this is the triple tech eight an eight inch android tablet that's dust proof splash proof drop
proof and has a 1200 did display how good is it for drones that's we're gonna find out
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transparency triple tech did send me this tablet for review but i'm not being compensated in any
other way they don't get to see this video or have any input to it before it's released
so these are my opinions about using this tablet for the last few weeks before we jump into my
thoughts and general experience about using this tablet to fly drones with i'm going to jump in
and go through some of the specs really quick because lots of you i'm sure would want to know
the specs and if i get any of them wrong a bunch of you will comment about how i was wrong and
obviously i don't know what i'm doing so hopefully this will mitigate that because i actually have
them on my phone there's a 8-inch 1200 android tablet that has a 2560 by 1600 pixel display it's
got 8 gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of built-in storage plus you can put an sd card in there
which will give you a lot more storage because i think you can use up to a one terabyte ssd card
not ssd uh sd micro sd card and you can get a sim card and get 4g lte in here if you want to
4g or le lte it's waterproof and dust proofed up to ip68 which i can't remember exactly what that
means but that means it's it's pretty good splash resistant however when you have it
plugged into your remote because you open this tab it's not totally waterproof and dust-proof
thin so be aware of that you can't go fly this from underwater or can't use this underwater
if you've got it plugged into something octa-core and 3g 3d ready gpu it has a 12 200 milliamp hour
battery which means you get tons of battery life out of this i've been i've gone for i don't know
basically a full day like five hours of flying and had the battery last that entire time the rear
camera here is 21 megapixels with autofocus the front camera is eight megapixels wi-fi
gps glonass galileo beidou and bluetooth and nfc uh and it weighs 1.3 pounds i want to cover some
of the strengths then we'll go through some of the weaknesses in just a little bit but first off this
thing has a really beautiful bright display at 1200 hits it's really easy to see outside
even on bright days like this or bright sunlight days when i've been filming in other places it's
been nice to use this because the video feed is really clear it's bright easy to see even without
a sun shade it's just been a real joy to fly with because of how bright and how big the display is
the thing is the touchscreen part of this is really well implemented it responds very well to
touch it it makes it really easy to get exactly what you want not and not what you don't want
because i've had issues with that with the iphone before just because the display is so small and
especially if i'm flying with gloves it makes it harder to pinpoint exactly what i want to change
i have not had that issue with this particular device at all and the battery life on this is
phenomenal at 12 200 milliamp hour battery this thing has lasted forever like i've gone out and
shot basically for an entire day when i was in montana shooting for a tv show and didn't have
to recharge this once had it on full brightness pretty much the entire day and it worked
perfectly the entire time another big strength of this is its durability obviously it's splash proof
and dust proof when all the ports are sealed not when they're not sealed but when they're sealed
it's splash proof and dust proof and it's drop proof from i think up to four meters which means
this thing will handle some serious abuse good for me when i'm out in places hiking around and doing
stuff like that and the other thing that makes this nice is if i were to throw it in the snow
it'd be fine pull it out dust it off no problem but a huge strength of this for me is that this
battery and this tablet lasts really long even in temperatures like this which right now it's about
15 degrees feels much colder because the wind is blowing but this has had no issues performing even
down around zero degrees fahrenheit which both the equivalent celsius degrees will be on the
screen down below but this this has worked really well in the cold now from what i've seen from
other people it works really well on the heat even at full brightness your like your iphone typically
they will shut off pretty early on when they start to get hot or when they start to get cold because
they just can't handle it but this has had none of those issues and from what i've seen in other
places in warm climates which i'm not in a warm climate this has had no issues with overheating
even at full brightness in sun on a hot day it just keeps on trucking and going just fine which
is a testament to how well built this thing is another huge strength of this this tablet is that
you can use it with the dji go 4 app so previous generation drones the inspire the inspire 2
the phantom 4 the mavic 2 pro the mavic 2 zoom all those drones because it supports the dji
go 4 up you can do too with the dji fly app which means all the newer drones the mini 2
the air 2s the air 2 the mavic 3 if you just got that and you can use it with third-party apps like
lychee drone deploy all of those anything that runs on a triple tech or on an android tablet
will work on this so that's a huge plus for this thing because you can run it in a lot of different
situations and you can run it with auto drones or skydio or anything anything that will run on an
android tablet you can fly with this so if you fly a lot of different types of drones this is
excellent and fantastic for that and while there were a lot of complaints about the triple tech 7
tablet is struggled to play 4k video had other issues like 64-bit apps versus 32-bit apps
things like that all of those problems all the problems that i've seen online seem to
have been fixed with this because i've been able to recreate any of them um this thing has worked
pretty much flawlessly for me the entire time that i've been using it for the last
four five weeks something like that it's it's been really fun and of course another huge strength of
this thing is that it is not just a controller for a drone whereas the smart controller or
the rc pro is limited to just a controller for a drone this is an android tablet so
you can use it to stream things like uh this guy on the internet who puts videos on youtube about
drones and cameras and lenses and stuff not only can you stream things but you can also get a sim
card if you have a cell phone plan and use this as a phone hello yeah that'd be kind of weird don't
do that probably but you can get a connection plan with this which means you can be connected to 4g
or lte and of course has wi-fi so it just has a lot of versatility as far as how you can use this
beyond just flying drones this is a full-fledged android tablet so you could use it to write
scripts or to bring information with you if you need to remember information it's yeah very very
very handy now i've covered mostly the strengths and the things that i've really enjoyed about this
thing so far it's been a lot of fun but there are a few things you need to be aware of one it comes
with a screen protector that's a matte screen protector i had it on there for a while because
i wanted to try it out and i took it off because i didn't really like it i prefer the non-matte look
anyway um yeah not a huge deal but you know if you want a screen protector i think triple tech
are the only ones you can get a screen protector from for this device but that's one maybe sort of
downside and then another thing that i found that was kind of uh a little bit of weakness i mean it
is a little bigger a little heavier of course it is it's a tablet it's not a phone and because it's
a little bigger and a little heavier it might make it a little bit awkward for you to hold on
to the remote and fly your drone depending on how you're used to holding your remote i didn't find
it was that big a deal even filming on a tv show for a few hours a day it wasn't a big deal to me
it's really easy to set down that way and of course the last downside is the price coming in at
800 it's not inexpensive and yeah it's it's kind of expensive um it is 400 cheaper than the new rc
pro it's also about the same price as the original smart controller a little more expensive than that
but you do get a few benefits with this over something like the rc pro or this the
original smart controller and one is that this is compatible with the dji go 4 app and the fly app
as well as if you fly something like autel drones or the skydio drones anything that has an android
app that will run on android 10 will run on this tablet and that makes it really useful if you fly
some of the older generation dji drones including the inspire 2 or and the newer dji drones or
drones from other manufacturers like autel and skydio you can run them all off of this tablet
which is pretty nice and yeah might make it worth it for you it might not now i do run the smart
controller for my mavic 3 or the rc pro the new smart controller um but i've also run it with this
and it flies really well i even tested this on the air 2s which is most of what you've seen today and
it ran great i ran this with the mavic 2 pro on the dji go 4 app it ran great on that if you want
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