This review here I'm taking a look at the new Chuwi Hi9. So it's an android 7
tablet 8.4 inches is the screen size the screen resolution is rather high so it's
2560 by 1600 giving a very nice sharp look to the screen so when you look at
really close you can't see any pixels with the kind of PPI that this has and
it does have a decent brightness to it it's fully laminated and if you have a
look at the viewing angles they're not bad it or it's IPS so the blacks aren't
super black like an AMOLED panel there's a little bit of a gray to them but
colors do look good and the touch response of the screen is good as well
now at the top you'll see that we've got a front-facing camera now this is 2
megapixels VGA resolution only and the video quality from that VGA resolution
is rather poor so not very good cameras on this at all it does have an ambient
light sensor which is great to see that will automatically control the
brightness and does a good job so at the top you'll find a micro SD card slot and
it supports cards up to 128 gigabytes I have tested and you can set it up as
internal storage or as portable storage and Android 7 feature that is that it
has so we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack quality out of this as
okay didn't notice a little bit of static on the line and the volume could
also be a little bit louder the output from it we've got a micro USB 2 here for
data and charging you know charge times approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes to
charge the 5000 when you add our battery that's on here so the specs of the
tablet it has a media tick in tha 173 now that's a quad-core with a maximum
turbo of 1.9 gigahertz personally I would have liked to have seen the MT k80
176 it's a similar chipset but it has two more cos and it means the
performance of this tablet would just be a lot smoother and it would run things a
little bit better it's got 4 gigabytes of RAM which is not bad 64 gigabytes of
storage on there but it's e MMC 4.5 spec and a very slow drive at that but more
details of that later on here on the rear we've got a 5 megapixel autofocus
camera that does have a lot of focus problems especially in video again poor
quality from this the casing on the back it's plastic and I have one complaint
with us so the use of plastic is fine it makes it light but you will hear some
creeks in it when holding it sometimes so it doesn't fit on perfectly it seems
to just clip in place and it does give the tablet a bit of a cheap feel and so
do the buttons on the right hand side here so the volume up and down and the
power button those are also made out of plastic
adding to that kind of cheaper feel so down the bottom there is no ports or
microphone there you'll see we do have one loudspeaker on here luckily it is
quite loud but it does lack bass of course and only the speakers in these
tablets aren't going to be great so give you a sample of that later on along the
the front the glass on here to wanted to point out is 2.5 D or the rounded edges
they advertise that but the bezels do look a lot larger than some of their
press material advertising really slim looking bezels so you may be a little
bit misled by that it's quite a common practice now that manufacturers are
doing this and I'm really against this because it's not great to be misleading
your customers there with that so the wrong hat has on here is a stock Android
7 wrong it doesn't have any bloatware installed well it's got ES File Explorer
which tends to nag you with a couple of little messages popping up so I just
uninstalled that and it's not too bad so performance off the ROM isn't bad it's
smooth but I have noticed a tiny little bit of stuttering and lag it's certainly
not as fast as the empty case 60 sorry 81 76 that hexa-core chipset that I
reviewed in the likes of the tick last master t8 j j9 comes in Chuy's typical
box the brown ones are very similar to the H I 12 H a 13 box and we have the
tablet here and a plastic sleeve it comes with a pre-applied screen
protector we get some instruction manual here warranty card in English and in
Chinese and then of course the power supply so this power supply is rated to
volts three amps and they include a black microUSB to cable on first boot of
the device you'll have around three gigabytes free and storage you get
approximately fifty three gigabytes of that 64 the antutu score puts it
slightly above the Snapdragon six to five power de novo tablets that I've
looked at the eight inch ones is the gig bench for score just decent for this
chipset and the wireless speeds when you're in the same room as the router it
performs really quite well in decent good speeds but I did notice that the
range isn't particularly good even though when I was looking under wireless
analyzer that the signal strength was still okay when I was further away
speeds absolutely plummeted so this was about three rooms away from the router
and going through about two walls other tablets that I have tested normally do
quite well in this test but for some reason the ho9 didn't fare very well
here now for sensors all we have is the accelerometer ambient light sensor and a
proximity sensor so there's no GPS and no compass and also as you've seen in
the start there's no micro HDMI out on this tablet now looking at the internal
storage you'll see that these speeds here are rather low so it's using a
cheap emmc 4.5 spec one not the fastest I have seen quite slow really when you
look at these specs here so sequential read of only 41 and it's sequential
writes of only 39 we're now onto battery life so this here is a little bit
