Toshiba Encore 2 Windows 8.1 Tablet

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Toshiba Encore 2 8″, Windows 8.1 Tablet

I fell upon this at a Staples yesterday.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4

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Gorgeous screen, nice bit of hardware.

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Google Books PDF Test: Surface Japan

Something is very screwy in Google Books PDF land.

I did a bunch of new tests yesterday.

It turns out my prior iPad Mini 2 test that I got so excited over was a mirage.

Surface Japan is a 13.38MB Google Books PDF. It should be a breeze for any tablet to handle. Especially the iPad Mini 2.

Instead … well, see the videos after the break.

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Onda: More Tablets Coming In August

PadNews has an interview with two Onda officials that Google Translate mangles into near-incomprehensibility [Google Translate].

But at the end, this bit is clear enough:

6, about new products

[Reporter]: these days we are talking about Intel’s CR V2 products, Onda CR V2 product when it will launch?

[Liu] Emblem: August will continue to come out, have a good plan several products, including the 8-inch, 9.7-inch, 10.1-inch has a plan.

[Reporter]: I heard the news that the upstream, Onda will soon launch a 10.1-inch Windows tablet, the price is very Madden – 1099 here want to tell us!

[Liu emblem]: We do have plans this product. The first step is to use V0 platform will be equipped with windows immediately after the CR V2 platform mature operating system program listed in mid-August. Thank you.

I don’t know the implications of the new Intel CR V2 CPU. It’s not something I’ve studied.

But anyone who has thought about the V975w might want to wait to see what the CR V2 version will offer.

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Teclast X89HD Windows Edition Gets First Review

It’s over at IMP3Net and it confirms everything we’ve already heard informally [Google Translate].

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Pipo P8 Tablet Teased

In a Weibo communique, Pipo finally acknowledged they’ll be releasing an iPad Mini clone based on the Rockchip 3288 CPU, called the P8:

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Harlan Ellison, August 2014

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iFive Mini 4: iambillbil Performance Evaluation

At the IMP3Net forum, iambillbil concludes his coverage of the iFive Mini 4 engineering sample with a performance evaluation [Google Translate]. A portion of the post is locked, but some of that information is here.

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As expected, most of its operation is smooth.

Where it falls down is in some video formats and large games.

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iFive Mini 4: First AnTuTu V5 Beta 1 Score

According to a new thread at 5Fans forum, iFive Mini 4 scores [Google Translate]:

AnTuTu 4.x = 38,644 points

AnTuTu 5.x beta 1 = 35,701 points

Instead of increasing, it decreases! I wonder if it’s now taking into account the speed of RAM and its throughput?

Same-day update: AnTuTu screens added after the break.

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iFive Mini 4: Some Big Games Stutter

Over at the IMP3Net forum, user 2222 — who revealed Rockchip cheating at AnTuTu — has tested several large games on the iFive Mini 4 and the RAM throughput defeats them [Google Translate].

I’ve copied full-size images since the test data would be too small to see reduced; click to enlarge. There are more images at the original post.

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Real Racing 3 loads quickly, very smooth after entering the game. 3288 belongs to accelerate quickly CPU, after entering the game frequency stable at around 1.2G, heat stable at 40 degrees

That’s 40 degrees Celsius. Or a whopping 104 degrees Fahrenheit!

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