Teclast continues its tablet march, and this time has come up with a rather inexpensive solution for the budget-minded.
We recently talked about the Teclast Tbook 16, but this time round the subject is the Tbook 11 which is a much more affordable dual-boot tablet.
GizChina patrons will be familiar with Chinese tablet makers’ choice of SoC this season — the Intel Z8300. And that is exactly what the Tbook 11 comes with, also.
While that may not be the most potent SoC in the world, the tablet as a whole does represent a rather effective solution.
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It boots into either Windows 10 or Android 5.1, has a rather large 10.6-inch 1920 x 1080p full HD display, and with the aforementioned 4GB RAM, has 64GB of on-board storage that can be expanded via microSD.
As for the battery, the Tbook 11 is juiced by a 7500mAh cell. At $184.99 shipped, the Tbook 11 is almost $100 cheaper than the Tbook 16, making the latter look rather high-priced.
As is with almost every other budget tablet, you can hook up a keyboard case to extend the usability of the Tbook 11.
not bad !
Tablets are heavier than ever, average PPI made a step back, less powerful (those atoms are hardly better than 3 year old chips), less battery life too. I don’t know why people should be happy about this.
3 years ago, I imagined that by now we would have 300 PPI tablets at minimum, not even one weighing more than 1 libre and 10 hours screen time at minimum.
What happened in the meanwhile? We were so close back then (my 2013’s Note tablet was really close on all three), it’s as if tablet makers fell into a long slumber and the best they could think was to replace tablets with weak laptops…
nokia in the 90’s… it’s all about maximizing profit.
Yeah, but see where Nokia is now. If companies really care about profits, they should care about their long term profits by actually creating quality products. The Surface Pro idea was awesome but it was only done well by Microsoft, the rest of the copycats actually hurt their bottomline, and they don’t realize it. After a few years are passed apart from Microsoft I very much doubt that anybody else will make profit by devices like the above. Making a good tablet is not that hard if you don’t try to copy the trends…
well, they f*up by not adopting to android thinking they were too big to fail.
They have the X98 pro, so you can buy that..which has higher res display. Is it really required for a 10″ tablet? What is the cost is speed and memory? This device hits a different cost/performance point. Hit the market with a variety of solutions, someone will buy your product..
x98 pro is still behind my ~3 year old tablet. Worse PPI, slightly lighter but according to reviews worse battery (still). Granted it’s release price is cheaper than Note tablet’s but -still- it’s almost 3 years, I would expect better from tablets by now… funny thing is that it’s not just the Chinese companies. Samsung did that too, their very own Tab S2 while lighter, also has way worse battery and lower PPI than my Note Tablet … it’s as if nobody can do a good enough tablet these days…
High PPI and low weight are both very required for extended use. Any lower than 300 ppi makes the fine letters hard to read and becomes tiring soon. More than 450 grams is also quite tiring (my tablet is 80grams more than that and it’s 80 grams I would like to do without).
I get you. Apparently, no significant new technology was developed to change the basics. Battery tech has not changed, and neither did display. These are the main factors concerning your points.
BTW, are you sure about the PPI info? the X98 has higher res, same 10″ size.
http://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model-display/09eb320c
I was contrasting it with my tablet. I bought it almost 3 years ago (October 2013) yet it’s still better than all Chinese tabs. My tablet has higher resolution (2560×1600) so its PPI is better. Also it has better battery (8200 Mah , ~10 hours, which lasts more than all Chinese tabs).
My tablet is almost 3 years old yet beats almost everything out there. It’s like saying that a 3 year old phone would beat modern phones, everybody would laugh with that statement, yet in tablets -sadly- it’s almost entirely true …
Where there is a problem, there is a startup waiting to happen. “They” don’t see where to go. Can you think of an idea? start it up! that’s the tech way, once you realize no one really knows what to do except you 🙂
Maybe I would if I had the funds.
As it stands , it’s not that hard though. Just follow the tech, don’t stop midway. For example phones get more battery, more resolution and become less heavy per inch as years pass. If tablets were to do the same by now we would have excellent tablets. They seem to have stopped in 2013…
I don’t think they know where to go.
The reason phones got huge resolutions is for mainly for VR.
What do you use your tablet for? do you also have a phone and notebook?
Yes. Primary use of tablets is content consumption. A phone screen is too small for content consumption when at home and a laptop is too big. Also laptops run desktop OSes which are unfriendly to content consumption (things are less instant).
A tablet should have sharp text so that to read with ease (300 ppi or more). Weigh like a big book or less if possible (400 grams or less), so that it doesn’t get tiring after long sessions of reading or viewing media.
A tablet should also have around 10 hours screen on time, so that it can go a day without charging even if that day is particularly long.
So in short around 300 ppi, 400 grams or less of weight and 10 hours or more of screen time. Those are the three things I need the most in tablets. Only Xperia Z4 has all 3, but it’s very hard to find and very expensive. I want a tablet with all three to be about $300 (or less) and be more easily available than Z4.
I think that’s needed because 3 years ago I could buy a tablet for $450 being almost as good, I would think that in 3 years time technology would evolve and give us good tablets that are also cheaper. Unfortunately that didn’t happen …
I’m getting fed up of seeing the z8300 now… Why not use the z8500 at least?
Check out Teclast X16 or the yet-to-come Ondo oBook 12 🙂
not bad !
Ondo Obook12
Yep, indeed 🙂 waiting for mine…
why does intel ark site say that z8300 can handle only 2 g ram
Maybe it does, the 4 gigs are used by Android only on this one.
