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Deciding on a Win8 Tablet

I have made up my mind that I want to upgrade from my old iPad 2 to an x86 Win8 tablet, but I have been trying to decide which one to get. The Surface Pro 2 looks nice, but the battery life seems a bit lacking from reviews that I have seen, and Bay Trail seems to be reasonably powerful for a cheaper cost and longer life, but I'm still unsure. The main reason I want a Win8 tablet is PC gaming. I know I won't be able to run games anywhere near the highest settings; I just want to run them, period. Would Bay Trail suffice, or do I need an i-series processor to get reasonable gaming capability? Second, I want the tablet to have a digitizer & stylus. I have been totally spoiled by my Galaxy Note 2, and now I use it to take notes in all my classes, but would appreciate the extra screen real estate. As for price, I don't want to spend over a grand for a tablet, as I already have a primary Windows machine. I would like the tablet to get at least 6 hours of battery (The Acer Iconia W700 originally caught my eye thanks to its 8 hours), since I'm used to iPad-length use and would like to have something that can at least manage 3/4ths of that. The Dell Latitude 11 looks promising, but with no confirmation on a US release date nor the cost of options, I'm not sure if it is worth the wait. Opinions?

I have an intel core i3 laptop running at 1.8ghz with the default intel HD4000 graphics. Runs BF3 on minimum *just* and skyrim with a config hack. I doubt baytrail will run either one at all sadly. Surface pro will definitely run both (and thanks to the updated graphics may not require the config hack, if not all you need is notepad to fix skyrim), its more powerful than my laptop is, just lacking in battery department as you say and rather expensive.
I would perhaps look on youtube for when people start posting their own unboxing videos and ask them *nicely* if they could test X program. Youtube user robaxx did a few demos of user requests with his clovertrail device.
If gaming wasnt a requirement baytrail would probably be overqualified immediately. The old atom chips from netbooks were quite happy with office and visual studio etc, VLC even seems capable of decoding 1080p video on my brothers 1.3ghz netbook (however he only has a 1024*600 screen or something so it certainly doesnt play at 1080p, the video file is natively 1080p). However minecraft with the optifine mod still only squeezes 15fps on both tiny and short render (seriously, same on both distances, weird).

I have this one and absolutely love it. It's a little bulkier than the Surface but runs really well. The only minor complaint I have is that the screen prevents you from viewing from multiple angles (basically the screen gets dark when looking at it from the side).
Otherwise, it's fantastic! I use it as a tablet most of the time, but having the option to connect to a keyboard with an extra battery and USB/HDMI ports really comes in handy.
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What is The Best Windows 8 Tablet

What is The Best Windows 8 Tablet Out there ?

Meaningless and pointless question. What do you prioritize in a tablet? What defines "best" to you?
Display resolution? You can get anything from 1024x600 netbook screens to nearly 4k screens.
Battery life? All over the place, anything from ~4 hours to well over 10.
Weight? Also a huge range, mostly but not completely tied to size and keyboard options.
Display size? Anything from 8" to 17" is available, all suited to different use cases.
Durability? The Surface line is amazingly tough, but there are some other good ones.
Software? Most will come with Office, some have Pro versions of Win8 though (and of course there's still RT as well).
Performance? Anything from a POS Atom to a beefy i7 (with the occasional AMD chip in there, and of course some ARM ones for RT).
Memory? 2GB to 8, maybe even 16, is available; some really cheap ones might only have 1GB.
Storage? You can get 32GB, or you can get 512GB, or lots of other options. Then there's SD slots...
Peripherals? Most have at least one USB port, but it may not be full-size. Some have multiple USB and/or video ports too.
Keyboard? Some have it built-in (but folds away), some it's detachable (and often optional), some don't have one at all.
Connectivity? WiFi and Bluetooth are givens, but some have better radios than others. Cellular is another kettle of fish.
Sensors? Some have GPS, some have compass, some have other stuff, some don't...
Camera? Most will have a front-facing, a few have rear, and quality varies widely.
Price? Anywhere from $100 to $2000, and probably a bit outside that on either end if you look hard enough.
Now, if your question was "What's the best Win8 tablet I can get for $800, it's gotta have features X, Y, and Z?" or "What's the cheapest 14" Windows tablet with at least 1920x1080 resolution?" or "Which Win8 tablet has the best battery life, among those which have a better-than-Atom CPU?" or something like that, somebody may be able to help you...

thanks for reply>>>>actually I want high performance small tablet with good battery life "That easy to work with in things like programming,3d designing " outside home >>>>>>>>>

Windows is not good system for tablet or phone.

May be now Windows is not in trend for Phones, as a system.
But it has great perspectives!

The best mix of size, battery life, and performance that I know of in a Windows tablet is probably a Surface Pro 3, though if you don't mind / want the smaller screen (and keyboard) the SP2 is still reasonable (and a bit cheaper). If you want something good for coding and 3D work of any kind, you'll want a fair bit of RAM, so you probably want one of the top two or three models in SP3 line. Note that they don't have dedicated graphics chips though, which will impact rendering performance if you do that kind of 3D work (CAD is fine, CGI will be slow). You're unlikely to find a small Win8 tablet with dedicated graphics, though depending on your definition of "small" (and your budget) you may find something.
The Lenovo Yoga line is pretty darn good, but the keyboard folds away instead of detaching and the battery life (at least on my Yoga 2 Pro) is only around 5-6 hours. That's not awful but nothing to write home about by tablet standards.

