CUBE Launches i6 REMIX 10-inch Tablet

Chinese tablet manufacturer CUBE has officially unveiled their latest 10-inch tablet called the i6 REMIX, the updated version of the company’s original i6 tablet, which will be available through Jingdong for an affordable price of 699 Yuan.

Design-wise, the i6 REMIX looks very much like the original i6 with its aluminum body and 9.7-inch screen with a 2048 x 1536 retina display resolution.

On the inside, the i6 REMIX features an Intel 64-bit Z3735 quad-core processor which is a 22nm chip with a frequency of 1.8GHz coupled with 7th generation Intel HD Graphics chip which supports DirectX1. It also features 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, support for expandable storage up to 32GB, a 5-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, and a humongous 8000mAh battery giving the i6 REMIX an estimated battery life of up to 12 hours of continuous video playback.

The i6 REMIX will be powered by CUBE’s own Remix OS which is an Android-based operating system optimized for large-screen tablets and use with external keyboards. Remix OS allows apps to run in either full-screen or windowed mode which can easily be switched between using keyboard shortcuts.

As previously mentioned, the CUBE i6 REMIX will be available through Chinese online market Jingdong sometime in early October for a price of 699 Yuan.

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What a cheap tablet to choose?

Having a tablet is no longer a luxury and something unusual – great for multimedia content consumption, and in this task, thanks to a larger screen, better suited than smartphones. I decided to look at the cheapest models available on the Polish market and indicate that you should buy.

Save sense!

In our ranking positions tablets cheapest price starting at approx. 200 zlotys. For that amount you can buy a tablet that has a fairly long apprenticeship in the market or was based on slightly to the elderly components. Consistency is one – does not meet our expectations and quickly bring more disappointment than joy. It is better to avoid such tablets, to be patient, collect more funds and invest in the device a little more expensive.

The first reasonable tablets – at a price approx. 350 zł

Already for approximately EUR 350 – 400 zlotys , suggesting at what tosses Ceneo, we can equip a model with better specifications. We will continue to have contact with devices that do not belong to the circle of hot prime minister, but it certainly can look up the tablet has a screen IPS and at least 8 GB of built-in memory. The display of these parameters will display just nicer having vivid color image, and 8 GB of internal disk does not fill up immediately after installing a few basic applications. It is important to not buy a tablet having a working memory less than 512MB – and so easy to cut when choosing among the cheapest models. Such a small space threatens to risk the slanting of the system. It is better to choose options with more RAM capacity of 1, and preferably 2GB. As for the size of the battery, it is here, rather we are dealing with a lottery. You never know how it will write down, so you may want to consult your choice tests. I chose several models based on the search Ceneo.pl – and I have no intention at this point to promote any particular martki. It indicates items that he would take into consideration.

LENOVO TAB2 A7-10F

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Lenovo TAB2 A7-10F has a 7-inch screen that offers enough space to comfortably watched on the films or read a longer text, and used the resolution at the diagonal enough for comfortable work. The tablet costs about 300 zlotys, what a new, unused equipment under warranty is a real treat. The model has 1 GB of memory, so do not serve to games, but replace the phone if you are looking for a decent tablet for car navigation or reading books.

GOCLEVER INSIGNIA 800M

GOCLEVER Insignia 800M / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

GOCLEVER Insignia 800M is approaching the upper limit of $ 400, it's best to look for different occasions, because the price of the model varies depending on the store. The tablet has all the features that I listed in the introduction. We can count on the fact that the installed operating system on it will work with adequate liquidity and, in addition, this modelhas stereo speakers and a built-in 3G modem. As I noted in the test tablet GOCLEVER Insignia 800M does not give the games, but the appropriate resolution of its 8-inch IPS screen will allow for a comfortable surfing the Internet and encourage reading longer books.

Models in the range of 400 – 550 zł

An expense of approx. 400 – 550 zł does not belong to the smallest, which is why we have a right to this, to be wybredniejszym. For this price we expected a little better performance hardware that allows your tablet to run more demanding games. Still we stick to previously adopted criteria – looking for a model with IPS screen, while the price of 8 GB of built-in memory that's a little too little, but we do not have too much choice. Again several proposals that had selected on the basis of what I was able to look at Ceneo.pl .

