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I bought all these tablets from AliExpress just to answer the question

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why do they look like this this one is

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clearly a tent these two look more like door stoppers or maybe ramps for Tech

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Decks and these ones don't sort of look like tablets assuming you want them to

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pull double duty as a freaking Frisbee now obviously companies aren't just

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pumping out tablets in random silly shapes anymore

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mostly so what's the deal with these are they

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packed full of the same malware we found in our Android TV boxes do they have any

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redeeming features that'll make you want to abandon your iPad for

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walkie-talkie functionality built in oh the ability to download a dedicated

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computer which wait what Legacy serial

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easily the thickest Android tablet that I have ever seen and that's just the

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beginning of its surprises aside from the mic speakers and 10.1 inch

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touchscreen its features are actually very reminiscent of those awful Android

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TV boxes including the complete lack of

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a battery which is unexpected for something called a tablets there's an

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option for PoE at least which allows it to be powered with a network cable

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rather than with a separate plug but we didn't spring for that the i o is even

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similar to the TV boxes power two usba ports a headphone jack that contains a

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button deep down inside it for re-flashing the firmware okay USBC uh

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micro SD gigabit Ethernet and the white port is actually listed as serial and

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indeed it doesn't seem to work with USB peripherals like mice or flash drives

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though it does output power did they really go to the length of including

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serial only to replace the connector with USB so that you need an adapter for

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the native serial connection no the answer is far less silly this port

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supports USB to uart adapters which allows you to plug in conventional

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serial devices be they barcode scanners or anything else you can imagine under

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the hood it's running Android 10 because you aren't really getting the AliExpress

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Android experience unless you're using a version of Android that's never getting

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another security update other than that the under the hood specs make the

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overall experience pretty responsive and there's no signs of the dreaded core

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Java virus for now anyway it comes

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pre-rooted which doesn't worry us at all

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inside the device wait is that a battery to keep the clock accurate and a button

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to reset it there I guess it does have a battery after all I mean realistically

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for something that's sitting at a desk where people fill out their license

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plate number for parking validation it's going to get the job done just fine I

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really need a proper battery or a way to mount it just like you don't need volume

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controls or the default bottom navigation to show up and give you a way

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back out of the window you're in I mean if you go into settings you probably want to remain in settings until the

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device is powered down right right I mean at least it was cheap and wait how

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much 370 Canadian Rupees that's like 275 real

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monies for that price I could have had a Galaxy Tab S6 light with a bigger and

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better screen a battery and support for up to Android 13. okay forget Android

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for a second what if we got a Windows

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tablet for around 300 us we got this

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triangular prism of a PC with a Celeron j4125 eight gigs of DDR3 and Windows 10

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Pro it's not exactly a Powerhouse compared to other Windows devices but

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it's certainly serviceable for text entry it boots from an integrated 64 gig

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memory chip and ours came with a bonus 128 gig SATA m.2 the screen is 10.1

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inches just like the Android but this time the resolution is 1920x1200 not bad

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it's a bit thicker but it's got buttons on the side for power and volume

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controls HDMI out and otherwise a very

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similar complete IO layout at least on the outside it's not until we crack it

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open that we find its wasted potential there's an extra b key m.2 slot for the

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optional 4G card an unused USBC Port not

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sure it would have been nice to have missing headers for a fan and shockingly

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an Intel i225v two and a half gig

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Ethernet controller don't get too excited though this I-225 is one of the

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earliest models of that chip and there are known issues that occur at speeds

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exceeding gigabit but you know what the biggest wasted potential here is the

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lack of a way to properly Mount the bloody thing again if these tablets are

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being used to control digital signage like behind the counter restaurant menus

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it makes sense that you'd want to mount them on a table or a wall I mean at

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least the Android one had the thoughtfulness to include a Kensington lock which we also found on the Android

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tent this one is kind of cool it's got

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dual mirrored displays running at 1280x800

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it's only got two gigs of RAM 16 gigs of storage and it runs Android 8.1 meaning

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that even for 250 dollars I'm pretty disappointed with the internals again no

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battery which totally has space for on the motherboard but if it's intended for

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text input and to be permanently installed I guess it's better to have no

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battery than a fire hazard swollen battery but what is up with these

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devices missing volume buttons or USBC

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for power like what is this one actually for you guys got any ideas

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real estate presentations here uh have a

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look at what I'm doing on my side kitchen building oh okay okay yeah in

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both of those cases you could probably just sit side by side and look at one

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proper size screen though come on let's brainstorm here

