this is the Chuwi Hipad so it is a Heilo x27 tablet it's the second one
I've reviewed now with this chipset but this one's paired up with only three
gigabytes of RAM and 32 gigabytes of storage it does have a lot of good
things going for it but its ultimate weakness is definitely that chipset
which isn't particularly powerful and you do get a little bit of lag through
the UI depending on the version that you order you get a EU charger here of
course because I have the EU version that was sent to me here down in New
Zealand you get a rather small type C to USB cable and of course the tablet which
does come with a pre-applied screen protector and normally the factory does
a pretty good job much better than me so you don't have any dust underneath it
now the charger is rated to only 5 volts 2 amps so it's not one of those quick
charge ones unfortunately it does not support media ticks pump Express now one
of the good things about this tablet here is it runs stock Android so there's
no custom launcher here and it doesn't come with any pre-installed bloatware it
does have a few Google apps on here but overall you are covered you've got a
file manager and as you can see we've also got FM radio the hope head runs
Android 8 it's got a security patch level from June the fifth this year so
it is a little bit dated there you would have noticed the rather large bizzle
that this has so it's not gonna win any awards for slim bezels the screen is
however one of the best things about this tablet it is a fully laminated
panel it has a resolution of 1920 by 1200 so that's 16 by 10 aspect ratio and
the gamma one of the first actually checks out to be exactly 2.2 brightness
tops out at a very decent 434 Lux which is great so this is a brine screen a lot
brighter than your typical budget Chinese tablet and the fact that it's
fully laminated is really good it supports 10 touch points touch input is
okay however sometimes there is a little bit of lag with it as you'll see later
on too in this review when I go through it the tablet has an alloy rear body
that has a matte paint job to it that is very prone to fingerprints see we clean
this one a lot it doesn't have any flex or creaks in the actual frame of the
side of it and when it connects up to the screen at the front so that is
really good and you'll see we've got these little red accents and here to
tell us that this is aimed at gamers a gaming tablet now it does make it look a
little bit different there's no lights on this there's nothing special about
this and right here you'll find a single mono speaker which isn't particularly
good and I will give you a sample of it later in the review Patel it weighs four
hundred and eighty nine grams and is 8.8 millimeters thick which is not bad
considering I've used much heavier tablets thirty puts you'll find is a 3.5
millimeter headphone jack with mic support the audio out of this is okay
I've certainly heard better and I have also heard worse there's a tiny little
bit of static very light hiss through it and then we've got a type C port which
is for charging and data and then a slot there for micro SD card support up to a
hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of tested which is working fine on the
right side you will find a plastic volume up and down button power on
button and just below the volume button there's a tiny little hole there that's
a reset button but I don't actually think you're probably going to need it
the buttons themselves they are made out of plastic they feel okay they don't
actually rattle around so overall the build quality of the tablet is perfectly
fine at the top you find a five megapixel webcam
there is no ambient light sensor on this particular model either and to be honest
I didn't really expect it at it's a hundred and forty forty five price tag
on the rear there is another five megapixel camera this one however has
autofocus so you will notice that we also do have rather large icons on here
that's because they've gone with 320 dpi for the scaling of android 8 ROM
performances one of the issues with this particular tablet that it is not
actually very fast and fluid that you will notice that you do see often quite
a bit of stutter and slowdown in the UI you can probably pick that up but this
is not running in a full 60 frames per second that it struggles and if you do
happen to have something in RAM because we've only gone three gigabytes here you
will start to see even more slowdown and stutter just launching a through few
things here and if I bring up Google Play Store it
load them pretty quick the wireless performance is not bad on this you're
just noticing a definite bit of lag there and the UI that is ever-present
and especially coming from my Mii pad for with its Snapdragon 660 you notice
here that the Helio even notice the x27 is really struggling to even display
this at only 1200 P this also popped up here which is an app that was removed by
Google play's protect which is like an anti-virus system here and it doesn't
like this app that's called font manager now I don't remember installing anything
like this and I'm pretty certain this actually came on the ROM here it may be
not harmless error or maybe perfectly fine but it's still not good to see this
okay so it's not all bad news you can actually get some very decent battery
life out of this so it has a seven thousand milliamp hour battery now
charge time is quite slow it's gonna take you well over five hours it was
around about 5 hours and 28 minutes to fully charge it but look at this screen
on time you're able to get at least eight hours if you're gonna be gaming
and it's gonna be a little bit lower than there's plea gonna be about five to
six but this was mixed-used so I was gaming a little I was also doing some
YouTube streaming ebooks things like that I was able to get 8 hours and 34
minutes which is not bad at all when you take a look at the antutu score so it
gets just over a hundred thousand now the mediatek helio X 20 can actually get