Jide REMIX Ultra Tablet Hands-on: Android at its best

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The predominant tablet trend nowadays maybe towards being lighter, slimmer, squarer and smaller. That’s why we’ve seen lots of compact tablets such as the iPad mini, the Google Nexus 9, the Nokia N1 tablet and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 being released. However, Jide, a technology company based in Beijing, is going the opposite direction. It recently released an 11.6-inch tablet called the REMIX Ultra, which is also the tablet we’re reviewing today.
If you haven’t heard of Jide Technology, it is a software company founded by three ex-Google engineers with a mission to unlock the potential of Android in order to accelerate a new age of computing. According to Jide, their vision is to make Android a more productive operating system that may someday be introduced to our PCs, and REMIX OS is the key to that vision.
After testing the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet, it’s easy to conclude that it is the closest thing available to replace both your tablet and your ultrabook. That said, the relatively high price could be a sore spot for many users on the fence deciding between it and a notebook — the suggested price for the 64GB version of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet is $439 (with keyboard included).
Jide REMIX Ultra Tablet Specs
OS: REMIX OS 1.5 (on top of Android 5.0.2)
Display: 11.6-inch IPS, 10-point multi-touch, IGZO
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
Processor: Nvidia Tegra 4 (1.8GHZ quad-core Cortex-A15 CPU, plus a 2nd Generation Battery Saver Core, GeForce GPU with 72 custom cores)
RAM / Storage: 2GB / 64GB
Function: WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, OTG
WiFi: 2.4G/5G dual band, 802.11 b/g/n
Camera: 5MP back camera, 5MP front camera
Battery: 8,100mAh
Extend Port: Micro SD card slot, Micro USB port, 3.5mm headphone Jack, 4-contact charging port, 6-contact keyboard connector
Weight & Size: 860g / 189 x 295 x 9.5 mm
Retail Package
The REMIX Ultra tablet is shipped with a very well-designed box, inside you will find a tablet, a keyboard, a charger, an OTG adapter, a screen protector, a user manual and a warranty card.
There is also a poster saying “For those revolutionaries that will shape tomorrow”, which demonstrates the vision of Jide and their products.
Design and build
The front is dominated by an 11.6-inch screen, with relatively big bezel to rest your fingers on, whether you hold the tablet in portrait or landscape. Above the display is a 5MP front-facing camera capable of 720P video recording, below the display you will find a home button.
The power/standby key is located on the top side of the tablet, while the volume rocker is hosted on the left side. The silver frame around makes it easier for users to distinguish the buttons.
The right side plays host to a Micro USB port, a 3.5mm audio jack, a charging indicator, a 4 contact magnetic charging port.
The AAC speakers are hosted on the left and right side, which helps to output stereo sound.
A 6 contact magnetic docking for connecting with the keyboard is located on the bottom side.
The rear side of the tablet is made of high-quality aluminum alloy, coated in red or silver so it has a fashionable appeal to it, instead of looking like another piece of cold, black technology.
Like the Microsoft Surface series, the REMIX Ultra has a kickstand, which helps the tablet to stand on your table or lap. The kickstand can open to two different angles, the first setting (40 degrees) is ideal for typing and productivity work when the tablet is on a table, the second (80 degrees) is better for watching videos while the tablet is sitting on your lap.
There is a Micro SD card slot on the back of the tablet, right under the kickstand. Which means you can have 128GB external storage on top of the 16GB/64GB internal storage.
Measured at 189 x 295 x 9.5 mm, and weighs 860g, the REMIX Ultra tablet is big, heavy and thick by today’s tablet standards. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, which is also a big tablet, measures 6.6mm thick and weighs only 465g. And the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, with a larger display, is a lot slimmer and lighter (204 x 295.6 x 7.95 mm, 740g). Even when compared to business-ready Windows tablets such as the Surface Pro 3 (201.4 x 292.1 x 9.1mm, 800g) and the Cube i7 (297*180*9.1mm, 840g), the REMIX Ultra doesn’t have an edge in portability.
While the design of the Jide REMIX Ultra isn’t the most eye-catching or attractive, it’s functional with easy to hold sides and a decent amount of grip. Manufactured by Foxconn, the build quality of the slate is extremely good, too. No matter how much you twist or squeeze the tablet’s chassis, there’s barely any flex to be found.
Keyboard
A keyboard is included in the retail package of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet. Once attached magnetically to the REMIX Ultra, the keyboard instantly turns the tablet into an ultrabook. The REMIX Ultra keyboard itself looks very much like the Surface Type Cover, it is both a tablet cover and a keyboard. It is very nicely designed, with ideal space between the keys (19.02mm). The keyboard also offers decent key travel (1.2mm), which gives you tactile feedback when you type.
The keyboard also has a small touchpad in its front, but unfortunately the left and right mouse buttons aren’t integrated into the touchpad, so it fails to offer the real mousing experience which many users would prefer.
In actual use, the REMIX Ultra keyboard feels much more comfortable than the Surface Touch Cover and the Bluetooth keyboard cover for the Acer ICONIA W700, on par with the Surface Type Cover. It won’t take long for you to reach your top typing speed. With that said, I still prefer the keyboard base for the Cube i7 REMIX because it looks and feels more like a traditional keyboard.
Display and sound
The 11.6-inch screen on this big tablet from Jide is an IPS panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, providing a pixel density of 189 PPI.
This is nowhere near the highest pixel density we have seen on top Android tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro and Tab S, but still comes close to the point where it is almost impossible to single out individual pixels at a glance.
Quality of the REMIX Ultra’s display is extremely good. Viewing angles are wide, colors accurate, and although it isn’t the brightest display we’ve seen on a tablet, it still has decent outdoor visibility.
While most tablets, especially those from Chinese brands, produce dull, tinny sound from their built-in speakers, the REMIX Ultra tablet offers an above-average performance in the audio department. Not only is the sound more audible, it also has more texture to it. Playing Toni Braxton’s “Spanish Guitar”, I could hear a lot of detail with instrument separation. However, it is still no match for the Galaxy tab Pro 8.4 or iPad Air in terms of volume and bass.
When we plugged in a Monster Inspiration on-ear headphone, the REMIX Ultra was able to drive it at an ear-splitting level. Generally, the built-in speakers are okay for watching YouTube feeds in a quiet room, but headphones are recommended for music and movies.
System and UI
How do you fit 11.6 inches of Android tablet into your daily life? That’s a question Jide and its partners must have pondered at some point during designing the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet, a device that stretches the upper limits of what we usually call a tablet. But the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet is no ordinary Android slate, it offers the users an experience that’s utterly different from what your average android tablets could bring to the table.
The Jide REMIX Ultra ships with REMIX OS, a heavily customized skin on top of Android OS. We often say that we prefer the stock Android UI because most of customized skins have abundant animations and unnecessary features which slow down the overall performance. But with the REMIX OS, it is a different matter.
REMIX OS transforms the ordinary Android experience from head to toe. It feels more like a combination of iOS, Android, Chrome OS and Windows 8. The current version of REMIX OS (REMIX OS 1.5) is built on Android 5.0 with a planned update to 5.1. The REMIX homescreens look very much like iOS, all the applications appear on the homescreen, and there is no widget support. For many of us who are used to checking the weather, the calendar and the latest news in widgets, this can be slightly disappointing.
The Android navigation bar has become a Windows-like taskbar with pinnable apps, an application drawer, a back button and a home button on the left, as well as a multi-purpose Jide button on the right. You can sort the apps in the application drawers by alphabetic, date updated or usage, you can also search for the app you want to open.
The multi-purpose Jide button can be used to switch between full screen and phone size (for multitasking), and can also be used to clear the memory.
Swiping down from proportion of the display opens the semi-transparent screen which includes the most common settings and notifications. Swiping up then this screen will be swiped off the display.
Jide has also added some right-click menus to the REMIX OS for better mouse support. This greatly enhances the usability and productivity of the tablet.
Icons for the apps currently running will show up in the taskbar. You can switch between running apps by tapping the icons.
If you’re using a full-screen app, the taskbar will hide itself to enhance the real full-screen experience. But whenever you need it, you can bring it up by simply double tapping the screen or swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
Most apps in phone mode are resized to look like they’re running on a smartphone screen. You can fit 2 or 3 apps side-by-side in landscape mode (4 or 5 is also possible if you don’t mind the overlapping).
The windows for the active apps are not resizable by default, but you can enable the “resize window” function to make them resizable by dragging the bottom right hand corner.
When an app is running in phone mode, you can tap the “stick to front” icon to prevent other apps from overlapping it, you can also tap the “minimize” icon to make the app window disappear into the background.
Closing a running application is also extremely easy on the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet. You can drag its icon out of the taskbar, or tap the “x” icon at the top of the app window (in phone mode), or hit the multi-purpose button to bring up a menu with a “Quit App” option.
It is also possible to have an app running in a phone mode in front of an app in full-screen mode. I often stick a social networking app running in phone mode while playing a video underneath in full-screen.
The Jide REMIX Ultra is marketed as a business tablet, and some applications are indeed customized to offer more productivity than ordinary Android tablets. The mail app is designed to work like the email system on Windows 8, with a pop-up writing box. You can even copy text from other mails or other applications on top and then paste it into the writing box.
The file manager also makes interacting with files much easier than with the stock Android file app.
The screen shot function lets you choose the area you want to capture as an image.
The preinstalled WPS office suite is very useful for reading and some simple editing, but if you want to compare it to the fully-featured Microsoft Office for Windows, you will certainly be disappointed.
You could also install Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel for Android from Google Play, but they may be even less useful than WPS when it comes to productivity.
As a whole, REMIX OS is a huge step forward for Android OS. It lets you do just about anything you could do with a normal Android tablet, but it adds support for Windows-like multitasking, right-click menus and also other customized features to enhance productivity. Personally, I would say that I have never been a fan of any customized Android skin before, but now I am a huge fan of REMIX OS.
Performance
The Jide REMIX Ultra is powered by a 1.8GHZ Nvidia Tegra 4 processor and 2GB RAM. The Tegra 4 processor harnesses four mighty ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores, plus a second-generation battery-saver core, to deliver both performance and battery life. The reason why Jide has chosen a more dated version of Tegra processor over the latest Tegra K1 may be to keep the tablet from getting over-heated. As the Tegra K1 powered tablets such as the Xiaomi Mi Pad and the Nexus 9 are both reported to get extremely hot handling heavy tasks.
General performance of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet is strong, if nothing especially impressive. Navigating through the home screens is smooth, opening applications is fast, browsing pics in the gallery app is also extremely snappy, every picture slides in and appears instantaneously or close to it. Videos look good, too, and, like photos, playback begins just as you tap the play button. Graphics-intensive websites load fast, almost on par with the Apple iPad Air2. Working on an office program while playing an HD video in the foreground, the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet still remains perfectly responsive.
If benchmarks are more convincing to you, we’ve listed the benchmark scores of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet above, along with the scores of other tablets for comparison. It is clear that the Jide REMIX Ultra fares pretty well against other high-end Android tablets.
I do have detected some stutters and pauses when there are several big applications running in the foreground in phone mode, but it can be expected as tablets and smartphones with even the most cutting-edge specs also struggle with heavy multi-tasking.
Connectivity
The Jide REMIX Ultra tablet offers lots of connectivity options. It features Wi-Fi a/b/g/n support, with 2.4GHz and 5GHz band compatibility. Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA support are also available. Bluetooth 4.0 is on board to take care of local data transfer.
There is a micro SD card slot as well, on top of the 64GB of internal storage. The micro USB port on the side supports USB on the go, and can host all kinds of input and storage devices, including my 500GB mobile hard drive.
Unfortunately, the Jide REMIX Ultra doesn’t have an HDMI port, nor does it support MHL, which is quite a disappointment.
Battery life
The REMIX Ultra packs an 8,100mAh Lithium polymer battery, which isn’t really big for a tablet this size. Even with the help of the efficient power management of the Nvidia Tegra 4 processor, the battery life of the REMIX Ultra is underwhelming.
In our standard cngadget battery rundown test, we loop a 1080P video on the REMIX Ultra with 50% of screen brightness and 50% of volume through the built-in speakers, the tablet lasted 7 hours and 37 minutes until automatic shutdown. This is no match for the 12 hours and 11 hours we got respectively from the iPad Air and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, and puts the Jide REMIX Ultra in the middle of our rankings.
In the real world use, the Jide REMIX Ultra didn’t live up to our expectations, either, especially as we tended to do more multi-tasking on the REMIX Ultra than we did with average Android tablet. With some Youtube feeds, some social internet, some typing with the keyboard attached, some gaming and internet browsing, we were constantly left with 30% – 40% of battery life at the end of the day. So for moderate to heavy users, charging on a daily basis is needed.
Cameras
Like all tablets nowadays, the REMIX Ultra has dual cameras, a 5MP front-facing camera and a 5MP main camera on the back. While the front-facing camera is nice enough for video-chatting on Skype and Wechat, you won’t want to use it for selfies. The rear-facing camera can take Okay photos when there is decent lighting, but who would use such a gigantic device to take pictures?
Photo taken by the front-facing camera
Photos taken by the rear-facing camera
Conclusion
Just when we begin to lose interest in Android OS on tablets, the Jide REMIX Ultra arrives with flying colors. It’s amazing that Jide has managed to build such a premium looking and wonderfully versatile tablet out of the REMIX Ultra, we have never seen an Android tablet more solid, more productive, or more laptop-like. This is truly hands-down one of the best tablets out there.
However, Like many products that try to be two things at once, the REMIX Ultra does neither as well as those designed for one function, and we really have a hard time trying to figure out what kind of users the device is marketing towards. It may have surpassed most of the Android tablets and iPads in terms of performance and productivity, but it is still nowhere near what high-end Windows tablets when it comes to handling business tasks. It does have access to all the applications in Google Play, but its size and weight become a real burden when we try to use it as a media-consuming device.
The REMIX OS is not perfect, either. Running several applications in windows is indeed very cool, but whenever you want to switch a running application from phone mode to full screen, or the other way around, the app has to go through being closed and then reopened, instead of just zooming in and out like it is accomplished on the LG Optimus UI.
Besides their very own REMIX Ultra tablet, Jide has also been releasing REMIX OS ROMs for popular tablets such as the Nexus 10, Nexus 9 and Xiaomi Mi Pad. They are also working closely with major Chinese tablet brands like Cube and Onda to release tablets shipped with REMIX OS.
Final verdict
The Jide REMIX Ultra is nicely designed, well-built and provides users with arguably the best Android experience on a tablet, it could easily replace your chrome book, iPad or Galaxy Tab. However, if you want it to offer as much productivity as the ultrabooks and tablets with full Windows system, you will be disappointed.
Also, at $439, the REMIX Ultra tablet is certainly priced much higher than average Android tablets from China: the Cube i7 REMIX, which runs the same REMIX OS, is priced at $225 with a keyboard base included; the Teclast T98 4G, which features a beefier processor and 4G support, is also priced at only $225. Even compared to some Core-M powered Windows tablets such as the Cube i7 Stylus ($338) and the ONDA V919 3G Core M ($322), the REMIX Ultra doesn’t have an edge in the price department.
Even if Jide fails to sell the REMIX Ultra tablet, REMIX OS is here to stay. With Jide furthering its partnership with other tablet manufacturers, we will certainly see more tablets running this amazing Android skin in the coming months.

