Teclast TBook 10

[Nick]

Hi Pete,

 

I have one. Build is great and it looks fantastic with the small bezels. Both Windows and Android performance is decent – I haven’t run any benchmarks but they are both fluid. My only complaint is the terrible Android battery life, I was losing something like 40% in an hour of use and 60% overnight with screen off. Windows battery life is far better so I can only assume a software update should sort that issue.

If you are a Windows user mainly I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it. If you use Android then I would wait for a fix or look at a different tab – the battery is just that bad. The Hibook may be worth a look?

[Testcik]

Mine has been great either. The build is much better than in the Cube iWork 10 which quality seemed to decrease a lot in spite of sale and huge demand. If only it could support stylus.

I was worried that it does not although it also charges fine through the microUSB.

[Juan Jesús Torreño Martín]

So… Is there anybody really happy with this device? , mine for me have been problems, with the systems, with the installation of them, then wifi stopped working, and my biggest complaint, the horrible quality sound (does anyone thinks the same?)  so I asked for warranty to the seller and he’s offering me full refund or a replacement and I don’t know what to do, could you tell me in you opinion what would you do?

 

Thanks

[Bryan]

I’m quite happy with the device. My only issue was that somehow I lost the driver support for the active stylus so I reinstalled both OS (which actually went smoother than expected once I worked out some kinks.) The sound isn’t very good simply due to the fact that the speakers jut out left and right rather than towards you, which I 9/10 use headphones instead anyway. This tablet is very capable for what I need it to do. I can’t really complain for $245 USD getting the tablet, keyboard and stylus.

[Paul Robertson]

Can you kindly comment on the keyboard? It looks like it’s got two USB ports, this correct? What is the trackpad like. Overall, is it a good keyboard?

 

 

[Testcik]

Do you have the same stylus that Chris reviewed? Does it say pen support in system settings?

[Christian Stocker]

Im currently rather happy with my device, execpt hat my stylus came DOA.

• Great screen, rather good performance. Great metal look. Great form factor. Works good with bluetooth keyboard and mice, both in adroid and windows.
• Battery life could be better. This is definitely under my experiences with other android tablets. Got no previous experiences with windows tablets so far, but suspend mode works fine.
• Windows partition a bit small, Android partition rather too big. Would be interesting to know, if anyone used a tool like “partition magic” to resize the partitions without reinstalling everything. I did set default storage for windows apps to sd-card. Managed to install Photoshop and Lightroom Full-Versions as well as Dropbox Folder Sync on the sdcard, but had to fiddle around with mklink /j for that to work. Strange enought apps to sd did not work in android, might be a android 5 restriction. But plenty of space there.
• Some strange startup experiences so far, which limited my confidence in the device, but could recover everytime so far:
  • I tryed to uninstall some preinstalled chinese windows apps and got disk error (on mmc-disk rather strange). Tablet went into repair mode and recovered. – I do not touch these apps anymore.
  • One time it did not startup. I then tryed to restart only to find, that maybe disk respair was on the way und I should have waited – it said, that could take an hour. So I nearly did kill the installation myself. – Patience! But it recovered.
  • One time i suspended Windows, pluged the device for charging overnight. When the charging light went of I wanted to reactivate the screen was black but backlight on. I unplugged it. The next morning, I could not start the device. The event log showed there was a windows error and the the device emptied the battery over night. After recharging I could restart.
  • Then while installing Bluetoot-Mouse and -Keyboard I got a bluescreen of death. But the device recovered.
• Overall some unexpected things, but for that price I go with it, as long as I can recover and reinstall.

 

@Bryan: Did you receive your keyboard? Mine is backordere and aliexpress is saying, teclast had some quality issues with the integrated battery, which could be the reason for not delivering on time. On the picture the usb-ports look blue: Can it be they are usb 3.0? Maybe the offer the ability for a docking (screen, keyboard, ethernet) – solution using a thirdparty adapter? Probably hoping too much for that price 😉

 

[Pete Scoffield]

Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been away from home and couldn’t answer before. Thanks everyone for the positive feedbacks!

For $179 over at geekbuying it sounds like a great buy, I’ll let you know!

[Christian Stocker]

Well, its definitely not a ipad pro 9. Regarding handling and support, and price! But I love my tbook 10 so far. Wouldn’t recommend it to someone completely it-unaware, who can not tryout some settings.

[Pete Scoffield]

Definitely agree with you.

[Christian Stocker]

So, how about a short wrap-up so far:

• I spent: 340 $ so far (220 tbook 10, 30 $ first pen not working, 23 $ second pen beeing shipped, 66 $ for the keyboard which is backordered).
• + styling and build, + dual boot adroid, +screen resolution and brighness, +battery in keyboard, +windows software installation, +price/value
• – android software installation, – overall software quality compared to brands like samsung, – stylus functionality as reviewed by others (no pressure sensitivity, no button functions – would be fine for photoshop).

So yesterday asus presented the transformer mini, with a starting price of 350 $: http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/30/asus-transformer-pc/#gallery=390868&slide=3906065&index=0

If this is with keyboard and stylus included, I definitely would go for the software quality and stylus funcitonality of a brand like asus, even if the device is missing the cool metal look and the dual boot android function of the tbook 10.

 

[Timofey]

Pete Scoffield wrote:

Strange enought apps to sd did not work in android, might be a android 5 restriction.

Christian Stocker wrote:

Strange enought apps to sd did not work in android, might be a android 5 restriction.

Did you ment that SD card is not accessable in Android? If this is a problem – just format it fat32, not NTFS.

[Pete Scoffield]

Why does it tag my name? I didn’t say that, lol.
Anyway honestly I wouldn’t take this tablet to use a pen on it. Those kind of tablets are usually expensive, this one is just $179.

[Timofey]

Did anyone succeed with android update using TeclastOTA? I have “unknown error” message when tried this.

Did anyone know how to root it?

Which android build have you people?

My Tbook 10 has: 5.1, core ver. 3.14.37, build v1.04_20160325.

[Timofey]

Pete Scoffield wrote:

Why does it tag my name? I didn’t say that, lol.

Sorry, but it seems a quotation fail. Fixed.

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