disappointing compared to other tablets I have reviewed in this price range and
around 8 inches so my battery life here you can see there the averages per
complete charge and this is the full charge that I did battery life I managed
to get six thousand 32 minutes with an onscreen timer six hours and 16 minutes
at the moment I've had the screen on now but I've been playing a lot of games and
it's three hours and 39 minutes it's been on but I've only got 39 percent
actually 35 percent battery left so this is looking like about five hours this
charge so you're looking anywhere from around five to six hours only and I'm
keeping the brightness at at 35% so quite disappointing ebooks and
your PDS rather large ones that I'm testing right here at the moment they do
look really nice on this screen because it's so sharp with this resolution
performance is okay and I didn't notice any real lag here now when you skip
ahead of course it's going to take a little while to start to catch up that
is pretty much normal and standard here with an Android device with the spec now
under gaming performance with this high resolution and the chipset it hasn't
here it does struggle a little bit when it comes to frame rates on certain
titles for example shadow fight three I found is a little bit laggy and slow
however when I played World of Tanks blitz that one seems quite playable the
framerate is smooth and then when I test it out hit as well you can see here that
it's very playable and smooth so in general all games are going to be
playable but some of the more demanding games will have a little bit of lag and
stutter and when you start the game even after about 10 minutes it does get
rather warm around this area here we'll have a look at what temperature it is
it's about 41 degrees but I have actually seen them get up to about 45
but that was after 30 minutes of continual gaming now chrome performance
I've found has been quite decent it's good the scrolling speed seems quite
fluid and my website here isn't exactly the lightest there's a lot of images on
here and even swapping between the tabs and things seems to be pretty quick so I
am happy with the crime performance at least this is working quite well on the
tablet and using the Android 7 split screen feature this also works quite
well I found now depending on what you're doing it will slow down and
little as expected because it's twice as demanding for the CPU and the GPU to
have to render all of us in there but it seems to work well so the rear camera
can shoot up to 1080p maximum resolution and as expected for a tablet the quality
is quite poor now this often happens the focus Disco's can completely out
and you need to then tap the screen to focus but it won't focus it just takes a
screenshot then so very poor cameras on this tablet and the front-facing camera
2 megapixels it only shoots up to VGA resolution so it does look quite blocky
pixelated and generally quite poor in terms of camera performance so we have
that single loudspeaker on the back of it I would rather have seen dual
loudspeakers but it is loud I'll give them that the quality is not really that
amazing but I'll give you a sample of it now
now testing out video streaming services was working okay but this often happened
internet connection error would just drop the wireless connection and then
within about 10 seconds connect up again it's a real pain but when it is working
and you're close enough to your wireless router then yes you can stream video
using streaming services like Amazon Prime here just don't expect it to be
trouble-free so just a recap here the display is the nicest part of this
tablet is really great it is good considering the price of this tablet but
it's let down by this plastic build that does feel a little bit cheap in hand you
hear a little bit of creaking now I'll notice that the wireless range when
you're close enough are in the same room or just the room next to your wireless
router performance is decent and very fast but when I did my test here my
range test to move just right down to the other side of the apartment here
speeds really dropped off and it became very slow and started to drop the
wireless connection now and then which is not great at all to see now there's
another area that's really quite bad the cameras now most people overlook cameras
and tablets and won't be bothered by that but they are quite bad on this
particular model here another thing is the chipset they use so the 81-73 is an
okay chipset if it was pushing a 1080p screen but this isn't this is now 2560
by 1600 and I feel a better match for that would have been the mediatek mt6752
a little bit too much for my own liking now it is playable at least you can play
these games but it just won't give you the best experience out there now the
internal storage as well as a little bit slow they've gone with a cheap MMC 4.5
spec one so not great speeds from that either battery life also disappoints as
well around 6 hours six and a half hours of on-screen time so overall as a
package I feel you know there are better options out there so take a look at the
Leonor tablets that I reviewed for example and
you've also got that tick last mastered t8 which has a metal bill to it and a
very similar screen that's in it as well and just a little bit more smoother and
they sell for about the same price so definitely hunt around but if you can
pick it up for a decent price and you're not too bothered about the cons that I
mentioned then by all means okay go for it but just consider those models there
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