This tablet looks like the don! I will definitely look to invest in this!
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f0xy said:
This tablet looks like the don! I will definitely look to invest in this!
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Thanks for reading it!

up up up...?, one of the best tablets ever made.
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f0xy said:
This tablet looks like the don! I will definitely look to invest in this!
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You can buy this on Kickstarter for $359 + $40 delivery with the Remix Mini (basically an android computer in a small box with hdmi output/etc)
Has already been funded, but can still make pledges for the next 50 hours and it turns out to be about the same price as buying the Ultra Tablet on its own but with the added benefit of a complete computer replacement
Definitely worth it, I bought one.
They start shipping in October.
Here's a link if anyone is interested.
Actually I found this link due to an XDA News article about current kickstarter campaigns.. So thanks XDA! AGAIN!

Stevles said:
You can buy this on Kickstarter for $359 + $40 delivery with the Remix Mini (basically an android computer in a small box with hdmi output/etc)
Has already been funded, but can still make pledges for the next 50 hours and it turns out to be about the same price as buying the Ultra Tablet on its own but with the added benefit of a complete computer replacement
Definitely worth it, I bought one.
They start shipping in October.
Here's a link if anyone is interested.
Actually I found this link due to an XDA News article about current kickstarter campaigns.. So thanks XDA! AGAIN!
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i bought one as well
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jupiter2012 said:
i bought one as well
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Good to hear, it's fantastic value. Even with the USD to AUD conversion it's $560 (ish) which isn't even enough for a single base model iPad
Probably is enough for a terrible and cheap android tablet.. But who wants that?

Stevles said:
Good to hear, it's fantastic value. Even with the USD to AUD conversion it's $560 (ish) which isn't even enough for a single base model iPad [emoji14]
Probably is enough for a terrible and cheap android tablet.. But who wants that?
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I mean, I ordered the REMIX mini.
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Hope that more people could read this review, it really took me a lot of effort in writing it.

this is a great review, but i didn't see a section pertaining to how games run on it? with only 2 GB of ram can it keep up even with background tasks?

Hey @jupiter2012 your images are broken. Can you fix them, please?

I just bought a used one recently, because I got aatracted by the hype. Long story short, it has its niche for me, but it's definitely just a very, very mediocre device. I desperately hate remix os except for the taskbar and heavily modified it with apex launcher. This will probably my first and last device from Jide. Also the hacking opportunities here or elsewhere are almost non-existent. So to me, it's rather a disappointment, but I am looking forward making the best out of it.

