the world's first consumer level ARM based Linux tablet i mean maybe when it
comes to tablets apple has basically got the entire industry on lockdown yeah you
got Android tablets like the galaxy tab but does anybody actually buy those
maybe my dad at one point enter
the jing pad a1 this is a chinese company actually
jingling international basically just means whale and uh dace
fish which is on their logo right there at the whale
and the days fish is in the negative space
i i looked i looked it up i did my research they're an interesting company they seem
to actually be a company built around
enthusiasts enthusiasts of what you might ask enthusiasts of Linux and open
source software yes this is a Linux tablet now if you've
looked at Linus's Linux challenge videos
um you'll probably notice that Linux at
least in terms of user friendliness can have some issues so i am very excited to
see what exactly this has in store for us for now let's get into the box first
oh it comes with a oh
oh well jono charged it but it comes with a nice actually is this actual
leather it feels like leather like not fake
leather and it's got a little uh little stamp there for a jingling this is
actually a really nice case okay let's set that aside for now what else do we
got in here okay north american charger you would expect that because we're in
north america uh it's just a usb type a on here what's what is in here what
this box is empty well with the
exception of uh this tasty snack right here which you should not eat
uh oh yeah there it is this is a usb
type a to see yes this is type c charging sweet
uh a lot of air in this package i think they actually bulked it up just so that
it could be the same kind of shape
uh as an apple ipad case which is
amusing right this comes with a stylus too there's so much stuff that this
comes with like you had to pay for that on apple those are pretty slim bezels actually
they might be slimmer than the ipad not sure that power button is recessed
but it's not like a like a bump like these side buttons are oh and the back
is glossy you can already see there's fingerprints on it
banana for scale you know what this is a banana for scale let's see how well it cleans actually
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disclaimer disclaimer okay so there's there's a magnet here that keeps this on
like so is there a magnet on the device
itself anywhere well i don't think that's where it goes but
it can go there those are the uh accessory pins are oh speaking of which
there's another accessory we have here i'll tell you all about it after i talk
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lenove.comcircuit can you see the resemblance to another popular product a
microsoft surface yeah it's a microsoft surface keyboard
oh yeah okay
oh that's solid on the back it's like plastic
okay and what's in here i guess these are the instructions
okay electrical specifications that's actually kind of neat so when you have
this stand which is actually kind of handy it lets
you raise this up a little bit if you need to um
they're telling you like don't put extra force down on it because it could break
the hinge here which is probably why apple didn't do that so this should just
uh flop it very similar to the magic keyboard
and it just powered on like that and
the keyboard just works the keyboard itself is a little bit thicker than you
might expect like the magic keyboard is
i mean like half of this thickness but it's also quite a bit more
rigid i think well okay maybe not see if the stylus works oh it sure does how's
the responsiveness it feels a little floaty oh that's a very apple like um
control center so swiping down from at least up there
gives me wireless bluetooth uh let's
turn the brightness up it's way down right now that's a little better
the stylus has hover i can hover over oh
that's something the apple pencil can't do as far as i know so again this is a
very apple like experience uh okay so
software update we're up to date display and brightness oh it's got a dark mode
you have to restart to get the dark
no uh does this not auto rotate
is that just turned off hang on i don't see auto rotation
is it only meant to be used in landscape this is running on uh
kde plasma mobile by the way oh it's got cameras
right cameras well that's actually not too bad it's a little jelly
but uh you know it's not it's not too bad
okay okay it doesn't look
true to life but it's decently sharp
contrast is pretty good uh it looks to me either this is the
display or the camera itself but it looks like we're a little bit over
saturated oh the microphone is
inaudible this is max volume
you're not gonna want to take any conference calls on this attach
yeah you can do that there's a usbc port here and it does support data as far as
i'm aware from what i can tell all of the gestures that you would be used to
on iOS are there so like swiping up will bring you to your uh multitasking
and also for back to your home screen if you're
into an app interacting with this is actually pretty painless i am noticing
that the frame rate's more like a 30 rather than a 60. that is a bit of a
problem and again that's down i think to the soc let's see if there's an about
section here it's the world's first consumer level ARM-based Linux tablet i
mean maybe i don't really know that's true
it is the world's first Linux tablet with an 11-inch 2k plus display probably
i guess it is the world's first Linux tablet that comes with a detachable
trackpad keyboard maybe i mean you can install you can install Linux on like a
surface world's first Linux tablet that comes with a 4096
levels of pressure stylus which is
