Unboxing and First Impressions of the Chewy vi1 Tablet
I decided to go ahead and unbox my new Chewy vi1 tablet, which came with Windows 10 Home installed and a decent amount of RAM. I was excited to see how it would perform and whether it would meet my expectations. As I opened up the box, I was pleased to see that it had all the necessary accessories, including the charger and a quick start guide.
As I powered on the tablet for the first time, I noticed that Windows 10 Home was already activated and connected to the internet. I also saw that the system specs indicated 4 GB of RAM, which is sufficient for most tasks. However, my curiosity got the best of me, and I wanted to dig deeper into the performance of the device. I decided to boot up the Windows Task Manager to check on the memory speeds.
Under the Performance tab, I was surprised to see that the system was running at only 1066 MHz, despite the chipset's capability to support faster speeds like 1600 MHz. This was a bit disappointing, as I would have expected more from a device with such capabilities. However, I did notice an option in the BIOS settings to adjust the memory speed, which may provide a boost of around 10-15% in terms of performance.
I decided to experiment with different speeds and see if there was any noticeable difference. After making the adjustment to run at 1600 MHz, I noticed that it seemed to make more of a difference than I initially thought, although I didn't have any formal benchmarks to test it out. I'm hoping that this speed increase will provide better performance for my future testing.
Now that I had booted up the tablet and tested its performance, I decided it was time to take a closer look at some of its features. I connected to my wireless network and started playing a quick YouTube video on the device's speakers. The sound quality wasn't bad at all; in fact, it seemed quite decent considering the price point of the device. However, I did notice that there was a bit of distortion in the higher frequencies.
Next, I decided to test out the keyboard, which felt surprisingly good despite being a touchy type. It's worth noting that this is similar to the Chewy vi10 keyboard that I've used before, and it didn't seem to have any issues with the keys registering properly. However, I did wonder if the lack of a fixed angle might be a bit problematic for users who prefer a more traditional typing experience.
The only real issue I had with the keyboard was that it seemed like it might scratch the screen protector if not handled carefully. It's always a good idea to put down a cloth between the two layers when using the device, or consider purchasing extra screen protectors to mitigate this risk.
Moving on from the keyboard, I wanted to test out the tablet's Type-C port and see if it could charge an external hard drive at USB 3 speeds. Unfortunately, after connecting the Western Digital 1TB drive and turning on the tablet, I saw that it was only running at USB 2 speeds. This was a bit disappointing, as I would have expected more from this feature.
I also noticed that there was no full-sized USB port included with the device, which is a shame considering the vi10 model came with two of these ports and they were really handy. However, it's worth noting that the Type-C port seems to be the primary way in which the device will provide connectivity options for users.
Overall, my initial impressions of the Chewy vi1 tablet are fairly positive. The build quality is solid, and the performance is decent if not spectacular. There are certainly some drawbacks to the device, such as the lack of a full-sized USB port and the limited memory speed boost. However, I'm excited to continue testing this device in more detail with battery life and benchmarking tests to see how it holds up.
