Battle of the tiger T618 octa-core Android 11 tablets. Just in is this one that i've been
testing out for a few days now a lot of you did ask to see my review of the tech glass t40 plus
very similar to this tablet which is the iPlay40 pro i've got a full review of this one also
so i'm going to review this one here in this video but also do a comparison to this to see
if it's going to dethrone this one which is to me still really the best you can get for the price
so it has as mentioned that same tiger t 618 chipset this one it's got a 10.4 inch screen
it's ips 60 hertz fully laminated it's brighter than the iplay 40 pro and it's got 8 gigabytes
of ram 128 gigabytes of storage micro sd card support dual sim support 4g and a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack which this is sorely missing and a metal build to it which some may actually prefer
included with our tablet we have a user manual the charger which is only 12.5 watts it does take
over three hours to charge the 6600 milliamp hour battery type c to type a cable a sim tray
and micro sd card tool and then this which is just a little card there to join their fan club and
their social media links so when you pull it out of the box you'll find that it's got this plastic
on it that's just to protect it in transit i will get that off right now and then if you flip it
over there is a another screen protector on this that is the first layer that we do need to remove
this t40 plus i've measured the thickness it is 9.5 millimeters and the weight of it
453 grams which is not bad now look at these bezels here they are nothing like their press
images the press images that they use lately tech last while for the last couple of years
always like this they are so misleading it makes it look like the bezels are not a finger nail
width here but a lot slimmer than what it really is i mean these bezels are not too bad they're not
the huge chunky bezels we used to have a few years ago which you could land a 747 on so right up here
we've got a 5 megapixel front facing camera there is this dual tone gray that i do like the look of
so this part here the back of it is made out of a brushed alloy with this gray matte finish
to it the paint job this part at the top that's plastic now why have they gone with plastic well
it makes sense it's for the widest antennas and also the 4g in this so this does support
lte band 40 for those in europe sorry lte band 20 and here we have an 8 megapixel camera which
does have a pretty bad quality here's just a couple of samples just to show
you what i mean by bad your mobile phone is going to take a much better photo than this
down the bottom we have these two downwards firing loudspeakers and there is right here a reset
little button hole there which hopefully we will never actually need i don't even know why they
have included that and then up the top another two so it's four loudspeakers in total we've got power
button on the side here and then these are the volume now these volume buttons are made out of
plastic this top part here is plastic i can see a little bit of a seam right there so it's not
super high in quality but it's not actually too bad this here is a microphone so just the single
mic on this but you can also place voice calls and there is a headphone jack which i'll show you now
on the left here type c port usb 2 speeds only with this it does not support video out there is
no hdmi out on this which would have been really good plastic power button and then this is the sim
tray tool so removing this now you can see it will take two nano sims or you can give up one
of those nano sims for a micro sd card now i do have a 128 gigabyte one that i've tested
it seems to be working fine with it it's a little difficult to insert and as mentioned before it
does support lte band 20 for those in europe which is great and then on the right a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack so if you need that which i love to have on a tablet especially then this is the
only one with these t 618 unisoc chips that has it you can see when i do this put it up next to now
which is the iplay 40 pro this one as you see does not have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
so that's really the main reason why you would go for this particular model the plastic build
of the iplay 40 i do actually prefer the edges of it they're rounded off it's a very solid
feeling tablet this one because it does have an internal aluminium frame now the t40 plus here
with the 10.4 inch screen is very very similar to this one of course and that is that iPlay40 pro
really about the same size so this is the plastic on the back of it it's not a bad material to it
but yeah having the middle here does make the t40 plus just feel a little more premium
the bezels on both of these tablets are very similar but it looks like it could be a fraction
slimmer although it's probably because of the rounded edges on the iplay 40 that gives us
that illusion that it is when it really isn't so they've all got this curvature right in the corner
either love that or you don't i wouldn't mind if it was just squared off but i guess it gives it
a more modern look so we do have a really nice panel on this one i'm not doing it justice it's
vibrant the contrast is actually very good for an ips panel and i'll just go into display test
it's an app that i like to use to look at this so resolution 2000 by 1200 and it's 10.4 inches it's
a 60 hertz ips panel so we don't have 90 hertz or 120 filtering down into these cheaper tablets yet
so i really like the colors now maximum brightness is coming out to be an impressive when measuring
whites 680 nits that makes it one of the brightest chinese tablets from these kind
