1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,680 editor editor go in my face to start and then 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:12,360 I'm reading this so show this pretty quick okay books 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:17,160 hey everybody it's a books 4 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:22,859 make a different in the world make a 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:27,599 different product which is what the books 6 00:00:24,660 --> 00:00:32,460 is I can't say the name of the product without laughing books 7 00:00:29,939 --> 00:00:36,899 really it's a variant on it must be like book 8 00:00:34,980 --> 00:00:43,200 because if you don't know this product is a tablet it's an Android 11 tablet 9 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:47,280 with an e-ink screen so I guess you know obviously when you think eating screened 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:52,079 you think e-readers reading what do you read you read books books are spelled 11 00:00:49,379 --> 00:00:55,980 with a KS let's change it to an X for fun books 12 00:00:53,700 --> 00:01:00,539 I actually was interested in this product when it popped up in the queue 13 00:00:58,140 --> 00:01:04,860 because I'm like listen I'm the iPad guy right this is a tablet but it's got an 14 00:01:02,879 --> 00:01:10,920 eating screen that's very interesting and but it's got also an iPad like 15 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:14,100 keyboard folio it's called the tab Ultra 16 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:17,640 which is a Samsung thing we got Apple in 17 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:19,560 here we got Samsung we got Kindle it's 18 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:23,479 all the same okay this is kind of cool packaging I like that it feels premium 19 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:28,979 wow it's got It's kind of Hefty I mean 20 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:33,720 apparently it's only 6.7 millimeters thin but how much does it weigh that's 21 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:36,540 my question apparently it's 480 grams so that's something but before we get 22 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:39,259 deeper into there let's uh let's dive deeper into the box 23 00:01:39,540 --> 00:01:48,060 okay we got a stylus that I will look 24 00:01:43,439 --> 00:01:51,780 closer at later we got a USB a to c 25 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:53,640 chord quick start guide now I've ignored 26 00:01:51,780 --> 00:01:58,500 the quick start guy before to my Peril so I'm just going to take a quick quick 27 00:01:55,860 --> 00:02:02,040 Gander okay nice I read the quick start guide 28 00:01:59,579 --> 00:02:06,840 so hopefully this thing will go smooth as a baby's bub bottom now we also have 29 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:12,599 before I really get into that we also have the fancy iPad cover are they gonna 30 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:18,660 sue me for saying that come at me boots this immediately feels very similar to 31 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:22,200 the iPad one oh nope it's got more of like a leathery feel 32 00:02:20,459 --> 00:02:26,400 oh you know what 33 00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:31,680 I was viewing this product in such a derogatory way I was like who's gonna 34 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:35,280 buy this thing like I thought it was kind of cool but like you know a lot of 35 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:41,400 the times I'm interested in kind of Niche Tech products that a lot of people aren't but now I'm looking at it and I'm 36 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:45,900 like yo this looks premium if there's a different colored key that's really the 37 00:02:43,379 --> 00:02:50,720 main contributor to me changing my mind about this I have to have a specialized 38 00:02:47,940 --> 00:02:50,720 oh 39 00:02:54,900 --> 00:03:01,920 oh now it's dirty okay uh the the stylus 40 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:05,640 I gotta say right off the bat though it feels nice it's like the apple pencil in 41 00:03:04,140 --> 00:03:11,580 the sense that it is like the actual real size of a proper pencil once again 42 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,959 like I'm sorry I'm sorry books for 43 00:03:11,580 --> 00:03:19,860 making fun of you in the beginning because this feels this feels nice 600 44 00:03:16,140 --> 00:03:23,040 for the tablet the folio the stylus and 45 00:03:19,860 --> 00:03:24,659 if I spent 600 on that and I got this it 46 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:28,440 feels premium I mean we got to this like kind of like metal brushed metal type of 47 00:03:26,819 --> 00:03:33,840 thing going on in the back they say it's an anti-fingerprint coating although I 48 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:35,400 do see some marks on it already on this 49 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:40,379 side I don't know if that counts as the bottom we got a uh I'm not gonna call it 50 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:44,340 a SMART connector I guess Pogo pins oh and it also tells you how much how fast 51 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:50,280 it can charge as well five volts at 3 amps that's 15 watts okay and on the I 52 00:03:47,940 --> 00:03:54,780 guess on the left side looking at the screen we got I guess that must be the 53 00:03:52,019 --> 00:03:59,519 power button and a fingerprint reader it is it is a fingerprint reader nice this 54 00:03:57,540 --> 00:04:03,239 is a speaker this might be a mic I think this is an indicator light perhaps but 55 00:04:01,739 --> 00:04:09,420 we'll find out when we turn it on on this side we