The is the Alldocube M5 it is a 10.1 inch 2560 by 1600 resolution IPS tablet
that runs Android 8 it has a ten core Helio X20 CPU with Mali T880 GPU 4
gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of storage now this model here is a budget
offering from cube it is now their second mediatek helio X 20 tablet so it
does have 4G support LTE but unfortunately yet again only the Chinese
bands there so it will take to micro Sims as you can see under the plastic
here on the back of it and an SD card micro SD card so you don't actually have
to give up one of those SIM slots which is good
3.5 millimeter headphone jack and micro USB along the top here a rear 5
megapixel camera a front 2 megapixel camera and along the sides either side
we do have side firing speakers that put out a decent volume but they don't
actually sound too good I will give them give you a sample of those later on in
this video here so the battery capacity 6600 million hours it isn't huge and you
can see the build overall it does have a dated look with those larger white
bezels and it is an alloy unibody they have on the back so it is well put
together and in hand feels ok the volume buttons and the power button well those
are made out of plastic and I do have a little bit of a cheap feel to them that
tiny little dot you can see there that isn't the microphone that's in fact a
reset switch and on the front you'll find a little tiny slot for our
microphone so inside the box you get the tablet and this protective sleeve and it
will come with a pre applied screen protector in the factory and normally
they put them on perfectly and then just under this right here we have the power
supply and our USB micro USB cable so that power supply is very small it's
rated to 5 volts 2m so it's not a quick charger the USB cable is quite short
it's in white and we do have this quick guide here which is in Chinese but also
English on the reverse side which is good the m5 weighs 548 grams which isn't
too bad for a 10.1 inch tablet and the thickness is 9.3 millimeters so it's not
the thinnest now the display of the auto tube m5 is somewhat of a letdown while
it does have a nice resolution 2560 by 1600 it's an IPS panel the color
reproduction is okay you can tweak it with the mirror vision application so
you can tweak those whites to your own preference see if you like cool whites
warm whites out of the box it's okay the colors are a little bit off as you
expect for a hundred and eighty US tablet so we're it disappoints as
maximum brightness it only outputs up to about a hundred and ninety Lux on the
max setting which is simply not enough more so considering that this screen is
not fully laminated like some of the other tablets that I have reviewed
recently they're being fully laminated I can give you a couple examples there so
the tech last t10 is one of them and there's also another model from Chile of
course which is the hi9 ear that is also fully laminated so this is way more
susceptible to reflections the gap is approximately to 0.5 millimeters so it's
not the greatest you get about 57 gigabytes free on first boot you can of
course expand upon that with the micro SD card slot one of the best things
about the m5 is the ROM so it's 100% stock there's no custom launches and it
doesn't have any Chinese bloatware and you can also see that we do have this
right here hardware FM radio all you need to do is just insert a headset
which will act as the antenna for the FM tuner now the overall ROM performance is
OK you do see a little bit of stutter sometimes and even just the animations
you'll notice it's not 100% smooth the whole time but overall in general I feel
for the price of this tablet it is good and because it is an Android 8 tablet or
since Android 7 we can also run apps that support it in split-screen mode
which is also possible and all you need to do simply for that as just hold down
one of the app so for example right now I have Chrome open here and I can just
move this over and then you can also launch another app right there
and rainbow for them now depending on what apps you're running that will of
course affect their performance so it does support to Google's wired vine
level one and this is the DRM info so when it comes to things like Netflix
Netflix streaming that you will be able to get HD at least with this and I also
have streamed Amazon Prime video and it works perfectly fine on here
so being Android 8 it does support Tribble but it doesn't have the full
seamless update support as you can see here unsupported so that's not great to
see now testing out the wireless AC performance the range is good it's okay
it's not the greatest they have seen and maximum performance I could get out of
my wireless AC router is about 212 to 250 megabits per second that was a
download speeds here I also did test out another download test you can see so
upload slightly faster here 247 but for the price again of this tablet I feel
that that is okay and you're not really gonna get any better than that out of
this particular chipset here so 4G speeds there alright I would call
this an OK kind of speed considering I'm with orange here in Spain and they are
very slow they're rubbish I can't seem to get really any better than this now
the LTE bands are very limited so there's no LTE band 24 other European
users the good thing is that here in Spain at least I can always use the
bands that they ship with these Chinese mobile phones and tablets and here is
the internal storage so it's a MMC four point five point one spec and you know
these speeds aren't great they could be a lot faster they could also be a lot
slower I said to see they couldn't use MMC 5.1 which just would be a little bit
faster but this overall will not affect the performance of the device GPS so yes
it does have GPS and I managed to get accuracy of around about 4 to 5 meters
which isn't bad but it doesn't tend to lock on to to many satellites it doesn't
use them all and it also does not have a hardware compass and lastly the end to
to score so 103,000 for the Helio X 20 this chipset here from MediaTek paired
up with the Mele t8 80 GPU this is actually a good score this is not bad
now the average memory uses two point three gigabytes here and has four
gigabytes in total which I feel is perfectly fine for an Android
8 tablet to have 4 gigabytes even 3 gigabytes is fine what I don't recommend
is those older tablets that only have 2 gigabytes of RAM inside the audio cube
