New Tablet Day Today!

Pjran I've just ordered a sim for it from RWG mobile. It's £1 and comes with £1 of credit which never expires. It was the best sim deal I could find for very occasional use and mainly receiving calls. I have BTwifi access anyway when out and about. It's dual sim too so may have another older sim lying about to add to the device as another phone number. You can often re-use offers like takeaway discounts if you have multiple phone numbers active as you can create new accounts with new phone numbers so I tend to make sure I have as many phone numbers active as possible. If I can save £5 on a takeaway 5 times rather than 1 time it makes sense to me.

BonzoBanana can you remember all 5 numbers though?

Pjran I only mainly use one number on my main phone which is the only sim on a monthly contract. The others I would just use when necessary. As my phone and this tablet is dual sim that is 4 numbers in itself and then I have my landline number. However I have a few other devices that take sims like a 360 camera and an older smart phone. I'm just going to stick to the 5 numbers though which is only 2 devices plus my normal landline phone. 5 is probably the maximum numbers my brain can handle.

BonzoBanana I no longer have a home phone number. It seemed silly paying rental when I never used it.

martinlufc5637 So far it is really good, impressed with the screen and speed. I'm not so familiar with Android 13 so there is a learning curve there and while the tablet has 4 speakers and feels a little more immersive in sound the overall sound quality is good rather than great. I think I was expecting a bit too much when it said four speaker sound. Yes its better than the previous tablet but not a huge difference. The colours really pop on the screen almost feels like a OLED screen but don't think it is. The camera is 20 megapixel which is pretty high and can do 2.5k video recording to match the screen resolution but I don't think there is any stabilisation. It's got 8GB of memory which is plenty so I don't think I will enable the 15GB memory mode where it uses an extra 7GB of storage as virtual memory. I think that is detrimental to the life of the storage memory which is not meant to have so many read/write cycles. My phone has a similar feature and don't enable that either.

What is great is it seems very fast to charge and very slow to discharge. Not my last tablet but the tablet before that which got dropped unfortunately was very slow to charge and very fast to discharge so it pretty much always had to be used with its charger. That had a fairly powerful chipset with a 28Nm fabrication process but this new tablet claims 6Nm which is pretty much at the cutting edge of fabrication processes. I think its made by TSMC which is the most advanced chip fabricator in the world, far superior to Intel who are having a lot of problems with their chips recently. The Toscido was based on a 14Nm fabrication process chipset and that offered decent performance.

BonzoBanana it sounds pretty decent, I watched a YouTube video review and he had nothing but good things to say about it

martinlufc5637 I had a Doogee 3D mobile phone in the past and it's wifi was terrible and it struggled with GPS signals but after buying it I discovered these were known issues. This tablet doesn't have any issues so far seems solid in operation. I also watched some videos about the tablet on youtube and they were overall very positive. It will spend most of its life attached to my exercise bike for keeping me entertained while cycling and is probably overkill for that application. I mainly just use Smartube Next most of the time. However it is nice to stick my tablet in the backpack sometimes and sit somewhere outside and just enjoy sitting outside while also using a tablet.

Consumer I think the RWG mobile payg sim rates are 5p a minute for calls and 1p a megabyte for data. These aren't the best rates for payg but your credit doesn't expire. I think you get payg sims that are 1p a minute and 1p a megabyte from 3 but you have to fund the account a minimum of £10 every 3 months so the sim credit doesn't expire. If I take the tablet out and about I'm only expecting to use mobile data or outgoing calls in emergencies. That initial £1 credit should last a long time. My main phone has a monthly contract that was prepaid and it was £35 for 24 months so not much more than a £1 a month anyway and that gives me 250 minutes of calls and 1GB of data a month which is satisfactory for me. That is RWG mobile as well. As I say I have free btwifi out and about and lots of places have free wifi anyway.