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the state of Android tablets is deplorable barely anyone that matters

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even still bothers to make them and they're so far behind apple's ipad in

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basically every way that matters that i wouldn't blame people for

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not even knowing that they exist and the consequence of that is that for

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the ones that do exist you basically want to spend as little as possible on

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them while still getting good enough performance for the things you want to

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do because remember low price does not always equal good

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value so if you're in the market then for an inexpensive device that you can

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like use to watch movies in bed or look at recipes in your kitchen or to a kid

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to run off with and smash around i mean i'm not giving them my note 9 that's for

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sure so today we're going to be taking a look at walmart's 10 inch entrance into

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the budget Android tablet market and determining is it even worth 80

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or should you just pony up double for the reigning incumbent best-selling

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cheap Android tablet the amazon fire hd10

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oh no that's fine that's just the box

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so i think the first thing that i want to know is what exactly is it about this

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that makes it a walmart tablet this just looks like

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they took whatever chinese tablet they could find and then

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they put this sticker on it that entitles you to twenty dollars of ebooks

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from walmart ebooks well i think they did slightly more than that because this

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is actually walmart's in-store brand oh it's the same brand that of the tv the

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tv yes oh okay but different than the laptops and desktops that's the

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overpowered brand okay so then walmart

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just either doesn't employ very good graphic designers or they went out of

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their way to make this look i think so cheap is that an expectation management

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strategy for sure like you want a box that attracts the type of customer that

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this appeals to if the box is super premium looking i might not even look at

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the features of the price because i expect it's out of my price range got it

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okay so it's 10.1 inches it's got a 1.3

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gigahertz processor 2 gigs of RAM 16 gigs of storage and a claimed battery

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life of five and a half hours now that's not a huge battery life claim

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no it's really not but if that's screen on time it's also not entirely

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unreasonable well this one here by contrast

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claims 10 hours which is double that but this is kind of better in almost every

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way except for the RAM which is the same it has more memory starting at 32 and an

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option to go to 64. this is really not a very impressive display even just aside

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from text being kind of blurry like when i have a web browser open

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you can see here even just basic app icons have kind of a fuzziness

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to them and that's because it's only running at 1280 by 800 resolution worse

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than that though is that there's a really really big air gap like it's been

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a while since i've seen one this big between the panel behind and the glass

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on top so it kind of feels like your finger is floating above the icons

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you're trying to hit as opposed to actually touching them now with that

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said the actual responsiveness of it is far

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from the worst i've seen this is running Android actually a pretty pure Android 9

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while this has amazon's os on it that's a smoother animation for sure though so

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that's a bit of a double-edged sword because you've got all the amazon junk

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preloaded and you have to side load your Android apps that's right there's no

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google play store in here but this one's not perfect because you can see there's

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an extra button here beside your multi-task and home and back button

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what's that button look like a walmart a walmart logo what happens

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oh thank goodness i have a dedicated button to shop at walmart walmart

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grocery sam's club open up voodoo and walmart's e-books of

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course which i get 20 of credit for thank you

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okay so this is me trying to put the volume down

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and it's going up and i would think that the left side is intuitively down yeah

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but if i let's check that out if i rotate it

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down down up down is up and up down wait wait

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i get it now the volume button it's not designed to

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be used like this it's designed to be used like this

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so there's your volume up and there's your volume down it's right there at your thumb so your palm could just

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accidentally turn it off yeah no i'm not saying i support this this ergonomic

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yeah i'm just saying that's what it is oh that is not

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hd that sounds awful oh my god that doesn't even look like

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like hd like i'm talking 720 hd okay

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let's compare the sound though that's a lot better

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easily twice as good give me that one again

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not as loud no and it feel it sounds

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vibratey Anthony hopkins does not sound like that

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i love you my sons no it's day and night yeah day and night

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so that's a clear victory for amazon what's our next step then well we can do

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a gaming evaluation but here's where it gets a little tricky this one uses the

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amazon app store the only one that was on here was mark okay so i got pass mark

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on there and we can run the benchmark side by side so i went and did some

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chores for a bit and you're done oh i've been done for a

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while and by your done i mean i'm done some of these tests don't seem

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that bad like the 1.1 gigabytes per

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second of uh storage speed wait oh no that was memory

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31 megabytes a second we might as well

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be running off an sd card it's literally one

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tenth the storage speed like never mind half

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and that makes a big difference on a device like this but what about the

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camera oh let's see who can take the greatest

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picture of this uh tabletop gaming stuff here oh my

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goodness maybe it'll be better once it actually gets to process it so here's my

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processed image it's really not any better than the

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viewfinder wow so i'd say there's some over sharpening

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and this is a little bit too saturated but it's definitely better okay so it

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sucks but the question at the top of this video was is it good enough like if you can pay

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less is this one good enough to get done what

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you want to get done i would say for

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the discerning customer no i would either pay the extra for this

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one or i would just step down to a smaller

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amazon tablet knowing that i'm at least going to get a reasonably color

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calibrated screen if it ran netflix without compression

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artifacts all over the freaking place i'd say yeah at half the price i'll just

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save the money because the build quality of it while not exceptional by any

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stretch is it's not going to fall apart it's it's

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it's robust enough that you could toss it onto the couch with confidence

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it's just not good enough that i could recommend it as anything other than a

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secondary tablet for the kids and i would personally take the compromise of

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a smaller sharper screen over a larger one that

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just isn't good enough and it was funny because when we did the amazon video

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we're like yeah this thing's not great but apparently it's not the worst

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good job jeff so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can

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checking out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description to be clear as like a kids

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tablet sure why not i wouldn't spend any more than i absolutely have to on

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something like that and it does feel pretty robust uh also down

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there is our merch store which has cool shirts like that one

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uh and our community forum which you should totally join seriously though guys this one is finally actually in

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stock and they are selling like hotcakes i actually don't know if i told you this

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these are moving like crazy yeah are you sure they're not they're not selling

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like bob's your uncle i actually did know that i did that on

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purpose

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and bob's your uncle the video's over