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ah it's a power gauntlet

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hold on we're gonna have to do my left ARM it's a lot smaller definitely

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badminton frankly we're probably overthinking this all three of these so

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far seem to be POS equipment not to say

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that they're bad that's to say point of sale equipment though I'm not saying

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they're good either after we ordered these tablets we noticed the local

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Denny's locations all seem to be adopting similar tablets at their tables

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except those ones include charging ports wireless charging for your devices and

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they have batteries in them seems a lot better so I'd only bother checking out

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the link to these ones if you want a sign tablet that's worse than what the

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local pancake dispensary has so far then we haven't seen anything that's terribly

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useful or at least not a great value just kind of wacky this all black

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weatherproof Windows tablet is definitely both useful and battery

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powered we know that because it came to us with nearly 13

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000 battery Cycles counted since November 2020. that means doing the math

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it went through roughly a battery cycle every two hours from then until the day

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we ordered it and that wasn't the only sign of use someone had been using it to

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watch the latest historical drama on ige

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China's equivalent of Netflix and even

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if it was new this thing is not terribly powerful just four gigs of DDR3 RAM a 64

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gig generic SSD and an Intel atom z8350

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that's a processor that requires only slightly more power than the zero watt

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one on lttstore.com i o includes NFC

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mini HDMI a SIM card slot that supports

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LTE and we've got buttons for control finally we've also got some Pogo pins

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that attach to this car car mount and

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that gives it two more USB 2 ports gigabit Ethernet and a barrel Jack for

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charging in the serial Port when we open it up

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though we find that the 8 500 milliamp hour battery is in fact only 7 800

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milliamp hours and there's markings everywhere for

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em-i82h and em-i86h these are two potential real

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model numbers for this device which is apparently made by mbor as a barcode

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scanner that makes sense given the inclusion of Serial for nearly 700 it

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really feels like we could have bought something that isn't secondhand but with

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an IP67 rating it should be able to withstand being dunked in water for

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several minutes now we haven't tested that yet because we didn't want to break

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it before we started filming but now we can

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I mean how long do we want to leave it in there for can I use it this is a

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capacitive touch screen so it doesn't function at all underwater

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not even a little I don't know what else to say it survived I mean obviously this

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isn't the most scientific test but what if it passed were you going to buy a

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used tablet for this price no good job

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buddy it's padded bumblebee of a tablet also

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claims to be IP67 rated which we are eager to put to the test but its special

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trick is that it supposedly has the ability to communicate with walkie-talkies

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cool if true emphasis on if true it

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appears to be identical to the runbo P2 which would be great except that the

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version of Android 8.1 that it's running seems to be borrowed from eulophone

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adding one more layer of rebranding and remixing the outside contains most of

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its uniqueness on the front with two unlabeled buttons presumably for push to

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talk walkie-talkie functionality but we never got that working arrow buttons for

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navigation physical representations of the standard Android back home and

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circle buttons and an OK button these are all really

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useful in an environment where you're wearing gloves at least they would be if

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they all worked back and home function but the arrow keys are all wrong the

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circle brings up media controls and the top two buttons for push to talk don't

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seem to do anything at all as with any tablet the edges contain

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ports and buttons so it's got USBC

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can you shut up usb-c for charging it's recessed though so most cables won't fit

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another USBC for data that had the same issue detachable antenna a

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headphone jack IR maybe a power button a

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dial to select your walkie-talkie channels and on the back is a cover that

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gives you access to two micro SD slots and two SIM card slots that's pretty

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cool the software is really what's important here though it's all bog

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standard Android 8.1 except for the push to talk app this is where you should be

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able to set up your walkie-talkie connections or possibly receive shortwave radio it's hard for us to know

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for sure though because even though we have walkie-talkies even though we found

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the program to access their channels and even though we matched up everything

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perfectly between the two we don't even know what this app is called and there

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doesn't seem to be much information available about walkie-talkie apps that

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properly use VHF and UHF radio signals

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can it at least swim though

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water always wins these

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didn't immediately die uh does it float

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no what I want to do though is find out

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if this touchscreen works because it seemed like it might have been a pressure sensitive one and it's not but

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could I navigate using the buttons oh

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whoa okay hold on a second

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okay just clicks in the middle of the screen

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it doesn't do anything useful so I think the script said it doesn't do anything

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which is fine but it does sort of do something as crap as it is at

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least it survived the water test so what can we take away from this exercise then

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if you buy tablets for a specific purpose on AliExpress you might end up

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