the state of Android tablets is deplorable barely anyone that matters
even still bothers to make them and they're so far behind apple's ipad in
basically every way that matters that i wouldn't blame people for
not even knowing that they exist and the consequence of that is that for
the ones that do exist you basically want to spend as little as possible on
them while still getting good enough performance for the things you want to
do because remember low price does not always equal good
value so if you're in the market then for an inexpensive device that you can
like use to watch movies in bed or look at recipes in your kitchen or to a kid
to run off with and smash around i mean i'm not giving them my note 9 that's for
sure so today we're going to be taking a look at walmart's 10 inch entrance into
the budget Android tablet market and determining is it even worth 80
or should you just pony up double for the reigning incumbent best-selling
cheap Android tablet the amazon fire hd10
oh no that's fine that's just the box
so i think the first thing that i want to know is what exactly is it about this
that makes it a walmart tablet this just looks like
they took whatever chinese tablet they could find and then
they put this sticker on it that entitles you to twenty dollars of ebooks
from walmart ebooks well i think they did slightly more than that because this
is actually walmart's in-store brand oh it's the same brand that of the tv the
tv yes oh okay but different than the laptops and desktops that's the
overpowered brand okay so then walmart
just either doesn't employ very good graphic designers or they went out of
their way to make this look i think so cheap is that an expectation management
strategy for sure like you want a box that attracts the type of customer that
this appeals to if the box is super premium looking i might not even look at
the features of the price because i expect it's out of my price range got it
okay so it's 10.1 inches it's got a 1.3
gigahertz processor 2 gigs of RAM 16 gigs of storage and a claimed battery
life of five and a half hours now that's not a huge battery life claim
no it's really not but if that's screen on time it's also not entirely
unreasonable well this one here by contrast
claims 10 hours which is double that but this is kind of better in almost every
way except for the RAM which is the same it has more memory starting at 32 and an
option to go to 64. this is really not a very impressive display even just aside
from text being kind of blurry like when i have a web browser open
you can see here even just basic app icons have kind of a fuzziness
to them and that's because it's only running at 1280 by 800 resolution worse
than that though is that there's a really really big air gap like it's been
a while since i've seen one this big between the panel behind and the glass
on top so it kind of feels like your finger is floating above the icons
you're trying to hit as opposed to actually touching them now with that
said the actual responsiveness of it is far
from the worst i've seen this is running Android actually a pretty pure Android 9
while this has amazon's os on it that's a smoother animation for sure though so
that's a bit of a double-edged sword because you've got all the amazon junk
preloaded and you have to side load your Android apps that's right there's no
google play store in here but this one's not perfect because you can see there's
an extra button here beside your multi-task and home and back button
what's that button look like a walmart a walmart logo what happens
oh thank goodness i have a dedicated button to shop at walmart walmart
grocery sam's club open up voodoo and walmart's e-books of
course which i get 20 of credit for thank you
okay so this is me trying to put the volume down
and it's going up and i would think that the left side is intuitively down yeah
but if i let's check that out if i rotate it
down down up down is up and up down wait wait
i get it now the volume button it's not designed to
be used like this it's designed to be used like this
so there's your volume up and there's your volume down it's right there at your thumb so your palm could just
accidentally turn it off yeah no i'm not saying i support this this ergonomic
yeah i'm just saying that's what it is oh that is not
hd that sounds awful oh my god that doesn't even look like
like hd like i'm talking 720 hd okay
let's compare the sound though that's a lot better
easily twice as good give me that one again
not as loud no and it feel it sounds
vibratey Anthony hopkins does not sound like that
i love you my sons no it's day and night yeah day and night
so that's a clear victory for amazon what's our next step then well we can do
a gaming evaluation but here's where it gets a little tricky this one uses the
amazon app store the only one that was on here was mark okay so i got pass mark
on there and we can run the benchmark side by side so i went and did some
chores for a bit and you're done oh i've been done for a
while and by your done i mean i'm done some of these tests don't seem
that bad like the 1.1 gigabytes per
second of uh storage speed wait oh no that was memory
31 megabytes a second we might as well
be running off an sd card it's literally one
tenth the storage speed like never mind half
and that makes a big difference on a device like this but what about the
camera oh let's see who can take the greatest
picture of this uh tabletop gaming stuff here oh my
goodness maybe it'll be better once it actually gets to process it so here's my
processed image it's really not any better than the
viewfinder wow so i'd say there's some over sharpening
and this is a little bit too saturated but it's definitely better okay so it
sucks but the question at the top of this video was is it good enough like if you can pay
less is this one good enough to get done what
you want to get done i would say for
the discerning customer no i would either pay the extra for this
one or i would just step down to a smaller
amazon tablet knowing that i'm at least going to get a reasonably color
calibrated screen if it ran netflix without compression
artifacts all over the freaking place i'd say yeah at half the price i'll just
save the money because the build quality of it while not exceptional by any
stretch is it's not going to fall apart it's it's
it's robust enough that you could toss it onto the couch with confidence
it's just not good enough that i could recommend it as anything other than a
secondary tablet for the kids and i would personally take the compromise of
a smaller sharper screen over a larger one that
just isn't good enough and it was funny because when we did the amazon video
we're like yeah this thing's not great but apparently it's not the worst
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these are moving like crazy yeah are you sure they're not they're not selling
like bob's your uncle i actually did know that i did that on
purpose
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