So I have with me here the first Gemini tablet that I'm going to be
reviewing in the channel this is the Alldocube Knote 5 it is an 11.6 inch
1080p IPS tablet it runs Windows 10 it has 4 gigabytes a double data rate for
RAM it has 128 gigabytes of storage wireless AC which will be the Intel 3165
chip that is very common infrequent and all of the devices normally that I am
reviewing now so this also does support an optional keyboard which I happen to
have with me right here so let's check out and see what we get in the box and
exactly what the tablet is like I'll check this keyboard out first so this is
probably exactly like they came out 8 keyboard and I can see that yeah very
similar design of course it's smaller because it's just for an 11.6 inch
tablet so we have this stiff hinge on the back to get your position right and
you see that it just actually sits in here the tablet and we got well the
looks of it yeah that's actually quite good travel on those keys so very very
similar and really the same exact design as mentioned as the larger version so
this is going to be a decent keyboard the touchpad I don't believe is going to
be using Windows precision drivers I will have to check that out of course
though we do have shortcuts there for your media controls now the K Note 8
keyboard was backlit I don't believe this one is in fact no it doesn't
mention it anywhere so safe to say that this is not a backlit keyboard this one
do have buttons there for for print screen' page up and down and now i'll
tablet so it is wrapped up with a plastic wrap around it put it to the
side for a minute and we'll take a look at what we get here so we do have an
adapter there so this is USB 3 to type-c gonna need that because there's no
full-size ports on this one alright here we have a quick guide so this is in
chinese and on the other side it is in english as well which is great and here
is L power supply 12 volts 2.5 amps and the positive with the DC plug there is
in the middle as you can see negative on the outside okay so I can see that it
comes with a pre-applied screen protector but I'll just check the weight
of it at first so 825 grams means it's not super light but hopefully
the total package will be under a kilo I hope but I don't think it's going to be
actually because that keyboard isn't exactly the lightest either no it's way
over so 1.3 3 kilos and total the tablet is nine point five millimeters thick
then with the case it doubles the size of it now to 18 point one millimeters
thick so the bezels are rather like we've got a webcam here and you can
probably actually can't make this out on camera it's very hard to see but there
are tiny little dots here one little slot there and one here
those are jewel ray microphones now that first layer of the screen particular
mentioned some of the specs that you can see but I'm going to remove that now
because obviously I can't review it with it on I can't film with it on properly
one of my concerns was is the screen fully laminated and I can see straight
away that unlike the K Note 8 this one isn't but the gap is rather small it's
only approximate about one millimeter and not as bad as some of them that you
get that are up to about 2.5 millimeters so the frame around it is rounded it is
plastic and you'll see down the bottom we have five Pogo port pins
well the connector for it for those pins on the keyboard and it just simply docks
in like this you place it here then magnets will pull it into place and
there it is now connected and this is what it looks like so not bad at all
we'll test out to this stand on the back here so this having that really firm
hinge is good because if it was loose of course pressing on it that's not moving
in its current state you can get it down about that low still pressing on that
now it's going to push down perhaps a little bit and about the lowest you can
go really is there and of course you can like that completely flat that is part
of the design so you can of course close everything up like that and you have
quite a nice package there that does look and feel really nice now the
texture of this it's rubberized plastic well not plastic you know actually it is
sorry it's just they put like a rubber over the top of the plastic over there
it's got a nice feeling to it good texture it's not so
for anything like that and it doesn't tend to show fingerprints too bad so
four ports on the left-hand side here we've got DC in for charging the type C
port and then a micro SD card slot now this type C port also supports display
out charging and data of course down the bottom you'll find one of two side
firing speakers the right speaker 3.5 millimeter headphone jack volume up and
down and power buttons these are made out of plastic but they have a good feel
to them and they are not loose and they're not going to rattle around so
overall the build quality is very good it is metal on the back here as well the
frame as I mentioned is plastic here this has that rubberized coating over
the top of it the hinges made out of metal the keyboard travel and how firm
it is feels really good now one thing this keyboard cannot do is you cannot
pop it up to the next level like other tablets will let you like the Microsoft
Surface line for example the surface pro that you can put this up to an extra
level there increasing the keyboard comfort when typing it's just not
possible with this model and just to confirm here that yes it does charge up
via type C so you don't even need to use the DC and if you do happen to have a
Type C charger it just needs to have a course 12 volts 2.5 amps maximum output
and there is a status LED as well I have just powered it on it did not take long
at all to get to this setup screen here of Windows so there's our language
options we've got German Spanish French Italian Chinese languages and Russian
and Korean - so just killed the lights here and I'm recording without any
lights on so you can see the screen a little better because it's reflecting a
lot probably because of the screen protector and the fact that it's a non
laminated display so for free available space on first boot you get a hundred
and four gigabytes which is perfectly normal Windows does take up a bit of
space and when we have a look at the SSD it doesn't actually list what brand it
is here it's just showing up as a setter SSD in my experience this is probably a
B when is histy that they are using in this now if you open it up you should be
able to upgrade it it will be an MDOT two set of three is his D I did
benchmark it and you'll see the speeds and nothing wonderful so not really
there good they they're slow on the writes and
even the reads a little bit slow that it should be up around 500 I mean that's
not too bad it's still a hell of a lot faster than eat MMC 5.1 spec about
almost double on the reads there so that at least will help out with the
performance so did benchmark it here with Geekbench and this scores coming
out to be a little lower than expected especially with the multi-core score and
now this should probably be around about five thousand points five thousand one
hundred two hundred it all depends that's what I got with the jumper easy