have oh this is the 56 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:11,879 magnetic mount for the stylus boom just 57 00:04:09,420 --> 00:04:15,299 like an iPad look at that once again I feel taken care of 58 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:19,019 oh if I did it like that it would come off 59 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:21,979 the iPad too I think the real test is whether you can shake it up and down 60 00:04:20,459 --> 00:04:27,120 like oh 61 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:30,259 ah I had it on wrong Jake I had the pen 62 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:33,419 on wrong it's doing great now 63 00:04:30,259 --> 00:04:35,880 and on the I guess right side we have 64 00:04:33,419 --> 00:04:41,940 another speaker uh stereo speakers nice and a SIM card slot oh my bad this is 65 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:45,180 not a SIM card slot it is a SD card slot 66 00:04:41,940 --> 00:04:47,699 which they call a TF card slot and agree 67 00:04:45,180 --> 00:04:51,360 to disagree oh a USBC right which is why the the card came with that and on the 68 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:55,800 back of that camera module I don't know what the specs are right now I will find 69 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:59,100 out later after this word from our sponsor you like that this video is 70 00:04:57,540 --> 00:05:03,300 brought to you by manscape you know Christmas is right around the corner and 71 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:06,960 their new performance package 4.0 will make a great gift for your partner the 72 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:11,400 package includes their waterproof and cordless lawnmower 4.0 their weed 73 00:05:09,180 --> 00:05:15,180 whacker ear and nose trimmer for tricky trimming and they're crop preserver and 74 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,780 crop reviver for your deodorizing and hydration needs for a limited time 75 00:05:16,860 --> 00:05:22,919 you'll also 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refresh modes where there's like an HD 86 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:08,460 mode for reading books with a low refresh rate and then there's a balanced 87 00:06:07,020 --> 00:06:12,900 and high refresh rate and super high refresh rate as I swipe nothing's 88 00:06:10,740 --> 00:06:17,940 happening until I complete the swipe and then it decides to refresh but I'm gonna 89 00:06:16,020 --> 00:06:21,780 want to go into the settings right away and try and get to the faster refresh 90 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:27,060 rate just like scrolling a little bit like that I'm skipping past like four 91 00:06:24,539 --> 00:06:30,060 items here's power power is going to be at the bottom even if I just scroll like 92 00:06:28,319 --> 00:06:34,860 a little bit so that's something that's kind of annoying to me right off the bat 93 00:06:31,620 --> 00:06:36,000 I want to be able to like just adjust a 94 00:06:34,860 --> 00:06:42,660 little bit the other thing that's jumping out to me is this is Android 11 but this looks like iOS there's a 95 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:46,139 sidebar with all the categories and then over here you've got once you click into 96 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:51,240 a category it's going to show you the options anyways display full refresh 97 00:06:48,479 --> 00:06:55,860 frequency what does that mean oh every five Taps it's gonna fully refresh the 98 00:06:54,120 --> 00:07:02,340 screen instead of like partially refresh it there's gentian impact on here 99 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:05,220 I mean it is on Ultra fast okay so you 100 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:09,360 can set specific apps to have certain types of refresh rates we've got HD mode 101 00:07:07,139 --> 00:07:12,960 balanced mode fast mode and Ultra fast and Ultra fast has even heavier detail 102 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:16,020 loss but suitable for like playing videos oh my gosh 103 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:20,639 wow so this is an ultra fast mode and even 104 00:07:19,139 --> 00:07:24,599 just when nothing's happening on screen it degrades the quality in order to have 105 00:07:22,919 --> 00:07:29,340 that higher refresh rate so like I had to like look close to like see that this 106 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:32,639 this text looks pretty rough I mean like I said okay so right from the control 107 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,940 center you can get right into like refresh modes and you can I guess you 108 00:07:34,199 --> 00:07:40,199 can change it while you're actually in the app I'm opening the books website 109 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:45,840 and I'm scrolling okay we have finder control over scroll okay let's see fast 110 00:07:43,860 --> 00:07:49,620 is that better I can't even tell I think it's like a little bit better 111 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:54,419 but not that different let's go to ultra fast I mean okay so that's noticeably 112 00:07:52,020 --> 00:07:57,900 smoother that's interesting so if you just go to the control center you can oh 113 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:03,060 okay you can you can adjust the backlight it's not just on and off there's like levels to it that's pretty 114 00:08:00,599 --> 00:08:07,199 cool what's the moon thing wait what oh it is dual tone that's what they mean by 115 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:10,979 dual tone light is that you have a backlight that is cool and you have a 116 00:08:08,940 --> 00:08:16,740 backlight that is warm oh you can have them both at Max for like a mix 117 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:19,259 can I zoom