Chris here and i'm back with the Mi Pad 4. So this tablet I have been using for
some time since its release since day one I haven't really put it down it is
my favorite Android 8.1 tablet in the favorite tablet that I have actually
seen this year it is really good but we have now the 10.1 inch model from Xiaomi
so this is called the me pad plus and it has a couple of improvements so first of
all all models have LTE support it's a micro sim it doesn't have LTE band 20
however for those of you that need that in Europe you'll be disappointed with
that microSD cards are put as well on all of them and we do have now a new
fingerprint reader at the front this is an always-on fingerprint reader it works
really well and the battery capacity has increased to eight thousand six hundred
and twenty million hours and in my two days testing now this is a very hard
battery to kill it just goes and goes and goes you can get up to 17 - 18 hours
with this battery life and the specs well the Snapdragon 660, 4 gigabytes of ram
my model has these 64 gigabytes of storage so they are similar it's fixed
there but you also get to with this one gps for those of you that want gps in a
tablet if you're a boaty you want to use it for navigation and things it also has
a hardware compass so there's a quite a few improvements for this model let's
check this one out in greater detail so we'll start out with having a look at
what we get inside the box so the packaging has the tablet right up to the
edge of the box so some of the chinese manufacturers are going to ship it out
without any extra packaging it could possibly get damaged there's something
to be aware of there so we have a little slip here now this has all your warranty
card clicks that guide and the centauri tool but it is all of course in chinese
so I won't bother opening that at all we get a USB type-c cable in grey and white
and a 5 volt 2 amp charger here so this is not quick charge the tablet doesn't
actually support quick charge possibly because it has such a large battery
charge time it is three hours and about 55 minutes so it is quite slow but it is
a large battery at 8620 milliamp hours so the tablet is just like the me paid
for but of course larger and they did have space to include a fingerprint
reader on the front now wish that the me paired
the normal addition would have this it's an always on fingerprint reader and it
works ten out of ten times at the top you will find a five megapixel camera
we have a status LED now this is just white and that's the one to the right of
the camera to the left is an ambient light sensor and you can see that it
does have a matte anti-glare screen protector on it out of the box on the
back there's a metal unibody and we do have the camera that does protrude by
about a millimeter it's 13 megapixels and using an application called open
camera you can shoot in 4k so this backplate here this is plastic the rest
is alloy and you can just make out there a tiny microphone that's used for video
so it does record in stereo a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that outputs a
very clean loud audio on the upper left-hand side you will find our son
tray so it's one nano SIM and a micro SD card and it does have a middle frame
around it and overall it feels good the build quality of this tablet is
excellent well apart from the buttons on the right hand side so the volume rocker
and in the power on button just like the me paired 8 inch version that we've had
for they rattle around a little so that is a minor complaint there from me and
lastly along the bottom you will find another microphone to downwards fraying
loudspeakers type-c ports and there are two Torx screws that secure the rear
housing into place making it a little stronger now the black paint job it does
show up the fingerprints and smudges pretty bad but if you go for the
champagne gold one then you don't really see those smudges and fingerprints as
much you probably would have already spotted that the edges have a nice
rounded 'no stu them so this is a plastic frame around the glass - fully
laminated 1920 by 1200 panel but the way they have the secured in place means
that everything is really quite solid there's no creek there's no flex at all
very solid feeling tablet just to point out to that the fingerprint reader is
also a home button so tapping this you'll take you to home it's not a click
install it's completely hard but it would be
nice if they put some capacitive menu keys here either side they do have space
for it weight-wise it comes in to be 488 grams
making it 144 grams heavier than the smaller 8 inch version now when you take
a look at the bezels they are slimmer on the left and right top and bottom yes we
still have a bit of bezel here but overall it's quite a good look compared
to your typical Chinese 10.1 inch tablet they would have large bezels so we have
four gigabytes of RAM and it is the snapdragon 616 with a maximum turbo of
2.2 gigahertz and that's an octa-core CPU and it is running Android 8.1 me
white nine point six is the skin on the top you get 52 point 11 gigabytes free
on first boot and we do have a course microSD card support as I showed you now
the time of this video there is no global ROM and this is the Chinese ROM
so it's an English or Chinese only at this point but later on there should be
that release they will have of course multiple languages on here you get a
little bit of your typical Xiaomi bloat and a lot of it you can uninstall the me
pad for plus posts a decent and to to score as you can see about 140,000 this
is more or less the same as its smaller version just like the internal storage
so its EMC 5.1 speak and these are very decent speeds you get here for this type
of Drive now in my testing with orange Spain they are horrible by the way I'm
getting as fast as I could out of any mobile phone as well with the same exact
SIM card so no complaints with the coverage as well signal strength is good
and as I pointed out that we cannot make phone calls for some reason with this
particular model even though it does have the modem it does hit the SIM card
slot it's got everything there but we just don't have the dialer wireless
range and speeds again excellent it just like them it paid for so very good it
