**A Comprehensive Review of the X98 Plus 2 Tablet**

In this review, we'll delve into the features and performance of the X98 Plus 2 tablet, one of the latest Android-powered devices on the market. Our device is running on a March security patch level, which indicates that it has received regular updates to ensure optimal security and performance.

**Benchmarking and Performance**

We began our testing by running some benchmarking tests to assess the device's performance. The Android security patch level and the device's specifications resulted in impressive scores across various benchmarks. The Slingshot score of 6.1.4, for instance, shows that this device is capable of delivering smooth performance, even with demanding tasks. The 3D Mark Ice Storm and Ice Storm Extreme tests further reinforce this point, with our device scoring higher than Windows devices in these tests.

However, when it comes to battery life, the X98 Plus 2 falls short of expectations. Our testing revealed that the device's battery life is around 5 hours and 6 minutes, which is about an hour less than what we experienced with the Windows version. This discrepancy has been a recurring theme in Android devices compared to their Windows counterparts, with differences often ranging between 15% to 20%.

**Wireless Speeds**

Another aspect of our testing was wireless speeds, specifically download and upload speeds. While our device's wired speed test resulted in respectable numbers (29 megabits per second), the wireless speed test fell short, with only 18.6 megabits per second download speed.

We also conducted a series of tests to evaluate the device's gaming performance. Games like Marvel Champions, Modern Combat 5: Blackout Zone, and Dungeon Hunter 5: Order & Chaos Legends were put through their paces, and we're pleased to report that all of them performed admirably. The games ran smoothly, with good frame rates and minimal lag.

**Display and Audio**

The X98 Plus 2's display is undoubtedly one of its standout features. With a 264 PPI resolution, the screen delivers crisp, sharp text that's pleasing to the eye. However, our testing revealed some minor quirks, such as occasional page loading delays when skipping ahead in eBooks or magazines.

In terms of audio, we were pleasantly surprised by the device's speakers. While they may not be as loud as those found on Windows devices, they deliver clear and crisp sound that's more than suitable for everyday use.

**Conclusion**

After putting the X98 Plus 2 through a rigorous testing process, our verdict is somewhat mixed. On one hand, the device boasts an impressive display, a smooth Android ROM, and decent gaming performance. However, several issues detract from its overall value.

The device's smaller bezels compared to the earlier model are a missed opportunity for design enhancement. Furthermore, the wireless reception is subpar, with speeds dropping off significantly when moving away from the router or even just switching rooms. These issues make us question whether the X98 Plus 2 is truly worth considering.