in oh look at this I'm 118 00:08:16,740 --> 00:08:23,759 zooming in on paper but actually so I'm in Ultra fast mode I'm going to switch 119 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:29,220 real quick to HD and see if that makes the image look any better he's got 120 00:08:25,319 --> 00:08:31,500 ghosting lines oh I'm the ghost of Linus 121 00:08:29,220 --> 00:08:36,539 Sebastian can you see the that's weird because I had it set to 122 00:08:34,260 --> 00:08:40,140 five Taps it let me kind of like tap around five times before it like did a 123 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:46,380 full refresh and got rid of the ghost image so if I zoom in here we have that 124 00:08:42,719 --> 00:08:48,540 ghost image there until I do a number of 125 00:08:46,380 --> 00:08:52,260 TAPS and then is it going to do a full refresh maybe it like knows when I just 126 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:57,120 like stop touching it for a bit Yeah and then it's like okay lay off for a second 127 00:08:54,779 --> 00:09:00,180 so I can do the full refresh I'm fairly happy with the like browsing experience 128 00:08:58,740 --> 00:09:09,120 especially it's like scrolling like this this is an eating screen that's pretty impressive this thing has a 1872 by 1404 129 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:13,080 resolution and it's a 10.3 inch screen which I never said although you should 130 00:09:10,740 --> 00:09:16,320 be able to tell based on you knowing exactly how big my hands are okay we're 131 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:23,420 back to the super premium feeling keyboard this thing is about to go from 132 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:27,000 janky E Ink tablet to the most premium 133 00:09:23,420 --> 00:09:29,220 ooh so you can set it to auto rotate 134 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:34,380 like a normal device or you can set it to only auto rotate to the flipped 135 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:38,700 orientation that you're that you that you desire for it it's kind of Awesome 136 00:09:36,420 --> 00:09:43,860 it is kind of cool if you're like I'm only using this to e-read to read books 137 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:48,300 and I only read books like this so I only wanted to know if I like in in my 138 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:53,220 bed and I have my phone upside down or something okay I'm in the keyboard folio 139 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:59,459 and now this is interesting unlike an iPad or I turned auto rotate off 140 00:09:56,459 --> 00:10:01,260 oh keyboard Access Auto landscape and 141 00:09:59,459 --> 00:10:03,959 they may have keyboard shortcuts cool so I guess it's saying when you connect it 142 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:06,720 into the keyboard folio it'll automatically go to landscape but it 143 00:10:05,580 --> 00:10:11,160 wasn't I thought it wasn't doing that but you got keyboard shortcuts here which is actually pretty cool that they 144 00:10:09,899 --> 00:10:15,120 tell you right up front but it only applies to the Onyx official keyboard 145 00:10:12,899 --> 00:10:18,779 which is this thing so you can use other Bluetooth keyboards with it although it 146 00:10:17,220 --> 00:10:21,140 comes with it so that might be kind of weird but 147 00:10:21,959 --> 00:10:26,240 Oh I thought that was part of the crab Rave but no that 148 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:33,720 this is so funny because I'm also there's also ghosting 149 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:37,200 hello it sounds a little less offensive when you turn the volume down a little 150 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:41,279 bit and it's not trying so hard at max volume that definitely sounds obviously 151 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:45,480 distorted it doesn't sound very well uh very good just the fact that this is an 152 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:50,760 e-ink tablet and I'm playing a video with sound on YouTube is kind of that's 153 00:10:48,779 --> 00:10:54,240 that's fun that's fun by itself this entire time the video has been playing 154 00:10:52,079 --> 00:10:58,200 the ghosting from various other things app icons the control center Reddit 155 00:10:56,279 --> 00:11:03,240 pinch to zoom that's all there if I was using this for either work or for 156 00:11:01,019 --> 00:11:07,200 reading and someone sent me a video and I wanted a chickly chickly and I wanted 157 00:11:05,339 --> 00:11:11,820 to quickly check it I get the gist of what was going on 158 00:11:09,180 --> 00:11:17,640 very blurry okay now just for just for Giggles Jake humor me I'm gonna play the 159 00:11:14,579 --> 00:11:20,150 video in HD mode which is the lowest 160 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,500 refresh rate okay 161 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:24,980 do you see that 162 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:32,820 uh the speakers weren't incredibly impressive but you know they've they'll 163 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:36,720 do the job a big use case of this other than just reading books is taking notes 164 00:11:34,980 --> 00:11:40,019 they have the pen and everything and you know I'm sure that's part of the 165 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:44,760 marketing is that like oh this is a device you could get take nice notes 166 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:50,040 with so let's open the notes app I'm guessing this is books's own Notes app 167 00:11:47,459 --> 00:11:54,120 if I put my hand on nothing wait but I thought we were not we were 168 00:11:52,019 --> 00:11:58,140 just in regular HD mode hello because like it it seems pretty responsive for 169 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:03,120 like an eating screen