Your review
Very much enjoyed your:good::good: review. I recently bought mine after 5 years of Transformers. It is an incredible device and now on v 2.0 it is even better. Thanks/
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The predominant tablet trend nowadays maybe towards being lighter, slimmer, squarer and smaller. That’s why we’ve seen lots of compact tablets such as the iPad mini, the Google Nexus 9, the Nokia N1 tablet and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 being released. However, Jide, a technology company based in Beijing, is going the opposite direction. It recently released an 11.6-inch tablet called the REMIX Ultra, which is also the tablet we’re reviewing today.
If you haven’t heard of Jide Technology, it is a software company founded by three ex-Google engineers with a mission to unlock the potential of Android in order to accelerate a new age of computing. According to Jide, their vision is to make Android a more productive operating system that may someday be introduced to our PCs, and REMIX OS is the key to that vision.
After testing the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet, it’s easy to conclude that it is the closest thing available to replace both your tablet and your ultrabook. That said, the relatively high price could be a sore spot for many users on the fence deciding between it and a notebook — the suggested price for the 64GB version of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet is $439 (with keyboard included).
Jide REMIX Ultra Tablet Specs
OS: REMIX OS 1.5 (on top of Android 5.0.2)
Display: 11.6-inch IPS, 10-point multi-touch, IGZO
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
Processor: Nvidia Tegra 4 (1.8GHZ quad-core Cortex-A15 CPU, plus a 2nd Generation Battery Saver Core, GeForce GPU with 72 custom cores)
RAM / Storage: 2GB / 64GB
Function: WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, OTG
WiFi: 2.4G/5G dual band, 802.11 b/g/n
Camera: 5MP back camera, 5MP front camera
Battery: 8,100mAh
Extend Port: Micro SD card slot, Micro USB port, 3.5mm headphone Jack, 4-contact charging port, 6-contact keyboard connector
Weight & Size: 860g / 189 x 295 x 9.5 mm
Retail Package
The REMIX Ultra tablet is shipped with a very well-designed box, inside you will find a tablet, a keyboard, a charger, an OTG adapter, a screen protector, a user manual and a warranty card.
There is also a poster saying “For those revolutionaries that will shape tomorrow”, which demonstrates the vision of Jide and their products.
Design and build
The front is dominated by an 11.6-inch screen, with relatively big bezel to rest your fingers on, whether you hold the tablet in portrait or landscape. Above the display is a 5MP front-facing camera capable of 720P video recording, below the display you will find a home button.
The power/standby key is located on the top side of the tablet, while the volume rocker is hosted on the left side. The silver frame around makes it easier for users to distinguish the buttons.
The right side plays host to a Micro USB port, a 3.5mm audio jack, a charging indicator, a 4 contact magnetic charging port.
The AAC speakers are hosted on the left and right side, which helps to output stereo sound.
A 6 contact magnetic docking for connecting with the keyboard is located on the bottom side.
The rear side of the tablet is made of high-quality aluminum alloy, coated in red or silver so it has a fashionable appeal to it, instead of looking like another piece of cold, black technology.
Like the Microsoft Surface series, the REMIX Ultra has a kickstand, which helps the tablet to stand on your table or lap. The kickstand can open to two different angles, the first setting (40 degrees) is ideal for typing and productivity work when the tablet is on a table, the second (80 degrees) is better for watching videos while the tablet is sitting on your lap.
There is a Micro SD card slot on the back of the tablet, right under the kickstand. Which means you can have 128GB external storage on top of the 16GB/64GB internal storage.
Measured at 189 x 295 x 9.5 mm, and weighs 860g, the REMIX Ultra tablet is big, heavy and thick by today’s tablet standards. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, which is also a big tablet, measures 6.6mm thick and weighs only 465g. And the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, with a larger display, is a lot slimmer and lighter (204 x 295.6 x 7.95 mm, 740g). Even when compared to business-ready Windows tablets such as the Surface Pro 3 (201.4 x 292.1 x 9.1mm, 800g) and the Cube i7 (297*180*9.1mm, 840g), the REMIX Ultra doesn’t have an edge in portability.
While the design of the Jide REMIX Ultra isn’t the most eye-catching or attractive, it’s functional with easy to hold sides and a decent amount of grip. Manufactured by Foxconn, the build quality of the slate is extremely good, too. No matter how much you twist or squeeze the tablet’s chassis, there’s barely any flex to be found.
Keyboard
A keyboard is included in the retail package of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet. Once attached magnetically to the REMIX Ultra, the keyboard instantly turns the tablet into an ultrabook. The REMIX Ultra keyboard itself looks very much like the Surface Type Cover, it is both a tablet cover and a keyboard. It is very nicely designed, with ideal space between the keys (19.02mm). The keyboard also offers decent key travel (1.2mm), which gives you tactile feedback when you type.
The keyboard also has a small touchpad in its front, but unfortunately the left and right mouse buttons aren’t integrated into the touchpad, so it fails to offer the real mousing experience which many users would prefer.
In actual use, the REMIX Ultra keyboard feels much more comfortable than the Surface Touch Cover and the Bluetooth keyboard cover for the Acer ICONIA W700, on par with the Surface Type Cover. It won’t take long for you to reach your top typing speed. With that said, I still prefer the keyboard base for the Cube i7 REMIX because it looks and feels more like a traditional keyboard.
Display and sound
The 11.6-inch screen on this big tablet from Jide is an IPS panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, providing a pixel density of 189 PPI.
This is nowhere near the highest pixel density we have seen on top Android tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro and Tab S, but still comes close to the point where it is almost impossible to single out individual pixels at a glance.
Quality of the REMIX Ultra’s display is extremely good. Viewing angles are wide, colors accurate, and although it isn’t the brightest display we’ve seen on a tablet, it still has decent outdoor visibility.
While most tablets, especially those from Chinese brands, produce dull, tinny sound from their built-in speakers, the REMIX Ultra tablet offers an above-average performance in the audio department. Not only is the sound more audible, it also has more texture to it. Playing Toni Braxton’s “Spanish Guitar”, I could hear a lot of detail with instrument separation. However, it is still no match for the Galaxy tab Pro 8.4 or iPad Air in terms of volume and bass.
When we plugged in a Monster Inspiration on-ear headphone, the REMIX Ultra was able to drive it at an ear-splitting level. Generally, the built-in speakers are okay for watching YouTube feeds in a quiet room, but headphones are recommended for music and movies.
System and UI
How do you fit 11.6 inches of Android tablet into your daily life? That’s a question Jide and its partners must have pondered at some point during designing the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet, a device that stretches the upper limits of what we usually call a tablet. But the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet is no ordinary Android slate, it offers the users an experience that’s utterly different from what your average android tablets could bring to the table.
The Jide REMIX Ultra ships with REMIX OS, a heavily customized skin on top of Android OS. We often say that we prefer the stock Android UI because most of customized skins have abundant animations and unnecessary features which slow down the overall performance. But with the REMIX OS, it is a different matter.
REMIX OS transforms the ordinary Android experience from head to toe. It feels more like a combination of iOS, Android, Chrome OS and Windows 8. The current version of REMIX OS (REMIX OS 1.5) is built on Android 5.0 with a planned update to 5.1. The REMIX homescreens look very much like iOS, all the applications appear on the homescreen, and there is no widget support. For many of us who are used to checking the weather, the calendar and the latest news in widgets, this can be slightly disappointing.
The Android navigation bar has become a Windows-like taskbar with pinnable apps, an application drawer, a back button and a home button on the left, as well as a multi-purpose Jide button on the right. You can sort the apps in the application drawers by alphabetic, date updated or usage, you can also search for the app you want to open.
The multi-purpose Jide button can be used to switch between full screen and phone size (for multitasking), and can also be used to clear the memory.
Swiping down from proportion of the display opens the semi-transparent screen which includes the most common settings and notifications. Swiping up then this screen will be swiped off the display.
Jide has also added some right-click menus to the REMIX OS for better mouse support. This greatly enhances the usability and productivity of the tablet.
Icons for the apps currently running will show up in the taskbar. You can switch between running apps by tapping the icons.
If you’re using a full-screen app, the taskbar will hide itself to enhance the real full-screen experience. But whenever you need it, you can bring it up by simply double tapping the screen or swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
Most apps in phone mode are resized to look like they’re running on a smartphone screen. You can fit 2 or 3 apps side-by-side in landscape mode (4 or 5 is also possible if you don’t mind the overlapping).
The windows for the active apps are not resizable by default, but you can enable the “resize window” function to make them resizable by dragging the bottom right hand corner.
When an app is running in phone mode, you can tap the “stick to front” icon to prevent other apps from overlapping it, you can also tap the “minimize” icon to make the app window disappear into the background.
Closing a running application is also extremely easy on the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet. You can drag its icon out of the taskbar, or tap the “x” icon at the top of the app window (in phone mode), or hit the multi-purpose button to bring up a menu with a “Quit App” option.
It is also possible to have an app running in a phone mode in front of an app in full-screen mode. I often stick a social networking app running in phone mode while playing a video underneath in full-screen.
The Jide REMIX Ultra is marketed as a business tablet, and some applications are indeed customized to offer more productivity than ordinary Android tablets. The mail app is designed to work like the email system on Windows 8, with a pop-up writing box. You can even copy text from other mails or other applications on top and then paste it into the writing box.
The file manager also makes interacting with files much easier than with the stock Android file app.
The screen shot function lets you choose the area you want to capture as an image.
The preinstalled WPS office suite is very useful for reading and some simple editing, but if you want to compare it to the fully-featured Microsoft Office for Windows, you will certainly be disappointed.
You could also install Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel for Android from Google Play, but they may be even less useful than WPS when it comes to productivity.
As a whole, REMIX OS is a huge step forward for Android OS. It lets you do just about anything you could do with a normal Android tablet, but it adds support for Windows-like multitasking, right-click menus and also other customized features to enhance productivity. Personally, I would say that I have never been a fan of any customized Android skin before, but now I am a huge fan of REMIX OS.
Performance
The Jide REMIX Ultra is powered by a 1.8GHZ Nvidia Tegra 4 processor and 2GB RAM. The Tegra 4 processor harnesses four mighty ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores, plus a second-generation battery-saver core, to deliver both performance and battery life. The reason why Jide has chosen a more dated version of Tegra processor over the latest Tegra K1 may be to keep the tablet from getting over-heated. As the Tegra K1 powered tablets such as the Xiaomi Mi Pad and the Nexus 9 are both reported to get extremely hot handling heavy tasks.
General performance of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet is strong, if nothing especially impressive. Navigating through the home screens is smooth, opening applications is fast, browsing pics in the gallery app is also extremely snappy, every picture slides in and appears instantaneously or close to it. Videos look good, too, and, like photos, playback begins just as you tap the play button. Graphics-intensive websites load fast, almost on par with the Apple iPad Air2. Working on an office program while playing an HD video in the foreground, the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet still remains perfectly responsive.
If benchmarks are more convincing to you, we’ve listed the benchmark scores of the Jide REMIX Ultra tablet above, along with the scores of other tablets for comparison. It is clear that the Jide REMIX Ultra fares pretty well against other high-end Android tablets.
I do have detected some stutters and pauses when there are several big applications running in the foreground in phone mode, but it can be expected as tablets and smartphones with even the most cutting-edge specs also struggle with heavy multi-tasking.
Connectivity
The Jide REMIX Ultra tablet offers lots of connectivity options. It features Wi-Fi a/b/g/n support, with 2.4GHz and 5GHz band compatibility. Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA support are also available. Bluetooth 4.0 is on board to take care of local data transfer.
There is a micro SD card slot as well, on top of the 64GB of internal storage. The micro USB port on the side supports USB on the go, and can host all kinds of input and storage devices, including my 500GB mobile hard drive.
Unfortunately, the Jide REMIX Ultra doesn’t have an HDMI port, nor does it support MHL, which is quite a disappointment.
Battery life
The REMIX Ultra packs an 8,100mAh Lithium polymer battery, which isn’t really big for a tablet this size. Even with the help of the efficient power management of the Nvidia Tegra 4 processor, the battery life of the REMIX Ultra is underwhelming.
In our standard cngadget battery rundown test, we loop a 1080P video on the REMIX Ultra with 50% of screen brightness and 50% of volume through the built-in speakers, the tablet lasted 7 hours and 37 minutes until automatic shutdown. This is no match for the 12 hours and 11 hours we got respectively from the iPad Air and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, and puts the Jide REMIX Ultra in the middle of our rankings.
In the real world use, the Jide REMIX Ultra didn’t live up to our expectations, either, especially as we tended to do more multi-tasking on the REMIX Ultra than we did with average Android tablet. With some Youtube feeds, some social internet, some typing with the keyboard attached, some gaming and internet browsing, we were constantly left with 30% – 40% of battery life at the end of the day. So for moderate to heavy users, charging on a daily basis is needed.
Cameras
Like all tablets nowadays, the REMIX Ultra has dual cameras, a 5MP front-facing camera and a 5MP main camera on the back. While the front-facing camera is nice enough for video-chatting on Skype and Wechat, you won’t want to use it for selfies. The rear-facing camera can take Okay photos when there is decent lighting, but who would use such a gigantic device to take pictures?
Photo taken by the front-facing camera
Photos taken by the rear-facing camera
Conclusion
Just when we begin to lose interest in Android OS on tablets, the Jide REMIX Ultra arrives with flying colors. It’s amazing that Jide has managed to build such a premium looking and wonderfully versatile tablet out of the REMIX Ultra, we have never seen an Android tablet more solid, more productive, or more laptop-like. This is truly hands-down one of the best tablets out there.
However, Like many products that try to be two things at once, the REMIX Ultra does neither as well as those designed for one function, and we really have a hard time trying to figure out what kind of users the device is marketing towards. It may have surpassed most of the Android tablets and iPads in terms of performance and productivity, but it is still nowhere near what high-end Windows tablets when it comes to handling business tasks. It does have access to all the applications in Google Play, but its size and weight become a real burden when we try to use it as a media-consuming device.
The REMIX OS is not perfect, either. Running several applications in windows is indeed very cool, but whenever you want to switch a running application from phone mode to full screen, or the other way around, the app has to go through being closed and then reopened, instead of just zooming in and out like it is accomplished on the LG Optimus UI.
Besides their very own REMIX Ultra tablet, Jide has also been releasing REMIX OS ROMs for popular tablets such as the Nexus 10, Nexus 9 and Xiaomi Mi Pad. They are also working closely with major Chinese tablet brands like Cube and Onda to release tablets shipped with REMIX OS.
Final verdict
The Jide REMIX Ultra is nicely designed, well-built and provides users with arguably the best Android experience on a tablet, it could easily replace your chrome book, iPad or Galaxy Tab. However, if you want it to offer as much productivity as the ultrabooks and tablets with full Windows system, you will be disappointed.
Also, at $439, the REMIX Ultra tablet is certainly priced much higher than average Android tablets from China: the Cube i7 REMIX, which runs the same REMIX OS, is priced at $225 with a keyboard base included; the Teclast T98 4G, which features a beefier processor and 4G support, is also priced at only $225. Even compared to some Core-M powered Windows tablets such as the Cube i7 Stylus ($338) and the ONDA V919 3G Core M ($322), the REMIX Ultra doesn’t have an edge in the price department.
Even if Jide fails to sell the REMIX Ultra tablet, REMIX OS is here to stay. With Jide furthering its partnership with other tablet manufacturers, we will certainly see more tablets running this amazing Android skin in the coming months.[/QUOTE]

jupiter2012 said:
Hope that more people could read this review, it really took me a lot of effort in writing it.
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I read it that is y i ordered one it has been a bumpy road to get it here but looks like its moving along might have it next week

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A company that refuses to support its products.
A company that has to beg for money to try to make another late to market product.
A company that could have made a difference.
A failure.