similar kind of scores so that even though this one's clocked higher their
maximum turbo is 2.6 and the GPU is clocked up a little bit higher as well
850 megahertz it's not really performing as good as you would expect and as I
said before I think it's the memory that could actually be the problem it's just
a little too slow and we don't have enough of it so the 32 gigabytes of
storage that is onboard here is MMC four point five point one spec and these
speeds are okay for this type of drive it's not actually too bad so this is
queen shil Reed and the sequential right this is not going to be bottlenecking
this system it's the chipset that's the bottleneck now for project rebel support
it doesn't support seamless updates and I expected this considering the price of
this tablet nor does it support wide security level one so what this means is
security level three is that you're gonna be stuck on just standard
definition with Netflix now the wireless range in speeds they check out I haven't
had any problems connecting up to my wireless networks here down in New
Zealand and the range seems to be okay it's certainly not the best that I have
seen and the speed and throughput you're getting is going to be I run about a
hundred and twenty megabits per second max we just have that single rear firing
speaker on here and yes you guessed right that it's not amazing the loudness
is okay but did a hunter percent volume it will distort a little bit and here is
a sample of it
now sample from the front-facing webcam so it's 5 megapixels the quality as you
can see is average it's got a lot of grain to it the audio is okay it's
passable and it is actually usable for applications video chat apps like Skype
net is the main thing here but your mobile phone will do a much better job
than both the front and rear 5 megapixel cameras on the high pad so if you're
still watching you've already gathered that I've mentioned a few times now that
it's not really a huge performer this tablet however it is good at things like
PDF files it's not gonna be amazingly fast but we
do have that nice screen which is by far the best thing about this particular
tablet here the high pad so it's got the fully laminated screen 1200 P good
brightness and the sharpness for reading and looking at PDF files is good so I
can see a lot of people that if you can get it for a decent price possibly using
it for this any books yes they do look decent I'll give you a sample now of the
text so this is what it looks like when you zoom in really close here you're not
going to make out pixels at normal reading distance video streaming
services such as Amazon Prime they're working perfectly fine YouTube works
great as well and as mentioned Netflix that's only going to be in standard
definition now taking a look at gaming so this one here is shadow 5/3 which is
not the most demanding game and you can see it is running pretty good there's no
real issue with this one the frame rate that it is producing here is definitely
playable it's not the smoothness I have seen this game running of course but it
is better than the hell yo X 20 which on some tablets I tested at a high
resolution to are 2560 by 1600 would be very slow and laggy at least here you're
getting a playable framerate but let's check out a more demanding game pub G so
as you can see it runs the game but it is quite choppy and laggy I'm finding it
quite difficult to actually aim and move around the input touch input here seems
to have a few problems and someone's just about to kill me I think so just
show you try and aim here see if I can get this bot
okay so I managed to knock him down but it is quite frustrating the game the
performance here just isn't enough if you ask me it's just a little bit too
slow and it's just that touch input as well as making this quite frustrating I
find I have to actually press harder right here to get that joystick to
register and you see when you zoom into that this is this is very choppy this is
not I don't think this is even 30 frames per second probably not it is on the low
setting as well so the last possible settings struggling right here the
mali T880 which is of course the GPU that is part of that Helio or X 27 so
there we go that's the Chuwi Hipad a budget tablet that is selling for
around about a hundred and forty five hundred forty nine us at the time of
this video here so it has a really nice screen on it for what it is okay yes
we've got large bezels but it's fully laminated the brightness is well over
400 Lux which is really good to see because most of them don't even reach
300 Lux they normally top out about 200 in 20 so if you need a brighter screen
then possibly want to go for the build quality is good here no problems with
that but what is the biggest issue for me with this tablet which means I can't
recommend it at all really is the performance it's just so laggy a lot of
the times it's just so painful to use because you're getting this constant
stuttering now maybe I have a faulty unit but I don't think so it's very
common with the halyard chipsets that I find that they just aren't as smooth as
you'd think they would be with ten cause the real weakness is probably that GPU
and really actually probably the ram the ram 3 gigabytes of ram if this had four
it would perform a little bit better however I think the RAM speeds this has
just a little bit too slow and that is bottlenecking that chipset there and the
chipset itself isn't really that fast so if you want the best performance you
want a super smooth tablet that's going to load things up great and be able to
gain well this definitely is not the one to get so thank you so much for watching
this shorter review hear from me and I do have to see you back in the channel
please check out my review just up here of another Android tablet this
here comes recommended it's the me paired four which has a snapdragon 660
and performs a much better that one overall is very smooth thanks a lot for
watching this video