**Fail to Connect Issue with Tablet**

I've been experiencing a frustrating issue with my tablet where it keeps failing to connect, even though I have the wireless connection set up. I've tried this four times now, and each time, the game fails to run, and I'm left wondering what's going on. I've rebooted the tablet multiple times in an attempt to resolve the issue, but so far, no luck.

**Investigating the Issue**

I decided to investigate further by selecting "Now" to get out of this screen. To my surprise, there was a brief moment of lag, and then the screen popped up with a message indicating that everything would be ready in 1 second. However, when I looked at the screen, it didn't display any changes. I wanted to demonstrate some hubs that I bought for the Type-C connection port on the tablet. The first hub was an Apple multiport adapter designed for the MacBook, which uses USB-C as a standard port. When I plugged this in, I noticed that it worked just fine, but only after connecting it and plugging it into the Mead 2. However, when I tried to output HDMI through this adapter, it wasn't working.

**HDMI Output Issue**

Next, I tried using a generic Type-C to HDMI adapter that I had ordered online. Unfortunately, even with this adapter, I couldn't get any output on my TV or monitor. It seems like the tablet may have disabled HDMI output for some reason, but I'm not sure if it's a fault of the tablet or something more complex. The Android tablet settings don't seem to have an HDMI setting that I can adjust. I've tried connecting this adapter to multiple TVs and a monitor, but nothing is working.

**Tablet Review**

Despite the HDMI output issue, I think this tablet is excellent value for its price. Considering it's under $200, you get a premium build quality that's hard to match at this price point. The show me has done an impressive job in setting the standard when it comes to pricing and quality. The tablet has a beautiful screen with good brightness and color accuracy. I'm not sure if it has Gorilla Glass or Dragon Trail glass on it, but it feels like it definitely has some sort of scratch-resistant coating.

**Camera and Audio**

The rear 8-megapixel autofocus camera seems okay, although it may not match the standards set by Apple products. The front-facing 5-megapixel camera is good for selfies and video calls. The speaker output from the 3.5mm headphone jack is excellent, and I was impressed by the sound quality.

**Storage and Design**

One of my concerns with this tablet is the storage capacity. The 12GB of storage may not be enough for some users, so I would recommend opting for the 64GB version if possible. However, I did notice that the design has taken a step backwards compared to the first model, which didn't have a microSD card slot.

**Performance and Thermal Throttling**

When it comes to performance, this tablet doesn't seem to have any thermal throttling issues. Using CPU-Z, I saw that the highest temperature it reached was around 65°C during benchmarking. However, I do worry about how it will perform with Windows 10, which often runs hotter than Android.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I think this is an excellent tablet for its price, and it's definitely worth considering if you want an Android experience without the cost of an iPad or other premium tablets. The only drawbacks are the HDMI output issue and the lack of a microSD card slot in the latest model.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys chrisan welcome to my show me Mead 2 review we have a look here first at the hardware you can see that the device is very slim it's only 6.7 mm thick not as thin as the iPad Mini 4 it does have a nice aluminium uni body that does look very nice this is the gold color we do have two speaker grills here that I will later on in the video test out these speakers but they do actually offer some impressive sound for the size of the tablet you can see that Mi logo here and very similar again to the Mini 4 the iPad Mini we do have the camera up here in the top leftand corner it's a microphone there and the second one slightly different placement to Apples and right up there and the top we have the 3.5 mm headphone jack now this does support headsets with microphones and remotes and you can even customize what the remote does later on in the Mi ui7 I'll show you that and the build of it very premium very solid it's a nice metal trim around here and the screen itself is fully laminated just turn that on quickly you can see that it does look really nice it's the same screen that the iPad Mini has and a very good screen so the front-facing camera is a 5 megapixel camera we do have the Mi logo there on the top left corner and this is the USB 3 port and we do have a couple of torque screws here which help hold all the tablet together I think if you remove these two torque screws there is a way using suction cups to actually pull the front face the screen away from the hardware I won't actually be opening this model up though to check that out I don't think there's any need to really and then on the right side we have our volume up and down rock and our power on button there so overall very premium device feels really nice in hand it is light it's only 333 G so great weight nice and thin and overall you can't complain this is about $193 I got this one here from gearbest and the quality of it is really phenomenal for what you're getting for that price range considering the Apple mini is going to be the iPad Mini is going to be about twice the price of this so have a closer look at the screen the viewing angles are good now I have the brightness uh set to probably about 60% at the moment just for this video not to really overpower the camera sensor but it does get quite bright and the viewing angles they're quite good what you'd expect the same again as the iPad mini and if you want to see what the screen looks like you can just go into your nearest Apple store and have a look at the Apple unit and you'll see exactly what it's like so I'll just turn that down now to about halfway so it's not overpowering the camera so the UI is the miui7 and if you have used Android you'll be familiar with it it does have Anish look to it uh I don't know whether that's intentional or not but probably is and there's quite a few features that the me UI offers just a few extra little tweaks and things that you don't get on normal Android for example here with the notifications you can actually go along here and hide certain apps and stop the notifications so if you're sick of seeing Clash of Clans coming up saying that your army is ready or you're being attacked or whatever you can actually just go along and you can select to disable that allow notifications so you could go along here and click no so you can block that off now they do have the widgets and all your apps all on one so there is know like app draw it's all just on one and overall the speed of it seems pretty good it's responsive I have noticed now and then there's been a couple of little stutters for example running a game clicking on Real Racing to touch that and it took a little while sometimes to start up I do think now and then overall the performance seems to be really good but it's just now and then I've noticed it one time it did come up saying please wait and the screen was all blured out and then my icons finally showed up but overall the experience is quite good these settings has various different features as well that we can tweak and the layout is slightly different to Android but you can see it's essentially well it's running on Android 5.1 so it's an Android device but it does have that Mi ui7 skin you can see it's mi7 Mi ui7 stable there is the version that it happens to be running and the CPU is the quad core atom X5 z8500 and 2 gab of ram which is a shame to see because tablets like the tlass x98 pro have 4 GB of RAM uh so you can do more multitasking you can push it a little more it might help improve gaming performance I have seen the scores when it comes to 3D marks slightly high on the pro I'm not too sure whether it's down to the RAM and there's a quite quite a few settings they do have here for example we do have a notification light and you can change and set the colors that you want there so you can customize it and go