Jide, I once loved at what you do. But now, since you don't care in supporting the Ultra Tablet (even though it is capable of supporting the Latest version of Remix OS,) all I got to say is that your marketing tactics are pure garbage. So why don't you do us a favor and go stick it where the light don't shine.

Cube iWork 11 Stylus review: a versatile convertible tablet

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It would be fair to say that Cube was one of the pioneers in the convertible Windows tablet lineup in China. At the very beginning of last year, they created the iWork Line with the introduction of the Cube iWork 10, which comes with an Intel Atom Bay-trail Z3740D processor, a 10.1-inch IPS display at the resolution of 1280*800, and a foldable keyboard cover. And then since the beginning of 2015, they went a little bit further by introducing the Cube i7 series, an enhanced lineup of ultrabook & tablet hybrids powered by the much beefier Core-M 5Y10c processor. Although the Cube i7, the Cube i7-CM and the Cube i7 Stylus received positive feedback from their users, their price tags can be a little uninviting for customers with a tighter budget. And the relatively shorter battery life of those Core-M powered systems (compared to tablets running on Atom SoC) is also proven to be unacceptable for some.
Here comes the all new Intel Cherry-trail SoC lineup, Intel's very first Atom chips built on the 14nm process. With a stronger CPU setup and an upgraded Intel Graphics HD Gen8 GPU, they are promised to boost the performance by up to 50% compared to the Bay-trail series SoCs with even less power consumption.
We reviewed the Cube i7 Stylus (Core-M 5Y10c, HD Graphics 5300) a few weeks ago -- now all we have left is its 10.6-inch sister model, the Cube iWork 11 Stylus. Both devices are complete Windows tablets, and each can be paired up with an optional keyboard dock and an optional Wacom pen. Externally, the two devices look the same. But when it comes to their technological inner workings, there are a few big differences: the i7 Stylus runs on a Core-M processor, whereas the iWork 11 Stylus is equipped with an Atom processor. The i7 Stylus has a Solid State Drive, whereas the iWork 11 Stylus comes with eMMC storage. Also, the iWork 11 Stylus runs the 32-bit version of Windows 10 instead of the 64bit we’ve seen on the i7 Stylus.
Cube iWork 11 Stylus Specs
OS: Windows 10 (32-bit)
Screen: 10.6-inch IPS, 10-point multi-touch, IGZO
Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
CPU: Intel Atom Cherry-trail X5-Z8300
CPU Frequency: 1.44GHz (Base clock) – 1.8GHZ (Turbo clock)
GPU: Intel Graphics HD Gen8
RAM / Storage: 4GB DDR3L / 64GB eMMc Storage
Function: WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, USB Host, HDMI
WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi direct
Camera: 5MP back camera, 2MP front camera
Battery: 3.7V - 8,600mAh
Ports: Micro SD Card Slot, Micro USB 3.0 Port, 3.5mm Headphone Jack, DC Charging Port, Mini HDMI Port
Size: 273.77*172.03*10.5mm, Weight: 673g
Color: Black front and blue rear
Design and build
If you’ve seen the Cube i7 Stylus in the flesh, the iWork 11 Stylus looks exactly the same. It has a sturdy but sleek metal body, gently curved corners and wide black bezel, and a subtle Windows logo on the front. It consistently feels great in hand, and shrugs off smudges well. With the proper screen protection, it could easily survive the day-to-day rigors of a traveling professional, and even the occasional drop.
Like always, the front is dominated by a 10.6-inch IPS display, and you can find a front-facing camera above and a Windows Home key under that display.
There are two physical buttons on board, a power/standby key and a volume rocker, both sitting on the top side of the tablet.
All the ports and slots are hosted on the left side. You can find a 3.5mm headphone jack, a Micro USB 3.0 port, a mini HDMI port, a Micro SD card slot and a DC charging port on board.
There is a 5-contact magnetic port on the bottom side, and it is designed to connect with the keyboard base.
The rear side of the tablet is coated in blue, which makes the tablet look more interesting than just another piece of cold, black technology. Unfortunately, the blue coating proves to be easy to scratch. As a matter of fact, the Cube i7 series tablets also have the same issue, maybe it’s time Cube should find another approach to coat the metallic back of their tablets.
Build quality of the tablet is nice and solid, but still not altogether as epic as the Surface 3, which includes a flexible kickstand and a full USB 3.0 port.
The iWork 11 Stylus weighs 673 grams and measures 10.5mm thick, a little heavier and thicker than the Microsoft Surface 3. But it still ranks as one of the more compact convertible Windows tablets in the market. And you could hold it in your hands for a relatively long time before actually feeling the burden.
Display and sound
The Cube iWork 11 Stylus has a 10.6-inch IPS display, with a 1920 x 1080 resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. In terms of pixel density, the iWork 11 Stylus has about 208 pixels per inch. It definitely pales in comparison with those high-end Android tablets and flagship smartphones, but is still one of the front-runners in the laptop or convertible Windows tablet category.
As can be expected from a Full HD IPS panel, the iWork 11 Stylus’ screen looks stunning. Viewing angles are wide, colors accurate, and it shrugs off glare quite well, definitely much better than the TN panels on average laptops.
If there is a complaint, it’s that things can feel a bit tinnier on the desktop side compared to bigger convertibles such as the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro, owing to the slightly smaller screen. Though it supports touch, users will likely turn to a mouse, touchpad, or pen for navigation here, as the desktop requires a good amount of precision.
The speakers are very well placed on the right side of the tablet. The sound is flat, but it’s balanced well enough with little to no distortion, and the volume is acceptable for watching videos in a quiet room. If you plug in a pair of high-end headphones or nice speakers, you will notice that the iWork 11 Stylus actually beats most of the Android tablets and smartphones in terms of sound quality.
Pen and touchscreen
The stylus is a big point of differentiation from ordinary Windows 8 tablets. The good news is that the pen paired with the Cube iWork Stylus is based on Wacom technology, which means it is snappy and super responsive, and a genuine pleasure to use on the tablet’s high-resolution screen, the bad news is that you won’t find it in the retail package of the iWork 11 Stylus because the pen is sold separately for $32.
Unlike the tiny pen hidden in the back of the Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro, the pen that’s paired with the i7 Stylus is the size of a normal ink pen, with an eraser button on one end and a large button placed comfortably on the side. Click it and you have a right-mouse button with a beautifully positive action.
Writing with the pen in applications such as OneNote, Microsoft Office programs or in the handwriting recognition panel of the on-screen keyboard is smooth and accurate.
Certain applications can even make use of the pen’s 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity. For example, it makes the pen very much of a joy for working in Photoshop or in natural media painting tools such as ArtRage or Fresh Paint.
The pen is also very accurate for selecting small icons in a complex interface such as Photoshop, or opening a link on an heavily loaded web page (much easier than the small touchpad on the Keyboard base, or your finger on the screen).
The combination of pen and touchscreen makes i7 Stylus extraordinarily versatile for drawing, sketching, painting, image editing and note taking.
The keyboard base designed for the i7 Stylus and iWork 11 Stylus features a slot for the Wacom pen, so when you are not using it, you can just push it into the keyboard. But in an ideal world, we’d prefer to have a permanent place to keep the pen on the tablet itself, instead of on the keyboard base. As we do often use the i7 Stylus as a standalone tablet, and only need to connect it to the keyboard base when we need to do a lot of typing.
Keyboard base
The keyboard base can easily be attached to the iWork 11 Stylus via the 5-contact magnetic connectors, instantly turning the tablet into a full notebook computer. Sadly, the keyboard base can only make the iWork 11 Stylus stand with a fixed angle, which can be uncomfortable to use sometimes.
Here, the keys aren’t as squished as the ones on the Microsoft Surface Type Cover. The keyboard for the iWork 11 Stylus is more expansive, with no shrunken or undersized keys. It didn’t take me long before I was typing at my usual brisk pace.
The keys offer decent travel, with every keystroke, I make a loud “clack,” letting anyone around me know I’m getting stuff done. It isn’t my favorite keyboard, but I do feel comfortable enough. Also, the Cube keyboard base is not as flimsy as the Surface Type Cover, Instead it is as sturdy and comfortable as most laptop keyboards.
The Cube keyboard base brings a touchpad as well, and that’s a good thing, because the latest Windows 10 update made the OS much more mouse-and-keyboard friendly. Even though the touchpad is pretty precise and responsive, it’s still many steps behind the sort of glass touchpad you’d find on the MacBook Air. It sometimes takes multiple tries to get two-finger scrolling to work. Ditto for clicking and dragging windows and other objects around the screen. Other times, I accidentally navigated backward out of a web page when I was really trying to do some other sort of gesture. If you intend the iWork 11 Stylus to be your daily driver, you are better off with a mouse.
The Keyboard base also features 2 Full USB 2.0 ports, making it easier for the tablet to connect to a mouse or external storage devices.
Software and interface
The iWork 11 Stylus runs licensed Windows 10 Home Edition (32-bit) out of the box. Like the convertible tablet, the Windows 10 itself is also something of a hybrid, with both desktop and the Windows Store apps, touch and keyboard, the control panel and the finger-friendly PC Settings app.
On the iWork 11 Stylus, as long as you’re comfortable with gestures such as swiping to open the charms bar, switching apps and closing an app you don’t want, the two fit together almost seamlessly.
Below are major improvements we found in Windows 10:
1. Customized placement of the start menu.
Microsoft brought back the dearly missed Start Menu, and it is stronger and more inclusive than ever.
2. Enhanced screen split function.
Not only can users have more Windows store apps running in split screen mode, they can even run those titles like traditional PC programs on desktop.
3. Virtual desktop.
The highly appreciated virtual desktop has also been brought to Windows 10.
4. Cortana
Cortana brings plenty of notable features to Windows 10. While setting it up, you can choose to have Cortana always listening to your commands (enabled by saying “Hey Cortana!”). You can ask her about basic things like the current weather or what’s on your schedule, or you could have her search the web using Bing. Cortana can answer some queries without even launching a web browser. If you’re not a fan of voice commands, you can also type in queries into the Cortana search box on the taskbar, and you can choose to have her only activate voice commands when you hit a button.
5. Edge
Edge may be the most elegant piece of software to come from Microsoft. Its interface is simple: tabs on the top; back, forward and refresh buttons below; and an address bar. The latter is smarter than other browsers as it also features Cortana (without the voice commands). You can type in questions and often get them answered right within Edge’s location bar — no need to hit Enter to complete your search. That’s something Google has been dabbling with in Chrome, but Edge takes it to another level.
You can manage your Favorites, Reading List entries (articles you save to read later), History and Downloads from Edge’s Hub, which mostly stays out of the way until you need it. Microsoft also gave Edge annotating capabilities: You can highlight and mark up web pages any way you like (the Surface’s stylus comes in handy for this) and send them off to Evernote with just a few clicks. Those marked-up pages also retain your notes when you visit them again.
Unfortunately, the iWork 11 Stylus comes with only Office Mobile, which can be used to do some basic editing to the Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and Excel sheets.
If you need the more productive desktop version of Microsoft Office, the most important productive tools for any device that runs Windows OS, you will need to pony up.
Performance
The fundamental difference between the iWork 11 Stylus and the i7 Stylus is the internal setup. The iWork 11 Stylus runs on an Intel Atom X5-Z8300 processor and 4GB RAM. This Cherry-trail generation CPU is outfitted with four cores and has a clock frequency from 1.44 GHz – 1.8GHz. With a more entry-level Atom processor and a slower eMMc drive, it is easy for us to expect a significant drop in performance with the iWork 11 Stylus compared to its pricier sister tablet. But fortunately, that’s not often the case.
As you could expect, when compared to the i7 Stylus, it takes a few seconds longer for the iWork 11 Stylus to boot into Windows 10 and approximately half a second more to resume from hibernation.
In the ATTO Disk Benchmark, the iWork 11 Stylus got relatively good score for a device with eMMc drive, although still no match for those high-end systems with SSD storage
You could also notice the slowdown in starting heavy desktop applications and rendering multiple image-heavy web pages. But for the basic office tasks, it is difficult to tell the difference in speed.
Compared to those earlier Bay-trail powered Windows tablets, the iWork 11 Stylus is indeed a lot faster. Thanks both to the upgraded SoC and more RAM. The system always runs sturdily and fluidly, and there is obviously less struggle in handling several desktop programs at the same time. I can edit some of my excel sheets with some video playback on top, and several social networking applications in the background, and still the system remains pretty responsive.
Benchmarks also tell the story, as you can see that the iWork 11 Stylus handily beats the Bay-trail powered ASUS T100A tablet in all benchmark tests, especially in the more graphics-focused tests.
Temperature
The iWork 11 Stylus did not warm up excessively in our tests. During our stress test, the internal temperature barely crossed the 60 °C line (from readings of the Ludashi benchmark), and I never feel too much heat on its case. For a fanless system, it is pretty amazing.
Connectivity
Besides the tailor-made keyboard base and the Wacom pen, the Cube iWork 11 Stylus offers a lot of other connectivity options. The Wi-Fi 802.11n/b/g takes good care of internet surfing, while the Bluetooth 4.0 makes it possible for the iWork 11 Stylus to connect with external input devices and audio systems without occupying the ports. The Micro USB 3.0, when connected to a mobile drive with a standard OTG cable, can still manage high-speed data transfer.
You can add a Micro SD card (up to 128GB) on top of the 64GB internal storage.
The Mini HDMI port makes it possible to connect to larger displays such as monitors, HDTVs and projectors. Every time I came back from a business trip, I would like to connect my laptop to the 24-inch desktop monitor in my bedroom, and that’s when the HDMI port could come in handy.
Battery life
The iWork 11 Stylus packs an 8,600mAh Li-Po battery under its hood, which is the same amount of battery capacity used in the i7 Stylus. With a less power-hungry SoC, we were definitely expecting an outstanding battery life from this tablet.
Fortunately, in idle mode, the energy consumption rate is very low -- as per usual with devices outfitted with Atom CPUs. Under load as well, the convertible's energy use is also reasonable. In our standard cngadget battery rundown test, where we set the display brightness at a fixed 50%, and loops a 1080P video with Wi-Fi on, the iWork 11 Stylus lasted 7 hours and 17 minutes, which is 2 hours longer than the result the Cube i7 Stylus scored in the same test.
In the real world use, the iWork 11 Stylus’ battery performance is equally impressive. Working on office documents, and streaming YouTube videos for 3 to 4 hours on a daily basis, I will only have to charge the tablet every 2 days. During my business trip, where I had to use the iWork 11 Stylus checking emails, signing papers with the Wacom pen, and working on some business documents and presentations. I can leave the tablet unplugged for an entire day.
Cameras
Like other Windows tablets we’ve tested before, the iWork 11 Stylus doesn’t have impressive cameras. The nice thing is, the front-facing camera, actually the only useful camera, is decent enough for video-chatting when there is nice lighting. The rear camera is merely just there for the sake of being there, I don’t think you would want to use it for Instagram and Facebook updates, while even the cheapest smartphone could do the job a million times better.
Verdict
Fundamentally, the Cube iWork 11 Stylus makes a reasonably good impression. At a price of about $219, the buyer gets a complete Windows tablet. And for $63 more, they can get a connectable keyboard and a Wacom Pen to enhance the productivity. The keyboard is absolutely sufficient for practical, everyday use. We have typed on lots of considerably worse tablet keyboards, including the newest Surface Type Cover. Alongside two USB 2.0 ports, the keyboard dock also has a touchpad. The tablet is outfitted with a stunning Full HD IPS panel and a pressure-sensitive touchscreen which is compatible with the Wacom pen. Although only powered by an Atom processor, the tablet's performance is absolutely sufficient for all the everyday tasks it was created for, and the 4GB working memory even enables it to take care of some serious multitasking. The 9,000mAh non-removable battery under the hood can keep the system working for an entire day, unplugged.
There are some minor cons - the 64GB eMMc drive is much slower than the SSD used in the i7 series tablets, and the blue coating of the tablet’s rear side is very easy to scratch. But none of them really matters when you take the price into consideration. The iWork 11 Stylus won’t fully replace your desktop PC or high-end laptop for demanding 3D gaming and heavy productivity work, but it serves very well as a travelling companion which helps you take care of your daily office tasks, web-browsing and social networking.

