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Official Chuwi Hi10 Keyboard Dock Now Up For Preorder
In a Weibo from Chuwi the official Hi10 keyboard dock is now up for pre-order. Chuwi commented that it moves from zero to 120 degrees from closed to open, so similar to the Asus Transformer Book series of keyboards. I’m still waiting for my Hi10 and hopefully, I’ll have it in a week or so. I do have the keyboard ordered to review, so this explains the delay on the keyboard, it’s ...[Read More]
Onda M2 Mini PC, Intel J1900, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD
Onda has a new release Intel Mini PC, the M2. It’s powered by an Intel quad core J1900, with a turbo boost of 2.42Ghz and a 10W TDP, so it should be more powerful than the Atom mini pc offerings. It comes with 4GB of dual channel ram and a 128GB SSD (Not eMMC) so a good 5 times faster storage than the eMMC offers of most Mini PC’s. Graphics is handled by Intel HD Gen7, with a clock ran...[Read More]
Two New 4K Android Media Players For Under $51
Two new cheap media players your TV with Kobi and Android 5.1 that can even decode 4k H.264 4k 60fps clips. The new MX Plus & Sunvell T95 both these media players are powered by a 64bit AMlogic S905 chipset + Mali 450 GPU, it’s a quad core that clocks up to 2.0 Ghz. 1GB of DDR ram, Full sized HDMI and an 8GB Rom. Not much storage I know, but they do have MicroSD card slots and 4 x USB 2....[Read More]
The Site is on Twitter (Finally)
For those that requested it, I finally got around to setting up Twitter for TechTablets, the account: https://twitter.com/TechTabletscom (It’s also at the top of the page the little twitter bird logo.) Only taken me a year, sorry! I’m not so big on social media and don’t have twitter myself. But it’s good to have for the site, for those that want to see when I publish a rev...[Read More]
Teclast X98 Plus Dual Boot Coming Soon?
Teclast’s X98 Plus Cherry Trail X5 Z8300 was just reviewed here with Windows 10. It’s not a bad tablet at all for those after great battery life and don’t need the best in gaming performance. It now seems like the X98 Pro release, it came first with Windows 10 only and now it will soon be coming in dual os flavor? According to this banggood.com listing, the X98 Plus Dual OS on th...[Read More]
Chuwi Hi10 $169.99 Black Friday Sale (Update)
Happy thanksgiving to our American readers! This deal kicks off in about 8 hours from now. AliExpress has a Black Friday sale on the 27th to 30th on the Chuwi Hi10. The price will be dropped to $169 from the normal $189 listed price on AliExpress. I haven’t received my Hi10 yet, still waiting for it to ship out from China. There were some reports on Chuwi’s forum of issues with the fir...[Read More]
Deals: GearBest Black Friday Snap Up Sales
GearBest has already kicked off their Black Friday sales. They have this page up here with some good deals, but with limited stock so you have to be quick. For example: Cube iwork11 $209 Atom X5 Z8300, 4GB) Teclast X16 Pro for $280 (Atom X5 Z8500, 4GB) Teclast X98 Air III for $119 (Atom Z3735F, 2GB) Source: Black Friday snap up sale.
Teclast X16 Power and Pro International Windows 10 Image
Teclast has released their X16 Power and X16 Pro Windows 10 “Universal Edition” image, which I take it must be an international image with English and Chinese. According to one Aliexpress seller I talked to, it was Chinese Windows 10 only the X16, so this must be the Int’l Win 10 image, handy for those that have ordered Teclast’s new X16 Pro or Power to only find it in Chin...[Read More]
Teclast X98 Plus v1.02 Bios update & Windows Drivers
Teclast have released a new bios update for the X98 Plus, I discovered it on the Official Forums here. No idea on what it fixes, something to do with slowness bug? Maybe slow wifi, although I haven’t experianced this myself. The update tool is in Chinese, but I figured out how to use it using google translate. When you come to a screen where it asks for data to be added. Type in your X98 Plu...[Read More]
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 Teased. Official Announcement 24th
Xiaomi has finally teased an image (above) of a tablet with a rear facing camera that looks similar to the Mi Pad but in metal. They have a big announcement on the 24th with a new mobile with a fingerprint sensor as well as “other announcements” which is where the Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 fits in. It’s rumored to be a dual boot, I hope it is. It would be great to see Xiaomi’s take ...[Read More]
Xiaomi MI PAD 2 Might Just Be Real Afterall
The long rumored Mi Pad 2, just got more real recently with an alleged MiPad 2 benchmark popping up on Geekbench 3 with an Atom X5 Z8500. Unlike the first MiPad which is Android only, the MiPad is rumored to be a dual boot device, no doubt due to sliding Android tablet sales. This test was run Android 5.1 and the device tested has 2GB of Ram. The X98 Pro has 4GB, and Xiaomi choose to run with only...[Read More]
Doogee F5 Video Review and Camera Samples
Now and then I do review a few Chinese mobile phones, not just 100% tablets. The Doogee F5 is a new mobile that was recently released, with a MediaTek MT6753 1.3Ghz OctaCore processor. What’s not so common however is the phone’s price and the specs you get. It’s only $139 at Gearbest, but comes with a full metal frame, 3GB of Ram, Fingerprint sensor, dual sim support, MicroSD car...[Read More]