KIANO INTELECT 8 3G MS

Kiano Intelect 8 3G MS / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Prices Kiano Intelect 8 3G MS start to 399 zlotys, but the most common at the time of publication of this article is the amount in excess of 400 zł. Tablet stands out from the others in that it operates on the Windows 8.1, what does that mean? We can start on the applications we use on the computer. Of course, everything within reason because, although the model has an Intel processor, it does not equal performance laptops. But beware – look for a model with 16 GB of built-in memory, because 8-gigabyte disk with Windows installed is not enough! The model has a built-in 3G modem, so will satisfy those who expect the tablet handle a wide range of multimedia and the possibility to use outside the home with simple programs written for Windows.

LENOVO TAB2 A7-30H

Lenovo TAB2 A7-30H / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

is available on the market, the Tablet PC still TAB2 A7-30H, slightly better equipped model from the previously mentioned variant A7-10F. The models differ in that the more expensive version has a Dolby stereo speakers located on the front of the tablet. This gives a cool sound experience when watching movies or listening to music which can be played in the background while reading a book. In addition, the model has a built-in 3G modem. I had the pleasure of testing this tablet and really liked it. It is compact and lightweight, but has extensive facilities.

ASUS MEMO PAD 7 (ME176CX)

ASUS Memo Pad 7 (ME176CX)

Availability tablet, the ASUS Memo Pad 7 (ME176CX) at online stores is relatively small, but this tablet notable because it has a very powerful processor. The device has been designed for demanding public – allows you to run most available in Google's store games, and running Android has been heavily tweaked. I remember how I tested a variant of this model, and just overlay ASUS and pretty, colorful casing made this model very pleased me to taste. Unfortunately, Memo Pad have one big disadvantage – rather capacious internal drive (only 8 GB).

Tablet expensive than 600 zł is not cheap!

That's what I think, because on some models close juxtaposition. Pursuant we admit that it is not extremely large, but many items omitted because I have confidence in them. I also know that a lot of cheap models can be found in supermarkets, but carefully, because it may be that this tablet is not at all worth the money. If you need further guidance, I prepared a guide satisfied consumer, in which I describe at length on what to look for when buying a tablet. If you have any own proposals tablets, boldly inscribe them in the comments!

New Colorfly Tablet Is A 4G-Enabled G808 Variant

Colorfly Tablet Is A 4G-Enabled G808 Variant

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As expected, Colorfly’s new tablet is a variant in their G808 series.

No word about any Google connection for a Nexus tablet. I think that rumor was a hoax.

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Apple Now Thinks It’s Ford

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Apple Speeds Up Electric-Car Work

Apple, Inc. is accelerating efforts to build an electric car, designating it internally as a “committed project” and setting a target ship date for 2019, according to people familiar with the matter.

They should call it the Pippin.

Ahem.

Seriously, has Apple gone off the rails?

This is a product that could lead to the death of people.

There’s no doing half-assed unfinished 1.0 shit with a vehicle.

Apple has so much software to fix right now that getting distracted like this is just shameful.

$319.99 Presale Special Price for Lenovo ZUK Z1

$319.99 Presale Special Price for Lenovo ZUK Z1

Available from : 2015-10-10 00:00:00

$319.99

 

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Helio P10 MT6755 Spotted On Geekbench, Faster Than Snapdragon 615!

At the start of the year, Mediatek rebranded its high-end lineup as the Helio series. While the Helio X (X stands for Extreme Performance) series was meant to cater to the needs of a flagship with top-notch performance, the Helio P series (P stands for Premium) was targeted at the mid-range flagship smartphones.

Mediatek unveiled the Helio P10 MT6755 octa-core chip on June 1st, however, we have not yet seen a smartphone running this SoC. As a result, the performance of the handset is still not known.

Yesterday, Mediatek MT6755 or the Helio P10 was spotted on the Geekbench results, revealing the performance of its eight-cores for the first time. According to the results, the P10 managed to score 882 in the single core test, and 3371 in the multi-core test. In comparison, the Snapdragon 615 scores only about 700 points in the single core and 2700 points in the multi-core tests on an average. As a result, it looks like the Helio P10 will be much faster than the Snapdragon 615 chipset. However, we have to take into consideration that the 615 is a year old chip. When it comes to performance, the new Snapdragon 620 will definitely give the Helio P10 a run for its money (acc. to rumors).

Other specs of the Helio P10 include 2GHz, True Octa-core 64-bit Cortex-A53 CPU, 700MHz, Dual-core 64-bit Mali-T860 GPU, WorldMode LTE Cat-6, MediaTek’s CorePilot for optimized system load management, and MediaTek’s Non-contact Heart Rate Monitoring which uses the smartphone’s video camera to take heart rate readings.
Well, things are definitely going to get interesting in the mid-range and high-end smartphone segment in the coming months, with a number of powerful chips including Helio X20, P10, Snapdragon 820 and 620 expected to release before the end of the year.