I hope to have my full review of the Chewy vi1 tablet ready within the next week or so, and I'll be sure to catch you back for that. Until then, thanks for watching!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso a new tablet to unbox here today and it's the same as the vi 10 plus that I looked at but this is now the chewy hi10 plus it gets a little confusing the naming but this one here has remix OS 2.0 and Windows 10 64 GB of internal storage got the same atom z8300 I thought I'd finished looking at those there but there were a lot of requests for me to review this particular model because it does have a Surface three screen in it so this one here I picked up from gearbest.com and you can see that it came via DHL now it's selling for around about 189 us at the moment and the keyboard is an additional 20 us so the typical chewy box there see on the side there ho10 plus and just a few specs there so this green resolution 1920 by 1280 so instead of the typical Android 5.1 we see on there remix this time around so charger will be in here and the type C cable and the Chargers they have been using lately are 5 Vols and 3 amps so it charges a little bit faster and you see there I have a European one and that yes is rated to 5 vol 3 amps just like the vi 10 plus and a black USB type c cable so here's the tablet it has a a screen protector already applied to it a magnetic docking keyboard connector technology for stylus pin oh sorry it does actually support a stylus I was not expecting that that's right it has the H2 pin so it's the the high pin but the second one not the first one that was on the chewy hi12 you'll see we've got the 3.5 mm headphone jack micro HDMI the microphone micro USB 2 port and the type-c port hopefully this is USB 3 I will check that out and the micro SD card slot one speaker there on the left on the bottom the five Pogo Port connector that is to of course connect up with the keyboard which I'll show you in just a second and then the second speaker on the right so we have good stereo separation at least from that and on the back of it a rear 5 megap webcam the webcam up the front that's a 2 map one there so quickly show you the keyboard so the keyboard has this felt like material around it like fabric it's a very similar keyboard to the chewy VI 10 the first one that had the fulls size USB ports in it that I reviewed a good year ago or so now it's a very similar keyboard very similar setup to it so you see here that the layout all of it we've got a reasonably sized touchpad there it's not too bad it does have Hardware left and right buttons and the key travel on it isn't too bad at all it's not a bad keyboard it's a little bit plasticky feeling it's not quite as good as the the chewy hok keyboard which has mostly metal on it or metal on the palmrest at least but this is all plastic and you do have these little rubber feet here to help keep the keyboard from touching the screen so the keyboard just folds back like this there's magnets in there so that'll keep that latched in and it's quite stable like that and and the tablet with the magnets in the bottom simply just docks in like that I'll show you how the keyboard folds up so what we need to do is just simply just place it down and then that folds up and creates a protective cover for it like that and that's easy enough to transport or slip in a bag so quick look at the tablets wait before I actually power it on weighs 700 g so it's quite heavy for what it is and then when you add the key keyboard with that that makes it 1.14 kilos one thing I almost missed the power on and volume up and down buttons here along there these are made out of plastic and they feel well a little bit cheap there so I'm just going to power it on now you just got to hold down that button for about 4 seconds there should be battery in here cuz normally they ship out of the factory with some battery I can see yes that that is now powering up there we go get rid of the screen protector well that's only the first layer there is also it's pre-applied it's there behind there there's always screen protectors on because these do not have dragon tail or Gorilla Glass so they don't have scratch resistant glass is what I wanted to say all right so it just powered up into remix first and you see a different layout there from your typical Android 5.1 ROM so I just check the version should be under here on settings I can't actually see any blow Weare either well there'll probably be a couple of things on there so it is running remix OS 2.0 it is Android version 5.1.1 let's close that down so have a look and see if we have any blow we' got WPS office on there but there something that remix always put on News Republic I would consider that to be blow Weare remix applications and of course of course Play Store is on there and remix Essentials and another app there but that's well it's not really bloatware it's just another place to get more applications really so free available storage have a look at that if I can remember how to bring that up I think it's on the settings here oh there we go so we got 8.1 GB free on remix so at least that's some space to be able to install a couple of large games and a few applications there now of course you can insert a mic SD card slot to expand on the storage there if you want to put all your music on that instead of actually putting it on the internal storage to leave space there for all your games and other apps and things so I'll look at this later on in my full review I'll test out a few games to see the performance whether it's going to be able to play something like Mortal Kombat X and the full native resolution uh the screen just have a quick look at the moment the brightness is right down that's probably going to be absolutely overpowering the exposure