The Good:
IPS Retina display
Gorilla 3 scratch-proof touchscreen
Beefy octa-core CPU @ 2.0 GHZ
Robust and premium design
Excellent speakers
Solid battery life

The Bad:
A little heavy
A full charge takes up to 6 hours
Some of the MicroSD cards don’t work on the 9X
No HDMI output.

Key features
9.7" IPS capacitive touchscreen of 2048 x 1536 px resolution
MTK MT8392 Chipset (Octa-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A7, Mali-450MP4 GPU)
2GB of RAM (which can be upgraded up to 6GB by flashing 900supersports ROM)
Android OS v4.4.2Kitkat
Quad-band GPRS/EDGE/HSPA
Voice call support
16GB and 32 built-in memory
8MP autofocus camera with LED flash, F2.0 aperture.
720p video recording @30fps
2MP front-facing camera with auto-focus
AAC stereo speakers
Wi-Fi 802.11, Wi-Fi Direct, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth v4.0
USB host (dongle required)
Micro SD card slot
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
GPS with A-GPS support;
10,000mAh Li-Po battery

Talk 9X’s Design – The Power of Slimness

With its slim, metal body and cool paint job, the Cube 9X is easily one of the best-looking tablets
from a Chinese manufacturer. Its metal construction helps make it feel rather premium and
luxurious when you pick it up, as do the skinny bezels and the all-glass front. There's no flex in the
metal back panel or any unpleasant rattling from the buttons, which makes it feel like a sturdy
piece of kit.

Top: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (7.8mm) Middle: Cube Talk 9X (7.5mm) Bottom: Acer W700 (11.9mm)
I, like many people, was actually skeptical of Cube’s early promotion claiming that the 9X was less
than 8mm thick. Only after holding it in my hand did I believe it was actually true. Measuring at
237*170*7.5mm, the 9X is really a compact device.

The front is dominated by a 9.7-inch IPS screen, with relatively small bezel. A 2mp front-facing
camera sits comfortably above the display, perfect for video-chatting and selfies.

There are no physical buttons on the front of the device, but around the sides you'll find the
standard volume and power buttons as well as the micro-USB port and 3.5mm headphone jack.
There's a microSD card slot which allows you to expand the 16GB of built-in storage, typical
Android.

The micro-SIM card tray was mounted on the right side of the tablet, but to open it you would need
the eject tool which can be found in the retail package.

Unfortunately, there isn’t an HMDI port on board. Although it’s no surprise as HMDI has never
appeared on any of the Talk series tablet, I really hoped that cube could offer more for this high-
end device.

On the back of the slate you will find an 8mp camera along with LED flash. The chassis is made of
aluminum alloy, which gives the tablet a very sturdy and premium feel, but also gives the tablet
some unwanted extra weight.

Display and Sound
The 9.7-inch display has a 2048*1536 resolution, which gives a pixel density of 264 pixels per inch,
as high as it really needs to be on a tablet.

I found the 9X's display to be extremely crisp, with sharp edges around icons and a comfortable
clarity to small text in Web pages. It's bright too, countering most of the glare from my office lights,
once you crank the brightness up at least.

I can say with certainty that it's easy to read under a grey cloudy sky, although it would struggle
more against the midday sun.

Colors are vivid as well, and it has amazing viewing angles, making it a great all-round display for
browsing the web pages, watching HD videos and gaming.

As for the device's speakers, I was pleasantly surprised by how loud and rich the stereo speakers
sound. To my non-audiophile ears, I didn't detect much tinniness, and found them perfectly
acceptable for listening to music tracks. I wouldn't replace your best Bluetooth speakers with them
of course, but they'll do in a pinch.

Systems and software
The 9X arrives running the stock Android 4.4.2 Kitkat operating system, which is pleasantly up to
date. Knowing its own limitations in developing customized Android, Cube has kept the 9X’s
interface 100% Android.

Preinstalled applications have also been kept to the minimum, but you could still find an entire set
of useful Google applications. Google Play and Google map work perfectly fine on the 9X, I have
already installed dozens of applications from the Google Play app.

Performance
Inside, the Cube Talk 9X has a octa-core Mediatek MT8392 CPU at 2.0GHz, as well as 2GB of RAM.
These specs powered the 9X to some of our best formal performance numbers for an Android
tablet.

We compared the 9X against a range of tablets from the market-leading manufacturers, including
the Google Nexus 7 (2013), the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 edition), the Samsung Galaxy Tab
8.4 Pro, and the LG G Pad 8.3. We found that the 9X performed powerfully across the board.