ZUK Z1 Does Not Support Quick Charge 2.0, but Charging is Still Fast

ZUK announced its first smartphone, ZUK Z1 last month with flagship features such as a 5.5-inch 1080p FHD display and Snapdragon 801 chip. The highlight of the device was its support for latest USB 3.0 standard on the USB type-C port. This made ZUK Z1 the first smartphone with such configuration. Since the phone came with a massive 4100mAh battery, it was necessary for the device to feature a tech like fast charge. Also, we know allQualcomm 800 series processors supported Quick Charge 2.0, and hence we expected even the ZUK Z1 to come with this tech. But according to a charging analysis of the international version of the ZUK Z1 flagship by the smart charger manufacturer Tronsmart, the device does not support QC 2.0. This could be due to hardware or software limitations.

Before we move on to see the analysis by Tronsmart, lets take a look at the specifications supported by QC 2.0.

Unlike the QC 1.0, which supported just 5V, the QC 2.0 extends support to 5V, 9V & 12V. It allows a maximum current of up to 3A on the smartphone, which takes the maximum possible wattage to 36W (12V x 3A). All major Qualcomm processors support QC 2.0, like Snapdragon 200, 400, 410, 615, 800, 801, 805, 808 & 810.

Now coming to the actual analysis done by Tronsmart, they tested the international version of the ZUK Z1. This version comes with CyanogenOS and supports charging at 5V 2A. On the other hand, the Chinese variant with ZUI comes with support for 5.3V 2.5A.

Using the original 5V/2A adapter provided in the packaging, the ZUK Z1 charged up to 15% in about 20 minutes. According to their test, the phone was charging at full 2A limit when the screen was off. The total charging time from 0% to 100% of its 4100mAh battery took about 2.5 hours, which is pretty impressive.

However, we had to see whether the phone supported QC 2.0, which can take more than 2A of current. To test this, the guys over at Tronsmart swapped the original charger with their own QC 2.0 supported fast charger at 2.5A. However, even with this charger, the result was more or less the same.

As a result, it looks like the international version of the ZUK Z1 limits current to 2A, which means it does not support fast charging at QC 2.0 standard. On the other hand, the Chinese variant with EUI will charge at a slightly faster rate since its supports charging at 2.5A.

But to be honest, even without QC 2.0, ZUK Z1 manages to impresses us by charging up to 100% within 2.5 hours. So, I am sure, many won’t mind the lack of Quick Charge 2.0 support on the device.

But we would like to know if you are disappointed to hear this news? Or are you fine with the charging time of 2.5 hours?

Let us know in the comments section below.

Meanwhile, hit the source link to check out the detailed charging analysis from Tronsmart of the ZUK Z1.

Quitbit Wristband: You Die Now.

Ad of the Day: This Amazing New Gadget, the Quitbit, Tells You When Your Time Is Up

Someone in Startup Land is now thinking, “Hmmmm, how can we do this? Imagine how much money insurance companies will pay to make their customers wear this!”

Insignia Flex Elite 7.85: Standby Battery Drain

Over at XDA Developers, FreeTim said:

It’s fast and snappy. Display is crisp & nice and bright and is the perfect size. I too am seeing unexpected battery drain overnight (losing 50% of battery) while the tablet is sleeping. I wish the battery lasted longer on standby as my needs are to read to fall asleep and then wake up and study – the Tab A has a longer lasting battery than this. Takes a long time to boot up if it’s entirely shut down. It refuses to run Netflix either in the Netflix app nor in the browser. I have all the latest updates of the OS plus Netflix but it’s not working. It’s a shame but I am today returning it to BestBuy due to the Netflix issue which I consider a core app. WINS: Display is awesome and CPU speed is very good! CONS: Won’t play Netflix, battery life is weak, takes long to boot up.

I’m not surprised. There has to be some phone bits inside the Rockchip — or Lightcomm, or Five Technology — Android that haven’t been taken out. This has been the cause of standby battery drain from other China-originated tablets too. The phone bits keep searching for a signal, I think. Then again, given the borkiness of the update checking, it could be the damn tablet is constantly phoning home to see if an update is available. I wonder if going into Airplane Mode — turning off all of the radios — would improve things?