settings I have on the camera but that gets up to 400 should be around 450 nits of brightness the the Surface three screen that it has in there 3x2 ratio of course so I can't see any way in this to boot over to Windows directly unless I hold down the power button and that well that's only got just reboot there so I'm going to have to use that and I'll move over now into Windows okay so the boot took about 25 seconds and it actually had an account already created which was named admin which is interesting so that means that gearbest must have gone in there and done their post sale inspection their test just to make sure everything was working that's what Sometimes some of the sellers do unfortunately even though the windows image on this will probably no doubt support English and there's no real reason for them to go in there to change it over to English because you can actually just do that on the initial first setup so let's have a look at the device manager and I'll bring up uh file explorer and have look and see how much free available space there is so 31.5 GB free in Windows so you got plenty of room there well it's never an Al is it but I mean it's a lot more than Android has than the remix in there and just under the device manager have a look at the disc drive so it's a tashiba 064 GAA that is very common it's good to see that at least we got a brand name and looking under now the network adapters a real Tech Wireless N and that also handles Bluetooth 4.0 so the screen accuracy touch there I can see I'm not having any problems just closing things it it seems to be quite good and quick and responsive s it bad so I just go sorry back into Windows just want to have a look there so it has uh Windows 10 home on there and the full 4 GB of RAM we don't normally see any problems now with that they don't tend to allocate any more to hardware and windows is activated so normally you have to connect up to the Internet to get that activated but it's already been connected by the looks of it see that is already activated so I just brought up the Windows task manager and under the performance tab wanted to have a look at the memory speeds so we do have the 4 GB of double data rate 3 but I can see that at the speed of it is running at only 1066 MHz even though the this chipset does support, 1600 MHz now I'm quite sure that with the chewes at least you can go into the bias and you can go into the North Bridge under the speed settings there and change the dim a I think it is listed as up to, 1600 and that gives a boost of around 10 to 15% at least in the 3D Mark and 3D performance for the GPU benchmarks that I have tested out so I don't know why they are clocking that down to 1066 possibly for extended battery life or stability but I'm going to change that later on because I prefer to run it at the fastest possible speed which is 1600 MHz because these atoms need all the speed they can get okay so I've just connected up to my wireless connection that I have and I wanted to test out those speakers I've just gone into you YouTube here and search quickly carbon based life forms just to play a quick soundtrack okay so they're a little tny sounding but as you just heard from there that they do have a bit of volume behind them which is good so at least they're I would say they're loud enough and in Android while Remax normally they are even a little bit louder too for some reason it's something that's driver related but just have a quick little type on the keyboard and see how it feels of course I've got the tripod in front of me so it's a little bit awkward to type on but the keyboard feels okay and because it's lying flat there's zero Flex when pressing down on there of course so all in all I mean it it feels reasonable it's not going to be the best typing experience ever but I use the chewy vi1 keyboard which is basically just like this one and I didn't have any issues with it now I just wanted to test out the type-c port whether it's going to a be able to power an external hard drive and B will it run at USB 3 speeds often these tablets fail this little test so let's find out now I have a Western Digital 1 tby drive here just plug that in okay I can hear that firing up and a white light indicates that you can just see down here that that is only USB 2 speeds but at least it's powering it but it's sad to see that that's not running at USB 3.0 speech which it should now chewy did not include in the Box a type-c adapter which is disappointing so you're going to have to supply and buy one of those yourself if you want to convert that Port into a fulls siiz Port because there are no full-sized USB ports on this tablet which is a little bit of a disappointment okay so that's the unboxing and my first impressions are overall quite good the build of it is solid it's not too bad now we don't have a fully laminated display so there's a little bit of a gap between the touch digitizer glass and the IPS panel below and the other thing we have to also be a little bit careful with is the fact that the keyboard just like the chewy VI 10 that I used to have will end up scratching the screen protector so it might pay to put down a cloth between the two layers when using it or buy some extra screen protectors and you've only got that one fixed angle so you either love it or hate it you're stuck with that one angle and the lack of a full-sized USB port on there is a shame because the vi 10 one of the first dual boot models from chewy had two full-sized USB 2 ports on it which was really handy and the type-c port is only only running as far as I can tell now with my test that I just did in this video only running at USB 2 speeds which is a real shame so we'll be back with u benchmarks battery life testing it out in full detail with the review which will hopefully be