of brands that i review brighter than the uldu cube iPlay40 pro which is 580 still very good
and brighter than the chewy ipad pro it's a really good screen however there's one area of complaint
from me and that is that when i go and turn the brightness down to the lowest possible point
i find this to be still too bright this still registers about 30 nits of brightness and it
should really be about five so if you use it in the dark on an aircraft and a long-haul flight
you might find that a little bit more tiring on your eyes of course you've got night mode there
dark mode sorry you can change the over blue light filter and i will just go into some of the
options and settings we have with this display of course which is important especially to me
and here you see that we've got our colors contrast white balance you can change and tweak
all of this which is really good to see so overall i think everyone out there is going
to be pleased with this display for an ips for this price point it's actually a really good one
now i wanted to talk a little bit about the rom now how does it perform so we have stock
android 11 stock android 11 8 gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of storage versus 128 with the tech last
and the same chipset which is that tiger t 618 so in theory they should perform equal right with the
rom now i've noticed this you can probably see it coming through watch as i do this really at
the same time i can pick up on this and hopefully it's coming through on camera i'm only recording
at 30 frames per second however i can see that the fluidity of the ui and even when i go into things
like recent apps i'm noticing that it is actually a little bit better on the audio cube iPlay40 pro
again even though they have the same chipset both using about the same level of ram here it's just
down to the rom optimization now you can't really go wrong with both of these for the price point
i think it's acceptable and i love the fact that there's stock roms there's no bloatware there's
no silly custom launcher or anything like that and just bring out all of our apps that speed seems to
be about the same there now some benchmarks that i've run on both of these certainly do
show that there is actually quite a bit of a difference even though they're the same spec
of tablet as i mentioned with the same chipset the gps is clearly better on the iplay40 pro a
bit of a difference there it sees more now both of these compared to a mediatek or a qualcomm powered
tablet are no way near as good as those it's a little bit slow the gps wireless performance so
speeds topping out about 180 megabits per second on my iplay40 pro versus the teclast t40
plus here which gets a slower 118 sorry 131 maximum speeds there and why is that i think it's
antenna design could be rom optimization is why we are seeing that both sadly have a wide vine level
3 cert this means netflix amazon prime video disney plus is stuck in standard definition and
it just does not look as good now the only tablet that does have out of the chinese brands i review
wide one level one cert now is the chuwi ipad plus pro sorry which i have a review of in my channel
now a bit of a difference here with the ram speeds you can see here that the i 40 i play 4d pro
here does have better memory speed and this is what i'm seeing too is well in use that it just
generally seems a little bit faster the score is reflecting that there internal storage speeds
is another area where this one pulls ahead the larger capacity is normally faster and it is here
clearly you can see that the sequential reads and writes and the random reads and writes which are
impacting a little bit on that performance uh well they're very similar there but it's definitely the
iPlay40 which has the better speeds now battery life on these are pretty much the same i don't
certainly have the result for pc mark here which is a looped fixed benchmark because this one here
kept crashing on me it crashed about seven hours into it i ran it again it went for a long period
up to about eight hours and it crashed with just a blue screen in pc mark so it just would not finish
the test for me which is disappointing but really about the same so expect around 10 hours of light
media consumption media content on both of these tablets to get a very very similar score their
battery runtime on both of them is good getting 10 hours onto the audio and well yeah youtube
performance so when you're in youtube and you're scrolling here you can see both of them feel about
the same perhaps imagine fraction better on the iplay 40 that i'm seeing with this so i wanted
to point out the audio performance on these is similar because we've got the four speakers on the
iPlay40 pro versus the four on the tech class now the tech glass has a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
because he's okay over it i don't find it to be too bad for handling calls with a sim card
of course when they're in here you can use the phone dialy you can answer the calls on both of
these uh you end up answering it and it will go on to loudspeaker all right and the quality from
both of them i would rate as yeah it's not good okay because both of these do not have active
noise cancelling so the microphones aren't amazing either so really i would not place a lot of voice
calls on these but they can do it okay so you can use whatsapp on this you can also send text
messages place those calls and using a headset on this one is actually a little bit better of course
because you cut down on a lot of that echo and problems coming through having the loudspeaker on
when you place those calls so enough of the audio quality i'll give you a sample now i'm going to
