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Chuwi Hi9 Plus Hands-On First Impressions
My Chuwi Hi9 Plus arrived today with the keyboard and HiPen H3 Stylus. This is a $189 Android 8.0 tablet with yet another 4G dual SIM + MediaTek Helio chip in it. This one has the Helio X27, it’s got 10 cores which might seem like it’s crazy powerful but really it’s quite average. An Antutu score of around 100,000 and storage that can do a modest 144 MB/s reads and 75 MB/s writes...[Read More]
Jumper EZBook S4 – 8GB RAM Gemini Lake Laptop
Jumper has yet another laptop that has only just released in China. The EZBook S4 which looks a bit like the EZBook 3 is an Intel Celeron N4100 laptop with 4 to 8GB of RAM. It’s got a 14.1″ 1080p panel. It’s listed as an IPS, hopefully not another TN panel like the first EZBook X4 models. What makes this model interesting is it has the 8GB RAM where the Lapbook SE, EZbook X4, and...[Read More]
Teclast X6 Pro – $449 Core M3 2-In-1 Windows 10 Tablet
Teclast has a new tablet coming, the X6 Pro. It’s another 2-in-1 with a type cover style keyboard. It has 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD drive. Runs Windows 10 Home. The screen is the main feature, 12.6″ 2880 x 1920 fully laminated PLS/IPS screen. This is the same screen seen in the Voyo Vbook i5 I reviewed. It’s a really nice panel, with a 3:2 aspect ratio which is great. It was by ...[Read More]
Coolpad M3 Launched in China with a Tiny 2800mAh Battery
Coolpad is a Chinese phone maker mainly focused on bringing entry-level mobiles into the market, the latest of which is the Coolpad M3 launched today. The Coolpad M3 comes with a 5.85-inch LCD display of 720 x 1512 resolution with a notch at the top and it’s powered by an ancient MediaTek MT6750 CPU, which makes us ask: why did they even bother? They also probably thought that throwing lots ...[Read More]
Black Friday Deals: Lapbook SE $249 Mi Pad 4 64GB $199 Mi Drone 4k $399
Yes, I know sick of the Black Friday emails and posts? Me too, but what’s one more right? The usual sites I source my cheaper Chinese alternative tech from like Banggood and Gearbest both have Black Friday deals on of course. There are a few deals around so if you’re in the market for some cheaper tech or something for Christmas here’s a couple of the better offers I’ve see...[Read More]
Meizu 16S Coming in May with a Snapdragon 8150 SoC
Albeit not too incredibly successful, Meizu’s 16th anniversary edition series packed some pretty amazing hardware for a relatively low price tag. The handsets did indeed boast the latest Snapdragon 845 chipset, a minimum of 6GB of RAM, Super AMOLED panels and under display fingerprint scanners for a starting price of about $400. Today, the company’s CEO – Jack Wong – sugges...[Read More]
Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Coming with 5000mAh Battery
After a good series of rumors and leaks in the past days, Taiwan based tech giant ASUS decided to release an official teaser for the upcoming ASUS ZenFone Max Pro M2. The handset was indeed showed off in an hands-on video review, before getting taken down later on. In the video the Max Pro M2 appeared with its dual rear camera setup and no sign of a third camera which was previously rumored to hav...[Read More]
Honor 10 Lite with Kirin 710, 6GB RAM and Android Pie Launched
The Honor 10 Lite is finally official and as we expected the handset packs mid-range hardware along with a very interesting price tag of around $200 (in China) for the basic variant. Honor’s 10 series more affordable device comes with a large 6.21-inch display of Full HD+ resolution and 19.5:9 aspect ratio and a screen-to-body ratio of over 90%. The handset is then powered by a Huawei Kirin ...[Read More]
ASUS ZenFone Max Pro M2 with Triple Cameras to Launch on December 11th
Albeit not always as affordable as the Xiaomi competitor, ASUS is another company that usually brings great bang for the bucks phones to the market, such as the last ASUS ZenFone Max Pro, which for a while challenged Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 5 Pro. The successor of the ZenFone Max Pro – the ZenFone Max Pro M2 – did already surface the web around a week back, thanks to a tweet from ren...[Read More]
Chuwi Hi9 Plus Android 8 Tablet With Optional Keyboard & Stylus
Maybe the last MediaTek Helio X27 tablet I’ll review the Chuwi Hi9 Plus is on the way. Unlike the HiPad I’ve reviewed this one has 4GB of RAM not the slower 3GB, a higher resolution 2560 x 1600 OGS IPS screen with stylus support and dual-SIM 4G support with band 20. There is also a keyboard which looks a little like the Apple smart cover keyboard ones. Hopefully, this one will perform ...[Read More]
Oppo A7 with HyperBoost Tech & Large 4230mAh Battery Launched
Oppo phones don’t always come with great specs-to-price ratio but they do usually feature a nice design along with a better than average build quality, and that is why they’re so successful in Asian countries. The latest Oppo A7 announced today is yet again another device that follows the same spirit, it doesn’t pack impressive hardware, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 powering it...[Read More]
ONE-NETBOOK One Mix 2S M3-8100Y Powerful 7″ Mini PC
This one got my attention, it looks a lot like GPD Win2 I reviewed, however, it’s got so much more going for it this Netbook One Mix 2S. It’s one of the first Chinese laptops to get the new Intel Core M3-8100Y the successor to the Core M3-7Y30, it’s an 8th Gen chip with a max turbo of 3.4Ghz when thermals allow it to turbo that high. It has 8GB of RAM, 256GB PCIe SSD, 1920 x 1200...[Read More]
