so today this just arrived it is Alldocube X this is a very promising tablet
that I backed on IndieGoGo so it was released as a crowdfunded tablet on
IndieGoGo back in October when I first paid for this one and it was 219 us for
the first early backers of it which is a very cheap price considering that this
right here has the same exact screen that you will find in a high-end premium
Android tablet from Samsung so it's got the exact same Super AMOLED panel and
now that has a resolution of 2560 by 1600 it is fully laminated so it should
be a great-looking screen alright so this box does look a lot like their
other tablets that I have reviewed from all DQ and it seems so ok it's moved
around a little bit in the package so there we have the tablet wow that feels
really light and thin get on to that in one minute we'll see what else we have
here in the box so we've got packaged up in here the power supply and I'm not too
sure if this is going to be a erro one hopefully it will be just get into this
I get from the top we've got a Type C cable so that is USB 2 type C that is in
there and oh no I don't have a charger for some reason oh and oh here it is
it's actually in the side here so yes they have included an EU one now this is
going to support media Tex pump Express which means faster charging because
typically an eight thousand milliamp hour battery could take about four or
five hours and other tablets that don't have this tick so the rating of this one
this has a maximum output of 12 volts 1.5 amps so that feels very thin and
there is our screen so we do have slide bezels that are rather slim the top and
bottom yeah they're not gonna win any awards there but I will just check the
weight now the official stats say 500 grams and it's actually a little bit
less 491 that is a really good weight and check out how slim that says this is
super slim this has to be one of the slimmest Android tablets that I have
seen I'll just measure that so that comes in at six point seven millimeters
and then it's course without the camera there is a camera on the rear so it
sticks out a tiny little bit that brings it up to about seven millimeters there
and that is very good so it's a super slim tablet so just along the top here
we have what looks to be an ambient light sensor don't think it's a
front-facing flash and then an 8 megapixel camera on the back a brushed
alloy finish this does feel really good in hand it's not slippery got the audio
cube brand there X on the back and it does mark out and tell us where the
type-c port is headphone jack and then our power and volume buttons this camera
is also 8 megapixels here on the rear and it looks like it could be by the
feel of it maybe plastic that is covering that lens at the top of the X
here we've got two top frame speakers an SD card tray so it does have micro SD
card support a microphone and you see those speakers there's little girls
there now these are tiny speaker so I'm definitely not holding my breath that
these will actually sound amazing because normally on these tablets
they're not very good speakers hopefully I'm wrong on the right hand side we have
a 3.5 and I made a headphone jack there with mic support I believe for then
we've got a side fingerprint reader and USB type-c now I don't believe that this
supports video out unfortunately there is no HDMI s and no video out on this
tablet something manufactures are dropping but I will check it just in
case I'm wrong there then on the Left we've got metal volume and power buttons
here now these buttons do not rattle around they do have a good feel to them
so overall the build quality of this tablet is quite good it's premium so
just paddle up for the first time and the panel looks good we've got a little
bit of a black border you get around and this always happens but it's not a huge
thick border there so far it's looking very good an excellent screen first
impressions that is of course and here we have some vision settings so it's
very bright at the moment and the font size by default is very small and the
display size so they're scaling they've set is something like 320 dpi with this
high resolution they're 2560 by 1600 so there we go we can tweak this up to have
a heavy desire so that probably looks a little bit better actually increasing
that now I'm quite fond of having things a little bit small so I'll keep it about
there just so we can see things a little bit easier with this video and I will go
through the setup I won't show you all that because that's just boring we'll
skip ahead now to what kind of apps we've got by default so here you go
they've gone with a very colourful background of course they're trying to
show off this brilliant panel that this has and the default apps that we've got
so everything looks to be pretty much stocke they're below where maybe this
one here files go I have no idea what that is but otherwise this seems pretty
good we've got googles apps on there of course Drive duo's some things that you
probably don't need but overall that's not crammed full of bloat I'll take a
look now at what we have in terms of the storage so just quickly brought this up
before and we've got free 56 gigabytes on here which is good and also check
