this here is chewie's latest android 11
tablet it's called the ipad air it has a
fully laminated ips screen in it it's
got a unibody built and for the price
tag which is selling for currently under
200 us dollars it is actually offering
quite a bit optional bluetooth keyboard
that i have so what is the ipad air
powered by well it's using that uni sock
tiger the t
618 we've seen a lot of that 12
nanometer chip with the mali g52
graphics now it can surprisingly play
titles like gen shan impact or pub g
with an ok frame rate and performance
doesn't seem too bad on this it has a 7
000 milliamp hour battery and we also
have four gigabytes of ram and 128
gigabytes of emmc 5.1 storage which is
expandable with micro sd card support
our tablet comes in a plain brown
typical chewy box which looks like that
so nothing exciting there and what is
included with that tablet while we get
our power supply which is only 10 watts
usb this is the euro adapter obviously
that i've got because i'm based here in
spain and then i type a to type c cable
now because it's only 10 watts the
charge time is rather slow it's about 2
hours and 40 minutes to charge the 7 000
milliamp hour battery the high pad here
is 470 grams and we do have this gray
which is like an apple space gray color
so the back of it's all made out of
alloy the outside edges everything too
build quality is excellent it feels like
a more premium tablet i mean this is
only selling for about about 170 or so
euros here and the build quality
is really good considering other brands
like uldu cube they have all plastic
with their t 610 tablet but not with the
chewy right here so the camera on the
rear we've got an autofocus 5 megapixel
camera led flash here the front camera
is also 5 megapixels so again with a
nice middle around the outside this is a
plastic volume up and down button and
you'll notice that i've pulled out the
sim tray and micro sd card slot well it
doesn't actually support a sim it's
being blocked off that's because there
is no 4g support with this whereas other
tablets that have this chipset that
tiger t 618 will have lt band 20 4g dual
sim support so this is only micro sd
cards for expanding on the storage and i
test out my 128 gigabyte card no
problems so thickness right here is just
under nine millimeters it's about 8.8
millimeters so good thickness
on the left side we've got our power
button again it is plastic and then here
you'll see on the right we've got our
two loudspeakers now they are left and
right stereo speakers but there's just
two of them it would have been great if
they had another two also they're on the
left side and that would give us the
four in total so type c port this
supports data it does not support video
out i wouldn't expect it at this price
point
and it does come with this pre-applied
screen protector so you just remove the
first layer here that's just a little
bit about the specs of it which of
course we already know
and our keyboard that you can get this
is an optional extra so it has this felt
suede synthetic material on the rear and
on the other side here and uses magnets
to clip onto the back of the tablet so
you simply need to lift it up you place
it in here magnets take care of the rest
of it they're quite strong so i've had
no problems with this coming off easily
or anything like that you can just see
the chewy branding right there and this
is the level we have so you simply just
prop it up like so
and there we go that is now set in place
it's optimized the single angle that
it's got for use on a table and i don't
find it to be too bad the angle they
have gone with now the layout of the
keyboard
it is a little bit cramped but not too
bad considering they only had 10.3
inches to work with half size up and
down arrow keys we've got our function
and z right there to connect up into the
bluetooth mode so yes it pairs up via
bluetooth it's not a hardware connection
like the ipad plus has
and you can see status leds right there
and overall the thickness of it isn't
too bad i'll get onto that shortly so
the travel with these keys is
approximately about 1.5 millimeters it
doesn't feel too bad so if you're going
to be typing a lot this is so much
better the hardware keyboard even though
it's just connected up via bluetooth
then you're typing away on screen
keyboards
so with the keyboard case on it it now
brings up the thickness to 18
millimeters and the weight of it now is
780 grams
our front camera here in the top bezel
is flanked by a dual array microphones
that you can see and this one like the
rear camera as i mentioned is 5
megapixels here is a sample of that
front megapixel camera
now the quality of this camera is only
720p the resolution and it looks to be
close to 30 frames per second some of
them can't be very choppy at only about
15. what is strange though is it's only
720p with a front-facing camera yet we
can record 1080p on the rear and
according to chewie these are supposed
to both be 5 megapixel cameras so
software i hope can adjust that and make
it 1080p with the front facing camera
microphones of course that you are
listening to from the tablet
and the screen in this so we've got that
1200 by 1920 resolution fully laminated
10.3 inches now the brightness in this
it tops out at
290 nits which is fine for indoor use
outdoors you will struggle with it now i
have another tablet that i'm currently
testing and reviewing it's the kingpad
m10 it can do a crazy 700 nits it is
super bright so compared to this one
it's not quite as good so blacks they
still look quite deep and good
with an ips panel this is a very
acceptable level so quite punchy quite
good with the colors and overall touch
response is good i do like this screen i
think again for a tablet that's selling
for at the moment of this video around
170 euros or under 200 us dollars it's a
good screen okay and touch gestures
they're all working fine
under display settings you'll find our
typical android 11 options here that we
do have adaptive brightness with this
tablet i've got it turned off because of
the fixed tests i'm doing at the moment
