The Teclast TPad P80 Pro is an 8" Android tablet for just under 100$.

Author: British Solomon
Do you like to have the latest cellphone even if your old mobile is still working? In today’s day and age, upgrading electronic gadgets is very common. Manufacturers of cellphones, laptops and similar gadgets are turning out more advanced models nearly each year. They aggressively advertise and market their latest gadgets so that consumers will be tempted to buy even if their devices are still useful. These companies spend tons of money to make consumers feel bad if their electronic gadget is already passé. But what do you do with your old phone when you are ready to upgrade? Here are some ways to properly dispose of your old tech devices, and the impact it makes when you do.

The Lenovo Tab3 8 Plus (TB-8703F) is an 8" tablet powered by a Snapdragon 625 processor (as used in the Xiaomi Mi A1/5X).

It is one of the few tablets with reasonably recent specification in that format.

The "smart sleep" function is a convenient battery-saving feature that turns off the display when the cover is closed, but with the cheap cases, that the magnet is too strong and also turns off the screen when the cover is folded behind the device.
This can be easily solved at very low cost.

Many new SoC will emerge during 2014 to replace the popular RK3188 and A31 (the most anticipated being probably the RK3288).

In the meantime, I decided to try the first tablet equipped with the quad-core ATM7039 from Actions: the Ainol Novo 9 Spark II (aka Firewire II)

After nearly 6 months without noticeable activity around the RK3188 devices from most tablet manufacturers, any new release is good to take...

The Visture V97HD is the quad-core successor of the V5HD and shares the specs with most RK3188-based tablets on the market like the Cube U9GT5, Chuwi V99, Yuandao N90FHD, and Hyundai Play X900.
With so many similar tablets on the market, the difference is in the details...

I have a preference for the 9.7" tablets, but almost changed my mind earlier for the 10.1" because Pipo only had the M9 available.

But all is well now as the Pipo Max-M6 is here, and with interesting twists that made it worth waiting for...

I had to use patience to avoid repeating my previous Onda VI40 misadventure with a new tablet.
Now, time has come to try one of the first, long awaited RK3188-based and 9.7" tablet on the market.

Finding a fully working Google Talk for your Onda tablet might be a little more difficult than other apps, so here is a simple way to have it fully working...

No matter how hard I tried to resist, I finally acquired a 9.7" Android tablet! And a non-brand one on top of that! ...yes... but I have excuses...

It's now an old habit, I only start to feel safe with any Android device once I managed to install a Recovery partition such as ClockWorkMod.  This is how to do it on the Onda tablet Vi40 Elite...