welcome back to another tablet review
this time around it is chuwi's ipad plus
it's their new tablet from them
so it runs android 10. it is an 11 inch
tablet with a
very high resolution of 2176 by 1600
sharp looking panel that it's also very
bright and of course it's the 4x3 aspect
ratio so this is a bit of an
ipad clone here but you could say a
cheap android version of an ipad clone
so it has a unibody housing which is
actually really quite good it's high
quality
very nice feeling to it there's a 7000
milliamp hour battery type c
micro sd card support all powered by the
mediatek 81
83 with 4 gigabytes of ram and 128
gigabytes of storage so it chips in
chewy's typical brown box
no frills packaging we get only a
usb type a to type c cable
and a 10 watt charger this is the
european plug
charge time is very slow as you can
imagine at 10 watts
it will take well over three hours it's
in this little protective
slip so we have a pre-applied screen
protector which is good because i'm
absolutely terrible at applying screen
protectors myself so the glass on top of
this this will just be soda lime glass
it does not have any gorilla glass
protection
no dragon tail nothing like that so
they've got a few other specs outlined
there
the gpu is the g72 mp3
now there are a couple of cutouts right
here at the top well
three of them this is our five megapixel
camera right there then we have an
ambient light sensor and possibly
another sensor there
two as well but maybe only one of them
is for the ambulant light sensor
and let's have a look at the back of
this so it feels very very good in hand
in fact i'm gonna give it a bit of a
flex
oh wow that's really solid very very
solid there
so this does have a 7000mah battery
inside this
we have five poke pin connectors for i
believe a keyboard
attachment although i haven't seen any
information about that
and then right here we do have a 13
megapixel camera and an
led flash so great thickness and
good build on this one they're using
some cnc machining this is a uni body
alloy housing with this
matte gray finish to it two microphones
up the top right here type c port
and our metal power button now the
thickness this is 6.9 millimeters
and where the camera is where that
sticks out that then brings it up to
about nine so it does bulge out a little
bit that 13 megapixel rear
camera now that type c port here this
one it does not support
video out so there is no hdmi out and
there is
no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack sadly
you will have to use a type c to 3.5
adapter which is a real shame
so down the bottom absolutely no ports
there on the right side of this tablet
if you're looking at it holding it in
portrait we've got two volume up and
down buttons made out of metal
and yes it does have a bit of an ipad
feel and look to it doesn't it
now four speakers here but it's not
actually four speakers i've tested this
out already so i've kind of cheated
but the lower ones are the only ones
that have sound coming out of them on my
unit here i put my ear up to it i hear
sound coming out of this i don't hear
any sound out of that one
and the same goes for this side here too
on the left so
sound no sound out of that sound just
coming out of this
and our sim tray there which sorry micro
sd card tray
there's no some support in this so only
just micro sds for this but
very very good build and it's flexing
this again that is
that's absolutely solid very very good
feel to it in hand it feels really quite
premium so chewie has done
an excellent job with the finish on this
tablet
so we have a very good screen in this
particular model here fully laminated
it has over 250 ppi so very good pixel
density thanks to that 2176
by 1600 resolution 4x3 aspect ratio
so does it feel laggy no the ui
performance doesn't feel laggy it's
not bad at all it's quite good so the
screen's maximum brightness
does top out to be a very bright 460
nits
that is very very good now you'll see
that i've noticed that when i use the
toggles
let's see this little glitching
happening there at the bottom
i don't think that's a hardware issue i
think that's just software i don't know
if it's just my unit that is causing
that it's just one minor thing with the
rom
the other thing to do with the launcher
that i don't particularly like is
sometimes it's very hard to trigger
recent gestures i've got full screen
gestures enabled and they do work well
but right now i want to go to recent
apps
and i can't until i open
another app for example here i'll
storage benchmark
and then i can go you can see go back to
recent and i even have running in the
background
or i did have a game running okay a lot
of things running yeah dude there's
counter sorry call of duty in there not
counter strike
and everything seems to be pretty fast
and fluid so that is great there but
more on the topic of that particular
screen here so it is
really really good fully laminated
however there are a couple of settings
that are missing that i will get onto so
touch response has been pretty good
you can see sometimes i do have to go
back and tap again and that's probably
because i'm running a few things there
in the background
just to also test out our performance so
looking at it like here with the display
tester
the blacks do look quite good and it's
just that sharpness
and overall really high quality build
that chili's gone with so look at those
blacks