That being said, if you're in the market for an Android tablet and are willing to overlook some of these limitations, the X98 Plus 2 might still be a viable option. We would recommend opting for the earlier model or the X98 Pro instead, as they offer better value for their price.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entickl last has updated their x98 Plus or the x98 plus 2 here and it's still using the same screen so it's got a 9.7 in 2048x 1536 resolution screen that's the same screen that is in the Apple iPad Air and the Air 2 and all the previous TL x98 models now the design and build of it has changed slightly I personally see it as a step backwards and I'll explain to you why because here is the x98 plus sorry x98 a 3 but it's the same as the x98 plus the build of it but it has smaller bezels and a more squared off design which I actually like better because it just feels a little stronger feels a little bit more quality whereas the new one the x98 + 2 you'll see see the build is different it has more plastic Basel around the top here and there are a few things with the build quality as well that I noticed if I just get the camera to focus here you see along here I notice there's a bit of a gap here and my volume down button sometimes sticks a little bit so the quality has drop somewhat it doesn't seem as good as it used to be before and has a slightly cheaper feel to it and cheaper it is yes it is slightly cheaper too it's around 160 US versus about 190 or 80 when the x98 plus first came out so it's still a dual boot device Windows 10 and Android 5.1 and it has a 8,000 mAh battery and atom X5 Z8 304 GB of RAM now the ram is running at 1600 MHz not 1066 so it's running at this maximum speed there so I've just been running some benchmarks here that I will show you in Windows 10 now which is the start of this review now this review is going to cover various different sections and we'll also cover Android so there's some time codes that should be popping up right now so you can check those out and Skip ahead to parts of the video you'd like to see that are more interesting for you so benchmarks just been running these ones here the typical benchmarks I like to run so here is the uh ice storm extreme score that you just saw and that's the ice storm 1.2 score a little lower than expected there and so is the geek bench 3 score here a little low normally you see about 700 720 and close to 2,000 on the multicore score but it's running a little low there not completely sure why it could have something to do with The Thermals it has been getting up to 81° but no thermal throttling so that was the I extreme score there so on first boot when you get into win knows you have 23.4 GB of space free there and I'll just quickly show you the device manager so the disc drive is a HX is a proper brand which is good to see it's not a B1 or one of the slow ones network adapter is the real Tech chipset which is just Wireless N so I'll show you quickly The Benchmark speed of the drive so this is the internal storage 130 reads and 81 right sequential and the 4K speeds there are okay they're not wonderful but not bad for an emmc 4.5.1 spec drive so the screen itself as mentioned has a gap in it so you have a look there you can see there's a quite a visible Gap there and the brightness of it is good it gets up to 550 Lum of brightness which isn't too bad at all and the colors of it the black levels and the whites are good and the calibration it's neither too cool or too warm it's good somewhere in between there and overall a very nice panel that has a pixel density of 264 PPI so all the ports have now moved to the the top of the tablet whereas on the older ones it was all on the bottom here so you got there on the bottom you have the ports and the micro SD card slotter on the side there but now all on the top so here we've got the microphone audio jack DC 5 Vols and for charging now so you can charge using that and you can also charge using the micro USB 2 Port but when you charge with this then you still at least have Micro USB freed up now which is good that's a positive that this new design has a Micro SD card slot that can take up to 128 GB cards a rear 2 megap camera there and the front-facing camera is also 2 megapixels and as you saw before the power on volume up and down along the bottom nothing and the whole back of the tablet made out of this metal that has a a matte coat to it and the gray look that you can see the speaker design has changed slightly they put a new grill on the back of there to try and give us a little bit more volume and I will test those speakers out just now and see how they sound if they have improved or not so I'm just going to play a clip here of carbon based life forms now the reason I play these guys is because they don't give me any copyright issues in YouTube just turn the volume up to maximum okay I can hear lots of distortion okay there's a lot of distortion coming out of those speakers and to be honest I can't actually hear any Improvement in loudness from them whatsoever compared to the older models that I have listened to and in Android it does sound slightly louder the volume I think it's something to do with the drivers it tends to always happen that for some reason these dual boot tablets and Android the speakers always perform a little bit better there now scrolling and using Ed browser here very fast no problems whatsoever this can also play for 4K video stream 4K video without any stutter or anything like that now if you use chrome chrome is going to be a little bit slower still hasn't been optimized to work with Adam chipsets very well in Windows 10 and if you do play a 4K clip there you will have choppiness and dropped frames everywhere it's very stuttery at streaming anything over 1080p in Chrome is horrible so with 50% brightness and web use you're looking approximately 6 to 7 hours of battery life which is okay wasn't as good as the first x98 plus that I tested that could get up to 8 hours but this dual boot version