so there is a little ambient line sensor
up here next to where the microphones
are and again at the price point that
it's selling for it's good that we do
have this option so it can automatically
adjust that brightness for us so color
and contrast scaling that's all there
you can adjust the white balance to how
you prefer it i'm keeping it all on the
outer box settings which is the color
standard but automatic contrast and that
does make things just look a little bit
more punchy with the colors now i'm not
color grading this to make it look any
better or worse than what it is it's
pretty much trying to capture exactly
what it looks like here on camera for
you
now it is running android 11 which is
great so it's pretty much up to date
there we won't get android 12 with the
tablets yet until next year sometime so
fm radio is on board but what isn't on
board with this one as i mentioned
before there's no 4g so that means no
phone calls no text messages even though
you can see we've got well the text
message app there the messaging app but
nothing's going to come up okay or you
can use it to pair up with your phone
but it's not like native hardware
support whether it is not they're not
present so wrong performance i've got to
give chuwi credit where do here that for
the tiger 618 with four gigabytes of ram
which i've seen on other models here it
is fairly smooth and fluid the
performance multitasking when you do
something really heavy so for example if
i swipe up now and if i did have say
gen chain impact in the background it
would lag
when trying to swap over to different
apps but right now with quite a few
different apps open here in the
background it's actually very smooth and
feeling quite fluid there more than you
expect you would expect for this chipset
especially when you look at the
benchmark scores out of it
now when you do take this nice new shiny
tablet out of its box you take off that
screen protector you boot it up this is
what you are greeted with with
pre-installed apps so it is basically a
stock android 11 rom here it's using a
stock launcher no bloat and that
definitely helps keep up the speed there
with it there's over-the-air updates now
prime video that's something i installed
myself and i'll get on to the reasons to
why that is so free storage you're
looking at about
116 gigabytes remember you can install a
micro sd card expand upon the storage i
did test out 128 gigabyte card move some
files over to it i didn't encounter any
problems there so i don't know about
other capacities if you want to try out
even larger capacities uh they should in
theory work so this is their
over-the-air update system so chewy can
push out bug fixes but with all of these
brands that i do review with these more
affordable tablets they won't be pushing
out a major update so i would never
expect this tablet to get android 12.
they just wouldn't bother they would
probably be releasing then the ipad air
2 or 3 or whatever the model is going to
be called just a newer piece of hardware
there for us so there is some good news
and some bad news here just like the
ipad plus i think it is model that i
reviewed before
they got the security level one here now
chewie is the only
chinese manufacturer or the brands that
i cover at least with these more
affordable tablets that is doing this
which is great so that means we've got
drm level one that we need for netflix
and amazon prime video however at the
time of this video testing out netflix
i'm still in standard definition for
some reason so that hopefully will be
changing soon because they do have the
suit already maybe it's something to do
with netflix amazon prime video
unfortunately is standard definition and
i don't see amazon updating what is
basically a white list of approved
devices to include this chewy i don't
see that happening but netflix i do in
the future see them getting at least
full hd which will be great so battery
life this is the fixed test 200 minutes
of brightness let it go until it runs
down to 20 percent it ran for 7 hours
and 35 minutes now chewy they claim that
it can get eight hours run time which at
200 nits of brightness yeah it will be
able to achieve that so better life is
okay but i have seen better i've seen
other tablets with this spec larger
batteries being able to achieve maybe an
hour or two more now remember the
display in this it's just 60 hertz and
what is basically full hd resolution
well that's 16 by nine
aspect ratio sorry 16 by 10 aspect so
emmc 5 for our storage and it's not too
bad 128 gigabytes here sequential return
rights are good randoms are good
with this particular chipset it will not
actually be bottleneck necking and
holding it up so antutu score for some
reason i could not get version 9 to run
it just keep asking me to install the 3d
part of it which i'd already done and i
spent hours trying to fix it so i
reverted back to an older version here
but still the score 200 000 points we
know that this is not a powerful chipset
the tiger it's eight cores the tiger 618
it's a 12 nanometer chip mali g52
graphics is okay you can play all the
titles out there and i will get on to
that gaming performance
pdf files and ebooks do look very good
on this screen fully laminated it's not
bad so this is really like the other
t618 tablets that i've looked at this is
really what this tablet is good at these
kind of more basic multimedia
things like this ebooks pdf files runs
well looks good on the screen when you
do
i'll just double tap here zoom in look
at the text it's sharp enough okay it's
not the sharpest it's not a qhd or a 4k
screen or anything like that but at
normal reading distances it looks good
do remember though that this of course
i'm using
google play books here so i do have the
option to invert the colors but it's
also built into the rom you can go down
you can put the blue light filter on you
can change and tweak that i comfort they
call it there and you can invert that
too with google play books at least when
you're looking at ebooks too you can
invert the colors are back black