here if there are any updates so Ramius we're currently using 1.3 gigabytes of
four so that is good the OS is not using a lot the launcher being stock and
everything that is definitely going to help so about the tablet it's Android
8.1 and a security patch level November the 5th 2018 so that's not exactly a
recent they're not the latest version of Android either but for these Chinese
tablets that I have been reviewing a lot of them are still shipping with just
Android 8 to 8.1 I feel as is okay and considering the price of course of this
tablet so far the performance does seem really good a lot faster and lot
smoother differently than the Android halli Oh tablets I've been looking at so
I'm into display settings now as you can see and there is an adaptive brightness
settings so this obviously must be this sensor there'll be an ambient light
sensor right there at the top so it's controlling the brightness now that I've
turned off because I'm currently Idaho never seen brightness and the reason is
that when I try to capture screens that have Oh lead or AMOLED panels you get
this flicker that comes in with my camera now this doesn't happen with the
IPS panel so maximum brightness just measured it is very good it's just over
605 lux so that's probably one of the brightest
tablets one of the right ones I have and you see this banding that is happening
now now this has some pulse width modulation that's happening now this is
only happening on camera that's just my camera that is causing this because I
don't see ISO dolls down nice this is a good level and around about 50 or 40
percent brightness is where I probably be running at most of the time but for
the purposes of this video I'm just gonna set that at 100% there now what is
missing in the display here is normally we get mirror vision settings and that
allows us to adjust the white balance and your contrast saturation and things
like that we don't have that option here for some reason which is a shame because
with the media techs you normally get there then
cpu's you have some advanced settings that these ones I showed you before
actually and you've got your sleep and all that and you can change the display
size as mentioned that's the scaling the current scaling that I have it at is 280
dpi now looking at some real world images it looks really good this screen
this is an amazing panel I mean when I first saw this in that Samsung Galaxy
Tab I thought wow that's a really nice screen and it is fully laminated too so
you can't see any gap between that the glass and the blacks look how black they
are they look very good really nice now we do have a couple of modes on here
that are helpful of course for your eyesight so we've got what's called the
reading mode this reader see it puts everything in black and white and then
of course we have the blue light filter which they have named global eye
protection for some reason this is one of the questions that did pop up there
someone asked me over Twitter so does it support YouTube streaming 1440p yes it
does which is really good I thought they might have kept it but you can see 1440p
it's streaming fine this is over 5g wireless and sadly this right here is
white vine level 3 support so it needs security level 1 in order to get Netflix
in full HD so if you're gonna be running or plan to run Netflix on this
particular tablet and standard definition only now hopefully all who
cube can release a patch that corrects this but I wouldn't hold my breath on
that now what about performance which is very important so so far I've seen some
really good download speeds from the wireless up to 21 megabytes per second
this is on 5g wireless here the range seems to be good I need to test it more
I need to go over the other side of the house to the apartment here and in
chrome at the moment you can see the scrolling speeds okay it's it's mostly
fluid I have noticed it now and then you will get a little bit of stutter I'll
just go into chrome very quickly as well and show you how that scrolling works
here so just refresh the page and load that again so that pops up pretty quick
and the touch input all seems good you see that the scrolling speed here is
fluid for the most part but you see there is some rendering leg look at when
that comes in so it's not a super high speed
performance tablet there with that performance you can see but it seems to
like the pages and good so just click on something that I have not loaded before
that it's not in cache and I didn't think that worked there we go so that
about the Lakefield processor that popped up really quick so that was good
it's all about gaming performance we know that this chipset the hexa core is
not the fastest but it does perform better than the likes of the mediatek
helio X xx series so that's the X 23 the X 20 and X 27 this is on the lower
settings so it's the balanced graphics and then the medium framerate you can't
go any higher and you probably would not want to because it would just become too
slow then so it is playable I managed to get two kills and you're not gonna get
the best performance here definitely not but I would say so far in my first