m5 we have a six thousand six hundred million hour battery and so far in my
test here you can see four hours and seven minutes of on screen time I have
32% battery left and my estimates here are around about seven and a half hours
and I do believe that because I have been gaming and this has been very heavy
use of being playing lineage to revolution for about two hours and it
also played some pub G shadow fight 3 as well so that's demanding you so if
you're doing something just like web browsing then expect these figures to be
a little bit higher and I've been on wireless most of the time a little bit
of data so if you use data a lot more again expect less this is only just an
estimate of the battery life now to fully charge it is going to take close
to four hours so it is very slow it's only charging at five volts two amps now
the screen because it does have the 2560 by 1600 resolution it looks good for
e-books you can see I've got an example here I'm using Google play's books and
it's good it's great for this now if you load up heavy PDF files so lots of
images expect a little bit of slowdown it will take a little while to catch up
that's just how it is with this chipset so it's not going to give you amazing
iPad like performance no but for this kind of stuff these Lite ebooks it's
fine for this as I pointed out in the beginning of the video here so we've got
two side firing speakers and yes you guessed it they don't sound great the
volume is okay but they really do lack quality I'll give you a sample of them
now at 100%
so looking at PUBG performance it's not the smoothest but it does seem to be
a little bit better than some of the other Helio x20 tablets I have tested so
you can see that just moving around there now there's a little bit of
starter now this is on the lower settings which the game auto detects I
would not increase that and you can actually increase that without using
something like GFX tool so when you zoom in here we'll discuss a that that's fine
I mean I managed to get here 16 kills but it's only a low-level game against
pretty much bots and very few human players just the ones on my side there
and of course having the bigger screen just does make this a lot more
comfortable than say playing on your mobile phone the other thing is that
your mobile phone if it's got an Adreno GPU in it a Snapdragon chip said that it
probably actually will be a little bit smoother and faster than the Mele t8 80
here which can be a little bit leggy at times now other titles like lineage 2
revolution this one here is on the recommended setting so it's just medium
settings and you will notice that there is some definite stutter and lag at
times but again it is overall playable some point out from that front-facing
camera it's 2 megapixels and the audio quality I feel is OK the quality of the
camera itself is going to be fine for things like Skype but it does look a
little bit blurry so it's lacking a little bit of detail but over I feel
again for the price of this tablet you know this is this is fine this is
acceptable the rear camera will not take a great photo it will not take good
video it's similar kind of quality like this so your cell phone that you have
will take a bit of photo and video differently than this budget tablet all
right so to quickly recap here we're getting a reasonable build quality it's
an alloy unibody has okay the buttons on the side are plastic we do have side
firing speakers but there's no creaks in the case the design there's no flex in
it and that overall is good considering the price of it now battery life forget
about seven perhaps even eight hours if your gaming does non-stop then expect
about five hours a better performance out of the six thousand six hundred
million hour battery performance in general is good it's not great you will
see some stutters and lag here they're gaming it will play all the
latest demanding new titles but it will be best to leave things on the lowest
setting now and then I did encounter a few stutters a little bit of lag and
performance but I roll you can still win games you can still shoot people aim and
things like that and PUBG so the performance is good but it's just not
amazing there it's not going to be the fastest out there definitely not so we
do have some good extras on this tablet what I mean by extras is we've got GPS
that you don't normally see we have FM radio which is also nice to have on
here and we've got wireless AC that's typical now wireless AC but also dual
sim support but there's a bit of a con with that dual SIM support because the
LTE bands well they're not the frequent common ones that you would normally get
in this part of the world so they're really chinese bands and luckily they do
work for me here in Spain but do check with your provider because you may be
stuck on 3G which is going to be a little bit slow so while this
performance is fine there's nothing wrong with that the 4G performance as
well as good and the charge time yes it's slow it's closer to four hours to
fully charge this once you completely drain it's not supporting MediaTek's
pump express or anything like that. does have that or could use that sorry
we're all it comes down to just a couple of things that I'm not too fond of as
the screen brightness that it's really far too dim it maxes out about 190 lux
and considering that this screen is also non laminated you get more reflections
and it's more susceptible to depths and it just doesn't look as good or as
bright again and they've got a screen protector on ER that it comes pre apply
with because the glass is on here is not scratch resistant so is it a tablet that
I can recommend if you're on a limited budget and you're not after or you don't
need the absolute best performance for that you've probably bid off to get a
2018 iPad which a lot of people think asking what is the fastest tablet for
the cheapest price that is it but if you're on a budget and you don't wanna
spend more than about 180 us then I believe that this is an OK option but
just bear in mind the LTE bands the speaker quality is not going to be
amazing but you gain things like GPS 4G if you get the band support and over I
feel decent and better life there so this is an OK tablet
from cube definitely better than the alldocube x1 that ran into some thermal
throttling and got very naggy at least that's terribly here I didn't experience
any of that lag and the three hours or so that I was actually playing games on
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