
again it's kind of good to have this in here and at this price point I feel it's
okay and I tested out the speakerphone it's not brilliant either but I'll give
you a sample now of that rare speaker
okay must admit it doesn't actually sound as bad as I thought it would I was
prejudging there wasn't I you just assume it's gonna be bad
because it normally is it's not an amazing speaker but it does have a
little bit of bass and the volume I would rate as being okay I feel it's
sufficient again looking at the price of this tablet now as I pointed out so it's
Widevine level three that it supports a NASA standard definition Netflix so on
Play Store you can install Netflix I've already done that but it's just the
standard definition that's all you're gonna get
now the tablet does support project Tribble but seamless updates they're not
supported there's no access to partition slots a and B and let's be honest here
it's probably going to be stuck on android 8.0
forever I don't ever see this getting Android P Android 9 and GPS it works ok
it doesn't lock on to every single satellite out there media tech for me
have never had the best GPS Qualcomm just do it way better accuracy hovers
around four to five meters your mobile phone will probably be more
accurate and this does not support a hardware compass moving on now to the
connectivity so the 4G speeds tested here really good no problems with the
signal strength I think it was one of these ones I first tested out it was the
ordered cube x1 I think was one of them they had really poor signal strength not
happening here it's perfectly fine and the wireless range and speeds also good
so it's gonna top out and my testing around about 200 200 in 20 megabits per
second so this one I was expecting internal storage speeds 67 megabytes per
second sequential and 45 writes quite slow this is not MMC 5.1 spec this is
only MMC 4.5 point one and at the smaller 32 gigabytes they always tend to
be quite slow but this is one of the slower ones down to to score this is on
par with other hey Leo X 20 devices I have reviewed both phones and tablets so
cluster hundreds some points here but synthetic
benchmarks are not everything as I've pointed out it tends to struggle this
chipset pushing the 2560 by 1600 resolution ebooks they look good on the
screen because it is very sharp and if you're just reading ebooks then your
battery life is gonna be a lot better it's probably gonna be around 6 to 7
hours as well when i zoom right into the text this gives you an idea of the kind
of sharpness you're getting it's very hard to actually make out pixels on this
because of the resolution at 8.4 inches and testing out a rather large PDF file
this one's about 3540 megabytes the performance is ok you can see
scrolling your head it's definitely not the fastest uno will not compete with an
iPad no way those processes are much quicker there you can see you do see
some lag it is struggling a little bit at time so if I just zoom into this it's
definitely not the best performance I have seen skipping here with some pages
a little while to catch up and then load it in those files you can see so not
amazing performance but PDF files do look good on this high resolution screen
now I'm moving on to gaming so I'm going to test out a very demanding title which
is pop G you're probably aware of it and fortnight's also going to be out soon
for many devices and this is going to have to run everything on the lost
settings and that's all you can select you can't even go with balance with pub
G in fact no you can't go a balance sorry but I do not recommend it go on
the lower settings just to keep that frame rate up it's playable as you'll
see now but it can get quite choppy at times so most of the time the game is
really struggling to get 30 frames per second now it is playable but I would
class this as only just play ball you see when you zoom in there's a little
bit of a stutter and just moving around you do get quite a bit of lag there
but lighter titles like shadow fight 3 this does run with fluid playable
framerates much smoother it's just as really
demanding titles and it's a sample of the front-facing camera and the audio so
it's just mono there's just that little mic on the bottom it looks like a little
tiny little slot it's just a gap there and this quality is that's alright it's
not definitely gonna win any awards and your mobile phone will probably be 10
times better than this but I feel it's usable for Skype and your Google Voice
chat apps and things like that like duo that is all gonna work with this and
that's the main thing and a very quick sample or video on the rear so your
mobile phone will do a much better job than this not amazing quality you can
see but at least we can record video so looking at battery life I can give you
quite a good estimate here so gaming it's gonna last for about four to five
hours lighter tasks like just internet and this was all on wireless mind you if
you're on data then it will burn through the battery a little bit quicker you're
looking about I would say maximum of six hours perhaps seven if you really toned
down that brightness so the battery life is not amazing it's not like the ten
hours that I can get it out of my me pad for definitely not charge times also
aren't great you're looking at almost three and a half hours to fully charge
this tablet so overall I feel taking into consideration the price of this
that it has been selling for a hundred and thirty nine us it's now a hundred
and forty five that you are getting a lot you have a fully laminated high
resolution screen which brightness is okay
indoors two hundred fifty lux outdoors it's gonna struggle a little there I
have tested it and you can still make out what is on the screen or max
brightness but it is an ideal for GPS use I would go with a brighter screen so
we do have that GPS module we have LTE 3.5 millimeter headphone jack output is
actually clean and it is clear there's no static so that's another positive
front facing webcams alright now the camera on there the quality of audio
well not amazing a voice calls is where it does fall down so I found the
earpiece to be not amazing it's quite flat it does sound little bit tinny it
tends to distort and my end the call quality from the
microphones are not very good because there's no noise cancellation it seems
their same goes for speakerphone I think the location of the mic and the speaker
are just a little bit too close together and they end up giving like an echo
effect or interfering with each other so it's not wonderful that but at least we
do have that option so for g-strength signal range wireless speeds all good
that all checks out completely there I one thing that you would want to point
out with my screen I have two dead pixels one here and another little tiny
one up here very hard to make out but they are there and they just popped up
after a few hours of use so we have decent performance well not really at
times it lags now where it really shows is gaming so the men 8880
with this resolution and scaling things up even if it's just scaling it's
struggling I feel that Chuwi should have probably gone with four gigabytes
of RAM on this and it would have been even better if one of these
manufacturers other than say show me or Lenovo could use Qualcomm chipsets it
would be much better to see for example even if it's a dated Snapdragon 625 it
will perform much better than it does here so that's the real area of letdown
has to be the performance of it it just tends to feel a little bit sluggish all
the time a little slow as some of the animations so other games like shadow
fight 3 they run fine it's playable frame rates it's just those demanding
games so eventually when fortnight is out I see it being quite choppy and not
being able to reach 30 frames per second definitely not with this hardware
configuration here so overall as a package for the price paid you are
getting a lot it's just if you expect to have really good gaming performance and
amazing overall smooth fluid UI experience you will be disappointed with
that thank you so much for watching this video and I do hope to see you back in
the channel with my up-and-coming videos bye for now