Onda’s Lenovo Yogo 11 clone with its 360-degree hinge piqued my interest enough to get it. Must be made by the same ODM as this design is also sold by Vido as the Vido W11Pro3 and Voyo as the A1 Plus & A1 Plus Ultimate. Those versions even have 4G/LTE, 32-64GB eMMC’s and up to 4GB of RAM.
The spec is low on this Onda oBook, an Atom X5 Z8300, 2GB of Ram, 32GB eMMC, 1080p screen and Wireless N. All in a Yoga clone shell. Unboxing video below:
First impressions:
- Build quality is much better than I expect, Onda can’t have made the shell of it, but some unknown ODM
- Plastic build throughout, but the hinges are metal
- 1080p screen is quite decent, good brightness and viewing angles.
- 32GB eMMC has only 14+GB free on first boot. Unknown brand eMMC, looks to be FORSEE or BIWN (The slow ones)
- Keyboard feels okay, smaller keys, okay travel and layout is okay. Some flex.
- Light & thin for what it is at 1.2 kilos
- High pitch noise emitted from the IPS panel or the motherboard in the keyboard. Not cool!
I’ve only just got hold of the laptop, but its plastics, fit and finish is good, better than expected being an Onda. The hinge works well, it flips around 360 degrees to become a bulky tablet just like the Yoga series of notebooks from Lenovo.
Bit annoyed at the high pitch noise coming from the screen or somewhere around there, I heard about it from OKQI and was told they were like this the first batch and all sent back to Onda. But the second batch wasn’t meant to have it. According to my Aliexpress seller, this was the second batch! V4 of the tablet apparently (Ninth and tenth letter of the serial will tell you the version)
I would really like to see this design with a Core M or even just the more powerful X5 Z8500. An X5 Z8300 feels like a bit of a waste in this housing.More to follow soon…