Second FNF iFive tablet for me, just like the iFive Mini 4S the build quality is great (The tablet) very well finished, nice textured leather-like rear. It’s got four speakers, they sound a little better than the smaller 7.9″ version, a little louder but still distort a lot when pushed to 100% volume. The screen is premium, typical IGZO 9.7″ 2048 x 1536 screen, very nice. 264 PPI and looks great. The glass over the top of it isn’t fully laminated but almost looks as if it is. The gap is under 1mm, very small. It’s $226 over at Bangood.com using their coupon e9df7e in the listing.
The keyboard is okay for the size constraints it has, not the same quality as the keyboard but decent. Not wonderful to type on, as it’s cramped. The touchpad is small, it does the job, but it’s not great. The keys feel plasticity and have a bit of noise to them. It does in with magnets and a pogo port, this is good. No need for Bluetooth a battery or charging it and it’s much better than using the onscreen keyboard that’s for sure! The outer material is a fake leather, with magnets to hold it closed.
The fingerprint reader works well and something unexpected is it’s dual OS, Phoenix OS based on Android 6.0 and then stock Android 6.0. The bootup speed and the switching OS is super quick, each OS has it’s own 32GB eMMC. Haven’t seen that before and it works well. I’m working towards the review of this one, but first I need get Google Play installed unfortunately, it’s not loaded on the ROM’s.
More photos of the iFive Pro2:
Gorka
Hi Chris when do you expect to release the full review of this tablet? I am raving about it! Thanks for this splendid web!!!
Chris G
Working on it now, delayed about a week because I was travelling back to Spain from New Zealand. But I’m benchmarking it and using it now finding all the pros and cons. Next week or so!
Bill C
It’ll be nice to see if playstore can get loaded. I was also trying to see if I could find any other cases for those times I don’t want to take the keyboard with me. No luck so far.
Gorka
If you find an alternative case please post it! I also want one without keyboard.
About loadong
Gorka
About loading play store I remember Chris gave some instructions to install it in the mi pad 2 which might be helpful
Gorka
I just purchased this tablet thanks to Chris’ review.i am counting the days to receive it at home!
Jamie Brahm
No Play store….Hmm, that could be an issue. How easy is it to sideload google services etc?
The prominence of Chinese also puts me off.
Otherwise looks like a good alternative to the popular tab a/ipad.
Chris G
I’ve yet to install it, but will download a 32bit version of Play or find an installer if I can.
Gorka
Where did you get the keyboard case? Between this tablet and teclast x98 plus Ii which one would you choose?
Chris G
The case came with it. I prefer this one so far, but I do like having Windows on the X98 Plus II dual OS.