My first Atom X5 Z8300 Cherry Trail tablet arrived, if you didn’t catch the Youtube unboxing and Windows first look video in the TechTablets channel here it is below. It’s the first 8-inch tablet to ship out of China with the X5 Z8300 so I was keen to test the performance of the lower end Atom X5 Z8300 against the X5 Z8500.
So far my frist impressions aren’t good:
- No charger included (Not a biggie as I have plenty, but still)
- Battery calibration is way off, battery stats report 59% wear already? And seems to report only half the battery
- Screen while 1280 x 800 isn’t super sharp, but normally still okay for an 8-inch tablet but this one lacks brightness (It’s 100% looks like 50% brightness compared to others)
- Single mono speaker is very poor, reminds me of the Chuwi Vi8
- 3.5mm audio jack lacks volume and causes distortion past 60% volume.
- X5 Z8300 performance is much less than the X5 Z8500 reviewed in the X98 Pro. Around 15k in Icestorm 1.2 Vs 25k on the Teclast X98 Pro. I didn’t expect this much of a gap.
- 19GB free in Windows 10 home, 32bit install was used
- Some stutters in Windows, minor lag here and there
- Randomly powered off on me twice
- Larger than normal gap between the digitizer and IPS panel below (My guess is almost 2mm)
- A test of 3DMark showed it got to 85 degrees, but didn’t trigger throttling according to HWinfo
Now the positives:
- Build quality is okay, similar to the Chuwi Vi8 (first model)
- Windows is activated…
- According to my USB meter the battery capacity it works out to be around 4200mah
- Ummm not much else… oh dear.
I’ll have some benchmarks and gaming tests soon. But first I’m fully draining the battery and charging it now overnight in an attempt to correct this issue and hopefully recalibrate it. This is no doubt the last Onda tablet I will buy. No way in hell I’m going to buy the Onda v919 Air CH to review, their quality overall has to be one of the worst out there. The V116w was a build quality nightmare and the V919 Core M 3G another disaster with countless issues.
My hopes are pinned on the Tecalst X80 Plus/Pro and Chuwi Hi8 Pro. Check back tomorrow for some benchmarks on the X5 Z8300, they might be slower than other X5 Z8300 tablets I imagine due to lack of optimization, drivers and because it’s and Onda.
I got this tablet from Tinydeal here.