 Hello, today I'm here to review this little beauty and I'm going to talk about the hardware, the software and then a little bit of comments about what being open source actually means. So number one, the hardware. Now, the JinkPad actually comes in four pieces. The first one, which I'm going to talk right away is the pen. How is the pen? I don't really know and that's because it broke day one, which is really sad. I don't know how much of it is my fault. I don't think it took any heat or drop and I've also seen other people pointing out that their pen broke. So I think the pen is a bit fragile. I've used it one time and I found it to be more similar to Apple Pencil rather than Samsung Pen. However, it wasn't quite there in terms of quality. Again, it was just one day and then it went away. The part number two, which I don't have here with me right now is a cover without the keyboard, which is made of pig leather. And that one is really good. And it also has a way to like a little space for the pen that attaches magnetically just like the JinkPad and also a little JinkPad logo, which is very nice to see. I don't know what you should expect out of it, except that it feels nice and it surely does that. There is the other cover, which is this one here. How is it? Super nice in the hand. It's a bit heavy. My girlfriend thinks that it's too heavy, but I think it's just fine. You might disagree with me, so you're warned. It's extremely, extremely well built. However, it also has a couple of flows. I'm going to point out, sorry, the major flows, in my opinion. And those are number one, the fact that on the back, you don't have rubber bands on both sides, which means that the one that hasn't will very easily deteriorate and get scratches. Even if you always use the JinkPad with the keys open, it still scratches while it's closed down. So you need to be extra careful when you're bringing it around. Also, the rubber bands, the existing ones, do come off a bit easily. I managed to get mine back as easily as it came off, but that shouldn't have happened after like a couple of days. Also, maybe the hinge is not very sturdy. You can see the laptop if you touch it goes a bit on and on, but except that, and I do think that those are not major issues. The keyboard is fine. You can actually type pretty fast on it. I managed to get 90 words per minute. And if you're not able to reach that, well, it's because of you. The touchpad is a bit small, but it feels fine. And that honestly wasn't any sort of bottleneck to me when actually using the device. So let's talk about the device. Let me actually take it off. The device feels amazing, like very high quality. You got a glass back, metal on the sides, sorry, and a very nice screen with with small bezels all around. Honestly, you have nothing to complain about the very device, the very tablet. You've got the volume buttons in the right position, a fingerprint reader to actually log in in the right position. However, as we'll talk about that later, the fingerprint reader doesn't actually work. Good camera for what you would expect from a 2000 USD tablet. This is not that price. So the camera is underwhelming. Aliana, what do you think of this tablet? I don't like it. Sorry? I don't like it. I don't like it. Okay. Yes, yes, I'm done. And as far as speed goes, I can't really commentate on that because the Jingpad doesn't come by default with hardware acceleration enabled. And I understand that because doing Linux hardware is not easy, and especially if it's not easily mean lineable. If you can't mean line it easily, it's normal to not have such things. I can understand that. It's not very fast without it, but it's not a deal breaker. The YouTube videos will lag a bit and they hold user interface won't feel snappy. I don't think that's a bottleneck either, in my opinion. As far as RAM goes, storage, I also think those are very much not issues. Of course, you need to know what you're going to do with this. If you think that you'll be able to do any sort of hardware work, like video editing or picture editing with GIMP, if it's a large image, give up. Don't do that. That won't happen, not on this device, but if you're buying this device to, I don't know, take notes, school work, that sort of stuff, which is very much my use case. Those are not issues, but there are others. Let's talk about the software, because as I see it currently, I think all of the issues of the GIMP ad are software related, but as far as the hardware goes, the hardware is amazing, the software isn't. I'm sure you heard many reviews saying, yes, the software is kind of bad, you don't have X, you don't have Y, but they will come later, probably they will get updated and okay, but I do have something to say about that. If you're building a software and you send me a device with an alpha software, that's fine. I can see the effort that you're putting in and when I reviewed the Gingo S first version, I understood that and I actually praised the operating system as it was, because it was actually doing many things right and moving in the right direction and that's fine. However, if you take something that is working, like if you're forking Plasma Mobile, whatever you're forking, something that is working and then you build on top of that to improve it for your device, that's very much fine, but if the end result breaks something that was there before from