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you there yes you do you want to buy a new tablet are you confused don't know whether to buy one with Windows or with Android what about a tablet that can run both ok then hi there everybody my name is Gary Sims manager authority and today we're going to be looking at the under v9 1-9 3g air an intel-based nine point seven inch tablet the dual boots into both Android and Windows 8.1 like many Chinese OEM tablets that on the v9 1-9 air is clearly trying to mimic the iPad air the dimensions are almost exactly the same as the iPad air and its overall look is very similar to the iPad air even down to the bottom speaker grilles that flank the microUSB port the power button and the volume rocker are on the right-hand side just like the iPad air on the front panel there is a circular home button again just like the iPad on the back there is a plastic cover which when opened reveals slots for the SIM card and the SD card and some metal strips presumably for the antennae again the placement of the cover on the top edge next to the rear-facing camera is very similar to the iPad of course there are some significant differences first the on d'ervy nine one nine shell is made of plastic second the device is slightly thicker than the iPad air and third the processor in the V nine one nine air isn't an ARM based process I like the iPad or even the Nexus 9 it is an Intel chip the result is that the under v nine one nine can run Android and Windows 8.1 but I'll talk more about that later one problem I did find with the design is that the circular home button is very sensitive it only requires a slightest of touches for it to activate what this means is when holding the tablet in a landscape my thumb kept touching the button and taking me to the home screen this can be very annoying at first I thought that the tablet software was unstable and the apps kept crashing and dumping me back into the home screen however I eventually worked out my thumb was to blame adjusting how I held the tablet finally solve the problem ever even though I'm conscious of how I need to hold the tablet I still find that my thumb gets too close to that very sensitive home button this tablet has a nine point seven inch display with a qxga resolution in other words 2048 by 1536 this means it has a four by three screen ratio just like the iPad and also like the Nexus 9 this translates into a pixel density of 264 PPI now some people prefer tablets with a 16 by 10 screen ratio because more the display is used when watching widescreen movies however the four by three display ratio is certainly a popular alternative the on that uses an IPS display which yields good viewing angles the color reproduction is good and the screenings are bright however one disappointment is the tablet doesn't have a light sensor which means there is no automatic brightness option available as I mentioned earlier at the heart of the onder v9 193 GA is an Intel processor not an ARM based processor as found in the majority of Android devices in this particular case it is an intel atom z3580 in terms of usability the performance of the v9 193 GA was good the UI always directed quickly in games like Epic Citadel were able to achieve at least 50 frames per second video playback is smooth and I didn't experience any lags or annoying pauses while using the device if you want more details on specific benchmarks then please check out the written review this tablet comes with a 6200 milliamp hour battery it's hard to theorize about the battery life from just the raw milliamp hour number unfortunately the battery life wasn't as good as I had hoped for example if I charge up the battery fully to 100% rebooted the tablet to make sure there were no programs running and then left it for repair of about 10 or 11 hours over 30% of the battery was used when the tablet was sleeping according to the battery diagrams but 51% of this was taken up by the Android system this certainly indicated there is some optimization that needs to happen I ran some tests to see how the device would do on a different loads and my tests showed that you get 4.1 hours of YouTube streaming 2.7 hours of playing a 3d game like Epic Citadel and 3.7 hours of playing simpler 2d games the speaker on the v9 190 nothing special it does its job in that it produces sound however don't expect anything amazing also the speaker grills don't seem to have any relation to the actual speaker covering both grills only reduces the sound marginally here is a sample so you can judge for yourself the tablet has built-in support for 3G for details about the frequencies and for various compatibility with carries around the world please check out the written review as you'd expect the device also has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 the v9 1:9 comes with 2 gigabytes of RAM which the most supported by this particular Intel processor and either 32 or 64 gigabytes of storage depending on which model you buy my test unit has 32 gigabytes of storage the thing to remember is that the device comes pre-installed with two operating systems Android and Windows 8.1 the internal storage is split between Android and Windows with some space being used for the actual operating systems themselves and the remaining being divided up as usable storage between the two environments under Android this 32 gig model has around 6 gigabytes of space for installing apps and for storing your own files under Windows the free space for drive C was around 8 point 5 gigabytes this means that the rest is you to hold the 2 oasis however the numbers don't seem to add up quite right I'm left with a feeling there is a large chunk of flash memory somewhere that is not being utilized correctly in terms of what is missing this tablet is very short on sensors of any kind it has an accelerometer and that's about it there's no GPS no NFC and no compass for most people is probably isn't a problem however many 3G Nabal tablets that are on the market today come with at least GPS so that would have been a nice addition the cameras on the v9 when on are very basic the rear facing camera has a 5 megapixel sensor and the front facing camera has a 2 megapixel sensor personally I find the front-facing camera the most important on a tablet as it's useful for video conferencing with applications like Skype the rear camera is good considering that this is a tablet and it only has a 5 megapixel sensor the color reproduction is fairly faithful and the camera works well indoors and outdoors having said that you aren't going to win any photo competitions with this unfortunately the front-facing camera is very bad as you can see by these sample photos the colors blur easily there seems to be lots of distortion and particularly low-light there's lots and lots of noise the bundled camera app is very very simple and offers little more than the very basic operations if you do use the camera more than occasionally then you'll probably want to store a third-party app if you want to see more sample shots from the camera then please check out the written review the link is in the description below the key selling point of the under v9 1:9 3g air it is dual blue to bility the device comes pre-installed with Android 4.4 KitKat and Windows 8.1 with Bing each OS has a way to cause the device to reboot into the other operating system under Android there is a OS switch icon on the notification blind and on Windows there is the dual OS switcher program which is on the toolbar by default the supplied version of Android is failing vanilla except for the launcher on there has included its own launcher which doesn't include an app straw-like the iPad all the icons are on the screen and you need to organize everything into folders the under launcher also includes a theme switcher which allows you to pick one of five pre-installed themes including funny board and childhood dream if you don't like the launcher then the good news is that this is Android and you can easily replace it with one of your choice there are also a few included apps including a neat Wi-Fi configuration program and the LPA L configurator for Intel's always listing technology you are meant to be able to set a voice trigger that allows you to wake your tablet using your voice however I could get it to work as for Windows the installed version runs as expected I won't talk too much about how hard Windows 8.1 is to use without a mouse and a keyboard but that isn't the fault of onda I was able to install programs like chrome and VLC without any problem and the default window camera app worked reasonably well with the rear facing camera there wasn't a toggle to switch the front-facing camera however programs like Skype found the front-facing camera without any problems unfortunately some bits of the UI keep appearing in Chinese having fiddled with the regional settings etc I thought I'd set everything to English but still from time to time I get a window with Chinese writing in it the tablet comes with a micro SD card slot and the card is shared between Windows and Android this means that files copied into the card in one OS are available under the other I was able to install Windows programs on the micro SD card by installing them under D : however there was no option under this build of Android to move apps to the SD card you can get it on there v9 193 G err from geek buying for just 225 dollars that's for the 32 gig model the 64 gig model will cost you 240 dollars but it's currently only on presale but it will be available from February the 25th the 32 gig model is available now well there it is a dual booting Android and Windows tablet I'd love to know we think about the concept I'd love to know what you think about this video please use the comments below to share your thoughts if you liked the video don't forget to give it a thumbs up you can also subscribe to Android authorities YouTube channel you can also follow me on Google+ a big 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