[General Topics] italianquadcore:
I understand what [MENTION=7147494]YuriRM[/MENTION] posted today, what the parents need, and not only because I am not so young anymore. The parents have the needs that all users of tablets really have: portability, big display size, good quality of the display, and in that case also a big-sized tablet for the car.

Unfortunately I am not so happy to say that market of tablets is dying day after day. At the end of this post I leave to all of you some sources, also to discuss about this matter here.

At the moment only very few brands continue to manufacture tablets (for example Asus, Huawei, Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi and other minor chinese brands such as Teclast), other brands stopped to make these devices (last one was Google some weeks ago). In the same way as the tablets' market destroyed the market of Netbooks some years ago, the market of AIO (All-In-One) devices is currently destroying the market of Tablets. This is also due to the poor improvements on hardware of tablets, but also due to the higher-and-higher prices of premium branded tablets.... the golden age of cheap tablets, such as Nexus 7, is really so far. Now in the tablet area we have only really expensive tablets (by Samsung and Apple), or very cheap tablet (sold by stores at a good discount to sell off stocks). In the middle, we have some tablets, such as Teclast T10, Asus ZenPad 3S 10, Xiaomi MIPAD 3 or some Huawei 10'' tablets, inside the price range of 150-300 euros (180-360 USD). Yes, Samsung and Apple offer premium tablet with so many features, but at that price users may purchase an AIO device or directly a Notebook/Laptop computer, while very cheap tablets offer obsolete hardware with an even-more obsolete software (Android 4.0, 5.0 or sometimes 6.0). Just not to say that most of the tablet market is moving from Google Android to Microsoft Windows. About the hardware, i would like to see a powerful Snapdragon 835 on a tablet, but what about its cost? I am worried that its cost would be even extreme.

Anyway I am mildly happy about Teclast T10. It has good performance, obviously nothing to do with a Snapdragon 835, but even better than expected for a Mediatek CPU/SOC (see the benchmarks on the first pages of this thread). It has a good display and some useful features of the display (for example "Eye Comfort"), but some of them are really questionable, for example the "Reading mode" (I am doubtful that we can use T10 to read documents/books in the same way as we can do with a real e-book device). And we have high values about RAM, internal storage and support for microsd additional storage. Furthermore this tablet has got also an excellent support for USB OTG, so it supports so many external USB devices (keyboard, mouse, pendrives, ethernet adapters, HDDs, SSDs, CD/DVD/BD drives, and so on). Bluetooth and dual-band wi-fi are also useful. And we do not forget its enormous battery (8100 mah), the fingerprint sensor, the double cameras (the front one is better than rear one in order to improve usability on videoconference and eventually for better selfies), and the HDMI output (a rarity for this kind of devices). Finally we have a simple (simple for skilled users) method to root this tablet and to have TWRP recovery (drastically better than the stock one) even without unlocking the bootloader - this protects us from serious data corruption or even from bricking this tablet.

There are some missing features such as the gyroscope (we cannot use the Compass for example), the display's glass is not a Gorilla Glass (but we are talking about a relatively-cheap device) so we must be more careful of it (a flip cover and a screen protector are almost mandatory), there are bugs regarding the digitizer that affects touching usability (either missing touches or even ghost ones) - theoretically these bugs may be fixed via software (but we do not take it for granted, also considering the misstep of firmware v1.31), and there is a big big question mark about the future of Android updates, so what about Nougat 7.1.x or even Oreo 8.1.x - when we will receive them?

So I ask to all owners of this tablet, what do you think about T10? Which are your "Pros" and "Cons"?

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https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16827028/google-pixel-c-android-tablet-end-sales

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/21/what-happened-to-tablet-sales/

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15550382/tablet-market-shrinks-10-quarters-apple-microsoft

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...lobal-tablet-market-continues-shrink-IDC.html

http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/engl...ow-mixed-results-amid-tablet-market-declining