 A while ago I did a review of the JinkPad and I said that it had some issues but I was going to try out other ROMs like the Android one and tell you how it was. Now you should know that JinkPad and JinkLink in general had some issues or are having some issues right now. I won't go into detail into that because well I don't know that much and what I know I cannot reveal but I will just say how the JinkPad actually is as an Android tablet. And it's a bit sad to see the JinkPad with Android on it keeping in mind that well it was supposed to be like the Linux tablet and to be honest it isn't like this is not meant to be the Linux tablet it works incredibly well as an Android one but that's what it is. It is an Android tablet and you know I'm a bit sad to see it because it really is the Linux tablet that could have been but no it's an Android one. And we see it first of all immediately by the fact that the fingerprint reader actually works I was watching Animes and out of the box it won't look like this. This is a loan chair but out of the box it will have a launcher that actually looks like Jinguas it will be in Chinese it will have a Chinese keyboard you need to change it. So let's talk a bit about the software. By default the apps that you have are not really interesting for our you know occidental western it's called a western culture like Baidu is a Jink calendar is not really interesting but of course you cannot you can put any application unless it uses the Google Play services. I try to put a Google Play services inside of this thing and it just doesn't work. However there are many many good apps as an example you can use NewPipe to actually watch YouTube videos even though you can't use YouTube and I gotta say that NewPipe is a pretty good application of course it's not loading because it's connected to the wrong Wi-Fi but now that I will connect the right one it will start working. Sorry my Wi-Fi today just doesn't want to collaborate oh now it works. You can actually change the volume with the buttons and you can select qualities and everything NewPipe is a great application it's also for Android smartphones if you don't know about it. You can also install like RedReader to go into Reddit then there's Twitter Twitter works just nicely and performance wise this thing is just fine like I never noticed any lag the processor isn't that slow of course I don't do any like heavy heavy usage I use it to study and as far as apps go really there's nothing and too big like and too unsatisfied with except really the fact that Google Play doesn't work with all of the things associated to it if you have as an example paid for some apps all you won't get them here because you need the Google Play to use the apps you paid for still there's lots of open source ones that are great so you can still enjoy it you can enjoy this tablet regardless then another important thing to talk about is the keyboard now here I've got keyboard and but there's also a keyword of course a virtual one the issue is that the default one uses Chinese and Chinese is like not my language and probably not yours either and you will need to change the keyboard there is a good open source keyboard any soft key in this case I just installed a random keyboard which is the Microsoft one I don't like it like if I had to use a proprietary keyboard at least I would go for the Gboard but Gboard doesn't work so I just installed something random but I mean it works however there is an issue when I actually connect this thing as I'm doing right now to the physical keyboard now Android and probably to blame here is indeed Android but I'm gonna blame Jin pad a bit as well when you have a keyboard enabled and you select something like you focus something uses this big gray rectangle that I just couldn't get rid of and it looks bad and you can say of course yeah it looks bad but at least you can see what you're focusing which makes sense however if you're on an application like as an example and keep droid open please and I start studying you can see that there is this rectangle which is gray the background it should be black like in theory this if I go with just my fingers it's black but if I go with the keyboard it becomes gray and why that is is that technically speaking all of the background is focused meaning that everything is gray and that is very annoying because sometimes the focus is covering elements and just the fact that the focus gray element is as big as the whole background is annoying by itself but sometimes it even covers element like I'm very very annoyed by this the keyboard shortcuts are well the Gingo S ones were a bit better this is the only area where Gingo S was better there's absolutely zero shortcuts for the touchpad which is very sad it's probably the one thing that bothers me the most still you can go with alt tab to switch between windows which is a nice to have and if you go into settings you can actually see some other shortcuts that Android have by default which of course right now I don't remember let me actually try to find it here you can see that I can go home by pressing this button with that probably this yes as I was saying that this the search button is actually the jing pad button I can go back a recent lock screen notifications like this I mean they're useful but Gingo S was better still I mean it's an Android tablet I don't know when it actually comes to typing and I open up a typing I don't know let's go with fast fingers actually check how tapping is Italian because I'm a bit