Thank you for the review. Seems pretty fine
Have you seen same micro limitations as it seems Teclast has do it with the X98 Plus?
Enviado desde mi C6603 mediante Tapatalk

Hi, Nice paid review. You forgot to mention the 4GB ram is not fully useable, 2.9GB only since Cube used a 32bit uefi and os instead of 64bit (Big mistake) And the temps? barely over 60 degrees on your unit? Did you work the tablet hard gaming and benchmarking for a few hours? 81 degrees on my unit I brought.
It's in my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYS_pm49wVM

Hendrickson said:
Hi, Nice paid review. You forgot to mention the 4GB ram is not fully useable, 2.9GB only since Cube used a 32bit uefi and os instead of 64bit (Big mistake) And the temps? barely over 60 degrees on your unit? Did you work the tablet hard gaming and benchmarking for a few hours? 81 degrees on my unit I brought.
It's in my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYS_pm49wVM
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There is software which can help you take full advantage of the 4GB RAM, please use Google in case you didn't know. And the temperature reading i got is by using a stress test in a Chinese app called 鲁大师, of course you didn't know 'coz you don't understand any other languages, that is too unfortunate, isn't it?
Since you guys don't have a full-time job and putting up ads and posting reviews of tablets gifted by the manufacturers on the techtablets site is the only way of making money, should I reasonably assume that all reviews on your site are paid? Correct me if I am wrong, please!

It doesn't have the Micro SD card limitations which you have with the Teclast tablets.

Hello guys,
I've been trying to download the stock firmware from this tablet but I can't find it anywhere. I have a Cube i7 with Remix OS, and it has a very similar hardware to the iWork 11, I'd like to try flash the Windows on my tablet, but I'm not able to find the image.
Any idea?
Thanks

jupiter2012 said:
There is software which can help you take full advantage of the 4GB RAM, please use Google in case you didn't know.
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Did you mean this tool? ( http://www.mediafire.com/download/3xko6f25gsbwa5u/Pae-mod.rar )
btw, is there any way to install win 10 x64 on this tablet?
topfreitas said:
Hello guys,
I've been trying to download the stock firmware from this tablet but I can't find it anywhere.
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Try here:
http://www.cube-tablet.com/download/

Leez_Gooz said:
Did you mean this tool? ( http://www.mediafire.com/download/3xko6f25gsbwa5u/Pae-mod.rar )
btw, is there any way to install win 10 x64 on this tablet?
Try here:
http://www.cube-tablet.com/download/
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i think it is, but not sure if you can activate the system or find the right drivers.
来自我的 LG-F460L 上的 Tapatalk

topfreitas said:
Hello guys,
I've been trying to download the stock firmware from this tablet but I can't find it anywhere. I have a Cube i7 with Remix OS, and it has a very similar hardware to the iWork 11, I'd like to try flash the Windows on my tablet, but I'm not able to find the image.
Any idea?
Thanks
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Official Windows firmware for i7 Remix isn't available, and I doubt that Cube would ever really release it.
来自我的 LG-F460L 上的 Tapatalk

Install Linux
Does anyone tried to install ubuntu or other linux distros?
I was able to get into the bios, but I didn't manage to boot from USB. Any ideas?