doesn't seem too bad so the capacity as mentioned is 8,000 mamp hours the same as the older models there and an Android you get around 6 hours slightly less for some reason it seems to consume more CPU so I just finished running a wireless test here and the performance of the wireless it's really bad I don't know what is going on but not good at all in Android as you'll see later on when I get to the Android part of the view it's a lot faster Android but still not as good as other tablets and the range of the X9 8 plus 2 here is very poor as soon as I go downstairs these speeds will go down to even half of that so very poor Wireless performance and if you hold the tablet right about here that will also affect the the range of it and the speeds you'll be getting so it's got something to do with this area where they do have the antenna but they seem to have used a very poor antenna setup or perhaps it's the drivers or the configuration of the real Tech chipset because other tablets with the same chipset can perform quite well and get speeds I should be getting speeds here of about 40 uh megabits per second and then around 25 so you can see how far off that really is so not good at all to see this kind of speed on it so the only game I'm going to test out in this particular review is Counter-Strike Global Offensive here these are the setings so everything is on the lowest possible seating here going to run with this and see how it performs and because of the poor Wireless I'm getting very high latency you can see there so only about 138 the lowest I can seem to get normally I get under 50 or under 100 at least okay so it's running approximately 30 frames per second at the moment which isn't too bad but there aren't many players on the server okay so here on the train map it's about 14 frames per second there so not running very fast at all now 20 counterterrorist win it looks like the server's waiting for players to join there but it's it's enough at least to see how fast this is going to run and not really fast enough is it that frame rate see it gets down dips down to about 16 15 then terrorist win so the overall performance in Windows and touch accuracy and the fluidness of the screen everything seems to be fine there's no problems with that it seems just as fast as any other atom x 58 300 tablet that I have used and and doing most things within the operating system pops up quick there's no problems there whatsoever with that we'll take a look at the temperatures now after I did test out that one game that I tested so 81° seems like it's going to pretty much be the maximum there because I've been running benchmarks and and did that little bit of gaming there and and that really isn't too bad at all because I can see these chips getting up to normally about 85° and here it's still quite a way off from that and no swim throttling so I'll move over now to Android there is no app here to load Android to boot straight over it it seems they haven't installed one this time or one to quickly do the switch over to Android now here it is actually sorry it's right there so this icon that will boot over into Android so here we have to enable or disable the dual boot menu and switch over so the whole switching process of going from Windows over to Android and vice versa takes approximately about 40 seconds to a minute it's not super quick so here we have the ROM it's using a uh stock like launcher which is good they don't use that tea launcher they used to use on their earlier versions that's now gone and gone for good it seems which isn't a bad thing at all because that was was really laggy that old one so performance of the ROM is really good no problems whatsoever with it and if we have a look here in settings uh the amount of storage you have available is I think on first boot was 15 or 14 Gaby they're free I've got nine at the moment cuz I have stalled a few applications and some games and have a look at these we have installed RAM 8 GB and we'll just have a quick look at the RAM usage so you can see here that we have used our 708 mbes of RAM and there's 3 GB of RAM free there to use so you can do quite a lot of multitasking with that so I did run through my normal benchmarks which I'll quickly show you those so there is an overthe a update but it seems to always crash so here is an update there for 54 megabytes but uh it always results in the package cannot be finished or download cannot be finished there's an error so that's not good to see so I don't know how we're going to get the latest update if it's not even working properly oh so there we go there's the amount of free space 15 GB is what you get on first boot says running Android 5.1.1 and the Android security patch level is dating from March there here's the n22 6.1.4 score slingshot score 3D Mark ice storm maxed out ice storm extreme you can see that score is better than Windows and here's the work battery life score so 5 hours and 6 minutes which is about 1 hour less than what you get out of Windows now that's always the case this seems to always happen there's always a difference of about 15% or so or 20% between Android and Windows for some reason and that's how the battery went so you can see that the main user of course was the screen and the screen on hours 4 hours and 30 minutes it still had 20% left though and there's my wireless speed test the result is better from what I got in Windows but still slow only 18 six there megabits per second download whereas I can get around 45 from my desktop upload speed however was good my desktop got about 29 which is connected right into the actual wireless router I have so those speeds there still something going on with the wireless and there's a breakdown of the scores there for for and 22 so I do have a few games installed here that I will quickly show you some of them how they perform and mostly the the games that are more demanding like uh Marvel Champions here that I have see how they perform so this one's running perfectly playable good frame rates and next up is