along and for example I've got it set Violet and this is the light right up here and it's quite a bright light change that to Green so it's multicolor you can select all those different ranges there I've just got it on Violet at the moment and child mode so you can if you do have children and you're buying this tablet for perhaps someone that's uh under 16 or quite young and you there's certain things you don't want them to be able to use for example if you want to block off the internet from them then you can enable child mode and only select what applications you want your child to be able to view it's rather handy as a parent so if you decide that okay we don't want you playing games at the moment then you can enable the child mode and I think there is actually a password on that you set a password to stop them of course getting in so there's a few little features there and headsets as well a lot of it's under the additional settings uh battery and performance now for the purposes of the video and my benchmarks I set the performance of the system to Performance of course to get the maximum output for those benchmarks I was running and you normally probably just leave that balance to help increase battery life and you can also optimize the system performance with the animations now because the stock setting the default setting is actually to show all the animations I've left those on if you hide that that might speed up the way the user interface feels it might actually make it feel a little bit snappier but I've just left that on because that is the default setting now there are various other things here too you can connect up with your me account you can sync with that I have actually bothered and various other things auto start application so when the tablet starts up you can choose to have an application start automatically for you straight away you might like that now what I haven't actually found here is a way to update the tablet over the air update and I can't seem to see where that actually is unless it's along here but it I can't seem to find that I'll hopefully be able to find that later on but it's not obvious to me at the moment but they should be pushing out hopefully updates to to the skan the Mi ui7 and under the screen we do have some other displays settings as well we can change the screen saver the double tap to wake is a nice feature so if you're familiar with the LG if you got a LG G3 or G4 smartphones with the double tap to wake is is quite nice there there is of course reading mode something they advertise there and enabling this what it does is just change the actual output of the screen to that more yellow color that apparently is better for us when we're trying to sleep or we're going to read us before going to bed or something it doesn't keep us awake and over stimulate our eyes and it's just a handy thing that you can select which applications you want to run with reading mode automatically once you launch them so if you're using Google books or another application or maybe you want to set the browser when you're looking at websites instead of showing the white white you can tone that down to more of that warm white color and it's a little bit easier on your eyesight we'll just get out of this and show you the available sensors using CPU Z we'll see they're actually a lot more than I expected I expected that it would probably come with an accelerometer and it would also have a perhaps a gyro well it does actually have a gy here's the free Ram so when you first boot it up you do have available Ram while it's actually actually under 1 gab there we only got 825 uh so ideally really it would have been nicer if they put 4 GB of RAM in here here and we go and uh system sorry The Thermals at the moment oh big advert just popped up great timing with that so here we go sensors there's actually a lot in here we've got game rotation Vector sensor we have the light sensor of course it's just up here so we can automatically adjust the brightness let the actual tablet adjust brightness for us so it'll choose what and it seems to work quite well actually I've noticed uh the choices sometimes on some tablets it will dim the screen too much it'll be too bright it seems to be pretty much spot on probably uh the experience they have with their mobile phones as well as allowed them to tweak that so we got the uh Magnum meter we also have the gyroscope accelerometer of course Gravity Sensor orientation sensor so there's actually quite a few sensors on there which is probably going to Aid in gaming when playing games like ra racing that use accelerometers it's definitely probably going to make things maybe a little bit more accurate and useful there and the free storage that you do get now I have a lot of applications games installed at the moment you actually get around about 12 GB free and this is the 16 GB model so if you're going to be installing a lot of games and perhaps put your music collection on there 12 GB is not enough and this is just the one I got at the moment it's the only model available at the time of recording this video review otherwise I would have gone for the 64-bit version cuz really I don't think 12's going to be enough for anyone it's just not enough there now you notice down here it's probably hard to see on the camera the other status a little lights actually pop up so we have our back home and then our recent menu tabs here so we can do the M bit of multitasking switching between and auto rotation it's playing up for me just right there I must have it disabled for some reason and you can use that as a task man just to kill everything and clear up and it's telling me I've got about a gigabyte there of free Ram at the moment let just see if I have auto rotation and I think I have got it disabled rotation off no on there we go it is rotating and you see that animation did you see how that kind of had a little bit of a stutter to it just the first time it animated that and as I mentioned before the performance settings you can disable that so it's not iPad smooth this is not like the iPad Mini for smoothness it's still got a while to go when it comes to that if we ever see these Android devices actually being that smooth but I mean overall it's not bad for an Android Tablet running the Mi skin on it the performance seems to be okay but we're just still lacking a little bit when it comes to that that fluidness that the Apple devices have definitely with their tablets now in terms of blow Weare that was pre-installed there really isn't any well okay we do have the Mia account they probably only really bloy kind app they have is the video one here and you can see that it's all in Chinese so that's more for the local Chinese market and not really relevant to people outside of China you can I think run through this application your own file so if you have recorded some videos on this with the 8 megapixel camera then you can access them through here but I'd probably rather use something like Google video you can see one of my videos has shown up there but that's really the only bloat where appliation on there which is really good to see because some of the manufacturers they just stuff these tablets full of bloatware or Chinese applications that aren't relevant to us at all so it's really good to see that there's a couple of Handy applications there you got your calculator weather contacts and a few others a Play Store of course was on here pre-installed so you don't have to go through that nightmare of having to install Play Store that luckily is all on there now I'll just move on to show you the browser the stock browser they include it isn't too bad but you can of course install something like Chrome run your own your browser there and the onscreen keyboard does have Chinese on one side but there's the option here you can see that I've selected English the browser that they have enclosed isn't really that impressive at all the performance of it is definitely lacking now just show you quickly if I load up tickets.com when you scroll you see see that huge amount of just delay there in that lag so it's it's not really that good now this is a a heavy website because there are a lot of images on here and videos and things as well and with the the slider at the top and because of the 4x3 ratio it has