play a track here in youtube and both of them 100 in volume we'll find out which one sounds the best
wow so what a difference between those speakers it just means that four speakers on one tablet and
then the four on the other doesn't mean they're going to sound the same clear winner here was the
iPlay40 richer sounding speakers with actually a bit of bass to them so i definitely like to listen
to these ones over that one especially when it comes to gaming it's just a shame that we don't
have of course a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack with the iplay 40 however you can use a type c
to 3.5 adapter gaming performance this title here is gen chen impact and you can see when you first
load it up which is what i've done now there is a bit of choppiness to it this is super demanding
this game and it even makes flagships and mid-range phones that i tested on struggle with
drop frames as we are getting right now now once it starts to cache things and fill up the memory
with the area it does improve the performance so how does it feel compared to the iplay 40 i really
can't tell much of a difference i don't know what just happened then that's supposed to be really
gradual that effect of sunrise was just abrupt so yeah a little bit of lag a bit of choppy and
and not ideal really but the main thing is like i've said with other tablets with this
chipset is that this game is still at least playable here on the lowest possible settings
pubg here with the settings and this tiger t 618 it allows us to run the ultra frame rate on either
balanced or smooth if you want the better looking graphics hd unfortunately the frame rate then gets
chopped down too high with this chipset let's take a look at how it performs so it is only the low
visual settings here and it still actually looks okay on the screen and not bad at all i do like
this particular ips panel that they've gone with and this one fully laminated and just the contrast
looks really good i don't know if that's coming through on camera so i managed to get one kill
already i did increase the sensitivity to where i like it but i think i still need to tweak
this a little bit to make it a little quicker and smoother there and no like major lags or anything
like that is taking place so that's great so when you look down the iron sights or down a scope if i
had one there is no problem there no lag so that's good to see the game's playable runs okay and the
kind of ex performance that i would expect out of a t 618 so not a gaming monster but adequate
enough considering the price point ebooks look great on the screen and this is a large pdf file
which i believe is about uh well 60 megabytes it's not super huge and it does not have any problems
going through this fine now if you do speed ahead it has to play a little bit of catch up there
but it's actually quite good performance considering it's a well it's a low end
chip isn't it but the eight cores does handle pdf files just fine and i have it connected up
here on to the 4g data and it sometimes swaps over to 3g but when i ran the test it was on 4g
not really impressive at all so i managed to get 7 megabits per second for downloading only
one for upload now my network here and coverage is poor but the modem that's in this one even
though it's got lte band 20 that i'm currently on it's not a great modem it's not very fast
so this is the quality that you can expect out of the front facing 5 megapixel camera it is
only 720p it does not look good i mean at least we've got a front facing camera but yeah
poor quality right here the rear camera can shoot in 1080p but it's not a very good 1080p
quality at all in fact it's downright terrible so not good cameras on the tech glass t40 plus
okay so final verdict did it beat the iPlay40 pro it has in three areas okay screen
a lot brighter better contrast it's a it's a nice screen the third 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack very very important for a lot of people so performance however of the iPlay40 pro
by the way there's a review of this one on my channel slightly better slightly better
rom performance optimization the ram speeds were faster on this model here down to i think the ram
speeds and possible timings that's the difference there faster storage okay another difference
better speakers on this one too as well so in some areas the tech glass just can't compete uh
there and in the storage capacity of this one's 256 gigabytes this 102 so if the screen is really
important to you that's the thing you want to go for that 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
it's still a very good tablet for the price for what it offers but as i just showed you in this
video this one i think is still the one to go for now now both of these are missing out on a wide
vine level one cert what does that mean well white one level one allows us to play netflix in full hd
resolution it's standard definition on this okay amazon prime video standard definition but for
netflix there is one chinese tablet which is the chuwi high pad pro i've reviewed it in the channel
as well it has a widevine level one cert that is the only one out there out of these brands that
i review so good battery runtime like it will go for 10 hours this one for go for about 10 hours as
well the 4g support you can place voice calls and micro sd card support there as well which is great
anything this one's really lacking for me is hdmi out would have been great to have which
neither of these do have so thank you so much for watching my review here of the tech last t-40 plus
with the comparison against which i still think is the champion here the audio cube iPlay40 pro