coming out within a week or so so hopefully I will catch you back for the full hi10 plus review bye for nowso a new tablet to unbox here today and it's the same as the vi 10 plus that I looked at but this is now the chewy hi10 plus it gets a little confusing the naming but this one here has remix OS 2.0 and Windows 10 64 GB of internal storage got the same atom z8300 I thought I'd finished looking at those there but there were a lot of requests for me to review this particular model because it does have a Surface three screen in it so this one here I picked up from gearbest.com and you can see that it came via DHL now it's selling for around about 189 us at the moment and the keyboard is an additional 20 us so the typical chewy box there see on the side there ho10 plus and just a few specs there so this green resolution 1920 by 1280 so instead of the typical Android 5.1 we see on there remix this time around so charger will be in here and the type C cable and the Chargers they have been using lately are 5 Vols and 3 amps so it charges a little bit faster and you see there I have a European one and that yes is rated to 5 vol 3 amps just like the vi 10 plus and a black USB type c cable so here's the tablet it has a a screen protector already applied to it a magnetic docking keyboard connector technology for stylus pin oh sorry it does actually support a stylus I was not expecting that that's right it has the H2 pin so it's the the high pin but the second one not the first one that was on the chewy hi12 you'll see we've got the 3.5 mm headphone jack micro HDMI the microphone micro USB 2 port and the type-c port hopefully this is USB 3 I will check that out and the micro SD card slot one speaker there on the left on the bottom the five Pogo Port connector that is to of course connect up with the keyboard which I'll show you in just a second and then the second speaker on the right so we have good stereo separation at least from that and on the back of it a rear 5 megap webcam the webcam up the front that's a 2 map one there so quickly show you the keyboard so the keyboard has this felt like material around it like fabric it's a very similar keyboard to the chewy VI 10 the first one that had the fulls size USB ports in it that I reviewed a good year ago or so now it's a very similar keyboard very similar setup to it so you see here that the layout all of it we've got a reasonably sized touchpad there it's not too bad it does have Hardware left and right buttons and the key travel on it isn't too bad at all it's not a bad keyboard it's a little bit plasticky feeling it's not quite as good as the the chewy hok keyboard which has mostly metal on it or metal on the palmrest at least but this is all plastic and you do have these little rubber feet here to help keep the keyboard from touching the screen so the keyboard just folds back like this there's magnets in there so that'll keep that latched in and it's quite stable like that and and the tablet with the magnets in the bottom simply just docks in like that I'll show you how the keyboard folds up so what we need to do is just simply just place it down and then that folds up and creates a protective cover for it like that and that's easy enough to transport or slip in a bag so quick look at the tablets wait before I actually power it on weighs 700 g so it's quite heavy for what it is and then when you add the key keyboard with that that makes it 1.14 kilos one thing I almost missed the power on and volume up and down buttons here along there these are made out of plastic and they feel well a little bit cheap there so I'm just going to power it on now you just got to hold down that button for about 4 seconds there should be battery in here cuz normally they ship out of the factory with some battery I can see yes that that is now powering up there we go get rid of the screen protector well that's only the first layer there is also it's pre-applied it's there behind there there's always screen protectors on because these do not have dragon tail or Gorilla Glass so they don't have scratch resistant glass is what I wanted to say all right so it just powered up into remix first and you see a different layout there from your typical Android 5.1 ROM so I just check the version should be under here on settings I can't actually see any blow Weare either well there'll probably be a couple of things on there so it is running remix OS 2.0 it is Android version 5.1.1 let's close that down so have a look and see if we have any blow we' got WPS office on there but there something that remix always put on News Republic I would consider that to be blow Weare remix applications and of course of course Play Store is on there and remix Essentials and another app there but that's well it's not really bloatware it's just another place to get more applications really so free available storage have a look at that if I can remember how to bring that up I think it's on the settings here oh there we go so we got 8.1 GB free on remix so at least that's some space to be able to install a couple of large games and a few applications there now of course you can insert a mic SD card slot to expand on the storage there if you want to put all your music on that instead of actually putting it on the internal storage to leave space there for all your games and other apps and things so I'll look at this later on in my full review I'll test out a few games to see the performance whether it's going to be able to play something like Mortal Kombat X and the full native resolution uh the screen just have a quick look at the moment the brightness is right down that's probably going to be absolutely overpowering the exposure settings I have on the camera but that gets up to 400 should be around 450 nits of brightness the the Surface