editor editor go in my face to start and then
I'm reading this so show this pretty quick okay books
hey everybody it's a books
make a different in the world make a
different product which is what the books
is I can't say the name of the product without laughing books
really it's a variant on it must be like book
because if you don't know this product is a tablet it's an Android 11 tablet
with an e-ink screen so I guess you know obviously when you think eating screened
you think e-readers reading what do you read you read books books are spelled
with a KS let's change it to an X for fun books
I actually was interested in this product when it popped up in the queue
because I'm like listen I'm the iPad guy right this is a tablet but it's got an
eating screen that's very interesting and but it's got also an iPad like
keyboard folio it's called the tab Ultra
which is a Samsung thing we got Apple in
here we got Samsung we got Kindle it's
all the same okay this is kind of cool packaging I like that it feels premium
wow it's got It's kind of Hefty I mean
apparently it's only 6.7 millimeters thin but how much does it weigh that's
my question apparently it's 480 grams so that's something but before we get
deeper into there let's uh let's dive deeper into the box
okay we got a stylus that I will look
closer at later we got a USB a to c
chord quick start guide now I've ignored
the quick start guy before to my Peril so I'm just going to take a quick quick
Gander okay nice I read the quick start guide
so hopefully this thing will go smooth as a baby's bub bottom now we also have
before I really get into that we also have the fancy iPad cover are they gonna
sue me for saying that come at me boots this immediately feels very similar to
the iPad one oh nope it's got more of like a leathery feel
oh you know what
I was viewing this product in such a derogatory way I was like who's gonna
buy this thing like I thought it was kind of cool but like you know a lot of
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
like yo this looks premium if there's a different colored key that's really the
main contributor to me changing my mind about this I have to have a specialized
oh
oh now it's dirty okay uh the the stylus
I gotta say right off the bat though it feels nice it's like the apple pencil in
the sense that it is like the actual real size of a proper pencil once again
like I'm sorry I'm sorry books for
making fun of you in the beginning because this feels this feels nice 600
for the tablet the folio the stylus and
if I spent 600 on that and I got this it
feels premium I mean we got to this like kind of like metal brushed metal type of
thing going on in the back they say it's an anti-fingerprint coating although I
do see some marks on it already on this
side I don't know if that counts as the bottom we got a uh I'm not gonna call it
a SMART connector I guess Pogo pins oh and it also tells you how much how fast
it can charge as well five volts at 3 amps that's 15 watts okay and on the I
guess on the left side looking at the screen we got I guess that must be the
power button and a fingerprint reader it is it is a fingerprint reader nice this
is a speaker this might be a mic I think this is an indicator light perhaps but
we'll find out when we turn it on on this side we have oh this is the
magnetic mount for the stylus boom just
like an iPad look at that once again I feel taken care of
oh if I did it like that it would come off
the iPad too I think the real test is whether you can shake it up and down
like oh
ah I had it on wrong Jake I had the pen
on wrong it's doing great now
and on the I guess right side we have
another speaker uh stereo speakers nice and a SIM card slot oh my bad this is
not a SIM card slot it is a SD card slot
which they call a TF card slot and agree
to disagree oh a USBC right which is why the the card came with that and on the
back of that camera module I don't know what the specs are right now I will find
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oh man that really made me feel like I was about to play some Pokemon I'm
intrigued by the idea of e-paper tablets
but I think that there's a reason that they haven't become incredibly popular
except as e-readers which is primarily the fact that you know oh the backlight
kicked in that's cool the fact that the refresh rate necessarily has to be lower
for an eating screen than it is for like you know an LCD a regular type of screen
but books apparently has multiple
refresh modes where there's like an HD
mode for reading books with a low refresh rate and then there's a balanced
and high refresh rate and super high refresh rate as I swipe nothing's
happening until I complete the swipe and then it decides to refresh but I'm gonna
want to go into the settings right away and try and get to the faster refresh
rate just like scrolling a little bit like that I'm skipping past like four
items here's power power is going to be at the bottom even if I just scroll like
a little bit so that's something that's kind of annoying to me right off the bat
I want to be able to like just adjust a
little bit the other thing that's jumping out to me is this is Android 11 but this looks like iOS there's a
sidebar with all the categories and then over here you've got once you click into
a category it's going to show you the options anyways display full refresh
frequency what does that mean oh every five Taps it's gonna fully refresh the
screen instead of like partially refresh it there's gentian impact on here
I mean it is on Ultra fast okay so you
can set specific apps to have certain types of refresh rates we've got HD mode
balanced mode fast mode and Ultra fast and Ultra fast has even heavier detail
loss but suitable for like playing videos oh my gosh
wow so this is an ultra fast mode and even
just when nothing's happening on screen it degrades the quality in order to have
that higher refresh rate so like I had to like look close to like see that this
this text looks pretty rough I mean like I said okay so right from the control
center you can get right into like refresh modes and you can I guess you
can change it while you're actually in the app I'm opening the books website
and I'm scrolling okay we have finder control over scroll okay let's see fast
is that better I can't even tell I think it's like a little bit better
but not that different let's go to ultra fast I mean okay so that's noticeably
smoother that's interesting so if you just go to the control center you can oh
okay you can you can adjust the backlight it's not just on and off there's like levels to it that's pretty
cool what's the moon thing wait what oh it is dual tone that's what they mean by
dual tone light is that you have a backlight that is cool and you have a
backlight that is warm oh you can have them both at Max for like a mix
can I zoom in oh look at this I'm