Modern Combat 5 cover take out this one is also performing really well that's very smooth thear elimin confirm extraction location over hold up come on let's go thanks contact strike two this is advance to extraction point you heard him come on and the final title I will test in this review is dungeon H 5 our Scouts reported seeing San heading into the proted add sop so this game is performing quite well and I must admit these speakers in Android do actually sound a lot better than Windows and probably even better maybe than the first versions okay so get out of this now and test out the eBook reader so we do have I installed playbooks on here have a quick look at that so with the 264 PPI that this screen has it looks really good text looks really good nice and sharp and the performance of it is fine now if you try to skip ahead a while there it will play a little bit of catch up trying to load the pages that that's normal I'll try something a little more heavy than this book so I just try actually just went straight back to Dan Brown's book try a magazine here so APC magazine so it's having to load it up so it's taking a little while there you can see I haven't loaded this before and just a little bit slower especially when you want to skip ahead with the pages and can see how long that is taking of course that's all pulling that information through from the internet there we go and that doesn't look too bad and it just crashed on me wow so that's not very good to see so to recap my findings here I find the x98 plus 2 here to be slightly disappointing it has a I would say downgraded build compared to the earlier model the first x98 plus and the larger bezels as well that it has sure it has a great screen it's got that same brilliant screen on it very good colors really nice and and sharp good brightness that's fine the Android ROM runs really good the speakers I would say yes in Android they are marginally better but in Windows I can't really tell the difference but the main problem with this tablet is the wireless reception is very poor the range of it seems to be ah very bad it's it really is when I move downstairs I just the speeds just completely drop off and even close to my wireless router I'm not really getting the speeds I should be getting compared to other tablets so there is definitely something going on with the antenna they have used or the the card of the way they have it configured and the windows performance there was fine okay some of those benchmark scores were maybe perhaps a little lower than I've seen in other devices the battery life is more or less on par with some of the earlier versions not quite as good as the x98 plus the windows only version that I reviewed that got 8 hours this one gets a little less and the cameras while I didn't show you them they take pretty awful photos but they're okay for video chat you can use them for video chat as long as you're in good lighting so I can't really recommend getting this one I would get the x98 plus the first model or get the x98 pro those are the better 9.7 in rtina tablets from Tech glass thank you so much for watching the review hopefully I will see you back in the channel soontickl last has updated their x98 Plus or the x98 plus 2 here and it's still using the same screen so it's got a 9.7 in 2048x 1536 resolution screen that's the same screen that is in the Apple iPad Air and the Air 2 and all the previous TL x98 models now the design and build of it has changed slightly I personally see it as a step backwards and I'll explain to you why because here is the x98 plus sorry x98 a 3 but it's the same as the x98 plus the build of it but it has smaller bezels and a more squared off design which I actually like better because it just feels a little stronger feels a little bit more quality whereas the new one the x98 + 2 you'll see see the build is different it has more plastic Basel around the top here and there are a few things with the build quality as well that I noticed if I just get the camera to focus here you see along here I notice there's a bit of a gap here and my volume down button sometimes sticks a little bit so the quality has drop somewhat it doesn't seem as good as it used to be before and has a slightly cheaper feel to it and cheaper it is yes it is slightly cheaper too it's around 160 US versus about 190 or 80 when the x98 plus first came out so it's still a dual boot device Windows 10 and Android 5.1 and it has a 8,000 mAh battery and atom X5 Z8 304 GB of RAM now the ram is running at 1600 MHz not 1066 so it's running at this maximum speed there so I've just been running some benchmarks here that I will show you in Windows 10 now which is the start of this review now this review is going to cover various different sections and we'll also cover Android so there's some time codes that should be popping up right now so you can check those out and Skip ahead to parts of the video you'd like to see that are more interesting for you so benchmarks just been running these ones here the typical benchmarks I like to run so here is the uh ice storm extreme score that you just saw and that's the ice storm 1.2 score a little lower than expected there and so is the geek bench 3 score here a little low normally you see about 700 720 and close to 2,000 on the multicore score but it's running a little low there not completely sure why it could have something to do with The Thermals it has been getting up to 81° but no thermal throttling so that was the I extreme score there so on first boot when you get into win knows you have 23.4 GB of space free there and I'll just quickly show you the device manager so the disc drive is a HX is a proper brand which is good to see it's not a B1 or one of the slow ones network adapter is the real Tech chipset which is just Wireless N so I'll show you quickly The Benchmark speed of the drive so this is the internal storage 130 reads and 81 right sequential and the 4K speeds there are okay they're not wonderful but not bad for an emmc 4.5.1 spec drive so the screen