Chuwi Hi9 Pro Unboxing & In Depth Review

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enChris here back with another tabletreview so this time around it is Chuwi'slatest which is the hi9 pro so this isone of those mediatek helio X 20 tabletsI've looked at a few now the chipset isokay it does have a lot of features likeGPS FM radio and dual SIM LTE about theGPU it's paired up with the old Mele T880 isn't exactly the fastest but as yousee in this review that you can stillplay games as long as you're on thelower settings with demanding titleslike pub G so it has an 8 megapixelcamera on the rear of it five up frontit even has an earpiece and could beused as a mass of 8.4 inch mobile phoneso the screen resolution is 2560 by 1600it's a fully laminated IPS panel so itshould look very decent and the batterycapacity is a five thousand milliamphours and it even has a type C port onit so really the only thing this tabletis missing to me is micro HDMI out or atleast HDMI out by the type C port whichit doesn'tunfortunately support so let's take alook what we get in the boxthe tablet they obviously in a sleevewe'll have a look at that in just aminute we've got a little pouch in hereand this will have your warranty yourguarantee cards a little qualityinspection certificate thing there andthis is in both Chinese by the looks ofit and English as well that's just allyour specs and it's also showing youthat SIM tray slot so it's either microSD card nano SIM or 2 nano SIMjust like the Helio x20 mobile phonesI've reviewed floating around in the boxof course is the SIM tray tool which I'mgoing to need and then in the side pouchhere we get a black type-c cable reallygood to see it's using type-c by the wayand not micro USB and then our tinylittle charger here which is rated to 5volts 2 amps so this does not supportmedia ticks pump Express this tableteven though the chipset does so weighs375 grams and is around about 9.35millimeters at thevicars point so the hi9 Pro has thismetal alloy on the rear but the tops andbottom are made out of plastic that'sfor the wireless antennas of course andthen the LTE antennas so along thebottom you'll find just a single monospeaker here now if this is anythinglike the hi-8 or they chain own speakersthis is going to be pretty bad andperhaps the biggest con of this tabletso well rear camera here is in a samsung8 megapixel one autofocus and you'll seeup the top here we've got the sim tray Ijust wanted to pull that out just toshow you that it is actually made out ofmetal I thought it might be one of thosereally cheap plastic ones so good to seethey didn't resort to plastic here thesame goes for the buttons again made outof metal I thought they might have beenplastic considering the price of thistablet and is a tiny little hole therethat you probably can't actually makeout it's a little hard to get on cameraand what that is to me it looks like areset button perhaps right on the topyou'll find a 3.5 mm a headphone jackwith microphone support then the type Cport for data and charging it's only USB2 spec here you can see something wedon't normally get on an 8.4 inch tabletand that is an earpiece so yes it can beused as a phone it has a proximitysensor and perhaps even an ambient lightsense I hope it does and there's acamera there as well which is a fivemegapixel one and you're probablywondering where that microphone is forcalls and video it's right here to thetiny little hole there so overall forthe price the build quality is actuallya lot better than I thought it was goingto be I expected to see plastic buttonsat least and they've got the texture onthat button too painted it red just togive it a bit of a gamer look perhapsand there is no perhaps a tiny littlebit of flex there and the case but Ican't hear any creeks or anything so Iroll the build is a very decent so itdoes come with a pre applied screenprotector you can see but normally thefactory gets this right the first timeand they put them on really well but youcan see here there's a lot of airbubbles so I will probably just have toyeah look at that that's an absolutemess I'm just going to have to go withno screen protector so first glimpse atthe screen yes the left and right bezelsdo look bit larger than air Press imageswe're getting a lot of this aren't wefrom people who tryna come he's fromChina that just tend to tweak thoseimages to make Bissell's look a littleslimmer I wish they would stop doingthat so we've got all your languages onthere that you normally get this isstock Android eight which is great andit also uses Google's G board which isgreat too so no funny custom keyboardhere so here we go in Android its stockAndroid of course now I just wanted toupdate you that yes there is a hapticfeedback motor in there you get a veryslight vibration it's not a lot but it'sbetter than nothing I just noticed itwhen I was typing with the keyboard toset up my Google account and everythingso it is running you can see stockAndroid as mentioned and those are thepre-installed apps so it is a very lightROM and you'll see that we've also gotright there FM radio you just need toconnect up a headset that acts as theantenna and then you're ready to go withthat you don't actually get that on alot of tablets just like GPS too whichis really good to have on this so youget twenty five point six gigabytes freeon this 32 gigabytes of storage but doremember that you can at least add amicro SD card to this and expand uponthat storage now it is running android8.0 not 8.1 unfortunately and thesecurity patch level is from June thefifth so let's take a detailed look nowat this display I think it's really goodconsidering the price of this tablet itdoes have pretty decent colorreproduction now the gammas 2.1 and it'snot far off from 2.2 so the gamma isalmost spot-on not bad at all maximumbrightness is where it's lacking I feela little here it comes out of 250 Luxfor a fully laminated display that'sfine indoors as you can see now butoutdoors