the project that you forked originally, what are you doing? Like you're moving backwards and make you a very easy example. So keyboard layout. So as you know, the Jingpad has a keyboard and in all devices, you can change the keyboard layout, especially if you're planning on selling that thing internationally. The Jingpad has no such option in the settings, but okay, I can understand that. Like it's not easy to do a full-fledged system setting application. If you look at the KDA Plasma one is gigantic, it would take years to redo it on scratch. So what did I do? I manually changed the keyboard layout from console and it doesn't work. And what's crazier than that is that it actually works, but only on Chrome and Firefox, whereas everything else stays with the default keyboard layout. And that annoys me because not only you're not giving an option to actually change the keyboard layout, but you actually did something like that broke changing the keyboard layout. Because if I go into my terminal and type, I don't know, load case, the VORAC, the VORDRAC as an example, it should work. And it's not just that. I'll make you another stupid example. Take the touchpad. Okay, you can take the touchpad and usually if you need to drag a folder from somewhere to somewhere else, you don't just do this on the touchpad, like click, click, usually long click. And then with the other finger, you drag around the folder because maybe the touchpad is not long enough. It's broken. It doesn't work. You cannot actually drag and drop or I don't know, just select text using two fingers. And that's a massive dear breaker. How are you going to select more than like two lines of text with it? If you need to select a paragraph, which is such a basic use case, it's broken. You can't do that. And it baffles me like it was working. It should work on any computer. And you actively do did something that broke it. Or another example, screen rotation. Okay, screen rotation is not supported. Okay, that's fine. I can actually do screen rotation manually through KDA settings. I've done it countless times on my computer, which is a yoga and is also a touch screen, but on the jig, but it doesn't work. And it actually makes it unusable. It took me like hours to get it back working. And that shouldn't happen. Like, okay, another example, I've got plenty screen resolution. Okay, screen resolution is hard. I'll say that right away. It's hard to make all the apps use a scaling factor without any screen artifacts. Okay. However, if you do open any Jinkpad apps that are third by default, okay, they open up with the right scale factor. But if you install any third party app, it will open up with the default one to one scale factor, which is way too small. Of course, there are ways to fix that and do like system flags variables, sorry, to actually change the scaling, the QT scaling. But what are you doing? You are indeed changing the scaling factor, but only for your own apps? How are you even doing that? And why? Like, what's the reason behind it? It sounds like it would be easier to just use the QT scaling factor as it's currently implemented. If you have a tablet and you can install the third party apps on it, you shouldn't rely on the user actually fixing the resolution by themselves. Take global themes. Okay. Jinkpad is based heavily on Kurogami and QML. That's fine because Kurogami is a product of ours, which is KDE. And it supports theming. So that's very nice. Jinkpad allows you to have a light and dark theme, which is nice. But in order to switch from one to another, you need to reboot the device, like shut it down and reboot. Why? Why? Okay, we KDE implemented color schemes and it was working when we gave it to you. And you broke it like applications shouldn't need a system restart for the color scheme to actually take effect. It's so many of these small things that it's not like, okay, we need to work on that. Yes, you do, but they were working. You didn't have to break them in the first place. I think that is the major issue with the Jinkpad. It's not that it doesn't support that or that application. It's not that I don't know the Android system is slow or doesn't function well. I don't care. Those things can be worked on and it's clear that Jinkpad is doing great lips forward in terms of actually fixing those kind of bugs. But and then there is open source. Okay, so if you're claiming your tablet is open source and they are doing so, what I expect is that everything that ships on that device is on some public repository with the correct license. Okay, and Jinkpad kind of does that, but it's the kind of which is the issue because you can't be kind of in source. Well, you can but it won't look very good. Okay, let me explain this. Okay, take the claim that the Jinkpad can run Android applications with their own thing. Okay, that's fine. That's a cool feature. That feature is closed source. It's not open source. If you're selling the tablet as open source, and as a feature you have that it can run Android apps. And the feature to run Android apps is not open source. It's not quite an open source tablets. This kind of open source, it's not open source. Like, if you have a significant part of it, because let me say that actually being able to run Android application is a big deal for this kind of device. If you have such an important aspect of your tablet, closed source, and you're