This is the Lenovo XiaoXin it's an 8-inch Android 7.1.1 tablet and it's
very similar to the Tab 3 plus this is running the same specs so it has a
snapdragon 625 4 gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of internal storage a 4850
mAh battery it has a fingerprint reader on the right-hand side that's
incorporated into the power button as you'll see there and it also has a 5
megapixel camera up the front 80 megapixel on the rear which is autofocus
along the top a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack type-c port and front-facing stereo
speakers which is really good to see they're not mono ones and unlike the Tab
3 plus these are firing out towards you directed towards you so they do sound a
lot better I'll give you a sample of those later on in the video down the
bottom we have a microphone so that can be used in video and your Skype calls
and other applications on the left hand side there's a little flap here with the
lenovo logo where you can insert a micro SD card up to 256 gigabytes is supported
i've tested out 128 and it works perfectly fine you can set it up as
portable storage or use it as internal storage if you find you run out of space
installing apps on the 64 so the build quality of it isn't bad it is made out
of plastic the whole rear but it has a nice feel to it's also very light and
quite thin to this tablet and overall build is good very comfortable to use no
real complaints the bezel size isn't exactly the slimmest but it gives you
somewhere to place your thumbs and your fingers your palms without touching the
screen so it is practical the bezels it has on here so inside the box you get
the tablet wrapped in plastic some instruction manuals and promotional
material all in Chinese we have a type C cable that's black and then our power
adapter which is two prong now this is rated to 5 point 2 volts 2 amps per
tablet just 302 grams thanks to that plastic
build it's very lightweight and comfortable to use and comes in under 8
millimeters so it's very thin as well so displays 1920 by 1200 16 by 10 aspect
ratio now up the top here looks like we do have an ambient sensor in hardware
but with my rom there seems to be no way to actually activate Auto screen
brightness you have to control it manually which is a bit of a
disappointment there now the screen brightness at the maximum level maxes
out at 470 lux it's a fully laminated screen and it does look really decent I
do like the colors the reproduction on here
viewing angles are also good now one area I feel they could improve on the
screen is the touch scrolling now the responsive touch is good but I feel that
the scrolling at times could just be a little bit more sensitive at times it
seems like it's just not as sensitive as it could be here you see when scrolling
but performance here in chrome is very decent and it's smooth enough the
typical kind of performance you would expect from a Snapdragon 625 so it
counts with Android 7.1.1 and these are the applications we get straight out of
the box so it does come with a lot of pre-installed bloat unfortunately but
the good thing is you can uninstall most of it which is great once again
approximately 50 gigabytes free of that 64 that it has so it is running a more
recent version of Android the tab story that I had was stuck on Android 6 and
this is going to be stuck on Android seven point seven point one and while I
say stuck as there is no over there err update system that I can find on this
particular model now it could be down to the fact that this is running a shop ROM
so someone's modified a tree flashed it with Play Store on here and this is the
reason why the tablet gets 60002 - you can see here which isn't bad for the
snapdragon 65 chipset more or less other devices I have tested out and the Tab 3
plus will get the score the internal storage is also very fast it maxes out
at 270 sequential reads and 141 sequential writes with good
for case so very fast storage this is why multitasking and the performance of
it overall is good one other thing is excellent Wireless on
this device which is really good to see so very fast speeds here testing with my
300 megabits fibre line and also tested out the range so I went over to the
other side of the apartment and the range is still really good and the
speeds here back that up so speeds do drop of course but very decent it's a
really good wireless on this if you need a tablet that's got great wireless this
is one to go for we also have GPS on here which is really good to see but
what isn't good to see is they ditched the hardware compass on this model it's
on the tab 3 plus that I reviewed from Lenovo but not on this particular model
accuracy was down to 5 meters and overall very good the GPS so just how
does the ROM perform it's actually really quite good not bad at all
multitasking can swap between your applications quite quickly it will do
split-screen as well on apps that support it overall ROM performance is
not an issue at all with this particular model here
so most habits really do suck from China when it comes to speaker quality they
are normally very flat and poor but we've got two front-facing speakers you
can see those slight little girls there left and right and I really do like the
speakers on this it's using Dolby Atmos so it's more like an equalizer you can
tweak you can boost the sound you can just adjust it and fine tune it now
audio quality out of the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack is very decent it's good
I really do like the quality coming out of this considering the price and it's a
tablet and I'll give you a sample now of the front-facing speakers just how they
sound
the template comes within an Adreno 506 GPU now those GPUs capable of pushing
games that are graphically demanding at 1,200 feet without any problems it's not
super smooth 100% of the time depending on the games you test you will see now
and then a few little stutters the games like hit shadow fight 3 and World of
Tanks all ran perfectly fine on this tablet with playable framerates with an
8-inch screen and a tablet that's this line and thinner it's very comfortable
for e-books and PDF files and I found the performance to be reasonable it's
certainly not the fastest when you're using large PDFs moving on now to
battery life which I find to be very good here I managed to get 10 hours and
16 minutes of on-screen time with the combination of that 4815 milliamp hours
cell and the Snapdragon 625 which is a very efficient chipset so during this
you sell I did quite a bit of gaming so 55 minutes here shadow fight 3 also
streamed Amazon Prime for 1 hour and 32 minutes YouTube for an hour as well
1080p quality and then I played hit for about 4 hours almost there so moderate
kind of use very happy with the battery times that you're able to get out of
this now to fully charge the device it will take just over 2 and a half hours
which is also very good so here's a sample from the front-facing camera does
crop in a little bit and I find the quality to be quite decent as well as
the audio considering this is a tablet now most people would normally just use
their mobile phone so on the rear camera we also have up to 1080p video from that
8 megapixel camera and the quality is quite good but you will notice that the
focus is constantly pulsing in and out so it has that focus breathing issue
which is very common on many devices other than that I really do like the
quality for a tablet I find it to be very good it's just ruined a little bit
by better focus so there we go this is an all-rounded great little 8 inch
tablet I do like it love the weight and it just got really good weight
distribution on it - really decent screen so it's
right is fully laminated we've got GPS we are lacking a couple of things though
there's no ambient light sensor there's no compass and there's no HDMI out if it
had those three things then I would probably declare this declare this one
and the tab will plus if it's got the same spec as being one of the best
Android 7 tablets 8 inch ones that you could buy but I won't go that far but I
will say that this is very very good it does come recommended really enjoying my
time using this tablet so the ROM performance is decent it's good I
haven't noticed any lag or stutter gaming performance from the audrina 506
is also great you do sometimes get a few little stutters and games that are very
demanding but overall it's a smooth experience and everything loads up quick
enough thanks to that emmc 5 spec drive this has only over the 64 gigabytes of
storage so the cameras there ok there's an autofocus problem with the rear
camera but I doubt too many people are going to be bothered by that it still
works out to be fine for Skype calls both the front and rear cameras and for
e-books also very decent this tablet but if you're going to be using this for GPS
navigation I would go for the Tab 3 plus with the hardware compass and GPS module
so that's really the only things that this tablet lacks and also the price at
the moment 240 or so us means it's a little bit pricey I feel for what it is
even though the spec is really good the builders great the screen is good is it
worth the extra cash I feel it is but wait for the price to drop down a little
bit or take a look at the tab 4 plus which is basically exactly the same as
this and a really good little tablet now if you haven't seen my review of the Tab
3 plus which is the interior model 2 this one the older model then check out
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