Tablet 8 Inch ZONMAI Android 10.0 (GMS Certified), Quad Core Processor, 2GB RAM + 32GB ROM, Face Authentication, 1280x800 HD IPS Screen, 3G Phablet WiFi, Dual Sim Card Slots, FM, BT4.0, GPS

The media could not be loaded.  I brought this for my nephew as a birthday present, and so far he’s seemed to enjoy it a fair bit. The screen is decent quality (although nothing extraordinary), and the device performance is pretty good too. I’d say it’s roughly standard quality for the price, by no means a bad tablet!It can also run games for 7 year olds pretty well 👍🏽

This is a great tablet, I do have one issue. I bought this tablet to write notes on for work and have discovered that you can’t write on it. When trying to write the writing breaks up so it’s illegible therefore i can’t use it for the reason I bought it. I will be keeping it as it is a good tablet.

Battery only lasted about six hours one call and it goes flat

I could not get the menu bar to stay down to set up said tablet.....so nil points!!

Useful and fair price

This Android tablet arrived fully charged in a smart box that contains everything that you need to get started. There is a cleaning cloth, stylus, key to open the sim card slot, USB-C charging cable (75cm long) and compact (‘foldable’) plug, USB-C to USB adapter, basic instructions, and a hard case. The user guide directs you to a web site which has more detailed instructions (in Chinese) but there is another web site available for the English version of the instructions. The tablet can be attached to the case by a sticky pad so if you do attach it then it would not be straightforward to switch to a different case. Weighing about 346g this is a solid device that feels robust. The specs are good for most general use, having 32Gb ROM but you can add an SD card to increase storage if required.The device switched on fine first time. It was useful that it prompted for text size for typing (on some other tablets I have found it tricky to find the place to do this). By default, there is a click sound for typing which I turned off in the settings very soon. The device generally clicks and beeps a lot more than I would like, but I am sure there are settings to switch this off. It is pre-set to US English and US time zone which can also be changed in settings. I did not consult the instructions before trying to put the sim card in but, after initially being confused by the layout of the card tray, I soon worked out that there was only one way (with tablet face down) in which my phone sim would naturally fit in without falling out.Within about a minute of adding the sim I could make and receive phone calls. As with a lot of devices, there are prompts to log in to various apps when you are setting it up (not surprisingly the device tries to get you to login with a google account). Trying to log onto certain websites initially (e.g., Internet mail) was glitchy but I believe that this was due to the temperamental WIFI connection that I was using, and it seems fine now with the phone sim in the tablet. I have watched several YouTube videos on the tablet. The picture quality is fine for a device of this size and the sound is good (but not spectacular). The volume is easy to adjust, and it is quite loud at full volume. There is a headphone socket that works as expected. I installed the Zoom app and had no problem taking part in a Zoom meeting using the tablet. Accessing a mapping app, the tablets correctly identified its location. I have setup the face recognition for accessing the tablet, which was simple to do. The tablet is pre-loaded with a few Google Apps (Including Google translate that allows you to take a photo of text in a foreign language and then translate it – I tried it out on the tablet website!) but as with most Android tablets you can add the apps you want and remove those you do not. Performance of apps has generally been OK. The tablet enters sleep mode after several minutes of not being used. The tablet seems to hold charge well and to charge reasonably quickly (I just charged it from 60% to 100% in about 45minutes). The camera is basic, a bit slow to operate and the pictures taken look a bit grainy but there may be settings that improve the resolution. This is a good basic tablet for children or adults to use and with a phone sim, it should be great to use when travelling. The sub £90 price I currently see for this item seems to me to make it a great budget tablet option.