crushed in that a little bit but you see that just overall not that impressive at all the the the browser they have included I don't particularly like it so you better have to switch to Chrome which I'll do right now I'll just download in test out Chrome or one of the other popular browsers in Android now I'll just get Chrome here to start with as a test and give you an idea of the performance of Play Store is quite good obviously there a little bit of a delay there with my internet connection having to load up the icons in there all the different icons for the various apps but even just R rotate that around it doesn't seem too bad and that'll be downloading there in the background but you see that performance within play is good and the screen is really responsive to touch I have no problems with the accuracy wherever I touch is what it's picking up there and let's have a look again at techtablets.com and see the performance difference it's topping onehanded there this should hopefully be much improved now and is definitely a bit better but uh still a little bit of stutter there initially I think just loading in the images but it's definitely a bit of a well it's an improvement from the launcher that they include with in the tablet they won't actually let you use it in landscape mode here because Chrome you can just rotate it around and it quickly swaps over just try one more website here just uh bbc.com I have never visited this before so we'll see how long it takes to load up that seems okay a few little stutters there of course it's still loading in those many images that are on this website but overall it's not too bad exit back out and go back into the default browser and move over and test the speakers I'm just going to go into YouTube quickly and do a quick speaker test to hear these speakers here are actually really really good some of the best speakers I've heard on a Chinese tablet and definitely some of the best for this size of tablet so I'm just going to run some carbon based life form something that's not going to give me any copyright issues in YouTube hopefully you see there the browser had an option there to actually download the video so it can download Flash videos that's quite handy to be able to do that so we just get the volume right up here so we have the two speakers left and right there they are both actually do have speakers behind them so they both are stereo stereo together they are loud and they actually sound quite good let's see if I can skip ahead okay so I'm not sure whether that's being picked up by the microphone that I'm using but there is actually some base in there and you can feel the tablet vibrate a little bit they are loud they have a little bit of Base they have some mid-range and the output that comes out of the 3.5 mm Jack is actually quite good now just connect up my headset that I've got this is just a show me pair that I have I think it's their standard one they call it and sound output quality through this headset is actually really good it's quite loud for some reason it maxes out at 66% I think it's to stop me from damaging my hearing and let's put the warning there and it will not actually let me go when I was using the music application go past 66% I need to figure out how to uh disable that there must be an option there for me to do that but there are some settings I'll just quickly show you too when it comes to sound when you're using the headset you can sit here to use the misound enhancer which is uh handy so if you do actually own one of the headsets this is the standard edition it will adjust and tweak and tune the sound for that particular headset that you're using so if you're using the Piston 2 which by the way aren't actually too bad these in a air headset that I have I mean it's got the microphone and the remote in it and it does work with the tablet there's the remote there and the microphone it works in the tablet works just fine and I found that uh for the price of that that headset's on around about 10 us not bad at all for the price you get so no complaints when it comes to the audio the speakers in it are really good and so is the output from the headphone jack there the 3.5 M Jack has no static and no sort of hiss over it it's very clear and it is loud and really for the price again of this tablet it's quite impressive now for the part that I know that some of you interested what's the performance of the tablet like when it comes to benchmarks you probably seen that I've got and22 and a few other benchmarks there installed and I'll just run through the gallery and show you those the benchmarks that I did run on the tablet now the first one and most importantly that I most people would like to know what's the battery life like okay so I did the PC Mark work battery life test and it got an impressive 9 hours and 13 minutes and I don't think that's bad all now I did leave the settings it was in balanced mode it wasn't in performance mode when I ran this test so if you put it in performance mode you can probably expect that battery life to be a little bit less than that maybe 2 hours less and I did keep the screen on the auto brightness setting so it was it was adjusting to the light that was there so just take this as an approximate kind of figure I think you could probably get 10 hours out of this easy Wireless was on and you'll see there this is the history so it slowly drained the battery quite nicely and where it stopped right here is when the test reached 20% so I still had 20% battery life left if you extend it on to as far as you could get with a battery maybe down to 5% easily over 10 hours and if you turned on flight mode I had Wireless on you can see there 19% and the wireless on so if you turn the wireless off you could even maybe get 11 or 12 hours of just video use if you're just going to be using video so it's not a bad score at all you can see there that PC Mark's taking up most of the users and the screen so there the big consumers there and then we have again just some of the scores there if anyone's interested in those and the 3D test that I started so this is the slingshot score it's an okay score for the chipset and this is ice storm unlimited now the teust x98 pro which has the same chipset in it but it has 4 GB of RAM got 26,00 so 8,000 more than this tablet here so I'm not really sure what was causing that if it's the ram ice storm extreme score could have been a little bit higher I think and there's just all three results there you can see Mead two and here's the geekbench score which isn't bad it's almost 1,000 points on the single core and 3,200 not bad at all for the chipset considering it's an Adam chipset now this is probably going to be a little slower than the first generation but you have to remember that they switched from the arm processor to the Intel based one so you can run this particular tablet there is an option to buy this tablet with Windows 10 which I hopefully will be reviewing later on so you can see where that compares to other devices now that wireless test uh not particularly good speeds because I'm on my connection here in New Zealand um the upload was fine but at the time there was something going on with the network uh I should have been getting at least 20 megabits per second and it only got six but that's all I got as well from my Surface Pro 4 and here's the n226 Benchmark now n22 has recently just changed so the scores have completely changed what this would be in n22 5.7 is around about 53,000 52,000 a little bit less than the score that uh show me officially got and they posted online I think they got 8,300 but that was the version 6 beta so this is now the official version 6 release just a few finer details of the score there for those interested just quickly show you that if you want to compare that to your own tablet perhaps you comparing that to your first Mead version and apparently it's not far off the hsc1 M9 OnePlus 2 uh this is the GPU bench score the average frames per second there 75 frames per second is really good and they're very demanding uh epic cadale test now you have to remember that's running the native resolution of the screen which is quite a high resolution ultra high quality and it managed to get 43 frames per second which is not bad at all now I did install playbooks you know