As can be seen from the table and screenshot above, the Cube Talk 9X stands up well to the market-
leading flagship Android tablets in synthetic benchmark tests such as AnTuTu, Geekbench,
Quadrant and CF-Bench. Its Vellamo and 3DMark scores, meanwhile, though not the highest, were
very respectable as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eHPoerqqcc

Gaming on the 9X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GIStSS2pqE

Browsing the internet
In the real-world use, the Talk 9X performed like a boss most of the time. Handling everything from
browsing through the home screens to some of the most graphic-intense games with ease. I did
have encountered some lags and hiccups here and there, but the overall experience was pleasantly
smooth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Rht-fBuYM

Video Playback was also very smooth, as the tablet breezed trhough most of the 1080P video I threw
at it. Only a few clips of which audio did not work while playing with hardware decoding, choosing
software decoding mode instantly solved the problem.[

Connectivity
Bluetooth 4.0, 3G (WCDMA/TD-SCDMA/GSM), wireless display, FM Radio, GPS and dual-band
802.11n Wi-Fi are all on-board.

With an SIM card inserted, you can even use the 9X to make phone calls and send short messages.
There is no earpiece on the tablet, so whenever you make or receive a phone call, you have to
either use a headset or the speakers.

As for Wi-Fi reception, The Talk 9X is at least as good as my Samsung Galaxy Tab, if not better.
Even at 10 meters and a few walls away from the router, it can still establish a pretty solid
connection.

The only issue, potentially an annoying one for some, is that the 9X failed to mount some of the
MicroSD cards. I tried 2 Samsung MicroSDs, neither of them worked on the 9X. But the Sandisk and
Kingston MicroSD cards worked perfectly.

Camera
Let me be clear once more: I would never advocate actually using a tablet to take photos. It just
doesn't make sense, when a smartphone could do a better job. If all you had was the 9X, however, it
would work in a pinch.

I used Auto mode for most of my tests, which is what most consumers are likely to do. The rear 8-
megapixel camera takes reasonably good shots -- my sample pictures looked crisp and colors
appeared accurate and lifelike, even beat the snaps of many low-end smartphones.

Even when I tried to use the camera in low light, the photos remains nice, with some reasonable
drop in sharpness.

Shot in total darkness, with LED flash on.

Only in the really dark environments, images looked fuzzy and grainy, and I had to hold the tablet
super still in order to get a shot that wasn't too blurry. The LED flash didn't help matters either, as
it often resulted in shots that were blown out.

The 2-megapixel front-facing camera is the best I have seen any Chinese tablet. With that said, it's
alright for selfies and the occasional video chatting, but I really wouldn't use it for anything else
given the resolution.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is9dtbpvczo

Surprisingly, though, the 9X records pretty decent 720p video. It captures motion smoothly enough,
and it records ambient sound quite clearly.

Battery life
The Cube Talk 9X packs a 10,000mAh battery, which is a huge bump over the 5,300mAh battery of
its predecessor (Talk 9). In our standard battery test where we play a video on loop with 50 percent
brightness while having notifications for email, Facebook and LinkedIn turned on, the 9X lasted for
8 hours and 13 minutes. That's substantially less than the iPad Air, but handily beat the battery life
of most of the Android tablets

With moderate use -- by which I mean talking to friends on Whatsapp and Wechat, browsing the
web pages and watching some YouTube Videos -- the tablet easily lasted through a whole day. I left
it mostly idle throughout the weekend, and the battery only dropped less than 10%.
But there was a small issue, it normally took more than 6 hours to finish a full charge and this
could sometimes be pretty annoying, especially for people who hope to get a decent percentage of
refill during lunch hours.

Verdict
One or two small niggles aside, the Talk 9X is a very promising tablet. The screen looks great and
the refined design feels like a meaningful and long overdue step forward for Cube. The octa-core
MT8392 chipset works like a beast most of the time, and the 8.0MP rear-facing camera is as good as
you could ask for from a tablet. The most important achievement Cube has managed to make with
the 9X is to make people actually forget about the quality issues which normally keep us from
buying tablets from a Chinese brand.

Besides being a wonderful tablet, the Talk 9X can also be used as a phone. Although I personally
would never encourage anyone to carry a 10 inch tablet around as her main communication device,
the 9X could serve as a nice backup whenever your smartphone run out of juice.

At $180, the 9X is sensibly priced and could potentially serve as an iPad air or Galaxy Tab
alternative. If you have enough faith in Cube like I do now, you wouldn't want to miss this slate.

Pros: great screen, super thin, decent battery life, premium materials, nice cameras

Cons: long battery charge time, incompatibility with some of the Micro SD card, the absence of
HDMI port.

credit to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789340

How much in naira?