background white text whatever you're
able to do that there so good for ebooks
now sadly with audio we do not have this
3.5 millimeter analog support that would
have been great and i still want it on
my tablets and sadly it is not here so
we only have the two down with firing
speakers they sound okay i've definitely
heard worse i have certainly heard
better and here is an example of them at
a 100 volume
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so overall i think the speakers the
volume is definitely good and they have
a tiny little bit of bass to them so
they are better than what we have had in
previous models from chewie so 16 by
nine content on this 16 by 10 aspect
ratio screen like youtube right here
means that at the top and then at the
bottom we are going to have a small
border
oh and i know what you're thinking
didn't i mention fm radio yes it's on
board but how does it work if it doesn't
have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
well they have wired it up via the type
c that the headphones will be our
antenna and you'll see i've got a type c
to 3.5 millimeter adapter you simply
need to plug that in and everything is
going to be then enabled and work so you
can listen to your favorite radio
stations it's just annoying that there
is no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack to
start with
gaming performance now so one of the
most demanding games is this is genshin
impact yes i pronounced it i believe
correctly a lot of people being losing
their minds because i said jen chen
impact before because it's g-e-n but hey
again let's call it gan gang chin impact
that's a little bit more correct so this
is on the lowest possible settings and
you know what you can see it's playable
it's okay it runs fine with the tiger t
618 and it's only got the four gigabytes
around but you will see that just
happened okay so now and then it will do
that like little caching little micro
starter little pause so the game play is
not flawless
but all of the titles out there on
google play store they are playable just
use lower settings and that way you get
a more enjoyable experience with a more
fluid frame rate
and then everyone's favorite pub g what
settings can we go with well the good
news is it will at least let us have
this option which is ultra okay so
anything smooth and balanced will be
ultra maximum as soon as i go to put it
on hd which does look visually better
the frame rate is then reduced to 30
frames per second max which i don't
think most people would want that so i'm
gonna go here with balanced
and ultra and we'll take a look at the
gameplay
so i've picked up one kill already and
the performance is good kept at that 45
frames per second unfortunately i would
really like them to change that to
develop as i hope can allow us to run at
least 60 on the smooth setting but
balanced
at the 45 frames per second cap here
it's good it's playable you can get your
kills no problems there and all the
other games in the market as mentioned
they're going to be playable on the
melee g52 which is the gpu of course
we've got with this tiger t 618
now to summarize here i do like what i'm
seeing from the build quality that uni
body metal build to it makes it feel a
lot more premium than others the
keyboard design isn't so chunky like the
other ones as well where you're clipping
the tablet itself into this plastic
frame that holds it it's more well
chunky and this is just a more thinner
nicer approach to do the keyboard and of
course it just has that one upright
position which is optimized for table
use which is probably where most people
would be using the keyboard and typing
on it anyway now the other things that i
do really like about this particular
model here well certainly i like the
performance of this rom i think
for the tiger 618 chewie's done an
excellent job with the optimization it
just seems to be more fluid more
responsive than the other models out
there that i've tested with the same
chipset now screen brightness tops out
at 290 nits i would ideally like to see
a lot brighter but for indoors not
defending them or anything it should be
bright out but for indoor use it's going
to be fine however if you're going to
use it in direct sunlight you will
struggle but good to see it's fully
laminated so build quality definitely
there that's great one performance good
better life as i mentioned about i
showed you about seven hours eight hours
you can squeeze out of this youtube
performance is fine and gaming it will
play titles that you would think that it
might not be able to play because you
look at that synthetic benchmark score
of antutu and go oh
that's going to be terrible for pubg
terrible for gentian impact but it's not
actually it's okay on the lowest setting
so games are right for the price point
definitely it offers a lot however we
are missing
4g support which the others have with
the same chip set so with that tiger 618
most of them have
the lte band 20 4g dual sim support not
there gps not their 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack sadly missing no hdmi out
as well but we do have micro sd card
support and we do have that wide vine
level one cert so chewie's got that and
like the other model the ipad plus if
i'm not confusing my names here ipad
plus
can play netflix in full hd so i believe
soon
maybe just it's going to take maybe a
month or so it should be able to run
netflix in full hd this model it's just
a matter of waiting i'll update you or
pin a comment in this particular video
with that so once it gets it it's a
definite positive there because all the
other brands i review like audio cube
tech last those other guys they don't
bother with the drm they don't bother
getting the level one cert at least
chewy is now doing that so there we go
that is the ipad air thank you so much
for watching my review i think it's a
good decent tablet for the price tag
especially if you're after a general
okay performance all-rounder it's not a
flagship it's definitely not a mid-tier
either it is well lower end but at an
affordable price