zooming in on paper but actually so I'm in Ultra fast mode I'm going to switch
real quick to HD and see if that makes the image look any better he's got
ghosting lines oh I'm the ghost of Linus
Sebastian can you see the that's weird because I had it set to
five Taps it let me kind of like tap around five times before it like did a
full refresh and got rid of the ghost image so if I zoom in here we have that
ghost image there until I do a number of
TAPS and then is it going to do a full refresh maybe it like knows when I just
like stop touching it for a bit Yeah and then it's like okay lay off for a second
so I can do the full refresh I'm fairly happy with the like browsing experience
especially it's like scrolling like this this is an eating screen that's pretty impressive this thing has a 1872 by 1404
resolution and it's a 10.3 inch screen which I never said although you should
be able to tell based on you knowing exactly how big my hands are okay we're
back to the super premium feeling keyboard this thing is about to go from
janky E Ink tablet to the most premium
ooh so you can set it to auto rotate
like a normal device or you can set it to only auto rotate to the flipped
orientation that you're that you that you desire for it it's kind of Awesome
it is kind of cool if you're like I'm only using this to e-read to read books
and I only read books like this so I only wanted to know if I like in in my
bed and I have my phone upside down or something okay I'm in the keyboard folio
and now this is interesting unlike an iPad or I turned auto rotate off
oh keyboard Access Auto landscape and
they may have keyboard shortcuts cool so I guess it's saying when you connect it
into the keyboard folio it'll automatically go to landscape but it
wasn't I thought it wasn't doing that but you got keyboard shortcuts here which is actually pretty cool that they
tell you right up front but it only applies to the Onyx official keyboard
which is this thing so you can use other Bluetooth keyboards with it although it
comes with it so that might be kind of weird but
Oh I thought that was part of the crab Rave but no that
this is so funny because I'm also there's also ghosting
hello it sounds a little less offensive when you turn the volume down a little
bit and it's not trying so hard at max volume that definitely sounds obviously
distorted it doesn't sound very well uh very good just the fact that this is an
e-ink tablet and I'm playing a video with sound on YouTube is kind of that's
that's fun that's fun by itself this entire time the video has been playing
the ghosting from various other things app icons the control center Reddit
pinch to zoom that's all there if I was using this for either work or for
reading and someone sent me a video and I wanted a chickly chickly and I wanted
to quickly check it I get the gist of what was going on
very blurry okay now just for just for Giggles Jake humor me I'm gonna play the
video in HD mode which is the lowest
refresh rate okay
do you see that
uh the speakers weren't incredibly impressive but you know they've they'll
do the job a big use case of this other than just reading books is taking notes
they have the pen and everything and you know I'm sure that's part of the
marketing is that like oh this is a device you could get take nice notes
with so let's open the notes app I'm guessing this is books's own Notes app
if I put my hand on nothing wait but I thought we were not we were
just in regular HD mode hello because like it it seems pretty responsive for
like an eating screen honestly that's crazy the stylus apparently has 4096
levels of pressure sensitivity which is a number that I remember being
associated with other styluses that I've used so I'm going very lightly it's a
thin line and then I press it gets thick
thin thick yeah nice the notes app seems
cool real quick I want to see the multitasking huh is there no
multitasking menu even when you set the default like home screen refresh speed
to ultra fast when you scroll on something like this it doesn't scroll
like the web page incrementally it just jumps which is annoying but this is kind
of cool when you swipe to the right from the home screen you get this little like
launcher place where you got your library with a number of books that I
imagine that you might be reading recently let's go back to notepad because there's a couple features I just
want to look at hello
nice bro Brew with two o's nice
but if I wanted to actually type with the keyboard typing experience
is pretty good the key keys feel
kind of mushy yeah there's not as much of a tactile bump as I would like they
definitely feel I think at first glance you feel them and you're kind of like oh
that feels kind of tactile but there's a lot of travel distance there's more
travel distance than I would like she's like oh you want to press me okay so on
the back there's a 16 megapixel camera but I couldn't find a camera app so it
might be that it's called the smart scanner because it's only really meant
to be used to scan documents that's so
funny okay uh smile
here's your photos what do you want to do with it I can import it I can go to
the next step all right here we are crop it you can rotate it you can hand write
on it add text you can detect text in
the document it right here on the tablet and then send it to your notes app or to
or to create a PDF okay I can send to a node I can send it over Bluetooth use
onyxmail nearby you can use nearby share
like Androids feature yeah this is like the default Android nearby share so it's
like airdropping but for Androids the problems of philosophy give me a little
sample boom how do I change the view and stuff I don't know how people use I've
never used an e-reader this big so I don't know how people like read I would
want the text to be smaller and I'm there must be a way to do that I don't
know how to do it though anyways
the reading seeps fine but what I'm really interested in is gaming on the
e-ink on the books tab Ultra because yeah this thing has we installed gentian
impact on it can you play that with just the touch controls I've never played
this game they don't say in the specs page what the actual CPU is it just says
Qualcomm octa-core there's four gigs of lpddr4x RAM and 128 gigs of storage okay
will it go in the background if I go to the home screen
hopefully
okay uh this is I'm this is me gaming uh
we wanted to open genjen impact for the memes but that didn't really work out in
conclusion I came into this thinking that this was just gonna be like a janky
uh you know like fun little tablet but this is like a full-featured Android
tablet with the whole app ecosystem with
the refresh rate that actually makes it usable in some cases that you wouldn't
expect the e-ink tablet to be able to be usable in overall I'm pretty impressed
with with the usability with the build quality more impressed than I thought
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