neat i guess uh i'm not sure how accurate it is yet
oh this hang on yeah logistics says
oh okay this is logistics problem never mind
oh so i can't really properly test this because like i'm seeing metal it is the
first tablet powered by jing os i can believe that one the first Linux tablet
os sure it is the first time you can use a
Linux based tablet as your daily driver hmm we'll have to see about the tech
specs it is the jingpad a1 exclamation
point uh okay so this is an 11 inch amoled multi-touch display cool
2368x17 2266 pixels per inch four by three
aspect ratio 350 nit
uh okay so here's the problem that i'm having with this the slc is a unisock
tiger t7510 that's an eight core chipset
with four cortex a75 cores clocked at 2.0 gigahertz and four cortex a55 cores
clocked at 1.8 comparable to
i want to say a mediatek helio g95
maybe which is not a very powerful chipset and
that chipset's performs is kind of letting the experience down
to be honest because otherwise otherwise it's actually quite nice
as we saw before it's got eight gigs of lp ddr4 RAM
256 gigs of ufs storage
micro sd card slot 16 megapixel main camera 8 megapixel front camera you're
never going to use the front camera for anything because you can't hear anything
with the mics did they just not did they just not drill out the holes in the
chassis or something like it's real bad dual band wi-fi 2x2 nemo okay bluetooth
5 gps glonass galileo and beto usb type
c supports on the go and usb disks
doesn't say that here but you can get 5g in china with sim card china uses
different bands than north america i think that's why it's
only in china so six axis gyro ambient light sensor yep fingerprint sensor
we've seen that battery uh the battery is an eight
thousand milliamp hour ipad air is 88 27 88 27 okay so it's a
little bit smaller than the ipad air i am noticing um a very worrying amount of
power draw we started out at like 50 we're down to 28
the bezels on the ipad air
are actually thicker than the pad but like if it only works landscape then
you don't really need to hold it any other way yeah because like i can't i
can't figure out for the life of me how to rotate this if it supports it at all
there's probably something uh i think kde
plasma mobile uh must have that let's go to
oh we got a terminal is this console
it is console cool with a k
yeah they got an apple uh theme for the thunderbird client uh but what i was
looking for specifically was
krita okay they've got kate
get that they got
why don't they have creta oh you know what i could do
forgot that apps doesn't automatically
elevate pamac does now that the other installs are done i can install with apt
in the terminal probably the reason why this isn't a
thing that you can do normally is they don't have a interface for krita
on mobile so we'll see how this works out
oh i didn't do an app update this could destroy everything all right so let's
just launch krita oh it closed unexpectedly why
oh it might not be no it wouldn't have downloaded if it
didn't have the arch i don't know why that that died but um
i guess we'll just have to
live with it okay so we got firefox let's see if that's any smoother ltdstore.com
uh okay the inertial scroll on firefox is a lot
better than the inertia scroll on chromium though the user experience so far is actually okay i'm staring right
at a not a number of megabytes right there
so to say that it's not a little jank would be to lie
what is yeah it's kind of like that but
it works basically the way that i would expect the ipad air over here to work
it's just nowhere near as smooth even though it's not quite
the experience you'd be looking for it's an experience that i don't think that i
was expecting okay uh there was no pressure
sensitivity there but i happen to know that supports it
and sometimes you need to actually set it up
uh no so either this stylus is just like dead or
uh there's a little bit more configuration that i forgot to do just
dropping it should not have shattered it like this that's some brittle plastic
the keyboard actually feels really nice it feels basically the same as my magic
keyboard i'm more or less at home here
the stereo imaging is actually really good they do have
stereo speakers
okay
let's give the ipad air a go
yeah it's better than i thought it would be initially
but it does not hold a candle to apple unfortunately
well it's clearly like designed to mimic this as closely as possible it's
basically an ipad air this looks brighter even though it's 350 nits
that's probably partially due to the fact that it's OLED
whereas the ipad air is ips the
trade-off of course is you can't rotate this one would you buy one how much are these
third set 700 bucks the ipad air is 50 dollars more it's
7.49 that's 16. oh soc is really what
brings it down but at the same time if you
well okay the other thing that might bring it down is the battery it's down to 13
so it comes with the stylus that's a 200 value
yeah like you're you're actually you're not doing too bad
also it comes with this case
i'm kind of struggling to figure out how exactly i would recommend this like
i don't hate it i feel like this would be fun to play
around with if you were into Linux i feel like it would be like not
necessarily a good experience as a tablet but as a mobile like i don't know
workstation kind of thing it seems like it could be worse could install a
different operating system on this thing i'm pretty sure comment below if you
want me to make Linus use this for a week
yeah dldr buy it if you want to i'm not sure if i would
but if i wanted something to tanker with i could find worse things to spend my
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