Does anyone work with photoshop with this tablet? If you make a video working with it, you should have a lot of more visit in youtube, there's no anyone that made it with these type of tablets. XD
And for last, I don't find any tutorial to install a diferent UEFI that make it work with windows x64... it's a little freak in 2016 no?

iwork11 usb controllers problem
hello guys,
From device manager,my iwork11 have three item in usb controllers:
1. intel(R) USB 3.0 extensible Host Controller 1.0(microsoft)
2. unknown usb device(device descriptor request failed).......... that my problem.
3. USB Root Hub (xHCI)
I've been trying to update the driver from online but there is no replacement. Someone have this tablet may should look for me what the the harware for no 2.
thank you for help
or
Any idea?

Thank you for the review Jupiter2012!
I have a question though, do you think it's possible to use this tablet as a media player connected to the tv and minimum 6x2Tb external hard drive connected to it? Can it handle it?
Thank you for the answers in advance!
Nice day

Hello:
I'm interested in this tablet:
- 100$ cheaper than the i7 stylus one
- Does not have the temperature issues
- Better battery thanks to the Atom processor
Has anyone tried to open the tablet? I can't seem to find the photos of this model.
I have the idea of soldering a little SSD USB 3.0 drive inside, or trying to replace the eMMC. Even a very cheap USB 3.0 pen seems to be a lot faster than the eMMC. I think that if we can get this working, this tablet will be amazing.
The other remaining thing would be to get working a 64 bit UEFI.
Sorry for the engrish

Do NOT run the PAE (Physical Address Extension) patch on this tablet in order to utilize more than 3GB of RAM. It wrecked my Windows install and now I can't boot. Trying to recover it now, but it's proving to be a pain. I also am not able to boot a 64-bit Windows 10 install. It would be really nice if Cube made the Windows 10 image for this tablet available to download from a reliable source. I tried getting it from Baidu and it took all day only to be a corrupt file. Half the time when you go to the Baidu page it's hosted at, it says the file is not found. If anyone has a link to it, I would greatly appreciate it.

It seems sleep mode doesn't working properly. Battery draining in this mode is awful. It has been discharged in 2 days from full charge to empty. Any ideas?

dmitry1972 said:
It seems sleep mode doesn't working properly. Battery draining in this mode is awful. It has been discharged in 2 days from full charge to empty. Any ideas?
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Try setting up Hibernate (Suspend to Disk)
Solved Standby for me
regards
Mr.Lee

Mr99Lee said:
Try setting up Hibernate (Suspend to Disk)
Solved Standby for me
regards
Mr.Lee
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Thank you, but this is a half of problem solution. Battery draining has been stopped, but the waking up process is so slow.

Depends on what you expect..it´s a desktop / notebook OS
Mine comes from hibernate within 5-10 secs.

Hi all,
I encountered my first Problem...did anyone had luck using a Bluetooth Mouse?
I´m able to pair but after Driver Installation there is no mouse cursor and no mouse functionality.
Under Devices it shows up as HID but not as mouse...
during installation of the driver the mouse works fine.
seems an interference with the WACOM-Device...
Any ideas?
regards
Mr.Lee

Cube Mix Plus review: a regular upgrade to an already versatile convertible

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Cube has been making and marketing Windows tablet/PC convertibles for quite a while now, and the Mix Plus is the newest addition to their high-end Windows tablet line. With the latest Intel kabylake Core-M 7Y30 processor under the hood, this slate is designed to replace the Cube i7 Book.
Cube i7 Book Main Specs
OS: Windows 10 Home
Screen: 10.6-inch IPS, 10-point multi-touch, IGZO
Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
CPU: Intel Kabylake Core-M 7Y30
CPU Frequency: 1.61GHz (Base clock) – 2.6GHZ (Turbo clock)
GPU: Intel HD 615
RAM / Storage: 4GB LPDDR3L/ 128GB SSD
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0
WiFi: dual band (2.4Ghz & 5Ghz), WiFi hotspot
Camera: 5MP back camera, 2MP front camera
Battery: 7.4V, 4,300mAh
Ports: Micro SD Card Slot, Micro USB 3.0 Port, USB Type-C port, 3.5mm Headphone Jack, DC Charging Port
Size: 273*172*9.6mm, Weight: 686g, Color: white front and silver rear
Retail Package
The Cube Mix Plus has the same packaging used on other Windows tablets from Cube. Inside the box you will find a wall charger, an OTG adapter (Micro USB 3.0 to full USB 3.0), a warranty card and a user manual.
Design
Cube didn’t bring anything new in the design of the Mix Plus. The front is dominated by a 10.6-inch IPS display, with relatively big bezel around. We all love the small bezel design of the Huawei Mate Book and Samsung Galaxy TabPro S. But when we use the slate as a standalone tablet, we do need the bezel to rest out fingers on. Cube has changed the color of the front bezel to white, but unfortunately, this color choice doesn’t give the tablet a wanted premium look, instead it feels very plasticky and cheap.
The slate has an Aluminum rear side, which is now coated in silver. Unlike the anodic oxide coating we normally find on high-end smartphones and tablets, the coating on the Cube Mix Plus’ rear side doesn’t offer much resistance to scratches.
Many high-end Windows tablets released in the recent two years only come with a single USB Type-C port, but the Mix Plus still offers a slew of ports and slots. On the left side you will find a headset jack, a Micro USB 3.0 port, a 3.5mm DC charging port and a Micro SD card slot which supports cards up to 128GB. There is also a USB Type-C port which can be transformed into a full USB port or an HDMI port, or both if you have the right adapter. I used the type-C adapter for my Macbook and it works fine with the Mix Plus.
The keyboard port can be found on the bottom side of the slate, the docking mechanism is the same as what was found on previous Cube models such as the i10 Premium and i7 Book.
You can also find the stereo side-facing speakers on the right side of the tablet.
A power button and a volume rocker sit comfortably on the top side.
Unlike new generation Windows tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S2 and Huawei Matebook, the Mix plus still feels like a product from the past. Improvement in design from its predecessor is basically nowhere to be found. The slate itself measures 273*172*9.6mm, and weighs 686g— light enough for one-handed use with a stylus. As the tablet has a metallic build, it feels very solid, and could survive some pressure or even occasional drops. With the keyboard base attached, the total weight comes to 1.1 kilograms, not really much lighter than a regular ultrabook.
Display and sound
The Mix Plus sports a 10.6-inch full HD IPS display. Although not as exciting as the AMOLED panel on the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, it is still quite decent and offers a lot in terms of sharpness, colors and viewing angle.
At 350 nits, the brightness of the panel may be way more than enough for ordinary indoor use, but if you want to use the tablet in a park under direct sunlight, you will struggle. Personally, I do think that a 10.6-inch display is a little bit too small for a convertible if you want to harness some real productivity. A 12-inch display like the ones found on the Surface Pro 4 or Lenovo Miix 4 definitely makes more sense for office tasks.
The sound quality is a mixed bag. Although the Mix Plus has no problem driving headphones to an ear-splitting level, the built-in speakers simply do not deliver. Not only are they on the quiet side, the sound also lacks punch and layers.
I always need my Bluetooth speakers or headphones when I listen to music or watch movies.
Input mechanism
Like the i7 Stylus and i7 Book, the Cube Mix Plus comes with five distinct input options. There’s the touchscreen, the optional Wacom Pen ($30), and the keyboard base, which in addition to its keys offers a touchpad, you can also connect the slate with a mouse.
Touchscreen
The touchscreen felt great in our tests. The surface was smooth and consistent, as you’d expect, and gestures were all correctly registered. Unfortunately, the screen is not made of Corning Gorilla scratch-resistant glass, but only a standard soda lime glass panel, a screen protector is necessary if you don’t want any marks on your screen after a long time of using the tablet.
Pen
If you want more precision than your greasy fingers can offer, the optional Wacom pen delivers. It makes stylus input quite natural, and works well with the Windows desktop thanks to its built-in buttons. Hover a bit above the screen and you’ll see a pointer, which makes it easy to avoid accidentally tapping a button or icon.
Drawing and taking notes with the pen is also quite easy, although it isn’t as comfortable as drawing on a paper due to the glossiness of the screen, the experiences are still quite similar. The Wacom pen supports 1,024 levels of pressure, so you can easily draw lines with different weight. This makes the i7 Book much more usable as a standalone tablet, as you can actually write things down on it and won’t always feel the need of a keyboard for input.
Rotary keyboard base
Keyboards for tablets are always somewhat uncomfortable to use. I have personally struggled to find my normal typing pace with the Surface Type Cover and the stock Bluetooth keyboard for the Acer ICONIA W700. However, the keyboard bases for Cube i7 and i7 Stylus were actually more comfortable to type on than average tablet keyboards, but they were also thick and heavy.
The rotary keyboard base designed for the Mix Plus is identical to the one for the i7 Book, the only difference I can find is the color. In my opinion, this keyboard base is extremely well designed. Not only can it instantly turn the tablet into a laptop, you can also use it as a stand to support the tablet in many different modes.
With the keyboard base connected, the screen can be adjusted from 0 to 120 degrees. Although the keyboard base still doesn’t quite measure up to the keyboard on an average laptop, it comes pretty close. The keys are well-spaced, and give enough feedback for touch typists to develop a flow. Of course, certain compromises had to be made to fit a full keyboard into a small base, so don’t expect the full laptop experience. The depth of each keystroke is noticeably shorter, which dampens the tactile experience. With that said, this is still one the closest things to a laptop keyboard available for any tablet, and is among the best tablet keyboards we’ve used.
The keyboard base also features a trackpad, which supports lots of gestures. There are also distinct left and right click zones to mimic the experience of using a mouse. However, there’s simply too much resistance for your finger to move around the trackpad comfortably, and you will miss the speed and convenience of a real mouse.
You also get two additional full USB 2.0 ports with the keyboard base attached, one on the left, and one on the right. Which further enhances the usability of the device.
System and apps
The Mix Plus ships with Windows 10 Home and a valid license. Thankfully, the tablet comes with no bloatware, and you don’t need to uninstall anything before using it.
You can find a healthy number of touchscreen compatible applications in the Windows Store, and if that’s not enough, there are millions of PC applications you can install on the Mix Plus. When it comes to productivity, the Mix Plus easily beats lots of pricier tablets such as the REMIX Pro and the iPad Pro. And the Wacom pen even allows you to use the tablet on more occasions.
Performance
The Cube Mix Plus is powered by the latest Kabylake Core M3-7Y30 processor, which is an upgrade of the Skylake 6Y30 processor found in the i7 Book, but is still not as powerful as the i5 or i7 processors used in high-end Windows tablets and ultrabooks, as it seeks to balance performance, efficiency and portability. There is also 4GB of RAM on board to take care of multi-tasking and a 128GB SSD as internal storage.
Our Cinebench R10 CPU scores show just how much horsepower this processor can generate. The single core rating was 5,013, and the multi-core score was 9,949. The Cube Mix Plus can keep up with most Windows 10 tablets on the market right now, and that includes the entry model of Surface Pro 4.
We also ran other Benchmark tests on the Mix Plus, and were returned with some predictable scores. From the numbers, we can tell that the Kabylake Core M3 processor used in the Mix Plus betters the Atom processors used in entry-level Windows tablets in terms of horsepower, but is no match for those Core i-series processors of the same generation.
The benchmark scores are reflected in day-to-day usage, the Mix Plus performs general productivity tasks easily. Performance was so good that we forgot this entire machine was crammed into a tablet form factor, thinking of it instead as a full-blown laptop. Browsing the web and writing were no problem, but neither were more processor intensive tasks such as unzipping a large compressed file. Atom based tablets, including the Surface 3 and the Lenovo Yoga Book, suffered a bit with this kind of tasks. But the Kabylake Core M3 chip is competent, and the 4GB memory allows you to handle a decent amount of multi-tasking.
As fast as the Cube Mix Plus could be in your everyday tasks, it is still a tablet, and can’t fully replace a workstation desktop or laptop. There will be lags or stutters while running big applications such as Lightroom or Corel Draw, or during graphic-intense 3D gaming. It is more suited for being used as a portable friend instead of your only personal computer.
Storage
The Mix Plus offers a FORESEE O1229B solid state drive, with 128GB of storage space. There is Micro SD card slot to help expand the storage, but you can add no more than 128GB.
The Speed of the internal SSD is generally on par with the drives in most other high-end Windows tablets, and much faster compared to the eMMc used in those Atom based Windows slates. Our AS SSD benchmark showed a read speed of 490.79MB/s, and a write speed of 197.15MB/s.
Temperature
As with other Core M powered tablets, there are no fans in the Cube Mix Plus, meaning you’ll never hear it no matter how hot it gets, and it will get quite hot occasionally.
After running a few benchmark tests, Ludashi reported a CPU temperature higher than 80 degrees centigrade, and the rear side of the tablet felt quite warm, and unpleasant for the my hands to hold.
Battery life
The Mix Plus features a 7.4V 4,300mAh battery, on par with the original i7 Book but is slightly smaller than the battery inside the Huawei Matebook. I test battery life using a looped HD video, playing until the battery finally gives out. Here, the Mix Plus performed slightly below average—still, at 6 hours, 41 minutes, it delivers pretty close to an all-work-day computing experience.
Cameras
There are two cameras on the Cube i7 Book, a 2MP front-facing camera and a 5MP rear-facing camera. The front camera naturally takes care of video chatting. I used to say that the rear-facing camera on tablets are not necessary, well, I was wrong. The Huawei Matebook doesn’t offer a rear camera, and once when I was chatting with a friends on Skype, and wanted to show him the things I was looking at, I needed to flip the tablet around and use the front-facing camera to do that, and I didn’t even know whether I framed what I needed to show because the screen is not facing towards me.
With that said, both cameras on the i7 Book are not good at all. Even when there is proper lighting, Photos can still have a lot of noises. Smartphones of even the lowest end could do a better job at taking pictures.
Verdict
Priced at $399.99, the Cube Mix Plus is a pretty good 2-in-1 tablet, but the improvements over its predecessor are quite limited. Besides the new processor and dual band Wi-Fi, there isn’t really much to talk about. Cube isn’t trying to make the Mix Plus more aesthetically appealing than its predecessor, or they are doing it in the wrong way. They are not trying to add more functionalities to the slate, either. Many Core-M powered tablets from other Chinese brands now feature 8GB RAM and 200GB+ SSD, which should be more future-proof, yet Cube still sticks with the amount they offered two years ago when they released the Cube i7, which was also known as the first Core-M powered tablet ever.
With that said, if you want an affordable Windows tablet which could offer more horsepower and speed than Atom-based slates such as the Surface 3 and the Lenovo Yogabook, the Cube Mix Plus is one of the choices you should consider.