really I would like to see alot more brightness there so they havetoned that down with this panel anotherthing to note is that the DPI which isthe scaling and Android here is set to320 which you normally see on mobilephones and I feel for the 8.4 inches andthe resolution that's good for mepersonally but for some people that maynot have the best eyesight you may findtext a little small and you probablynoticed that already when I showed youthe settings and things at just howsmall the text is going to bea lot of manufacturers will end upsetting this to normally around about480 the DPI here but overall it is anice screen fully laminated so you'renot gonna have that ugly gap highresolution but that high resolution doesmean I am seeing a little bit of lag andstutter here and there I do feel thatthis chipset is better suited to just1080p or 1200 P the glass the views onthe display as well as 2.5 D so it hasthose nice rounded edges here and Idon't know whether it's dragon tail orgorilla glass it did come with a preapplied screen protector so I wouldprobably leave that on there if ofcourse it doesn't have all the bubblesunderneath so sensors very basic herewe've just got an accelerometer and thena proximity sensor but when you use itas a large mobile phone the display willalso dim down very dim as you can seenow and this is going to be good forlate time you so thumbs up to chewy forsetting it nice and low a lot ofmanufacturers still keep the lowestsetting far too high now before I gothrough my typical benchmarks I wantedto talk about the performance of it Ithink this chipset is really strugglingwith the 2560 by 1600 resolution so mywebsite here does have a lot of imagesyou could say it's rather heavy and thetouch response is good no problems werethere I haven't had any issues withtouch response you just notice animationlag Algar all with the tablet just feelsa little on the leggy side a little slowand you can probably see it just whenyou go thrinng ximena's basicmultitasking like right now I'm tryingto close down on apps just to keepthings a little bit fluid but even whenwe just going through here and having alook at your different applications andthings you just notice that now and thenit's just not as fluid as it could beand this is especially noticeable goingfrom say Michelle Mimi pad 4 and then tothis tablet it's just not quite as goodso YouTube Netflix that actually works Itested it out but it's only standarddefinition because it's Widevine levelone and I did test out YouTube toYouTube that ever courses on here thatcomes with the ROM and you up to 1440pnow streaming as fluid it's going tohave no problems with that it's going tokeep up with everything there so I'lljust go to one of my videos and show youand you can see now see how thingsjust seemed a little bit slow when theyload through and for some reason I havea Spanish ad over my English videobecause I'm in Spain of course but thiscurrently is in 1440p and it does playthese videos really quite fluid andoverall looks nice now those starterscome a little bit more obvious when youstart to do for example multitasking orsplit screen much like running at themoment so since Android 7 were got splitscreen which is really great you canlook at your emails look at a websiteand still be watching for example one ofmy videos which I'm doing still in 1440pand you notice that now when you gothrough the abscess see there'snoticeable stutter this lag it's just alittle slow there and not the quickestso I will go back into Chrome whichshould still be open here and you'll seethat the scrolling that is okay so youcan read this about the performance hasdegraded somewhat of course running twothings at once all right so I did make aphone call on this and it says expectedI didn't expect it was going to beamazing qualities so the if it's at thetop I would say is not really loudenough it tends to vibrate distort atthe minimum so not great quality butagain it's kind of good to have this inhere and at this price point I feel it'sokay and I tested out the speakerphoneit's not brilliant either but I'll giveyou a sample now of that rare speakerokay must admit it doesn't actuallysound as bad as I thought it would I wasprejudging there wasn't Iyou just assume it's gonna be badbecause it normally is it's not anamazing speaker but it does have alittle bit of bass and the volume Iwould rate as being okay I feel it'ssufficient again looking at the price ofthis tablet now as I pointed out so it'sWidevine level three that it supports aNASA standard definition Netflix so onPlay Store you can install Netflix I'vealready done that but it's just thestandard definition that's all you'regonna getnow the tablet does support projectTribble but seamless updates they're notsupported there's no access to partitionslots a and B and let's be honest hereit's probably going to be stuck onandroid 8.0forever I don't ever see this gettingAndroid P Android 9 and GPS it works okit doesn't lock on to every singlesatellite out there media tech for mehave never had the best GPS Qualcommjust do it way better accuracy hoversaround four to five metersyour mobile phone will probably be moreaccurate and this does not support ahardware compass moving on now to theconnectivity so the 4G speeds testedhere really good no problems with thesignal strength I think it was one ofthese ones I first tested out it was theordered cube x1 I think was one of themthey had really poor signal strength nothappening here it's perfectly fine andthe wireless range and speeds also goodso it's gonna top out and my testingaround about 200 200 in 20 megabits persecond so this one I was expectinginternal storage speeds 67 megabytes persecond sequential and 45 writes quiteslow this is not MMC 5.1 spec this isonly MMC 4.5 point one and at thesmaller 32 gigabytes they always tend tobe quite slow but this is one of theslower ones down to to score this is onpar with other hey Leo X 20 devices Ihave reviewed both phones and