just quickly show you what it's like to use this as an ebook reader this is just down Browns infer know and you can see because of the size and the weight of it I find that it's it's a good eBook reader you can either use it in landscape here and then turn it around into portrait and it's not the fastest but it's not too bad for reading there it's see it's playing a little bit of catchup then but overall I find it's good and because the screen is so sharp and you can put the reading mode on you can also use the set things that come with playbooks to change it you can reverse this around you can have the black screen and then the white letters uh and you can change the colors as well the text it's a very versatile and works great as an ebook reader on the side too now we do have a camera on board this is the front facing 5 megapixel camera and the rear camera I'm only going to briefly show you some samples of that cuz I I don't believe too many people are going to be using the camera on it now if you do want to see more camera samples let me know in the comments and I can go out and take a lot more video and samples with it but the ones I'll show you now that I recently took just a few samples and I show them the macro shots came out okay this is came out extremely clear Sunset lighting at the moment and it looks very sharp not a bad photo at all but now when I there's some roses there I did notice there's a little bit of blurring it's a it's an 8 megapixel sensor but I think the image it takes isn't wonderful your mobile phone will probably take a bit of photo than this and here's a photo that had a little bit of blur to it so if you're taking photos of objects in the distance I'm not sure they're going to come out particularly well and there's a video that I recorded this is just a very quick video test and the video quality is average really to be honest it's not wonderful I wouldn't buy this tablet if you really want to take a lot of photos and video I would probably then look at maybe Apple's iPad Mini for that but I mean it was okay it's passable quality and that's a front facing cam took an okay photo for 5 megapixels it uh wasn't that bad at all and using for things like Skype I think it's going to be okay here's a a screenshot well photo I took of the screen of my Surface Pro 4 uh if you wanted to do closeup shots then for macros taking photos of text and books and things I think that's going to be quite all right for that kind of usage so now onto the fun part we'll just test out a few games and show you how those run for those that want a a little tablet they can do a bit of gaming on as well so the game Auto detected the visual quality and set it at medium you can adjust that yourself if you want to increase the frame rate but I'm just going to leave it with a default setting the game decided to actually pick for us we'll see how that runs seems relatively smooth the screen has flipped around on me not sure what happened then but it looks really good on the screen because this screen is show so sharp it has a PPI of a 300 and the colors they do just pop out looks nice but that has definitely got some playable frame rates there this one is Clash of Clans well it's a look down 2D game it can actually cause some systems to have quite a bit of slowdown and lag once you have a lot on screen so you have quite a big town this game can get a little stuttery surprisingly but at the moment my Village is only a level 41 uh so not enough to start to cause any lag but I've seen that this kind of chipet the atam X5 8,500 should be able to run this game just fine without any problems and going through the menus everything is extremely fluid let's do a quick attack I'll probably end up losing cuz I don't think I prepared an army so no problems that game Real Racing three again this game looks really nice on the screen still not quite at the level of the iPad mini when it comes to Graphics I think it's turned down a little bit here for Android but you can see it's running that game Rec simply fluid oh bad driving there going off it's a little hard to St using the accelerometer when I've got the camera and tripod set up oh there's a bit of lag there a little bit of lag coming in if you can pick up that on the camera this totle here is Mortal Kombat X and it's running a little slow but you can see it's playable frame rates definitely but it's not as fluid as I have seen it run on some tablets and the tablet is getting warm I do have CPU temp running in the background but for some reason the overlay showing the temperature isn't showing up here so the game is at least playable and the last game I'll test in this video at least is Dungeon Hunter 5 so the lobby has a little bit of lag but it's running just fine really actually no problems are you the leader of the Bounty Hunter got it time to go meet saker's contact the one thing I forgot to mention it's very handy feature you can actually disable the buttons along here the menu buttons so if you're gaming like now and you accidentally tap for example the recent apps or home button it's going to disturb your gameplay but you can disable all of those which is a brilliant feature that I wish more people would actually add so definitely could have shown me to add that in there D so much for clean away so it's running this game just fine even with all the magic effects and everything running at this High screen resolution this game is definitely 100% playable smooth frame rate looks great runs right now you're probably thinking what I haven't actually shown Modern Combat 5 well I can't get it to work it keeps coming up with this fail to connect message even though I do have the wireless connected up I don't know what's going on I've tried four times now and it just fails to run the game and have rebooted the tablet as well to try and see if it's going to get past this screen but no it's not working I don't know whether it's a problem to do with the game or the tablet now I'll just show you if I go and select now to get out of this normally there's a little bit of lag no it didn't happen that time but the last time the screen popped up and it said uh 1 SEC so everything was blurred here and then the drawer showed up I just wanted to demonstrate a couple of hubs that I bought for the type-c connection the port here this is the Apple multiport adapter that's for the MacBook now USB C being a standard I don't think it's quite a set standard because it doesn't seem to Output HDMI now plugging this in as you would the USB port works so that's good connecting up the type-c cable and charging Works once you connect it first and then plug it into the Mead 2 that works but the HDMI here is not outputting at all for some reason I do not know why whether it's fault of the tablet or maybe uh show me have disabled that I doubt they would have disabled video output but that is not working so I went and bought a generic adapter that I ordered online that actually just came in today and that is just a plain type- c 2 HDMI connector as you can see and it doesn't work either plug that one in connected it up to my TV I tried two other TVs and a monitor and nothing I'm getting no output whatsoever there doesn't seem to be an HDMI setting within the settings that you'd normally find and Android tablets I can't seem to see it anywhere so again I'm not too sure whether it has been disabled or not so to recap my findings overall I think this is an excellent tablet for the price considering this is under 200 US you get a premium build with a non- premium price tag and show me have done it again they are definitely setting the standard when it comes to pricing for the kind of build quality you're getting here it has definitely an aass build it has a very good screen fully minated now I'm not sure whether it has gorilla glass or the dragon tail glass on it but to me it feels like it definitely has some sort of scratch resistant glass on there and the uni body very nice the speaker output is really good the camera on the rear the 8 megapixel auto focus camera seems okay it's not going to be up to probably the standards of some of the Apple products and the front- facing 5 megapixel camera is good the sound output from the 3.5 mm headphone jack again very good now the issues that I have well HDMI as you just saw can't