honestly that's crazy the stylus apparently has 4096 170 00:12:01,380 --> 00:12:06,600 levels of pressure sensitivity which is a number that I remember being 171 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:12,360 associated with other styluses that I've used so I'm going very lightly it's a 172 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:16,440 thin line and then I press it gets thick 173 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:18,120 thin thick yeah nice the notes app seems 174 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:23,160 cool real quick I want to see the multitasking huh is there no 175 00:12:20,220 --> 00:12:28,380 multitasking menu even when you set the default like home screen refresh speed 176 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:32,160 to ultra fast when you scroll on something like this it doesn't scroll 177 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:36,240 like the web page incrementally it just jumps which is annoying but this is kind 178 00:12:34,019 --> 00:12:39,660 of cool when you swipe to the right from the home screen you get this little like 179 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,540 launcher place where you got your library with a number of books that I 180 00:12:41,459 --> 00:12:49,079 imagine that you might be reading recently let's go back to notepad because there's a couple features I just 181 00:12:46,019 --> 00:12:54,000 want to look at hello 182 00:12:49,079 --> 00:12:56,160 nice bro Brew with two o's nice 183 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:05,940 but if I wanted to actually type with the keyboard typing experience 184 00:12:59,899 --> 00:13:08,700 is pretty good the key keys feel 185 00:13:05,940 --> 00:13:12,720 kind of mushy yeah there's not as much of a tactile bump as I would like they 186 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:16,320 definitely feel I think at first glance you feel them and you're kind of like oh 187 00:13:13,980 --> 00:13:19,620 that feels kind of tactile but there's a lot of travel distance there's more 188 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:23,459 travel distance than I would like she's like oh you want to press me okay so on 189 00:13:21,540 --> 00:13:28,200 the back there's a 16 megapixel camera but I couldn't find a camera app so it 190 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:33,420 might be that it's called the smart scanner because it's only really meant 191 00:13:30,060 --> 00:13:36,839 to be used to scan documents that's so 192 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:38,279 funny okay uh smile 193 00:13:36,839 --> 00:13:42,959 here's your photos what do you want to do with it I can import it I can go to 194 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:48,480 the next step all right here we are crop it you can rotate it you can hand write 195 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,399 on it add text you can detect text in 196 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:56,579 the document it right here on the tablet and then send it to your notes app or to 197 00:13:53,760 --> 00:14:01,800 or to create a PDF okay I can send to a node I can send it over Bluetooth use 198 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:03,959 onyxmail nearby you can use nearby share 199 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:08,279 like Androids feature yeah this is like the default Android nearby share so it's 200 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:13,139 like airdropping but for Androids the problems of philosophy give me a little 201 00:14:10,260 --> 00:14:16,560 sample boom how do I change the view and stuff I don't know how people use I've 202 00:14:14,940 --> 00:14:20,279 never used an e-reader this big so I don't know how people like read I would 203 00:14:18,660 --> 00:14:25,440 want the text to be smaller and I'm there must be a way to do that I don't 204 00:14:22,079 --> 00:14:27,839 know how to do it though anyways 205 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:33,240 the reading seeps fine but what I'm really interested in is gaming on the 206 00:14:30,660 --> 00:14:37,500 e-ink on the books tab Ultra because yeah this thing has we installed gentian 207 00:14:35,579 --> 00:14:40,920 impact on it can you play that with just the touch controls I've never played 208 00:14:39,060 --> 00:14:46,100 this game they don't say in the specs page what the actual CPU is it just says 209 00:14:43,139 --> 00:14:52,560 Qualcomm octa-core there's four gigs of lpddr4x RAM and 128 gigs of storage okay 210 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:56,480 will it go in the background if I go to the home screen 211 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,480 hopefully 212 00:14:58,459 --> 00:15:06,560 okay uh this is I'm this is me gaming uh 213 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:13,199 we wanted to open genjen impact for the memes but that didn't really work out in 214 00:15:11,459 --> 00:15:17,279 conclusion I came into this thinking that this was just gonna be like a janky 215 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:22,019 uh you know like fun little tablet but this is like a full-featured Android 216 00:15:19,019 --> 00:15:23,519 tablet with the whole app ecosystem with 217 00:15:22,019 --> 00:15:26,639 the refresh rate that actually makes it usable in some cases that you wouldn't 218 00:15:25,019 --> 00:15:30,720 expect the e-ink tablet to be able to be usable in overall I'm pretty impressed 219 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:35,459 with with the usability with the build quality more impressed than I thought 220 00:15:32,579 --> 00:15:39,899 I'd be thanks for watching ShortCircuit that's us if you want to watch more 221 00:15:37,380 --> 00:15:46,160 videos click this one somewhere to watch the one of my iPad ones and I love you 222 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:46,160 and uh never leave