three screen that it has in there 3x2 ratio of course so I can't see any way in this to boot over to Windows directly unless I hold down the power button and that well that's only got just reboot there so I'm going to have to use that and I'll move over now into Windows okay so the boot took about 25 seconds and it actually had an account already created which was named admin which is interesting so that means that gearbest must have gone in there and done their post sale inspection their test just to make sure everything was working that's what Sometimes some of the sellers do unfortunately even though the windows image on this will probably no doubt support English and there's no real reason for them to go in there to change it over to English because you can actually just do that on the initial first setup so let's have a look at the device manager and I'll bring up uh file explorer and have look and see how much free available space there is so 31.5 GB free in Windows so you got plenty of room there well it's never an Al is it but I mean it's a lot more than Android has than the remix in there and just under the device manager have a look at the disc drive so it's a tashiba 064 GAA that is very common it's good to see that at least we got a brand name and looking under now the network adapters a real Tech Wireless N and that also handles Bluetooth 4.0 so the screen accuracy touch there I can see I'm not having any problems just closing things it it seems to be quite good and quick and responsive s it bad so I just go sorry back into Windows just want to have a look there so it has uh Windows 10 home on there and the full 4 GB of RAM we don't normally see any problems now with that they don't tend to allocate any more to hardware and windows is activated so normally you have to connect up to the Internet to get that activated but it's already been connected by the looks of it see that is already activated so I just brought up the Windows task manager and under the performance tab wanted to have a look at the memory speeds so we do have the 4 GB of double data rate 3 but I can see that at the speed of it is running at only 1066 MHz even though the this chipset does support, 1600 MHz now I'm quite sure that with the chewes at least you can go into the bias and you can go into the North Bridge under the speed settings there and change the dim a I think it is listed as up to, 1600 and that gives a boost of around 10 to 15% at least in the 3D Mark and 3D performance for the GPU benchmarks that I have tested out so I don't know why they are clocking that down to 1066 possibly for extended battery life or stability but I'm going to change that later on because I prefer to run it at the fastest possible speed which is 1600 MHz because these atoms need all the speed they can get okay so I've just connected up to my wireless connection that I have and I wanted to test out those speakers I've just gone into you YouTube here and search quickly carbon based life forms just to play a quick soundtrack okay so they're a little tny sounding but as you just heard from there that they do have a bit of volume behind them which is good so at least they're I would say they're loud enough and in Android while Remax normally they are even a little bit louder too for some reason it's something that's driver related but just have a quick little type on the keyboard and see how it feels of course I've got the tripod in front of me so it's a little bit awkward to type on but the keyboard feels okay and because it's lying flat there's zero Flex when pressing down on there of course so all in all I mean it it feels reasonable it's not going to be the best typing experience ever but I use the chewy vi1 keyboard which is basically just like this one and I didn't have any issues with it now I just wanted to test out the type-c port whether it's going to a be able to power an external hard drive and B will it run at USB 3 speeds often these tablets fail this little test so let's find out now I have a Western Digital 1 tby drive here just plug that in okay I can hear that firing up and a white light indicates that you can just see down here that that is only USB 2 speeds but at least it's powering it but it's sad to see that that's not running at USB 3.0 speech which it should now chewy did not include in the Box a type-c adapter which is disappointing so you're going to have to supply and buy one of those yourself if you want to convert that Port into a fulls siiz Port because there are no full-sized USB ports on this tablet which is a little bit of a disappointment okay so that's the unboxing and my first impressions are overall quite good the build of it is solid it's not too bad now we don't have a fully laminated display so there's a little bit of a gap between the touch digitizer glass and the IPS panel below and the other thing we have to also be a little bit careful with is the fact that the keyboard just like the chewy VI 10 that I used to have will end up scratching the screen protector so it might pay to put down a cloth between the two layers when using it or buy some extra screen protectors and you've only got that one fixed angle so you either love it or hate it you're stuck with that one angle and the lack of a full-sized USB port on there is a shame because the vi 10 one of the first dual boot models from chewy had two full-sized USB 2 ports on it which was really handy and the type-c port is only only running as far as I can tell now with my test that I just did in this video only running at USB 2 speeds which is a real shame so we'll be back with u benchmarks battery life testing it out in full detail with the review which will hopefully be coming out within a week or so so hopefully I will catch you back for the full hi10 plus review bye for now\n"
