This is the Teclast Master T8, so it's a smaller version of the master T10
which you can see right here that I reviewed about a month ago also so it's
got the same speaker MediaTek 81-73 that's a hexa core CPU four gigabytes of
RAM 64 gigabytes of storage and it runs Android seven it's got a really nice
screen on this so it's got a resolution of 2560 by 1600 that's sixteen by ten
aspect ratio and at just eight point nine inches the screen is very sharp
it's also fully laminated with very decent colors deep blacks and not so
susceptible to reflections color reproduction is good overall a top
screen it's also very bright too with a maximum brightness of 310 Lux which is
good for a fully laminated panel so in the Box you get the tablet with a pre
applied screen protector a tool there for the micro SD card slot yet the
charger which is rated to 12 volts 1.5 amps and then a type C white USB cable
so at the top we've got a 13 megapixel camera and then an 8 megapixel camera on
the rear so tich last have made a wise move here and put the best camera on the
front next to its an ambient light sensor and right here you'll see a
fingerprint reader that works about seven out of ten times it's not the
fastest it can be quite slow at times so it looks like a sim tray here is in fact
just the tray for the micro sd so you need that tool to get the micro SD cards
in and out so not only that good for swapping out cards quickly but if you
want to keep a card in there large capacity one I've tested up two hundred
and twenty eight gigabytes and they work fine
we have two downwards firing speakers as well on the top left a microphone and
then on the right a reset button metal volume and power buttons now these power
buttons here don't rattle around they're made out of metal and they have a good
feel to them then at the top we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack a plastic
strip here for the antenna now the sound output out of this jack
here I did notice that it tends to be quite flat and I wish it had a little
bit more volume to it and then on the left you can see there our type C port
now I couldn't actually get any video output out of this so it's only charging
and data so the rear of the tablet's made out of metal so it has a metal
unibody feels really good in hand - and you'll notice there that's our rear
facing eight megapixel autofocus camera now the photo quality and the video out
of these cameras is ok the front-facing camera actually turns out to be a lot
better than most because it's got a higher megapixel count so it can take a
decent selfie but you must be in good light and I roll there build quality of
this tablet is excellent for the about a hundred and seventy nine price tag I
have seen this selling for it runs Android 7.0 so it's not the latest
version and the security patch level is from April which isn't exactly recent
either and when you first get the tablet there are about five or six bloatware
applications and then of course your default Google ones here you can see we
do have Play Store on here chrome in photos but for some reason there's no
standard gallery app on there but the good thing is we can remove that bloat
where you can just uninstall it apart from one right here you can see this
little lock icon that some Chinese security program that's the only one I
couldn't uninstall and because it's running Android 7 you can split screen
apps that support it of course and you see here I have chrome and then Amazon
Prime and it's quite quick the performance is decent now let us point
out a couple of things so teclast are pushing out over there air updates bug
fixes I got this update 0-1 here which just patched a few things which is good
to see but I don't think we're ever going to see Android 8 on this device so
when you first get it you get about 53 gigabytes free storage now onto my
better life testing now I decided to push it really hard here so I was gaming
the whole time and I got close to four hours but in fact for as a screen on
time but you should be able to get with light use like web using a little bit of
gaming at least six to seven maybe even higher hours there
eight hours so that was four hours of screen on time almost three hours there
of gaming with hit but I also played a few other games it totaled up to about
another thirty minutes or so and this is the charge time here so it takes
approximately three hours and thirty minutes to fully charge this device and
on to wireless speeds and range so very decent performance here that maxes out
this is wireless AC that it has but it's not a super high-end chipset so sort of
tops out around 200 megabits per second and I found the range to be good not
quite as good as the tick last t10 for some reason I think it's because we've
only got really that limited antenna space here along the top of the tablet
and that could be the reason why we just don't have that much coverage of the
antenna and more metal around the outside but overall quite decent and I'm
very pleased with those speeds there that I was able to get also ebooks look
really good on the screen because it's nice and sharp now you all notice that
the colors it doesn't look like a perfect white at the moment and actually
actually because of the screen protector that's on the screen now I don't know
whether it's scratch resistant so I haven't removed it I've just left it on
because they don't scratch the screen up but yeah that's what's causing that
funny-looking sort of patchiness and the different shades of white they're now
looking at PDF performance so this is a very large PDF I have here with large