Probably a typo… There are many combos 2/32GB or 4/64GB, either tablets, 2-in-1 or laptops at the moment. Teclast X16 Power has 8GB of RAM too…
It’s a workaround made by the company, I’ve already read of it somewhere… Even if the soc does not support this many ram, they made a trick on the ram’s single channel (overclocking it, i guess) in order to stick into the tablet more ram… But I’m not really into these kind of things, so take everything I’ve said with a pinch of salt: the only thing we know for sure is that there’s a workaround to use more ram than the one supported by the soc, so it should be no typo or fake specs
Probably BGA package increase since introduction
It supports whatever can be squeezed in a single bank in a single channel
Tablets are heavier than ever, average PPI made a step back, less powerful (those atoms are hardly better than 3 year old chips), less battery life too. I don’t know why people should be happy about this.
3 years ago, I imagined that by now we would have 300 PPI tablets at minimum, not even one weighing more than 1 libre and 10 hours screen time at minimum.
What happened in the meanwhile? We were so close back then (my 2013’s Note tablet was really close on all three), it’s as if tablet makers fell into a long slumber and the best they could think was to replace tablets with weak laptops…
nokia in the 90’s… it’s all about maximizing profit.
Yeah, but see where Nokia is now. If companies really care about profits, they should care about their long term profits by actually creating quality products. The Surface Pro idea was awesome but it was only done well by Microsoft, the rest of the copycats actually hurt their bottomline, and they don’t realize it. After a few years are passed apart from Microsoft I very much doubt that anybody else will make profit by devices like the above. Making a good tablet is not that hard if you don’t try to copy the trends…
well, they f*up by not adopting to android thinking they were too big to fail.
They have the X98 pro, so you can buy that..which has higher res display. Is it really required for a 10″ tablet? What is the cost is speed and memory? This device hits a different cost/performance point. Hit the market with a variety of solutions, someone will buy your product..
x98 pro is still behind my ~3 year old tablet. Worse PPI, slightly lighter but according to reviews worse battery (still). Granted it’s release price is cheaper than Note tablet’s but -still- it’s almost 3 years, I would expect better from tablets by now… funny thing is that it’s not just the Chinese companies. Samsung did that too, their very own Tab S2 while lighter, also has way worse battery and lower PPI than my Note Tablet … it’s as if nobody can do a good enough tablet these days…
High PPI and low weight are both very required for extended use. Any lower than 300 ppi makes the fine letters hard to read and becomes tiring soon. More than 450 grams is also quite tiring (my tablet is 80grams more than that and it’s 80 grams I would like to do without).
I get you. Apparently, no significant new technology was developed to change the basics. Battery tech has not changed, and neither did display. These are the main factors concerning your points.
BTW, are you sure about the PPI info? the X98 has higher res, same 10″ size.
http://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model-display/09eb320c
I was contrasting it with my tablet. I bought it almost 3 years ago (October 2013) yet it’s still better than all Chinese tabs. My tablet has higher resolution (2560×1600) so its PPI is better. Also it has better battery (8200 Mah , ~10 hours, which lasts more than all Chinese tabs).
My tablet is almost 3 years old yet beats almost everything out there. It’s like saying that a 3 year old phone would beat modern phones, everybody would laugh with that statement, yet in tablets -sadly- it’s almost entirely true …
Where there is a problem, there is a startup waiting to happen. “They” don’t see where to go. Can you think of an idea? start it up! that’s the tech way, once you realize no one really knows what to do except you 🙂
Maybe I would if I had the funds.
As it stands , it’s not that hard though. Just follow the tech, don’t stop midway. For example phones get more battery, more resolution and become less heavy per inch as years pass. If tablets were to do the same by now we would have excellent tablets. They seem to have stopped in 2013…
I don’t think they know where to go.
The reason phones got huge resolutions is for mainly for VR.
What do you use your tablet for? do you also have a phone and notebook?
Yes. Primary use of tablets is content consumption. A phone screen is too small for content consumption when at home and a laptop is too big. Also laptops run desktop OSes which are unfriendly to content consumption (things are less instant).
A tablet should have sharp text so that to read with ease (300 ppi or more). Weigh like a big book or less if possible (400 grams or less), so that it doesn’t get tiring after long sessions of reading or viewing media.
A tablet should also have around 10 hours screen on time, so that it can go a day without charging even if that day is particularly long.
So in short around 300 ppi, 400 grams or less of weight and 10 hours or more of screen time. Those are the three things I need the most in tablets. Only Xperia Z4 has all 3, but it’s very hard to find and very expensive. I want a tablet with all three to be about $300 (or less) and be more easily available than Z4.
I think that’s needed because 3 years ago I could buy a tablet for $450 being almost as good, I would think that in 3 years time technology would evolve and give us good tablets that are also cheaper. Unfortunately that didn’t happen …
I’m getting fed up of seeing the z8300 now… Why not use the z8500 at least?
Check out Teclast X16 or the yet-to-come Ondo oBook 12 🙂
Onda Obook12
Yep, indeed 🙂 waiting for mine…
why does intel ark site say that z8300 can handle only 2 g ram
Maybe it does, the 4 gigs are used by Android only on this one.
Probably a typo… There are many combos 2/32GB or 4/64GB, either tablets, 2-in-1 or laptops at the moment. Teclast X16 Power has 8GB of RAM too…
It’s a workaround made by the company, I’ve already read of it somewhere… Even if the soc does not support this many ram, they made a trick on the ram’s single channel (overclocking it, i guess) in order to stick into the tablet more ram… But I’m not really into these kind of things, so take everything I’ve said with a pinch of salt: the only thing we know for sure is that there’s a workaround to use more ram than the one supported by the soc, so it should be no typo or fake specs
Probably BGA package increase since introduction
It supports whatever can be squeezed in a single bank in a single channel
Nice specs and design. Keep on the good work.
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