Windows Button Customization
I have a cube too with this windows logo button.
I am running android on it and I want this windows button to run a command under su when pushing.
Is there an app or any tool or setting that might help me in customizing this button?? I looked around for quite some time now but could not find anything helpful.
Thanks!

peterl30 said:
I have a cube too with this windows logo button.
I am running android on it and I want this windows button to run a command under su when pushing.
Is there an app or any tool or setting that might help me in customizing this button?? I looked around for quite some time now but could not find anything helpful.
Thanks!
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It is not worth to run android on mix plus, you will disable a considerable number of hardware components by putting android on a Cube Mix Plus

Virgo Sun said:
It is not worth to run android on mix plus, you will disable a considerable number of hardware components by putting android on a Cube Mix Plus
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I have a cube i7 stylus. And I am so far quite happy with it. The only problem I have: If it turns into sleep mode (display turns dark) and I want to wake it up again by pressing any button my display will lose its touch feature and therefore stays dark. I have to connect external mouse or keyboard to make it work again. (and run: "rmmod i2c_hid && modprobe i2c_hid")
Thats why I weant to reconfigure this windows button. It would be wonderful to press this button to, run this command and voila - my display still got touch feature. Maybe some day ....

peterl30 said:
I have a cube i7 stylus. And I am so far quite happy with it. The only problem I have: If it turns into sleep mode (display turns dark) and I want to wake it up again by pressing any button my display will lose its touch feature and therefore stays dark. I have to connect external mouse or keyboard to make it work again. (and run: "rmmod i2c_hid && modprobe i2c_hid")
Thats why I weant to reconfigure this windows button. It would be wonderful to press this button to, run this command and voila - my display still got touch feature. Maybe some day ....
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Cube I7 Stylus is very different architecture vs Cube Mix Plus
My only reason to buy Cube Mix Plus is the Stylus which works best in Windows application software

Virgo Sun said:
Cube I7 Stylus is very different architecture vs Cube Mix Plus
My only reason to buy Cube Mix Plus is the Stylus which works best in Windows application software
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I know. But I asked everywhere in hope to find an answer. Is it really so difficult to make this windows button run a command after pushing? That would help a lot. Thanks!

Virgo Sun said:
Cube I7 Stylus is very different architecture vs Cube Mix Plus
My only reason to buy Cube Mix Plus is the Stylus which works best in Windows application software
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My i7 Stylus has the same problem, but the Mix Plus works like a charm.

I'm quite happy with mine and I like that it is wireless AC. The color doesn't bother me much. Keyboard is way better than the Chuwi HiBook Pro that I returned. The only thing I really don't like is the speakers being on the right side only and that the battery should've been bigger. But for $309 + $50 keyboard, I am pretty happy with it. Ordered through gearbest on May 28th and received it on May 5th. Selected priority shipping and was free. Pretty quick considering it came from China.

Dock compatibility?
Hi guys,
I have been tweaking around my Cube i7 stylus up to the point that I short-circuited and fried one of the integrated circuits for charging and pretty much lost the possibility to get some juice in it again, this was some year and a bit ago and now I saw deal on GearBest for 230 Euro (about which I read on offertehitech .. cannot post link), so I was wondering if I buy Cube Mix plus, can I re-use my old keyboard dock?
It seems the same pogo pins on the photo, anyone tried / has both to try?
Thanks,
Mike

@MikeeCZ
Yes you can, I have bought the blue Cube i7 keyboard version for my Cube Mix Plus because I don't like the gray one.

Hello, I need your help. My Cube Mix Plus has stopped charging, after contacting the service found that the power circuit is faulty. For repair, I need circuit device . Please help
(здравствуйте, мне нужна ваша помощь. Мой Cube Mix Plus перестал заряжаться, после обращения в сервис установили, что неисправна цепь питания. Для ремонта мне нужна схема устройства . Пожалуйста помогите! )

change boot order
How can I change the boot order in order to set the USB drive as the first position in boot priorities?
Thank you in advance for your anwers!