tablets socluster hundredssome points here but syntheticbenchmarks are not everything as I'vepointed out it tends to struggle thischipset pushing the 2560 by 1600resolution ebooks they look good on thescreen because it is very sharp and ifyou're just reading ebooks then yourbattery life is gonna be a lot betterit's probably gonna be around 6 to 7hours as well when i zoom right into thetext this gives you an idea of the kindof sharpness you're getting it's veryhard to actually make out pixels on thisbecause of the resolution at 8.4 inchesand testing out a rather large PDF filethis one's about 3540 megabytesthe performance is ok you can seescrolling your head it's definitely notthe fastest uno will not compete with aniPad no way those processes are muchquicker there you can see you do seesome lag it is struggling a little bitat time so if I just zoom into this it'sdefinitely not the best performance Ihave seen skipping here with some pagesa little while to catch up and then loadit in those files you can see so notamazing performance but PDF files dolook good on this high resolution screennow I'm moving on to gaming so I'm goingto test out a very demanding title whichis pop G you're probably aware of it andfortnight's also going to be out soonfor many devices and this is going tohave to run everything on the lostsettings and that's all you can selectyou can't even go with balance with pubG in fact no you can't go a balancesorry but I do not recommend it go onthe lower settings just to keep thatframe rate up it's playable as you'llsee now but it can get quite choppy attimes so most of the time the game isreally struggling to get 30 frames persecond now it is playable but I wouldclass this as only just play ball yousee when you zoom in there's a littlebit of a stutter and just moving aroundyou do get quite a bit of lag therebut lighter titles like shadow fight 3this does run with fluid playableframeratesmuch smoother it's just as reallydemanding titles and it's a sample ofthe front-facing camera and the audio soit's just mono there's just that littlemic on the bottom it looks like a littletiny little slot it's just a gap thereand this quality is that's alright it'snot definitely gonna win any awards andyour mobile phone will probably be 10times better than this but I feel it'susable for Skype and your Google Voicechat apps and things like that like duothat is all gonna work with this andthat's the main thing and a very quicksample or video on the rear so yourmobile phone will do a much better jobthan this not amazing quality you cansee but at least we can record video solooking at battery life I can give youquite a good estimate here so gamingit's gonna last for about four to fivehours lighter tasks like just internetand this was all on wireless mind you ifyou're on data then it will burn throughthe battery a little bit quicker you'relooking about I would say maximum of sixhours perhaps seven if you really toneddown that brightness so the battery lifeis not amazing it's not like the tenhours that I can get it out of my me padfor definitely not charge times alsoaren't great you're looking at almostthree and a half hours to fully chargethis tablet so overall I feel takinginto consideration the price of thisthat it has been selling for a hundredand thirty nine us it's now a hundredand forty five that you are getting alot you have a fully laminated highresolution screen which brightness isokayindoors two hundred fifty lux outdoorsit's gonna struggle a little there Ihave tested it and you can still makeout what is on the screen or maxbrightness but it is an ideal for GPSuse I would go with a brighter screen sowe do have that GPS module we have LTE3.5 millimeter headphone jack output isactually clean and it is clear there'sno static so that's another positivefront facing webcams alright now thecamera on there the quality of audiowell not amazing a voice calls is whereit does fall down so I found theearpiece to be not amazing it's quiteflat it does sound little bit tinny ittends to distort andmy end the call quality from themicrophones are not very good becausethere's no noise cancellation it seemstheir same goes for speakerphone I thinkthe location of the mic and the speakerare just a little bit too close togetherand they end up giving like an echoeffect or interfering with each other soit's not wonderful that but at least wedo have that option so for g-strengthsignal range wireless speeds all goodthat all checks out completely there Ione thing that you would want to pointout with my screen I have two deadpixels one here and another little tinyone up here very hard to make out butthey are there and they just popped upafter a few hours of use so we havedecent performance well not really attimes it lags now where it really showsis gaming so the men 8880with this resolution and scaling thingsup even if it's just scaling it'sstruggling I feel that Chuwi shouldhave probably gone with four gigabytesof RAM on this and it would have beeneven better if one of thesemanufacturers other than say show me orLenovo could use Qualcomm chipsets itwould be much better to see for exampleeven if it's a dated Snapdragon 625 itwill perform much better than it doeshere so that's the real area of letdownhas to be the performance of it it justtends to feel a little bit sluggish allthe time a little slow as some of theanimations so other games like shadowfight 3 they run fine it's playableframe rates it's just those demandinggames so eventually when fortnight isout I see it being quite choppy and notbeing able to reach 30 frames per seconddefinitely not with this hardwareconfiguration here so overall as apackage for the price paid you aregetting a lot it's just if you expect tohave really good gaming performance andamazing overall smooth fluid UIexperience you will be disappointed withthat thank you so much for watching thisvideo and I do hope to see you back inthe channel with my up-and-coming videosbye for now\n"