Chuwi Hi8 Pro
Chuwi Hi8 Pro Battery & Power Issues? (Update)
Stay clear of the Hi8 Pro for now, many users including myself have powering on issues and battery calibration problems. And even some owners have reported the units dying completely in the forum. It was all smooth sailing for my Hi8 Pro, until it suddenly died on me with around 36% battery when running 3DMark. It powered on 3 times and off, finally reporting I had 2% battery. So I suddenly lost 3...[Read More]
Chuwi Hi8 Pro to ship with USB 3 Type-C port
From Chuwi’s Weibo press event today, they have confirmed the Hi8 Pro will feature a USB 3 Type-C port. This will be the first Chinese tablet to come with this new connector, as far as I can tell it’s USB 3.0 Type C and not USB 3.1 (The Asus Transformer Book T100HA has USB 3.1 Type C) if anyone understands Chinese can you please confirm it’s 3.0 or 3.1? Points of note: Same desig...[Read More]
Chuwi Hi8 Pro
The Chuwi Hi8 Pro is the successor to the popular Atom bay Trail Z3736 Hi8. The Hi8 Pro shares the same design as the Hi8, but it has an upgraded Atom Cherry Trail X5 Z8300 1.84Ghz SoC with Intel Gen8 graphics and 12 EU cores. A bump in graphics performance over the Hi8. The screen also remains unchanged with the same 16:10 ratio 1920 x 1200 panel. One new feature of the Hi8 Pro is it the microUSB...[Read More]
Chuwi Hi8 Pro Cherry Trail Update Coming Next Month
Another AliExpress seller leak that was pulled, but later reappeared. The Chuwi Hi8 Pro is an updated Chuwi Hi8. Gone is the Bay Trail Z3736F, replaced by a Cherry Trail X5 Z8300 and 2GB of RAM. There is also a micro HDMI port and what looks to be a USB Type C plug shown in one image? Dual boot, Android 5.1 and Windows 10. Everything else is the same as the Hi8 The update certainly looks promising...[Read More]