get it to work I can't seem to Output any display from the type-c port the other factors to take into consideration also the 12 GB of storage is definitely not going to be enough for a lot of people so I would consider the 64 GB version and then again we have gone a step backwards in terms of the design with not including that micro SD card slot that was on the first model so an interesting move there there and of course 2 GB of RAM I would have liked to have seen four and it would have been nice they could have made the perfect I think 7.9 in tablet with this build quality they just had that micro SD card slot and even an HDMI output would have been really great to see on there but as it stands I think this is phenomenal value for what you're getting you have to think this is half the price of the iPad mini and if you want that more iPad experience and you want Android then this is the one to get now when it comes to temperatures did this actually have any Thal thermal throttling well using CPU temp if you see on some of those benchmarks I showed you the highest I saw it get up to was 65° but you have to remember that this is running Android I think the Windows 10 version Windows always seems to be about 15 to 20° hotter than what I've seen that is probably going to mean that the Windows 10 version will actually have some throttling I hope it doesn't but I will be later on taking out that particular model and if this had dual booed again would have been really good to see but overall I think they have definitely done it set the standard again when it comes to price and quality thank you for watching the review do keep on out on the channel for more up and cominging videos on Chinese tablets thanks for watching see you laterhi guys chrisan welcome to my show me Mead 2 review we have a look here first at the hardware you can see that the device is very slim it's only 6.7 mm thick not as thin as the iPad Mini 4 it does have a nice aluminium uni body that does look very nice this is the gold color we do have two speaker grills here that I will later on in the video test out these speakers but they do actually offer some impressive sound for the size of the tablet you can see that Mi logo here and very similar again to the Mini 4 the iPad Mini we do have the camera up here in the top leftand corner it's a microphone there and the second one slightly different placement to Apples and right up there and the top we have the 3.5 mm headphone jack now this does support headsets with microphones and remotes and you can even customize what the remote does later on in the Mi ui7 I'll show you that and the build of it very premium very solid it's a nice metal trim around here and the screen itself is fully laminated just turn that on quickly you can see that it does look really nice it's the same screen that the iPad Mini has and a very good screen so the front-facing camera is a 5 megapixel camera we do have the Mi logo there on the top left corner and this is the USB 3 port and we do have a couple of torque screws here which help hold all the tablet together I think if you remove these two torque screws there is a way using suction cups to actually pull the front face the screen away from the hardware I won't actually be opening this model up though to check that out I don't think there's any need to really and then on the right side we have our volume up and down rock and our power on button there so overall very premium device feels really nice in hand it is light it's only 333 G so great weight nice and thin and overall you can't complain this is about $193 I got this one here from gearbest and the quality of it is really phenomenal for what you're getting for that price range considering the Apple mini is going to be the iPad Mini is going to be about twice the price of this so have a closer look at the screen the viewing angles are good now I have the brightness uh set to probably about 60% at the moment just for this video not to really overpower the camera sensor but it does get quite bright and the viewing angles they're quite good what you'd expect the same again as the iPad mini and if you want to see what the screen looks like you can just go into your nearest Apple store and have a look at the Apple unit and you'll see exactly what it's like so I'll just turn that down now to about halfway so it's not overpowering the camera so the UI is the miui7 and if you have used Android you'll be familiar with it it does have Anish look to it uh I don't know whether that's intentional or not but probably is and there's quite a few features that the me UI offers just a few extra little tweaks and things that you don't get on normal Android for example here with the notifications you can actually go along here and hide certain apps and stop the notifications so if you're sick of seeing Clash of Clans coming up saying that your army is ready or you're being attacked or whatever you can actually just go along and you can select to disable that allow notifications so you could go along here and click no so you can block that off now they do have the widgets and all your apps all on one so there is know like app draw it's all just on one and overall the speed of it seems pretty good it's responsive I have noticed now and then there's been a couple of little stutters for example running a game clicking on Real Racing to touch that and it took a little while sometimes to start up I do think now and then overall the performance seems to be really good but it's just now and then I've noticed it one time it did come up saying please wait and the screen was all blured out and then my icons finally showed up but overall the experience is quite good these settings has various different features as well that we can tweak and the layout is slightly different to Android but you can see it's essentially well it's running on Android 5.1 so it's an Android device but it does have that Mi ui7 skin you can see it's mi7 Mi ui7 stable there is the version that it happens to be running and the CPU is the quad core atom X5 z8500 and 2 gab of ram which is a shame to see because tablets like the tlass x98 pro have 4 GB of RAM uh so you can do more multitasking you can push it a little more it might help improve gaming performance I have seen the scores when it comes to 3D marks slightly high on the pro I'm not too sure whether it's down to the RAM and there's a quite quite a few settings they do have here for example we do have a notification light and you can change and set the colors that you want there so you can customize it and go along and for example I've got it set Violet and this is the light right up here and it's quite a bright light change that to Green so it's multicolor you can select all those different ranges there I've just got it on Violet at the moment and child mode so you can if you do have children and you're buying this tablet for perhaps someone that's uh under 16 or quite young and you there's certain things you don't want them to be able to use for example if you want to block off the internet from them then you can enable child mode and only select what applications you want your child to be able to view it's rather handy as a parent so if you decide that okay we don't want you playing games at the moment then you can enable the child mode and I think there is actually a password on that you set a password to stop them of course getting in so there's a few little features there and headsets as well a lot of it's under the additional settings uh battery and performance now for the purposes of the video and my benchmarks I set the performance of the system to Performance of course to get the maximum output for those benchmarks I was running and you normally probably just leave that balance to help increase battery life and you can also optimize the system performance with the animations now because the stock setting the default setting is actually to show all the animations I've left those on if you hide that that might speed up the way the user interface feels it might actually make it feel a little bit snappier but I've just left that on because that is the default setting now there are various other things here too you can connect up with your me account you can sync with that I have actually bothered and various other things auto