Over at the Best Buy listing, the same FreeTim (as TimFree) also wrote:

If I use right after charging it’s fine for a few hours so for commuting or using on airplane or around the office it’s fine. I wish it offered an ultra-power-saving mode (black/white screen etc) like the competitors do, for the rare case when I’m stuck in airport for a long time.

The Netflix app for some reason does not work at all after the main menu, it just says, “Loading” when you try to play any title (works fine on my other devices.) I have the latest O/S as of this writing and the most updated Netflix app. This is the sort of thing that we hope the developers at Insignia will fix with a software update in the near future, we’ll see.

If I shut it down (instead of sleep) it takes longer than my Macbook air to boot up. If you most often ‘sleep’ and not power-off completely this is not any issue, but it consumes battery in ‘sleep’ mode.

OVERALL YES I DO LIKE IT – It is very snappy fast CPU touch screen and response, faster than my phone and pictures come out great. I have added a 32GB memory card and it is working fine. The 7.8 inch screen size is perfect for me – Kindle reading or language learning I use Busuu app, not too small to read and it is the right size to use while commuting on a bus. Very bright and can be viewed from any angle. I reduce brightness to save battery or use the auto-brightness setting.

I use a Logitech bluetooth headphone set H800 and it works fine for me!

I installed:
Evernote, Busuu language learning, Kindle, Mint, AngryBirds, Minions games, they all work fine!

While I like it overall, Netflix not working is a huge blocker I won’t recommend this to a friend, unless a patch comes out to fix it. I consider NetFlix to be a core app.

Also at the listing, a second customer has mentioned YouTube being out of sync:

I was totally excited to find a tablet with such a high resolution screen at a nice price. Its the perfect size for reading, surfing the web, all that good stuff. However, I’m not able to watch YouTube videos. The video does not sync correctly with the sound or vice versa. I tried about 20 videos and every single time the sound did not sync. it was totally frustrating I was hoping I could use this tablet on vacation while lounging at the beach at the pool but I find myself turning it off a lot just to preserve the battery.

Note to Best Buy- YouTube is the number 2 ranked search result in Google. How did you release this without testing it? Is there going to be a fix for YouTube? Another reviewer was having issues with Netflix will that be fixed?

*If these two issues were fixed this would be 5 stars for sure.

I just want to add that the BestBuy Sales Rep was totally nice and assisted me right away as they always do.

I have to admit, I didn’t try more than one YouTube video in my testing. It looked to play just fine. I’ll have to try others, I guess.

But another customer, in an earlier review, found a fix for YouTube:

YouTube had a severe syncing issue with video and audio. I went into developer mode and disabled the beta media player and it seems to have fixed that issue.

Over at Yahoo Answers, I did my bit.

Insignia flex elite cannot read files?

My insignia flex elite android tablet won’t or can’t read files from the SD card I put in it. It only goes as far as to show the file on the screen whether it is a PDF file or text or jpeg. But I need to open text files or word documents to edit them but the tablet only says “can’t read file”

I tried downloading all kinds of apps to read and/or open the various files but the apps won’t open the documents and files I have on the SD card. Help!!

I replied:

Try formatting the card as NTFS.

And cited the XDA Developers post.

I think the same guy is also looking for a good notepad-like app: What’s a good notepad app for android?

I’d like to see recommendations for that too. I otherwise have no answer.

There’s no other new posts at XDA. And nothing new at ARCTablet forum, either.

Which is unfortunate. If OMA’s firmware could be flashed to it, I think we’d see an improvement in battery life and probably more too. What potential is being wasted!

Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 Super AMOLED Annoys Me

I’ve tried the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 a few times now and there’s an issue with the screen I just can’t tolerate.

I mentioned it in an earlier post:

The Super AMOLED screen is killer. But I have to point out that when viewed at a sharp angle, whites tend to become bluish.

Well, it’s not just at sharp angles that pure white begins to have a blue tint!

I noticed this during another fondle of the Nook edition of the tablet. I downloaded a sample of an eBook. That gave me a pure white background for reading. And if I wasn’t just about perfectly head-on to the display with my eyes, it would shift to an increasingly-blue color.

Maybe most people can live with that, but it irritates the hell out of me.

The Insignia Flex Elite 7.85 is less than half the price of Samsung, but white stays white regardless of the viewing angle.

I was warned about the Samsung screen in earlier Comments.

John:

According to Wikipedia these tablets have pentile displays. I absolutely despise pentile displays, so these two are dead to me. Shame, they do look nice.