itself as mentioned has a gap in it so you have a look there you can see there's a quite a visible Gap there and the brightness of it is good it gets up to 550 Lum of brightness which isn't too bad at all and the colors of it the black levels and the whites are good and the calibration it's neither too cool or too warm it's good somewhere in between there and overall a very nice panel that has a pixel density of 264 PPI so all the ports have now moved to the the top of the tablet whereas on the older ones it was all on the bottom here so you got there on the bottom you have the ports and the micro SD card slotter on the side there but now all on the top so here we've got the microphone audio jack DC 5 Vols and for charging now so you can charge using that and you can also charge using the micro USB 2 Port but when you charge with this then you still at least have Micro USB freed up now which is good that's a positive that this new design has a Micro SD card slot that can take up to 128 GB cards a rear 2 megap camera there and the front-facing camera is also 2 megapixels and as you saw before the power on volume up and down along the bottom nothing and the whole back of the tablet made out of this metal that has a a matte coat to it and the gray look that you can see the speaker design has changed slightly they put a new grill on the back of there to try and give us a little bit more volume and I will test those speakers out just now and see how they sound if they have improved or not so I'm just going to play a clip here of carbon based life forms now the reason I play these guys is because they don't give me any copyright issues in YouTube just turn the volume up to maximum okay I can hear lots of distortion okay there's a lot of distortion coming out of those speakers and to be honest I can't actually hear any Improvement in loudness from them whatsoever compared to the older models that I have listened to and in Android it does sound slightly louder the volume I think it's something to do with the drivers it tends to always happen that for some reason these dual boot tablets and Android the speakers always perform a little bit better there now scrolling and using Ed browser here very fast no problems whatsoever this can also play for 4K video stream 4K video without any stutter or anything like that now if you use chrome chrome is going to be a little bit slower still hasn't been optimized to work with Adam chipsets very well in Windows 10 and if you do play a 4K clip there you will have choppiness and dropped frames everywhere it's very stuttery at streaming anything over 1080p in Chrome is horrible so with 50% brightness and web use you're looking approximately 6 to 7 hours of battery life which is okay wasn't as good as the first x98 plus that I tested that could get up to 8 hours but this dual boot version doesn't seem too bad so the capacity as mentioned is 8,000 mamp hours the same as the older models there and an Android you get around 6 hours slightly less for some reason it seems to consume more CPU so I just finished running a wireless test here and the performance of the wireless it's really bad I don't know what is going on but not good at all in Android as you'll see later on when I get to the Android part of the view it's a lot faster Android but still not as good as other tablets and the range of the X9 8 plus 2 here is very poor as soon as I go downstairs these speeds will go down to even half of that so very poor Wireless performance and if you hold the tablet right about here that will also affect the the range of it and the speeds you'll be getting so it's got something to do with this area where they do have the antenna but they seem to have used a very poor antenna setup or perhaps it's the drivers or the configuration of the real Tech chipset because other tablets with the same chipset can perform quite well and get speeds I should be getting speeds here of about 40 uh megabits per second and then around 25 so you can see how far off that really is so not good at all to see this kind of speed on it so the only game I'm going to test out in this particular review is Counter-Strike Global Offensive here these are the setings so everything is on the lowest possible seating here going to run with this and see how it performs and because of the poor Wireless I'm getting very high latency you can see there so only about 138 the lowest I can seem to get normally I get under 50 or under 100 at least okay so it's running approximately 30 frames per second at the moment which isn't too bad but there aren't many players on the server okay so here on the train map it's about 14 frames per second there so not running very fast at all now 20 counterterrorist win it looks like the server's waiting for players to join there but it's it's enough at least to see how fast this is going to run and not really fast enough is it that frame rate see it gets down dips down to about 16 15 then terrorist win so the overall performance in Windows and touch accuracy and the fluidness of the screen everything seems to be fine there's no problems with that it seems just as fast as any other atom x 58 300 tablet that I have used and and doing most things within the operating system pops up quick there's no problems there whatsoever with that we'll take a look at the temperatures now after I did test out that one game that I tested so 81° seems like it's going to pretty much be the maximum there because I've been running benchmarks and and did that little bit of gaming there and and that really isn't too bad at all because I can see these chips getting up to normally about 85° and here it's still quite a way off from that and no swim throttling so I'll move over now to Android there is no app here to load Android to boot straight over it it seems they haven't installed one this time or one to quickly do the switch over to Android now here it is actually sorry it's right there so this icon that will boot over into Android so here we have to enable or disable the dual boot