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welcome to my unboxing of the itab f9 31a this is an 8.9 inch android 4.2 ice cream sandwich tablet okay it uses a 4 by 3 aspect ratio so it's 1024 x 768 in terms of the screen resolution let's have a look at what's included hi okay it's not a fairly complete overall accessory package this is handy so a mini USB 2 full-size USB adapter allows you to easily plug a USB device even hey if you even wanted to use like a 3g modem USB adapter you can even plug that in so while the unit is not 3g capable out of the box you can use that as a solution as well this is just for data transfer and syncing and whatnot you've got a power cable for charging takes about five hours to charge the device from a standstill according to the manufacturer spec we have another USB cable so this one's USB a to mini being so for whatever that's for okay lots of USB cables we've got for whatever reason what appeared to be Apple oam headphones really they must be clones yeah they must be close okay well white headphones that are included okay we've got a little guide to android 4.2 let's have a look at the tablets also you can see the screen has what is called a bubble screen so this is a capacitive 5-point multi-touch screen and the technology behind it is because the but no I'm just kidding it does have a 5-point capacitive multi-touch screen but it is not a bubble screen that is just a screen protector that came in the box so you can see the aesthetic is an awful lot like the iPad it does have a front mounted camera as well as a rear mounted camera so you can use it for chat applications that card that I drove over there covered up my notes but let's go ahead and take the back off of here that's quite nice actually has a metal back so kind of anodized metal finish on the back that seems like it should be reasonably durable how much flex to the unit great okay volume controls are here these look familiar and then that's you know what give me a sec here guys so I don't remember where we left off anymore it's actually been a while I connected to Wi-Fi installed angry birds because everyone loves angry birds look at those birds are so angry actually that's the only one that's angry he's more confused and so is he he's sad he's really confused and hopefully it'll go ahead and sorta let me play the game overall the tablet is very smooth it's actually using an a8 processor so it's while it's not necessarily the yeah we get it well it's not necessarily the newest possible thing it does run pretty pretty cleanly pretty smoothly you can see scrolling around here scrolling around inside the Ice Cream Sandwich various home screens internet is not tested yet but hopefully it's pretty good because we're about to try it no idea it's the poem okay give it a sec alright so let's open a new tab let's go ahead and go somewhere so let's go to NCI x.com because there's a bunch of flash and stuff going on again one of the advantages of android tablets versus an iOS device is the ability to run flash so you can see all of the helpful advertisements on NCIX com such as this one actually it's possible we don't have flash installed on it yet so one author it is okay so web browsing could be smoother although that's a complaint about Android in general so probably helps if I oh wait wait give it a sec there we go okay so not too bad let's go to the forum Wow accuracy is really good i was able to click on that tiny little forum button without any difficulty whatsoever huh look at that so web browsing could be faster but don't hold that against the tablet because part of the problem is almost double is definitely the fact that we have so many interfering Wi-Fi connections around here there's got to be about 25 wireless networks within range of the tech tips room which is one of the reasons is so difficult for us to demo anything wireless in here so they sickly there's your butt as you're zooming looks a little something like that there's you're scrolling whenever it's not waiting for the page to load so actually not not bad at all especially given the price point so let's just see if there's anything else right right we haven't even looked at the unit physical yet so this is a 16 gig model there's a sticker somewhere that says 16 gigabytes it's a 2 megapixel camera on the back oh right whatever these buttons did so these buttons evidently are not volume control I assume they were but that's apps and option and then this is the back button so you actually have a physical back button which is kind of cool oh that's camera apparently let's look at another tablet through tablets like the tub deception so there's your dedicated back button on the side we find a bunch of stuff so there is your grill for your speakers there's your headphone jack there's your mini USB there's your microSD so you can put up to a 32 gig micro SD in here for expanded storage there is you're right that's where you can plug in the 3g dongle using that included cable then there is your AA mini HDMI excellent power and finally well power in and then the power button so battery life is in the neighborhood of depending on who you ask anywhere from five to ten hours and it can go up to 20 days in standby which is nice I have an Android tablet that doesn't last that long instead what I it's kind of a pain in the but not this one it's a different one um 1024 x 768 screen I think we covered that supports HD playback doesn't have bluetooth unfortunately but obviously it does have Wi-Fi from that camera can connect is yep yep yep can expand mini HDMI and I think that pretty much covers it so basically in a nutshell nice overall my nice overall build with the metal back that is very fingerprint resistant like no matter what i try to do it's not getting all grubbed up which is a complaint that i had even about the ipad and you know spite of its otherwise awesomeness because Apple made it and it is therefore amazing screen actually feels pretty good the screen is actually pretty impressive I hate personally seeing the touchscreen interface of a tablet I find that very very bothersome and you really can't see it it's a very flat screen no ripple to it and you can just barely make out some vertical lines I thought you couldn't see it at all actually until I just saw those now so it doesn't bother me at all even compared to something like transformer gen 1 where it's got those dots all over the screen that just drove me crazy yes crazy enough to like say it like that like crazy so we're going to install fruit ninja free just to check out the stuff in download check out the 5-point multi-touch guess we can also see the download speed here just pretty good considering we're in the tech tips room I just reset the router so maybe that's a that's helping a little bit maybe it jumped the gun there hard to say so you guys yeah I mean this is some this is some usability time with the tablet there's your responsiveness I'm actually I'm overall I'm pretty impressed especially given the price point it's not bad at all we can link go on the youtubes and can see if we can find a video of like some guy talking about tablets or something if you guys want to see a video of like a whoops okay there we go if you guys want to see a video of a really unresponsive tablet I'll show you a really good one it's like walls yeah that one this one it was like eight minutes in between trying to do things and then actually happening linus tech tips video how do i adjust the volume if those aren't volume buttons there must be some way I don't know slicks pointing at something bad only what to do mMmmm sound this probably isn't the fastest way to do it but it's done now never again okay back I'm not actually an Android expert by any stretch of the imagination so not bad it actually looks really good do you think I just looks naughty viewing angles not bad either actually go out yeah it's it's very usable from about here to about here here why you look at it wow that's awesome okay so moving along for ninja free we get to see my fruit ninja skills and I think we're pretty much done how long is this video it's a long video sorry guys tablets are one of those things where if we don't do a little bit of usability though than the videos sort of a waste anyway nobody cares about open fade and my stats on fruit ninja free come on you can do it lose them to fill screen stretch to fill screen zoom stretch to stretch zoom stretch zoom stretch okay give me a sec guys all right so here's our fruit ninja demo it did finally manage to load and then for sure it'll be a bomb next I played this game before so there's our five since the hacks our way to play ah whoa so beat huh audit okay well its got a gig around which I didn't mention before and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at this pretty value-oriented that's a pretty good value little tablet don't forget to subscribe to linus tech tips from unboxings 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