Filipp:

Hm I am sure they have their awful PenTile display there. That means that it is not actually retina screen as it is much less sharp. And it will cost up to 3 times more than standard retina chinese tablets.

Doing a quick Google brought up this: I am officially done with HD Super AMOLED displays.

And in that he raises an issue I hadn’t even considered nor tried: The appearance of the screen with reduced backlighting. According to him — and his illustrations prove it — the screen will look like low-resolution crap.

I also found this post: Galaxy S4 vs HTC One – Display Comparison.

And here’s a photo that explains a little of the screen issue:

Samsung, on the left. That blue!! It’s even worse on the Galaxy Tab S2 8.0.

Since reading will be the primary use for my tablet, I’m not sure I can live with the blue-shifting of the Samsung.

I’m beginning to consider just saying the hell with it all and getting the iPad Mini 4 — it has the monstrous power of the iPad Air 2. I wouldn’t have the microSD card slot I need, so I’d have to investigate offline storage via Bluetooth or WiFi.

Or I can also say the hell with it and go for the cheap-ass Insignia Flex Elite 7.85 with its regrettable battery life.

Or maybe the mythical Nexus 8 from Colorfly and Google will happen after all. But would it have a microSD card slot? Nexus branded devices tend not to.

I haven’t made any final decision yet, but since others sometimes read these posts for their own buying decisions, I wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention.

Same-day update: It turns out the new Mini 4 does not have the guts of the iPad Air 2. It’ll use the A8 CPU, not the A8x CPU of the Air 2. Which means I’ll have to go through an entire new round of Google Books PDF tests on the beast.

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Ausdom m06 headphone unboxing!

Onkyo scores first properly wireless Bluetooth earphones with W800BT model

When wireless earphones started appearing it took a while to get over the jarring feeling that the connecting wire didn’t actually make them what we wanted them to be.

Now we’ve all got used to wireless earphones having at least one wire, Onkyo’s come along and announced the first properly wireless set of earphones – the Bluetooth W800BT.
These earphones work independently and the right earbud carries a mic for calls.

They come with a USB charging case with a built-in battery and offer 12 hours playback.

Sound is blasted through Ø8.6mm neodymium drivers with a with a range of 20Hz-20kHz and a sensitivity of 100dB.

They will be out in Europe in November and will cost €300 (US$335).

Now comes a new peril… the terror of losing just one earbud.

Via pocket-lint

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Elephone M2 images and specifications surface

Last month were reported that Elephone plans to launch business M series of smartphones, and brought you the images and specifications of the Elephone M1. Today we managed to get hold of images and specifications of the Elephone M2 smartphone that will have a metal unibody design and 7.35mm thickness. It is also said to come with a fingerprint sensor. The design of the M2 is similar to the M1.

The Elephone M2 will come with a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, will be powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor clocked at 1.5GHz with Mali-T720 GPU, pack 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage with expansion slot,  run on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS, come with a 13MP auto focus camera with LED Flash, Sony IMX214 sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 5MP front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture, 4G LTE support and a 2500mAh built-in battery.

The Elephone M2 will come in Gold and Black colors. There’s no word on the pricing just yet, but we will know more about it when the smartphone goes official.

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Let’s Compare iPad Mini And Clones Weights

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In my time holding the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook Edition at Barnes & Noble, I realized that I’d be holding one of these tablets for a lonnnng time while reading.

So I thought I’d investigate weight.

These weights are for WiFi-only versions, except for the Archos Diamond Tab which has 3/4G included by default:

How low will the upcoming “iPad Mini Air” go in terms of weight?

How soon before an iPad Mini-sized tablet is the weight of a Kindle?

And can a Kindle get lighter?

Note that the iPhone 6 Plus weighs less than a Kindle Voyage: 6.07 ounces (172 grams).

As a point of comparison, Don Linn kindly weighed a fat mass-market paperback for me, John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor (what he had handy). It’s 0.8 pounds. That’s 12.80 ounces.

So tablets are already below the range of fat paperbacks I’ve read in the past, such as Dune and Atlas Shrugged.

How long before they’re as light as an Og Mandino mass-market paperback? Amazon lists The Greatest Secret in the World with a shipping weight of 2.40 ounces (68 grams). That’s still lighter than a Kindle.

In my research, I found it odd that there’s no chart showing the weights of mass-market paperbacks. Seems someone somewhere slipped up in Marketing.

Created in 2007, a bit dated, and this version of the video with subtitles begins after about a minute of dark screen (fast forward):

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