It arrived well packaged, and the charger is stated as being capable of 2A, which I confirmed is possible via a USB load test device.It is supplied with a case/stand, located in box, almost hidden below the Tablet itself, see photos, this was effective at allowing viewing at your chosen angle. You should note that this must be (permanently) stuck to the Tablet via the double-sided sticky pad (see grid pattern on peel off bit in photo). Fitting this made the device far easier to grip and use, giving a predictable orientation when picking up. The wrap-around flap holds it securely (magnetically) closed but does not ‘wake’ the device upon opening, you need to manually press the power button. Also, the flap can slightly obstruct the bottom of the screen, see photos.FYI, upon boot up, it states it is “TUFEN” and “powered by Android Go edition”. It was disappointing to see only the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi connections were offered from my dual band router, 5 GHz would have been nice.The 8”, 1280 x 800 screen, was not noticeably lacking in detail when watching (Prime) streamed video content, although it did sometimes drop (usually briefly) to a very blocky resolution, probably a Wi-Fi bandwidth issue, as an immediate switch to watch same content (Prime Video) on a Fire HD10 did not similarly suffer. The Android OS is responsive to fingers, but the screen readily shows finger smudges, which is perhaps why they supply an effective stylus to use, unfortunately there’s nowhere to stow this in the supplied case and the stylus doesn’t have a pen-clip to hook on to outside of case either, a minor point perhaps.The audio seems to be output via two speakers located at the bottom of screen in portrait orientation (see photos), this means they are on the right-hand side ONLY when viewing cinema-style content. While there is some audio escaping the holes for USB-C port and headphone socket (now on left-hand side), this seems to be accidental. In comparison, my other tablet has great surround-sound coded audio from two speakers, well-placed for video viewing. Ignoring the case, this tablet itself seems to have been designed for portrait orientation use. I paired some Bluetooth ear-buds and the audio quality on music and Prime video was perfectly acceptable. I also tried a wired pair of headphones in the 3.5mm jack, but the audio quality was much worse* than using the same headphones plugged in to my phone playing the same music track at same volume. * It was shrill and lacking bass.Tablets usually do not perform well as “cameras” (I prefer a real camera) and this tablet was no exception. The front (screen) camera produces files of 1600 x 1200 pixels with a 4mm, f/2.8 lens. The main (rear) camera is 2592 x 1944 pixels, from a 2mm, f2.8 lens. The camera app is basic with minimal controls: namely for camera choice, grid lines on/off, HDR on/off and flash options (On, Auto, Off). Even viewing on the built-in display demonstrated images lacking sharpness and with contrast reducing flare, both typical of tiny, easily smeared, lenses.Using the supplied tool, I extracted the SIM/Memory card holder and inserted a 64 GB micro-SD card and configured it to be used as a file transfer card. It’s a bit fiddly to insert and remove the card and carrier (see photo) without dropping it, but possible. Using File Manager+, I confirmed the storage worked. No tests were conducted with a SIM card.Battery issues: at one point, while the Tablet was showing around 30% battery, I was moving an icon between screens and it just went black, then was unresponsive to power (or other) button presses. I inserted the USB charging cable and after a minute or so, the display briefly showed a battery icon stating charging and 6%. Charging was at 1.3A for some time, and completed charging after 2 hours and 4 minutes, having absorbed 2464 mAh.A few days later, with no screen use, again it was found to be completely unresponsive and shortly after plugging in the USB, the screen show “0%” battery. After fully charging, I used it for 40 minutes watching a YouTube video, which decreased the battery level from 89 to 79%. After another hour or so, battery is down to 60% and it is put to sleep. When I return after another couple of hours, there’s just 22% battery remaining, and this dwindles to 15% after another half an hour’s use checking camera and the use of external storage via my 64 GB micro-SD card. It was put on charge via a USB meter, charging at 1.36A and consuming 2629 mAh to reach 100%. It was used for a few minutes, put to sleep (with 3 apps hibernating, Prime video, File Manager+ and YouTube) and left overnight, the next morning, it was completely flat, as in 0% again. That is not how my other Android tablet behaves when treated similarly. I don’t know whether the cause is a physically bad battery, or something in the BIOS that causes the problem, but the device must be faulty. Diagnostics of battery did not show a cause or advise of any ‘mis-behaving’ apps., but the graph did show the rapid discharge.Sadly, this latest ‘self-discharge’ has just degraded it to one star rating, it is just too unreliable.It was charged again, using the supplied charger, which took 2 hours and 5 minutes and absorbed 2563 mAh. Prime video app. was then used to watch a 2-hour film, followed by another of just over 1.5 hours, followed by another of just under 1.5 hours. In total, as screen grab shows, some 5 hours 22 minutes of Prime Video App. use. The 7 hours 56 minutes of YouTube playing was from the previous charge.Apparently the Android battery management app. did not always recognise when a full charge should have reset the counter and graphs. When I intensively used the tablet for multiple films, it did not die unexpectedly. Unfortunately I have run out of time to investigate further before this review is due to be submitted, but if the reason becomes apparent in next few days, I will update it. Given the improved performance today, I will upgrade to two stars overall.