start application so when the tablet starts up you can choose to have an application start automatically for you straight away you might like that now what I haven't actually found here is a way to update the tablet over the air update and I can't seem to see where that actually is unless it's along here but it I can't seem to find that I'll hopefully be able to find that later on but it's not obvious to me at the moment but they should be pushing out hopefully updates to to the skan the Mi ui7 and under the screen we do have some other displays settings as well we can change the screen saver the double tap to wake is a nice feature so if you're familiar with the LG if you got a LG G3 or G4 smartphones with the double tap to wake is is quite nice there there is of course reading mode something they advertise there and enabling this what it does is just change the actual output of the screen to that more yellow color that apparently is better for us when we're trying to sleep or we're going to read us before going to bed or something it doesn't keep us awake and over stimulate our eyes and it's just a handy thing that you can select which applications you want to run with reading mode automatically once you launch them so if you're using Google books or another application or maybe you want to set the browser when you're looking at websites instead of showing the white white you can tone that down to more of that warm white color and it's a little bit easier on your eyesight we'll just get out of this and show you the available sensors using CPU Z we'll see they're actually a lot more than I expected I expected that it would probably come with an accelerometer and it would also have a perhaps a gyro well it does actually have a gy here's the free Ram so when you first boot it up you do have available Ram while it's actually actually under 1 gab there we only got 825 uh so ideally really it would have been nicer if they put 4 GB of RAM in here here and we go and uh system sorry The Thermals at the moment oh big advert just popped up great timing with that so here we go sensors there's actually a lot in here we've got game rotation Vector sensor we have the light sensor of course it's just up here so we can automatically adjust the brightness let the actual tablet adjust brightness for us so it'll choose what and it seems to work quite well actually I've noticed uh the choices sometimes on some tablets it will dim the screen too much it'll be too bright it seems to be pretty much spot on probably uh the experience they have with their mobile phones as well as allowed them to tweak that so we got the uh Magnum meter we also have the gyroscope accelerometer of course Gravity Sensor orientation sensor so there's actually quite a few sensors on there which is probably going to Aid in gaming when playing games like ra racing that use accelerometers it's definitely probably going to make things maybe a little bit more accurate and useful there and the free storage that you do get now I have a lot of applications games installed at the moment you actually get around about 12 GB free and this is the 16 GB model so if you're going to be installing a lot of games and perhaps put your music collection on there 12 GB is not enough and this is just the one I got at the moment it's the only model available at the time of recording this video review otherwise I would have gone for the 64-bit version cuz really I don't think 12's going to be enough for anyone it's just not enough there now you notice down here it's probably hard to see on the camera the other status a little lights actually pop up so we have our back home and then our recent menu tabs here so we can do the M bit of multitasking switching between and auto rotation it's playing up for me just right there I must have it disabled for some reason and you can use that as a task man just to kill everything and clear up and it's telling me I've got about a gigabyte there of free Ram at the moment let just see if I have auto rotation and I think I have got it disabled rotation off no on there we go it is rotating and you see that animation did you see how that kind of had a little bit of a stutter to it just the first time it animated that and as I mentioned before the performance settings you can disable that so it's not iPad smooth this is not like the iPad Mini for smoothness it's still got a while to go when it comes to that if we ever see these Android devices actually being that smooth but I mean overall it's not bad for an Android Tablet running the Mi skin on it the performance seems to be okay but we're just still lacking a little bit when it comes to that that fluidness that the Apple devices have definitely with their tablets now in terms of blow Weare that was pre-installed there really isn't any well okay we do have the Mia account they probably only really bloy kind app they have is the video one here and you can see that it's all in Chinese so that's more for the local Chinese market and not really relevant to people outside of China you can I think run through this application your own file so if you have recorded some videos on this with the 8 megapixel camera then you can access them through here but I'd probably rather use something like Google video you can see one of my videos has shown up there but that's really the only bloat where appliation on there which is really good to see because some of the manufacturers they just stuff these tablets full of bloatware or Chinese applications that aren't relevant to us at all so it's really good to see that there's a couple of Handy applications there you got your calculator weather contacts and a few others a Play Store of course was on here pre-installed so you don't have to go through that nightmare of having to install Play Store that luckily is all on there now I'll just move on to show you the browser the stock browser they include it isn't too bad but you can of course install something like Chrome run your own your browser there and the onscreen keyboard does have Chinese on one side but there's the option here you can see that I've selected English the browser that they have enclosed isn't really that impressive at all the performance of it is definitely lacking now just show you quickly if I load up tickets.com when you scroll you see see that huge amount of just delay there in that lag so it's it's not really that good now this is a a heavy website because there are a lot of images on here and videos and things as well and with the the slider at the top and because of the 4x3 ratio it has crushed in that a little bit but you see that just overall not that impressive at all the the the browser they have included I don't particularly like it so you better have to switch to Chrome which I'll do right now I'll just download in test out Chrome or one of the other popular browsers in Android now I'll just get Chrome here to start with as a test and give you an idea of the performance of Play Store is quite good obviously there a little bit of a delay there with my internet connection having to load up the icons in there all the different icons for the various apps but even just R rotate that around it doesn't seem too bad and that'll be downloading there in the background but you see that performance within play is good and the screen is really responsive to touch I have no problems with the accuracy wherever I touch is what it's picking up there and let's have a look again at techtablets.com and see the performance difference it's topping onehanded there this should hopefully be much improved now and is definitely a bit better but uh still a little bit of stutter there initially I think just loading in the images but it's definitely a bit of a well it's an improvement from the launcher that they include with in the tablet they won't actually let you use it in landscape mode here because Chrome you can just rotate it around and it quickly swaps over just try one more website here just uh bbc.com I have never visited this before so we'll see how long it takes to load up that seems okay a few little stutters there of course it's still loading in those many images that are on this website but overall it's not too bad exit back out and go back into the default browser and move over and test the speakers I'm just going to