menu and switch over so the whole switching process of going from Windows over to Android and vice versa takes approximately about 40 seconds to a minute it's not super quick so here we have the ROM it's using a uh stock like launcher which is good they don't use that tea launcher they used to use on their earlier versions that's now gone and gone for good it seems which isn't a bad thing at all because that was was really laggy that old one so performance of the ROM is really good no problems whatsoever with it and if we have a look here in settings uh the amount of storage you have available is I think on first boot was 15 or 14 Gaby they're free I've got nine at the moment cuz I have stalled a few applications and some games and have a look at these we have installed RAM 8 GB and we'll just have a quick look at the RAM usage so you can see here that we have used our 708 mbes of RAM and there's 3 GB of RAM free there to use so you can do quite a lot of multitasking with that so I did run through my normal benchmarks which I'll quickly show you those so there is an overthe a update but it seems to always crash so here is an update there for 54 megabytes but uh it always results in the package cannot be finished or download cannot be finished there's an error so that's not good to see so I don't know how we're going to get the latest update if it's not even working properly oh so there we go there's the amount of free space 15 GB is what you get on first boot says running Android 5.1.1 and the Android security patch level is dating from March there here's the n22 6.1.4 score slingshot score 3D Mark ice storm maxed out ice storm extreme you can see that score is better than Windows and here's the work battery life score so 5 hours and 6 minutes which is about 1 hour less than what you get out of Windows now that's always the case this seems to always happen there's always a difference of about 15% or so or 20% between Android and Windows for some reason and that's how the battery went so you can see that the main user of course was the screen and the screen on hours 4 hours and 30 minutes it still had 20% left though and there's my wireless speed test the result is better from what I got in Windows but still slow only 18 six there megabits per second download whereas I can get around 45 from my desktop upload speed however was good my desktop got about 29 which is connected right into the actual wireless router I have so those speeds there still something going on with the wireless and there's a breakdown of the scores there for for and 22 so I do have a few games installed here that I will quickly show you some of them how they perform and mostly the the games that are more demanding like uh Marvel Champions here that I have see how they perform so this one's running perfectly playable good frame rates and next up is Modern Combat 5 cover take out this one is also performing really well that's very smooth thear elimin confirm extraction location over hold up come on let's go thanks contact strike two this is advance to extraction point you heard him come on and the final title I will test in this review is dungeon H 5 our Scouts reported seeing San heading into the proted add sop so this game is performing quite well and I must admit these speakers in Android do actually sound a lot better than Windows and probably even better maybe than the first versions okay so get out of this now and test out the eBook reader so we do have I installed playbooks on here have a quick look at that so with the 264 PPI that this screen has it looks really good text looks really good nice and sharp and the performance of it is fine now if you try to skip ahead a while there it will play a little bit of catch up trying to load the pages that that's normal I'll try something a little more heavy than this book so I just try actually just went straight back to Dan Brown's book try a magazine here so APC magazine so it's having to load it up so it's taking a little while there you can see I haven't loaded this before and just a little bit slower especially when you want to skip ahead with the pages and can see how long that is taking of course that's all pulling that information through from the internet there we go and that doesn't look too bad and it just crashed on me wow so that's not very good to see so to recap my findings here I find the x98 plus 2 here to be slightly disappointing it has a I would say downgraded build compared to the earlier model the first x98 plus and the larger bezels as well that it has sure it has a great screen it's got that same brilliant screen on it very good colors really nice and and sharp good brightness that's fine the Android ROM runs really good the speakers I would say yes in Android they are marginally better but in Windows I can't really tell the difference but the main problem with this tablet is the wireless reception is very poor the range of it seems to be ah very bad it's it really is when I move downstairs I just the speeds just completely drop off and even close to my wireless router I'm not really getting the speeds I should be getting compared to other tablets so there is definitely something going on with the antenna they have used or the the card of the way they have it configured and the windows performance there was fine okay some of those benchmark scores were maybe perhaps a little lower than I've seen in other devices the battery life is more or less on par with some of the earlier versions not quite as good as the x98 plus the windows only version that I reviewed that got 8 hours this one gets a little less and the cameras while I didn't show you them they take pretty awful photos but they're okay for video chat you can use them for video chat as long as you're in good lighting so I can't really recommend getting this one I would get the x98 plus the first model or get the x98 pro those are the better 9.7 in rtina tablets from Tech glass thank you so much for watching the review hopefully I will see you back in the channel soon\n"