hands-on whether it playing this game that it is definitely playable and other
games such as Shadow fight 3 this one runs on the native screen resolution of
2560 by 1600 it is very smooth and a lot more playable this one so it just really
depends on the title the kind of gaming performance you're going to get
just finished up running antutu and it posts a decent score for this chipset
now this is exactly the same kind of scores that I'm getting on the dicker
core Jaleo X 27 which has a way faster maximum turbo of 2.6 gigahertz this one
is 2.1 paternal storage speeds also check out I mean this is fine this is a
emmc 5.1 spec the storage 64 gigabytes and this is a lot faster than 4.5 point
1 this will definitely not be bottlenecking this tablet it will be the
chipset that'll be the bottleneck as for your ebooks they look really great on
this screen as you'd imagine so ebooks performance is also very good no
problems with that and zooming into the ticks as well the quality of it is
really good even when you do have it in portrait like this you can't see really
any jagged edges at normal viewing distances now if you break out a
magnifying glass then you will and rather large heavy PDF
file this seems to be good when you do swipe ahead just like any really Android
tablet it's gonna be a little bit slow there but your typical reading pace no
problems and again it looks so good on this very premium screen as I showed you
at the start there's a fingerprint reader that's on the side let's just
check the speed of it it's about in my experience two seconds so it's a little
slow that was about two seconds I'll lock and do that one more time for you
that's an easy - almost three seconds it's not the fastest but it's good to
have a fingerprint reader on this at least and what about our sound quality
so it is above average I kind of expected this because they did advertise
and promote the fact that it has an AKM Wi-Fi deck in there so it's digital to
analog converter is something a little bit more special not just one from media
tech and the speakers at the top they've got decent volume I find it to be fine
they don't have much bass at all they tend to lack they're only a little small
tiny speakers do vibrate at 100 percent volume 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
quality sounds very good it's clean there's no static there's no hiss so
above average audio and I will give you a sample now of those
pop firing speakers
all right so after using this now for a good five or six hours I must say I am
impressed with what I'm seeing here we have a premium screen on here that you
normally have and a very high-end tablet will high-end Android tablet and that of
course as the Samsung Tab s4 and that thing costs about three times more than
this tablet so it is a very very nice panel it is a shame that we don't have
any mirror vision settings so you cannot tweak the white balance but I think
there are applications out there that will be able to do this for us at least
there's a way around that so we have stock Android 8.1 we have speakers that
sound above average compared to the other Chinese tablets that I have
reviewed 3.5 millimeter headphone output is also clean and clear and it is quite
loud once you booster past that warning that Android will give you it does seem
to have a little bit of a power behind that there having that deck is good than
just using what your typical onboard mediatek chipset would be to handle the
audio so that is good now the battery life of course I will have to give you
an update on the full review of just how long the battery is going to last for I
think on a lower sitting of brightness this should go for about eight hours but
this is just an estimate I'll give you exact figures in the full review and
also charge times as well should be a lot better than your typical again
tablet so I feel for the 219 years that I paid and other online retailers I
think it's selling now for about 300 u.s. I think that that is still a good
price for this it's very slim I mean look how slim this thing is it's super
slim and it also has just a very nice build and finish to it fully laminated
panel and everything so that is checking out the overall weaknesses of this
tablet as expected the chipset I mean it's not a super powerful chipset so
certain games will be a little bit slower than other tablets you will see a
little bit choppiness it doesn't like a lot of heavy
multitasking and the chrome scrolling as I pointed out it's alright you know at
your normal reading pace it's going to be fine but you just see that it takes a
little while to load in there images that's probably because of the higher
resolution the 2560 by 1600 but to me this seems like the best that I have
seen so far especially considering and factoring in the price yes it's missing
GPS yes it is missing video output so no HDMI a and no type C
video out which is a bit of a shame so I'm really looking forward to the all-
docube x2 if they do make another version and they put a much more powerful
chipset in this it's going to be a hell of a tablet. Thank you so much for
watching and I do have to catch you back with the full review of the audio cube X
here