tops out about 400 megabits per second and some good news here we've got GPS on
this model for boat ease for people that want to travel that knee gps it does
work very good so the typical qualcomm chipsets not like the mediatek ones that
often struggle this gets a lock very quick accuracy stays around three-meat
and yes it does have a hardware compass like all Xiaomi devices the tablet does
not support Widevine level one so we will not have Netflix in Full HD
it'll just be standard definition now because it is running Android 8.1 we do
have project trebles support however there's no access to partitions amb
moving on to the display now so when you zoom right into it yes you can probably
start to make out some jagged edges of pixels but at 10.1 inches even with a
resolution of 1920 by 1200 it's perfectly fine you don't really see the
pixels unless of course you look at it super close it's not like your 15.6 inch
laptop that a lot of them out there are still running of course 1080p
resolutions the screens gamma is around 2.0 ideally it should be closer to 2.2
and it has a maximum brightness of 460 Lux now these smaller me pad for that
one has a maximum brightness of 560 Lux so that has to me a better screen in it
it's not only brighter it's sharper of course because it is smaller now you do
notice a little bit of not screen bleed but shadowing around some of the bottom
edges you can probably see along here that it's just a tiny little bit darker
it is very minor and if you look at just a plain black image you do see a little
bit of screen bleed but that is a characteristic of an IPS panel as you
can see from these examples here there the colors look very good and you can
tweak the screen using the inbuilt display tweak at all that's in the
settings so you can adjust the white balance here so you can set it using the
little chart above you sit it's a rather warm call and I just tweaked it and put
it in the middle normally myself or you can use what is called like this
standard so that's a standard contrast you've got your increased contrast and
then automatic that's what it's on out of the box so when you get the tablet it
does not have Google Play installed and if you go into the show me apps which
I've now hidden away in the tools here you can't actually find it to install it
so what I had to do is download the Google install it's an apk file and once
I did that I was able then to install it so this is this is what the file looks
like it's all in Chinese you just run through it and it starts to download
and then install google play for you or just wait for the global rom of course
if you're not happy doing that sort of thing yourself so they're on performance
wanted to point out that it is very good the touch accuracy the touch time the
responds really good and I've been doing a bit of multitasking here and their
performance is fine the only time I have seen some stutter animation lag is when
you're in the full screen gestures which of course I'm not using at the moment
I've got the navigation keys down the bottom full screen gestures does work
well it's just when you unlock sometimes you see a little bit of stutter there
now we'll show you quickly chrome performance that this is very smooth the
scrolling and again the input from your touch the fingers really good and I'll
load up a page that I have not actually loaded up right yet so we'll just click
on that and you see you think pops up really quick and as mentioned that the
wireless range and the strength and the speed of it is very good so go back out
of here free available RAM you get normally you
can see I've got 2.1 gigabytes at the moment and that should be enough for
most people I find that if you're doing super heavy multitasking yes it will
start to get a little slower there I also wanted to point out too that we do
have face unlocking now I've got the tripod in the way but most of the time
you can see that worked really good and this to me means it's either working
really well or it's not actually that secure I believe it's not really that
secure but if you are not happy with the face unlocking how insecure it really is
then use the fingerprint reader so this is always on I simply just touch it and
it unlocks and it works ten out of ten times exactly like charmese mobile
phones it is very good and great to have this feature just that added level of
security and then of course we do have split screen mode so I've got a PDF I'll
open my website open here and that is fine that kind of performance is all
good I haven't really seen it bogged down
unlike the Helio X 22 X 23 and even the X 27 tablets I've looked at they tend to
bog down when you're in split screen mode they get a little bit laggy but
this does not compare to the mediatek chipsets there's qualcomm snapdragon 660
really does fly and is just so much faster than those ones youtubers were no
problems this is 1080 he's streaming it keeps up Amazon Prime
- that's gonna work just fine you're not gonna have any problems with this but
the problem you will run into is Netflix Netflix will only run in your standard
lower resolution that is it because of that Widevine level 3 cert it has and
reading a PDF file here now in full screen it looks good even though this
screen is not the sharpest you will see out there especially at 10.1 inches we
have a lot of 2560 by 1600 screens out there now that are a lot sharper I find
that it's still perfectly fine at your normal typical arm's length reading
distance as I'll show you again zooming into the text here and then ebooks they
look great on the screen and you do have the filters you can apply so it got the
blue light filter and then you also have reading mode they can put the whole
screen into black and white mode alright and on to music so Xiaomi really knows
how to do 3.5 millimeter headphone jack output to me they threw one of the best
even when it comes to flagship phones they always seem to have very good 3.5
millimeter audio it's nice and loud it's clean its crisp it doesn't have any
static or interference in the same exact case here just like the me paid for it
does sound very good so what about the speakers they sound identical to the
smaller 8-inch version to me down ones firing and a ton of a scene they
sometimes can distort a little bit but overall these a decent speakers they're
