On paper, the Chuwi V99 hits a lot of the right buttons. It runs Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, has a pretty fast dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, USB, WiFi, Bluetooth, and front and rear cameras. It also has a microSD card slot, and a massive 10,000mAh battery.
Specs only tell part of the story though, and I wanted to see how the tablet performed under real world conditions. The folks at PandaWill helped me out by sending me a Chuwi V99 tablet to review. You can buy one from PandaWill yourself for about $290. Some other stores are offering the tablet for as little as $250 on AliExpress.
Tucked away in the Chuwi V99 box there was another pleasant surprise: along with a USB cable and earbuds, I found a micro USB to full-sized USB adapter. I plugged it in and was pleasantly surprised to find that the tablet supports USB OTG.
Up until fairly recently, battery life was the Achilles Heel of most cheap tablets. But that seems to have changed with the advent of inexpensive, power-efficient processors from Chinese chip-makers such as Rockchip and Allwinner.
During my battery run-down test, which involved leaving the display set to about 50 percent brightness while streaming music over WiFi and occasionally using the web browser, the Chuwi V99 ran for nearly 10 hours.
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I just want to say I had the worse buying experience with Pandawill. I waited one month for the tablet before emailing them. One week before reply, they said the tablet was out of stock! wrote back demaznding a refund. Another two weeks they reply forcing me to chose another tablet. It is now three months since my first order and I still got nothing (they said free shipping has no trckung number I have to believe them??)
Another question ? do you have any idea how to open it ? I have problem with the camera and the seller told me to try to open it and check out the camera connection, the problem is that I dont know how to remove the glass and the display.
Back button is great! Cause you can use in some apps or repeating the pressing like a home button.I love it! And chuwi v99 is awesome in picture and awesome in browsing and everything else! Chuwi v99 is a best buy!
As a followup i want to mention that I was able to install netflix from the Play Store. After installation I was able to launch the application and play movies from my queue. I did not that i was not able to launch the Google Movies application, and the Hulu application provided a status message saying that the application does not support the device at this time.
And so it goes. You can choose a slightly dodgy unit from an unknown manufacturer who gets the hardware right at a good price point but lacks the resources to polish the software and eliminate hard to track down glitches.
this is why I wait for devices to make their rounds in the developer eco-system like when I got my HP Touchpad and saw that it was fairly standard I grabbed one up as soon as possible at $100 now I have a sweet JB tablet.
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