Rehil: How much in naira?

na wetin me self wan ask be that

Rehil: How much in naira?

price ranges from 45k to 50k

got mine at almost 48k

semid4lyfe: @ brightnelly,

You come do like sey na you do the review originally. You for credit the source wey u copy and paste the review from nah, haba


Anyway, it's been fixed.




Sent from my Cube Talk 9x > > >

Rightly fixed!!!

Sent from my Cube Talk 9x>>>

semid4lyfe: @ brightnelly,

You come do like sey na you do the review originally. You for credit the source wey u copy and paste the review from nah, haba


Anyway, it's been fixed.




Sent from my Cube Talk 9x > > >

Well done o'j'are, @semid4lyfe, for not allowing the OP to get away with such blatant plagiarism, while wanting to use Nairaland to do so.
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brightnelly:

Rightly fixed!!!

Sent from my Cube Talk 9x>>>

you tried z3x box for that stuff?
Google Search to know more about it ( cos i hardly do )
I think its paid...but you can always get it free online

StealthyMe:

you tried z3x box for that stuff?
Google Search to know more about it ( cos i hardly do )
I think its paid...but you can always get it free online

OK lemme try it!!!

brightnelly:

OK lemme try it!!!

But please make sure you have done a backup of your ROM

nice ipad 3 clone.....though it can never compete

StealthyMe:

But please make sure you have done a backup of your ROM

I tried searching for it but couldn't get it!!! is there anyway u can help me?

ultraprime: nice ipad 3 clone.....though it can never compete

where did u read that it's an iPad clone or it's competing with iPad??


SMH4U

brightnelly:

where did u read that it's an iPad clone or it's competing with iPad??


SMH4U

of course it doesnt look like an ipad.....when you are blind. it's even got the exact resolution

ultraprime: of course it doesnt look like an ipad.....when you are blind. it's even got the exact resolution

having same resolution or using same screen doesn't make it an iPad clone!!!




grow up kid!!!

brightnelly:

having same resolution or using same screen doesn't make it an iPad clone!!!




grow up kid!!!

i know ur its defendant but even the design says it all

brightnelly:

I tried searching for it but couldn't get it!!! is there anyway u can help me?

Sorry if i raised your hope man..i think its more of Samsung tool (though i think it works for other devices also)
And z3x box is a tool that needs to be bought ( thought twas a software)

ultraprime: i know ur its defendant but even the design says it all

it's DEFENDANT I give up!!!

StealthyMe:

Sorry if i raised your hopes man..i think its more of Samsung tool (though i think it works for other devices also)
And z3x box is a tool that needs to be bought ( thought twas a software)

no problem bro! thanks for trying to help.

@ OP, how were you able to gain root?

princeparis: @ OP, how were you able to gain root?

I rooted it with vroot via my laptop!!

Ok. Thanks.

princeparis: Ok. Thanks.

uwc

brightnelly:

price ranges from 45k to 50k

got mine at almost 48k

Bro do u buy it in nigeria or you order it, pls link me to where u get urs, i need dis tab. Tanks

@ olloboy..I have one for sale..its just a few weeks old..its 39k last price..contact me on 08164977854

ollyboy009:
Bro do u buy it in nigeria or you order it, pls link me to where u get urs, i need dis tab. Tanks

u wouldn't want to go through what I went through to get mine!! I suggest u contact THESPECIALONE for cheaper and easiest way of getting it!

the machine is a real beast! I've ROOTED & CHANGED IMEI! rocking Glo BIS on it currently! I so much love the TAB!

if you can help with instructions on how to get BIS thing done. It would be nice.

brightnelly:


OK lemme try it!!!

bro I think the tab is up to a month with you now, how's the performance been?

Does it have OTA update?

And pls....what's the app space provided for the phone?

Blackbeauty:
@ olloboy..I have one for sale..its just a few weeks old..its 39k last price..contact me on 08164977854

Where do u stay I am interested

harmbhrosz:
bro I think the tab is up to a month with you now, how's the performance been?

Does it have OTA update?

And pls....what's the app space provided for the phone?

there is no OTA update available for the tablet! however u can download from their website whenever an update is available and install manually.

the performance has been 85% (my opinion)

allocated application storage is 2.1gb

brightnelly:

there is no OTA update available for the tablet! however u can download from their website whenever an update is available and install manually.
the performance has been 85% (my opinion)
allocated application storage is 2.1gb

I was able to increase the application storage to 4gb by flashing a modified version of the OS. it also comes rooted and tweaked to run chrome without crashing.