they're not actually too bad at all for
an ips panel
and they're not as deep of course as
oled or an amoled panel
but they look good now the settings that
are missing
in display are some very essential to me
settings it should always be there so
when you jump in here you can see that
hang on
where is contrast where is the white
balance
nothing is available to us so you need
to use then third-party apps
for that which you can get now one of
them i have downloaded already which is
called
color calibrator there's a lot out there
on the market and then i can adjust
those
settings so that's just a minor the
out-of-the-box calibration of the screen
is quite good
now the rom is android 10 we're running
the security patch level is
from november so it's not exactly recent
we're in
march now so i hope chewie will update
that and yes they do have
a wireless update system and i am
on the latest firmware at the time of
this video
the ipad plus has 4 gigabytes of ram
it's in dual channel 1800 megahertz so
it's
low power there's lp ddr4x
and available free storage is somewhere
on first boot around about 112
gigabytes or so so it is an octa-core
that it's in this one here so we've got
the
four cortex a53s four of the a
73s and the graphics is handled by
the mali g72 mp3 and later on in this
video i will show you just how
well this particular tablet games
or not is it going to be a choppy and
laggy mess because when you take a look
at the
antutu score here it's not exactly
amazing the weakness being yes that gpu
there only 28 000 points and an overall
score of 161
000 means that yes this is a low end
chipset that is powering the high pad
plus
and here are the internal storage speeds
so we do have 128 gigabytes emmc
5.1 spec on this and 256 megabytes per
second read sequential
141 right sequential and then the random
reads are 40 megabytes per second
random rights are 20. this is not
actually too bad so this won't be the
bottleneck
of this particular tablet it's the
chipset that is the bottleneck
not the storage if you're wondering did
this tablet have hardware gps and a
compass in it no it doesn't so there's
no gps at
all so don't even bother buying it if
you intended to use it for navigation
because it's not going to work
so the screen now in landscape just
looks really really good really sharp so
you're seeing this funny
banding on the screen right here or in
4k
you might notice this that there's these
funny lines and some analyzing coming
through to do with the screen but trust
me in person you do not see that at all
there's a very very nice screen here
now there's a little bit of light bleed
that comes through just on the corners
when the screen is just showing complete
black and it's very hard for me to
to pick it up and show you there and you
don't notice it it's not really an issue
because
you're not going to be looking at just
black screens are we well at least i'm
not
now the auto rotation of the
accelerometer that's detected very quick
and would you believe some of the cheap
tablets i just recently reviewed the
ones that only cost about 139 us dollars
or 160 us dollars
we're very very slow to respond to that
quite laggy in that aspect but here it's
quite good
so drm info what are we going to have
with this
uh i we can place beds here you all know
the result
is going to be level three and it is
level three so that means netflix amazon
prime video stuck
sadly in standard definition now they
are here you can install them you can
run them
disney plus as well that can be
installed but
yep you cannot get anything above just
standard definition which on such a nice
screen was such a great resolution and
well over
over 250 ppi pixel density there
it's a real shame that we don't have
that i'll take a look now at google play
books just how it will run
a pdf file here so this one is a large
pdf file
and i don't even think i have it
completely downloaded on the storage no
i do
and the speed of it is okay so at your
normal pace it's going to be just fine
and it does look really good
very very good with this screen the
double tapping of course that it brings
things up
to zoom in and it's very very sharp so
if you look at the screen closely you're
not really going to see any pixels
unless you get
really really close away from it i'm
talking about 10 centimeters close there
and then an e-book this does look good
on this particular screen no
problems there too so if you swipe down
from the top
if i can trigger that toggle correctly
we've got night light and night light
mode
is what removes and filters out the blue
from the screen so that is good that we
have that on board
flashlight is there too as well so it's
going to enable that flashlight in the
rear you can just see it coming on
at the top there if you needed that well
it's there it's an option
and this is what this tablet is really
ideal for
light tasks so internet browsing chrome
youtube videos
ebooks things like that is what this
tablet is ideal for
brief look at youtube performance so i'm
surprised to see
that they do allow us with the youtube
app to run the setting
of 4k 60 which i'm doing right now but
i can see that it's dropping a lot of
frames it's only around about 10
15 frames per second here when running
at 4k
so if i change this option over now to
just make it
i think 1080p60 is sufficient enough
you see that there we go things start to
run then
a lot smoother but even now i'm seeing