go into YouTube quickly and do a quick speaker test to hear these speakers here are actually really really good some of the best speakers I've heard on a Chinese tablet and definitely some of the best for this size of tablet so I'm just going to run some carbon based life form something that's not going to give me any copyright issues in YouTube hopefully you see there the browser had an option there to actually download the video so it can download Flash videos that's quite handy to be able to do that so we just get the volume right up here so we have the two speakers left and right there they are both actually do have speakers behind them so they both are stereo stereo together they are loud and they actually sound quite good let's see if I can skip ahead okay so I'm not sure whether that's being picked up by the microphone that I'm using but there is actually some base in there and you can feel the tablet vibrate a little bit they are loud they have a little bit of Base they have some mid-range and the output that comes out of the 3.5 mm Jack is actually quite good now just connect up my headset that I've got this is just a show me pair that I have I think it's their standard one they call it and sound output quality through this headset is actually really good it's quite loud for some reason it maxes out at 66% I think it's to stop me from damaging my hearing and let's put the warning there and it will not actually let me go when I was using the music application go past 66% I need to figure out how to uh disable that there must be an option there for me to do that but there are some settings I'll just quickly show you too when it comes to sound when you're using the headset you can sit here to use the misound enhancer which is uh handy so if you do actually own one of the headsets this is the standard edition it will adjust and tweak and tune the sound for that particular headset that you're using so if you're using the Piston 2 which by the way aren't actually too bad these in a air headset that I have I mean it's got the microphone and the remote in it and it does work with the tablet there's the remote there and the microphone it works in the tablet works just fine and I found that uh for the price of that that headset's on around about 10 us not bad at all for the price you get so no complaints when it comes to the audio the speakers in it are really good and so is the output from the headphone jack there the 3.5 M Jack has no static and no sort of hiss over it it's very clear and it is loud and really for the price again of this tablet it's quite impressive now for the part that I know that some of you interested what's the performance of the tablet like when it comes to benchmarks you probably seen that I've got and22 and a few other benchmarks there installed and I'll just run through the gallery and show you those the benchmarks that I did run on the tablet now the first one and most importantly that I most people would like to know what's the battery life like okay so I did the PC Mark work battery life test and it got an impressive 9 hours and 13 minutes and I don't think that's bad all now I did leave the settings it was in balanced mode it wasn't in performance mode when I ran this test so if you put it in performance mode you can probably expect that battery life to be a little bit less than that maybe 2 hours less and I did keep the screen on the auto brightness setting so it was it was adjusting to the light that was there so just take this as an approximate kind of figure I think you could probably get 10 hours out of this easy Wireless was on and you'll see there this is the history so it slowly drained the battery quite nicely and where it stopped right here is when the test reached 20% so I still had 20% battery life left if you extend it on to as far as you could get with a battery maybe down to 5% easily over 10 hours and if you turned on flight mode I had Wireless on you can see there 19% and the wireless on so if you turn the wireless off you could even maybe get 11 or 12 hours of just video use if you're just going to be using video so it's not a bad score at all you can see there that PC Mark's taking up most of the users and the screen so there the big consumers there and then we have again just some of the scores there if anyone's interested in those and the 3D test that I started so this is the slingshot score it's an okay score for the chipset and this is ice storm unlimited now the teust x98 pro which has the same chipset in it but it has 4 GB of RAM got 26,00 so 8,000 more than this tablet here so I'm not really sure what was causing that if it's the ram ice storm extreme score could have been a little bit higher I think and there's just all three results there you can see Mead two and here's the geekbench score which isn't bad it's almost 1,000 points on the single core and 3,200 not bad at all for the chipset considering it's an Adam chipset now this is probably going to be a little slower than the first generation but you have to remember that they switched from the arm processor to the Intel based one so you can run this particular tablet there is an option to buy this tablet with Windows 10 which I hopefully will be reviewing later on so you can see where that compares to other devices now that wireless test uh not particularly good speeds because I'm on my connection here in New Zealand um the upload was fine but at the time there was something going on with the network uh I should have been getting at least 20 megabits per second and it only got six but that's all I got as well from my Surface Pro 4 and here's the n226 Benchmark now n22 has recently just changed so the scores have completely changed what this would be in n22 5.7 is around about 53,000 52,000 a little bit less than the score that uh show me officially got and they posted online I think they got 8,300 but that was the version 6 beta so this is now the official version 6 release just a few finer details of the score there for those interested just quickly show you that if you want to compare that to your own tablet perhaps you comparing that to your first Mead version and apparently it's not far off the hsc1 M9 OnePlus 2 uh this is the GPU bench score the average frames per second there 75 frames per second is really good and they're very demanding uh epic cadale test now you have to remember that's running the native resolution of the screen which is quite a high resolution ultra high quality and it managed to get 43 frames per second which is not bad at all now I did install playbooks you know just quickly show you what it's like to use this as an ebook reader this is just down Browns infer know and you can see because of the size and the weight of it I find that it's it's a good eBook reader you can either use it in landscape here and then turn it around into portrait and it's not the fastest but it's not too bad for reading there it's see it's playing a little bit of catchup then but overall I find it's good and because the screen is so sharp and you can put the reading mode on you can also use the set things that come with playbooks to change it you can reverse this around you can have the black screen and then the white letters uh and you can change the colors as well the text it's a very versatile and works great as an ebook reader on the side too now we do have a camera on board this is the front facing 5 megapixel camera and the rear camera I'm only going to briefly show you some samples of that cuz I I don't believe too many people are going to be using the camera on it now if you do want to see more camera samples let me know in the comments and I can go out and take a lot more video and samples with it but the ones I'll show you now that I recently took just a few samples and I show them the macro shots came out okay this is came out extremely clear Sunset lighting at the moment and it looks very sharp not a bad photo at all but now when I there's some roses there I did notice there's a little bit of blurring it's a it's an 8 megapixel sensor but I think the image it takes isn't wonderful your mobile phone will probably take a bit of photo than this and here's a photo that had a little bit of blur to it so if you're taking photos of objects in the distance I'm not sure they're going to come out particularly