image files and it looks really good on the screen because of the screen quality
the deep blacks and the sharpness over it over all that we have good colors too
of course and the performance of it well if you skip ahead recently fast it takes
a little while to display the images but overall this performance I feel is very
decent so we have the two downwards firing speakers and they're actually
quite loud but they do distort a little bit and they lack bass but I'll give you
a sample of them right now
now this is the antutu scores her 81,000 that's quite a decent score for this
type of tablet and it's a couple of things to point out too that this tablet
unlike the tech last t10 this does not have GPS in it it doesn't have a gyro
all it has four sensors as the ambient light sensor and then the accelerometer
so the ROM is stable apart from one thing the camera application tends to
often crash like right here it's just completely jammed up on me
it stops responding that is the only bug I have encountered hopefully teclast is
going to patch this so before it gets started on the gaming performance you
can also buy this optional Bluetooth controller that teclast are selling with
their own branding on it you can see it's called the wireless controller well
the tee box wireless controller know it's Bluetooth and we have a charging
port here down the bottom which is micro USB 2 you get your typical controls in a
sort of like an Xbox 360 layout and so you've got your typical keys here media
controls here some home select start buttons and the triggers at the top
there you can see so what it does is it locks in place it's spring-loaded but
then you can lock it here there's like a locking mechanism so it'll lock it on
there and it just gives you these wider extra grips now the controller itself is
ok I've noticed that probably I need to change the settings or something I
notice that it's very sensitive the movements here so it takes a little
while to get used to controlling with this controller it's certainly no Xbox
360 or Xbox one or PlayStation 4 controller but you know it does the job
and I guess it makes things a little bit more comfortable having the controls
either side now our gaming performance is exactly the same as the master t10
because of course it's the same chipset and GPU power VR GPU that it has in here
they promise is quite good you want to combat v this game
you see a few styles and legs now man I mean it's not perfect but super playable
with a high graphics quality sitting to
this total here which has hit hero's of incredible tales running really well on
this so even with a lot of things going on on the screen the GPU and the CPU is
keeping up so you get a very smooth frame rate on this one and this title
here World of Tanks very good frame rate on this one really smooth that seems to
be running in most the time at about 60 frames per second and getting hit here
and I'm stuck I see if I can at least fire back at this enemy completely
missed as well as you can tell I don't blow this game a lot but it is running
well and yeah I'm dead already Mortal Kombat X really smooth now this
is running at the full resolution so this game doesn't upscale from like
1080p or 720p looks great and it's pretty much running perfect
here a little bit of slowdown perhaps but it's not like it isn't gonna be
playable now one game I could not get to run as Ashe felt extreme here for some
reason it just keeps checking the online profile times out it has an error and it
keeps repeating and repeating and repeating getting nowhere no I'm not too
sure who's to blame here whether this is game lofts fold or this is something to
do with the tablet but this one does not work oh and there we go it just crashed
again on me so to recap here the master t8 from teclast is a great little tablet
it is a premium tablet really because it has a premium screen in there that is
fully laminated and has a unibody metal build on there the build quality is
excellent and overall great screen on there because it gets really deep blacks
on there good contrast decent enough brightness and of course we have a stock
Android 7 rom on here ok there are a couple of bloatware application
out of the box but you can uninstall all but one of them so it's not really an
issue there and we are getting some over ear updates too from tech last and I
hope they patch that problem with the camera so it's a solid tablet with only
two gray areas really and that is that the camera app will crash sometimes and
then the fingerprint reader can be quite slow at times and a little bit
frustrating I sometimes just end up putting in my PIN number instead of
using the fingerprint reader to unlock it so if you must have a really good
fingerprint reader then perhaps this isn't the model for you but the battery
life is also decent I mean I can get a solid four and a half hours of gaming on
this and you can get up to around seven hours of your typical kind of use so a
little bit of gaming mixed use web browsing YouTube streaming all good also
fast internet speeds to buy that wireless AC and there's also one other
tiny little minor complaint to is that the audio output from the 3.5 millimeter
jack does sound a little bit flat it's not very punchy and there's a tiny tiny
a little bit of hissing static over that line as well there but overall a great
tablet here if you haven't seen my review of the tick last master t10 which
is the bigger 10.1 inch version that also has a fully laminated display then
please check that out and I do hope to see you back with more up-and-coming
reviews on tablets from China