it's still
a little bit laggy and let's just go and
skip to another place of my video right
here
just to the end hopefully this is not
lagging so it's a few seconds to load in
okay so that's fine so 1080p 60 good
but when i stick it onto that i'll do it
again
4k and you watch when it swaps over to
4k which will take a few seconds
there we go look at that lag coming
through so keep it at 1080p
onto our speakers so it doesn't have
quad speakers even though it looks like
it does
as i showed you when we looked at the
design of this tablet they've got the
little gap there but maybe
their plans changed they decided that no
you know we'll just go with the two
speakers but
the good news is they allow they have a
tiny little bit of bass
and for a tablet especially the last
budget or cheaper tablets i've been
reviewing
these speakers aren't too bad now
they're not going to be a samsung galaxy
s plus or an ipad no
but for the price of this they're not
bad and here's a sample at 100 volume
and moving on to a sample of the
front-facing camera
this one is five megapixels and as you
can see from this video quality
it's not amazing it's very very average
and the audio quality is also being
recorded on the
ipad plus so it is average quality here
to poor and at least we do have the
cameras if you want to use this for
skype calls or zoom or whatever the
option is there but
i am sure your mobile phone like i
always say will do a much better job
than the cameras in this tablet now call
of duty this one
is on the lowest possible visuals and
the high frame rate option
and i have not actually seen any problem
at all with any major stutters or lag it
is running surprisingly good so looking
down the scope here
you can move about you can zoom in and
it doesn't lag
no problems at all definitely faster
than the chipset that i just looked at
and the last two tablets which was the
unisock
t610 at least the chipset and this one
the 8176
73 sorry is performing well i'm able to
get
kills and no massive frame dip so that
is
really what we want so as long as you
keep the settings
on the lowest possible visuals for these
demanding games
they should be playable on this chipset
on the ipad plus here
and that brings me on to one of the more
important things too and a tablet is the
battery life which is
thankfully very very good in this so the
12 nanometer low end
chip paired up with that 7 000 milliamp
hour battery
which does take well over three hours to
fully charge by the way very very slow
charging
does go for about 10 hours 11 hours it's
really quite good so you lose
depending on your screen brightness of
course but you will be losing about
10 every hour so that's great so the
battery life very decent on this
the build quality really good that is a
huge positive here this
has no creeks or flex it feels like a
premium high quality tablet
the build is is really that good now we
only have the two speakers even though
it has
what looks like well it's got the four
grilles and i thought it would have the
four speakers in there but no only two
but
not like the typical tablets at least
the last two tablets i reviewed in the
channel which weren't that good
these ones aren't bad so the volume is
decent it is loud there's a tiny little
bit of bass
and then the screen the screen is
definitely the star of the show the slim
side bezels
it has a very nice high resolution and
it just looks great
there's no contrast adjustment or white
balance adjustment
in the settings however which i hope
they can add with software updates
now in terms of the rom well it does
also need some software updates i think
because
my one's got a bit of a glitch that is
when i swipe down i sometimes see
when i swap down with the toggles a
little bit of colors flashing at the
bottom of my screen i believe it's only
software only the launch is causing it
now the screen brightness the lowest
screen brightness is that right there
which is
it's actually too bright uh it should be
a lot dimmer for me but i'm not seeing
any pulse
modulation flicker the full brightness
of course is
the very decent 460 nits there which is
great so you can actually make it out in
direct sunlight
now the launcher has another annoying
thing about it i've got apps running in
the background right now
and i swipe up to recent apps and i
simply cannot do it
now there is no other air update yet
there's the system on board
so if i want to go to another recent app
i have to select
or load another app up and then i can
swipe and hold
and then go over to my recent apps which
you can see are still
all there that is quite an annoyance
there so i will probably be running nova
launcher until chewie fix
the launcher with a firmware update with
this one
so as a tablet that sells for around
about 269 us
on special and then the normal price of
299 that's a little too expensive i
think for
the kind of spec that's on offer because
it is a low-end chipset gaming
performance
is okay on low settings you saw call of
duty was just fine
quite smooth and playable there but
don't expect to play
the demanding games on high settings
because you won't be able to do it with
this particular chipset so all
up it is a good tablet the build the
screen
the speakers that is the super positives
there
then the iffy areas that i will mention
there as listed all my pros and cons so
thank you so much
for watching my video here on the chuwi
ipad
plus