book x4 that's also using the same chipset so the cell run in four thousand
one hundred it could be down to this so the RAM is running at only two thousand
133 megahertz as you can see it should actually be 2.4 gigahertz that's what it
supports so they're not using the fastest Ram possible here there so
that's gonna make a slight little difference to performance I mean overall
these scores are up of course over say via polar lake in 3450 it's gone up
about three hundred and something points they're the single core score and this
is up only about 300 points not a massive difference there I did install
battery bar Pro just to have a look at the battery so it's giving me an
estimate of approximately five hours and 41 minutes so you're looking about five
hours which seems on par with only a 30 watt hour battery so it's not a super
large battery that this has in here because it's 11.6 inches I really wish
they could have squeezed a larger battery and perhaps say 34:37 what else
would have been of course much better okay so this is explaining why we're not
getting those kind of scores and Geekbench for that I saw with the jumper
easy book x4 because this has a six watt TDP and not the nine that they have said
so the six watt is what Intel recommends for tablets and most people to use that
as you can see their power max as six watts the time is 28 seconds so that
explains why we have that difference there now you can override this with
software but in a tablet here would probably actually get too hot and run
into thermal throttling now if you're worried
activating no problems here so it is using Windows 10 home with a valid
license that will be part of the BIOS so you don't have any problems there so if
you do do a clean new install make sure you use a driver backup I'm actually
going to create one now we'll double driver and upload it to my website so
restore that and everything should be fine now it's not the latest version
either because it says 1709 so you have to run Windows Update to get the latest
big huge updates that come through so they will take some time to do all that
so just make sure you set aside an hour for updating it now we're checking that
micro SD card slot now and it's not running at USB 3 speed so maximum speeds
about 2.6 as you could see there reads that's all you're gonna get rights are
slightly slower so it's just wired up via a USB to hub which is unfortunate
I'd love to see them using faster USB 3 real tech readers so we do have some
positives and I have discovered that while the touchpad does not support
Windows precision drivers it is in fact very usable it's good the accuracy is
good finer movements are ok left and right mouse buttons there of the clicky
type you can probably hear and then I'm too loud and typing on the keyboard as
well as fine because it's lying a huntress in flat there is no flex and
they do have a good feel to them so this is a quality keyboard voyer need to take
note and try and find whoever the odium for this keyboard is and use it on their
tablets because that v book that I looked at the vo what was at the V book
I 5 terrible type cover on that one absolutely horrible
this only how the other hand is good now looking at our screen so it's an IPS
panel 1920 by 1080 16 by 9 aspect ratio and it looks alright for an IPS we're
seeing good color reproduction maximum brightness White's is 220 lux
which is an ideal really I want to see about 250 or over especially with a non
laminated display so indoors it's going to be perfectly fine you'll probably run
it with about 70 60 percent brightness right now I have it set to 100% so when
I do dim this down here you can see it it's quite dumb so that's great for
nighttime use without damaging your eyes or reducing some of your eye pain eye
strain of having a really really bright on the last sitting which a lot of
manufacturers do do unfortunately so all in all I feel it's a good panel it's
just not an amazing panel at all because it could be brighter that would be good
and I would also like to see fully laminated displays a lot more of them
since that's what we had on the K note 8 time to take a look at 4k streaming so
this is you to one of my own videos here so I don't get hit with any copyright
problems I've got the speakers on 100% and they are definitely not loud enough
so what I will do is to spin the microphone now and give you a sample of
the audio okay so just like other aldi cubes that i've tested out these
speakers are really lacking volume it's it's really bad so if you're in a room
and you want other people to hear a video or something then they will
probably struggle to hear it if you by yourself and you're in a room somewhere
then yeah they're going to be fine but if you're in Skype calls as well they
did just going to be lacking so not good speakers at all on this but at least
it's streaming perfectly find the wireless is keeping up zero dropped
frames with Internet Explorer with playback here in 4k okay so that is the
OO dqk note 5 it has a very good build quality the keyboards nice to type on
touchpad is okay it's not controlled with the windows precision drivers
unfortunately but it still does a decent job with tracking with your fingers with
movements and things left and right mouse buttons there so we have a battery
life that's only approximately four to five hours and I think you're gonna
really struggle to get five on here so that is quite disappointing to me
another disappointment is the screen brightness so I thought that they may
have changed and put other different panel in here or boost the brightness up
through the BIOS setting and the way it's configured but unfortunately 220
lux and it probably kept it in there capping it at that to help preserve
battery life so you won't burn through it so quick
having a non laminated display also means a lot of reflections we do have to
know USB 3 port on this a full-size USB 3 port I feel is really needed with this
model here so you're gonna have to carry around a dongle you're gonna have to use
a adapter of course or carry around a hub with you and we don't have stylus
support on this either the speakers they do sound very poor they're very weak
they're okay in terms of sound quality for what it is for a tablet it's just
the volume is not there it's about half of what it should be a noise sorry it
sounds like it's at 50% when when it really should be 2 times louder than
that at a hundred percent so that really does disappoint it's a little heavy at
one point three three kilos as well and I real it's good but it doesn't warrant
me going into a full in-depth review with this one here unfortunately there's
just really too many cons and things against it here so hopefully older cube
there watching this video and with the next models please full-size USB 3 ports
louder speakers brighter screens larger batteries and stylus support would be
really great on a model like this ad for Linux users out there - it will run
Linux and it seems to be running fine so you use the latest builds for something
I used a Linux Mint it works on there and that is fine thank you so much for
watching this video here bye for now