well and there's a video that I recorded this is just a very quick video test and the video quality is average really to be honest it's not wonderful I wouldn't buy this tablet if you really want to take a lot of photos and video I would probably then look at maybe Apple's iPad Mini for that but I mean it was okay it's passable quality and that's a front facing cam took an okay photo for 5 megapixels it uh wasn't that bad at all and using for things like Skype I think it's going to be okay here's a a screenshot well photo I took of the screen of my Surface Pro 4 uh if you wanted to do closeup shots then for macros taking photos of text and books and things I think that's going to be quite all right for that kind of usage so now onto the fun part we'll just test out a few games and show you how those run for those that want a a little tablet they can do a bit of gaming on as well so the game Auto detected the visual quality and set it at medium you can adjust that yourself if you want to increase the frame rate but I'm just going to leave it with a default setting the game decided to actually pick for us we'll see how that runs seems relatively smooth the screen has flipped around on me not sure what happened then but it looks really good on the screen because this screen is show so sharp it has a PPI of a 300 and the colors they do just pop out looks nice but that has definitely got some playable frame rates there this one is Clash of Clans well it's a look down 2D game it can actually cause some systems to have quite a bit of slowdown and lag once you have a lot on screen so you have quite a big town this game can get a little stuttery surprisingly but at the moment my Village is only a level 41 uh so not enough to start to cause any lag but I've seen that this kind of chipet the atam X5 8,500 should be able to run this game just fine without any problems and going through the menus everything is extremely fluid let's do a quick attack I'll probably end up losing cuz I don't think I prepared an army so no problems that game Real Racing three again this game looks really nice on the screen still not quite at the level of the iPad mini when it comes to Graphics I think it's turned down a little bit here for Android but you can see it's running that game Rec simply fluid oh bad driving there going off it's a little hard to St using the accelerometer when I've got the camera and tripod set up oh there's a bit of lag there a little bit of lag coming in if you can pick up that on the camera this totle here is Mortal Kombat X and it's running a little slow but you can see it's playable frame rates definitely but it's not as fluid as I have seen it run on some tablets and the tablet is getting warm I do have CPU temp running in the background but for some reason the overlay showing the temperature isn't showing up here so the game is at least playable and the last game I'll test in this video at least is Dungeon Hunter 5 so the lobby has a little bit of lag but it's running just fine really actually no problems are you the leader of the Bounty Hunter got it time to go meet saker's contact the one thing I forgot to mention it's very handy feature you can actually disable the buttons along here the menu buttons so if you're gaming like now and you accidentally tap for example the recent apps or home button it's going to disturb your gameplay but you can disable all of those which is a brilliant feature that I wish more people would actually add so definitely could have shown me to add that in there D so much for clean away so it's running this game just fine even with all the magic effects and everything running at this High screen resolution this game is definitely 100% playable smooth frame rate looks great runs right now you're probably thinking what I haven't actually shown Modern Combat 5 well I can't get it to work it keeps coming up with this fail to connect message even though I do have the wireless connected up I don't know what's going on I've tried four times now and it just fails to run the game and have rebooted the tablet as well to try and see if it's going to get past this screen but no it's not working I don't know whether it's a problem to do with the game or the tablet now I'll just show you if I go and select now to get out of this normally there's a little bit of lag no it didn't happen that time but the last time the screen popped up and it said uh 1 SEC so everything was blurred here and then the drawer showed up I just wanted to demonstrate a couple of hubs that I bought for the type-c connection the port here this is the Apple multiport adapter that's for the MacBook now USB C being a standard I don't think it's quite a set standard because it doesn't seem to Output HDMI now plugging this in as you would the USB port works so that's good connecting up the type-c cable and charging Works once you connect it first and then plug it into the Mead 2 that works but the HDMI here is not outputting at all for some reason I do not know why whether it's fault of the tablet or maybe uh show me have disabled that I doubt they would have disabled video output but that is not working so I went and bought a generic adapter that I ordered online that actually just came in today and that is just a plain type- c 2 HDMI connector as you can see and it doesn't work either plug that one in connected it up to my TV I tried two other TVs and a monitor and nothing I'm getting no output whatsoever there doesn't seem to be an HDMI setting within the settings that you'd normally find and Android tablets I can't seem to see it anywhere so again I'm not too sure whether it has been disabled or not so to recap my findings overall I think this is an excellent tablet for the price considering this is under 200 US you get a premium build with a non- premium price tag and show me have done it again they are definitely setting the standard when it comes to pricing for the kind of build quality you're getting here it has definitely an aass build it has a very good screen fully minated now I'm not sure whether it has gorilla glass or the dragon tail glass on it but to me it feels like it definitely has some sort of scratch resistant glass on there and the uni body very nice the speaker output is really good the camera on the rear the 8 megapixel auto focus camera seems okay it's not going to be up to probably the standards of some of the Apple products and the front- facing 5 megapixel camera is good the sound output from the 3.5 mm headphone jack again very good now the issues that I have well HDMI as you just saw can't get it to work I can't seem to Output any display from the type-c port the other factors to take into consideration also the 12 GB of storage is definitely not going to be enough for a lot of people so I would consider the 64 GB version and then again we have gone a step backwards in terms of the design with not including that micro SD card slot that was on the first model so an interesting move there there and of course 2 GB of RAM I would have liked to have seen four and it would have been nice they could have made the perfect I think 7.9 in tablet with this build quality they just had that micro SD card slot and even an HDMI output would have been really great to see on there but as it stands I think this is phenomenal value for what you're getting you have to think this is half the price of the iPad mini and if you want that more iPad experience and you want Android then this is the one to get now when it comes to temperatures did this actually have any Thal thermal throttling well using CPU temp if you see on some of those benchmarks I showed you the highest I saw it get up to was 65° but you have to remember that this is running Android I think the Windows 10 version Windows always seems to be about 15 to 20° hotter than what I've seen that is probably going to mean that the Windows 10 version will actually have some throttling I hope it doesn't but I will be later on taking out that particular model and if this had dual booed again would have been really good to see but overall I think they have definitely done it set the standard again when it comes to price and quality thank you for watching the review do keep on out on the channel for more up and cominging videos on Chinese tablets thanks for watching see you later\n"