loud and they have a little bit of bass but here is a sample of them
now I have a little bit of dilemma of which one of these to keep I'm gonna be
flying down to New Zealand long-haul flight I have to do one flight from
Dubai to Auckland that is 16 hours and I want a decent tablet and I want to take
either one of these one of them only that I can travel with so one hand I
want to take this one for the bit of screen the portability it is smaller and
it has a brighter sharper screen but I do like the fact that this has much
better battery life it can go for up to 16 hours straight and we've got a
fingerprint reader on the front just makes it a little bit more comfortable
no typing in a password that people can see just place my finger on there unlock
it and yeah it just works yes you've got face unlocking on both of them as well
now for G I was in a flight I cannot use that but I can use 4G later on which is
another reason why I'm leaning towards the me pad for plus the larger one it's
really quite hard to choose which one to go for at this point but portability
definite winner features this one and better life the definite winner as well
so you go for the Plus version and what about gaming so titles that are
demanding like lineage 2 revolutions on the highest setting as perfectly
playable it runs fine without any issues shadow game legends so this is running
on the high setting 60 frames per second and it is very
playable maybe now and then you do see a little bit of stutter so maybe medium
could actually be a better setting but overall performance is good at smooth
and it's a great-looking game very good graphics ashphalt 9 legends this is on
the high visual setting it's running well now and then you do see a frame dip
now pop G so this is on the HD sitting high frame rate and it's running fine
it's good you can zoom in with the scope and you don't really get any massive lag
or anything like that but now and then you do see a little bit of stuttering
here and there to be expected this is not the most powerful chipset but
overall the main fingers we're getting a steady playable framerate and lastly on
to battery life so it is excellent really good here I've got 13 hours 34
minutes that I have heard the screen for I've got a 15% battery left and I
could probably make at least I would say close to 15 hours so a lot of people out
there should be able to get 16 17 hours out of this tablet I'm not joking and
it's really good it is so hard to kill the massive battery so it's eight
thousand six hundred and twenty milliamp hours which is huge when you look at the
size of this tablet now here's a sample from the front-facing camera so it
records in 1080p you cannot change a lot of settings and all with this camera and
one thing to know too that their mics they are in stereo which is good and
I've used this with skype at over all these cameras are above average now the
rear camera you can shoot in 4k if you use a third-party application called
open camera the photo quality I won't show you many test photos here you can
see a couple it'll take an OK photo but your mobile phone will be better but
overall above-average cameras here on the me pad for plus and this is what the
quality is like it's sharp because it's 4k the focus I don't actually think it
works very well but for a tablet this is not bad quality at all
alright so quickly recapping this is a fantastic tablet they both are really
good now which one should you go for it's all down to your personal choice
obviously on what is better for you 8 inches or the 10.1 now the 10.1 can be a
little bit heavy after holding it for an hour so watching a video on a train or a
plane but you can get stands you can get cases so you can get around that problem
there but the portability and the size I find this one's a little bit easier for
gaming so if you're playing pub G for extended long periods I found that this
is just a little bit better overall because you can get your thumbs and then
you've got easy contact to touch the whole screen there so touch response on
both of these screens is really good the sharpness on this one is better of
course because it's eight inches with the same exact resolution where it's a
little bit more stretched out so when you look closer you will be able to see
the pixels a little more on the meet pads are four plus but of course the
plus has a lot more going for it it has a much larger battery so I get around 12
hours a battery life on this one I'm gonna be able to get about 16 on this
one so you get an additional four hours perhaps even more now if you just played
straight in video then you'll be able to get 17 hours on this the
battery life is absolutely amazing and in my test here I tried to kill the
battery it is really hard to do because it just goes and goes and goes
fingerprint unlocking I mean I can demonstrate that now to you that it's
just always on and it's like the phones its instantaneous really good general
performance is very good it's not the fastest Android tablet out there that
would go probably to the Samsung tab is for of course we're more powerful
chipset but that is a very expensive tablet this one cost about half the
price of that one and you're getting quite a bit so LTE band 20 is not there
there's a little bit of rattle on the side with the volume rocker just like
this particular model here apart from that the bolt is really good 3.5
millimeter headphone jack quality again very good you cannot make phone calls
with it which is a surprise because the other Android tablets have looked at you
can and they could have added the dollar in here because after all we've got a
SIM card in there it does have dual microphones and we have a headset jack
that supports microphone so why why not calls charming I don't know they don't
want us to do that they want us to get a phone or they fellow who knows their
reasoning behind that so all in all very good tablets I really do like it
and it does come recommended from me as especially for people that want GPS as
well with the compass definitely this is the one to go for over the smaller model
which again is really great so make sure you check out my review of the Mi Pad
4 that is right up here and then my latest videos thanks again for watching
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