not planning to release the source code in any way, that's not going to look good, especially because they claim that it's their own solution and that it's not wedroid. You can install wedroid on this machine. It will work very well and that's open source. So if you're an open source enthusiast, don't use, don't use Jinkpad Android Thingy. Use wedroid because it works and it's open source. As far as we know, the Jinkpad Android Thingy could be wedroid copy pasted as far as we know. Now, if they open source it, we would know that it isn't. They claim it isn't. It's their own solution. But how do we know that? I guess we could look into like system files and see if there are any differences when installed, but that's not what we should be doing. And if you're asking why am I suspicious that the Jinkpad Android system could be wedroid, okay, I'm not really, I do think that it is a different system. However, Jinkpad doesn't have a record of actually respecting GPL license very well. And let me explain that. As you know, if you fork someone's code and if it's under GPL, you are like, you need to release the source code when you actually ship the device or release your operating system. That's like legally required. Do you remember like Trump? Okay, this video is going to get demonetized. Never mind. Do you remember that guy's social network? It was using MasterDont and because they screwed up and actually accidentally said that it was based on MasterDont, MasterDont went up and said, okay, no, you have to release the source code of this, which they weren't. Jinkpad is based on many KD Plasma or KD products, and they modify them. And in theory, they should release what modification they've made and they do months and months later, which doesn't look good at all because you can't just say like, we are open source and then you check and you discover that they're violating the license and you ask, what's up with that? And they answer, oh, yes, sure, we don't have the time to fix that, but we will eventually like open source everything just give us six months. Okay. Okay. They did. They did. They actually open source the latest version of the Jinkpad, of the JinkOS, but as soon as another version rolls out, how many months are we going to have to wait to have the new modifications on top of what was there before? Now, to be kind of open source, I think is better than not being open source at all. And that's a fair point. And I do understand that they have a limited set of people that can work on these things. And actually making everything open source is not that easy, especially to newcomers to this open source thing is. I think that Jingling, which is the company is working on this and is working on this very actively. I think they're trying to honestly understand what open source is as much as possible because it's easy for new companies to not fully grasp what's going on. Jingling is working on this. Like I saw people trying to understand making good questions and that's very nice. However, I have to tell you that in this moment, they still have to work on this because there are still some issues with how they deal with open source. To recap, hardware, I love it. I love the hardware. I think I would pay that price to have this if it run KD Plasma, which it doesn't. The software, it's okay. I don't want to bash it too much. It's a good start. It annoys me that they broke things that were working, but hopefully as soon as they fix them, well, I'll be happier. But I would be even happier if I could install any operating system on that thing and currently I can't. Is this useful? Should you buy it? If you care about open source, it might be an option. However, if you need a tablet to actually do work, this is not it. If you need a tablet to do work and you need a particularly set of application that only runs on Linux, then okay, this might be your thingy. But keep in mind that you're going to fight with the device to actually get things working. I've seen people saying, okay, I won't actually have to fight with the device because I'm going to install ARM Arc on this thingy they want. Good luck with that. If you managed to, please tell me, please. There is an Android image and to install the Android image on the device you need to use Windows. There is or there will be shortly a Ubuntu Touch image and that's very nice to hear. But when I asked the person that actually worked on the Ubuntu Touch device, if that could mean that you can install other desktop environments as flawlessly on this device, that's where was no. So I will do more videos talking about this exact device but switching the software for Android and Ubuntu Touch. Hopefully, hopefully that will make, give me a better impression of the device because I do really love this hardware. But a software isn't there. I think that any reviews about the Jingpad says that the software isn't there yet. Okay, we all agree on that. So let's try something different and I'll keep you updated. Bye. See you at the next review. I'm getting delivered a Pinephone Pro. I don't think I will review it but I will happily use it and talk about you, talk to you about that. What else? It's the little things that you broke and didn't care to fix that because that bothers me. Well, if I forgot everything, well, if I forgot anything, I will add like a voice over over like nice images. So I think the video cuts here.