faster so it's a more objective thing yeah sometimes you get the virtual keyboard even though I'm actually using the physical keyboard right now so that's a bit weird but please hide okay fantastic close some application don't implement shortcuts and that's annoying but that's not really because of that so okay virtual keyboard it is so let's see actually how easy to use is this keyboard usually with a decent keyboard I managed to do like 100 words per minute and everything of course is capitalized even though it shouldn't there's probably an option to disable this okay let's try again it's not bad okay so while I was typing it broke which is very nice probably some weird things got focused I was going pretty fast so let me try again but let's stop the video okay so I did 87 which is nice could have done higher messed up but still I think it's a good score so if you know how to type on a keyboard the Jingpad keyboard is actually not that small maybe I'm just used to small keyboards but I think you can type with this of course all of the buttons that are around the letters are going to be a bit smaller like backspace the control is really small but if you want to buy this for typing I don't know text if you are white writer honestly I don't think it's any I think you can do this if you're a programmer who needs really a lot of keyboard shortcuts maybe you'll get used to it but it will have a bit of a higher steep learning curve so I mean it's an Android tablet what do you want to do with this well of course one of the main things you will want to do with Android tablet especially with this good of a screen which also gets really bright of course you don't see it but it gets really bright is watching media and given this volume it's actually pretty good now I'm watching Monogatari and honestly like at first I thought wait thanks for this amazing scene Monogatari at first I was like wait this doesn't make sense I'm not going to use the Jingpad for watching Monogatari because I want to enjoy Monogatari and the Jingpad is a terrible device with terrible audio and super slow but then I installed Android on it and it just works I can watch it it has nice audio and everything of course right now it doesn't it's a bit of a weird like aspect ratio because it's very very tall but honestly I've got no device that actually is 16 9 so there's no device I can actually watch Monogatari in is intended form factor and it's not really an issue the blacks on a OLED screens are quite black and honestly I really like it for watching content it's really good you can go in YouTube you can go high resolution you can watch anime if you want and the audio is pretty good the screen is really good and when I thought it was going to be slow that was because Jingas was missing like hardware resolution and everything this is in no way slow and it's VLC so there's no issue whatsoever in watching content so as a content device this works amazingly as far as studying goes I've shown you before my tests and I mean I've used this to study I usually like take it as a tablet this and bring it around studying all of my notes but also like PDFs and it's a great device to read PDFs so because again it has a great screen and I also think the aspect ratio is amazing to study because if you're watching long PDF pages the fact that it's actually white helps you when you have vertically to see more stuff it helps your eyes now you might ask what about the pen how is the handwriting experience and my pen arrives tomorrow so I will let you know but I wanted to do this video before tomorrow and luckily that's how timing went so I don't know the pen that was included in the box was in my opinion not really good and it broke not just for me but I already talked about this so don't rely on the pen that comes with this device but if you buy a third-party pen I'll tell you how the experience is I spent like 50 euros on the pen so it's not too much a bit more than I wanted but not much right now this device is on sale probably it's still on sale when I publish this video maybe not maybe Gingo has already disappeared maybe they weren't famous I don't know the price for this thing is very very high like normally but with the sale it's actually very appealing because I think it's like 350 or something and for 350 you are getting a very very good screen decent speakers decent keyboard a fingerprint reader which is a very nice to have the processor is okay it's not super fast but I never noticed legs either with a very casual use case in theory in theory in here you should also get here you also get a slot for your SIM card however I haven't tried that yet it didn't work on Gingo S but you know maybe it will actually work using the Android ROM so that might be interesting now it's bigger what else it's an Android tablet install a launch here because it's the best launcher and it works I play games on this let me play a bullet so I should in Gingo S I had some like lag when doing things but now it just works nicely I have no complaint whatsoever about the speed of the stuff last time I actually lost like I'm what because of how slow this was but now it's fine really he hung mate he hung mate in one look at here ah yes let me say that it's very annoying when actually apps don't implement keyboard shortcuts properly like if you are on the leachess website using arrows will jump between moves but in here it does nothing so the keyboard as nice as it is it doesn't really work like I use it almost always without the keyboard because it's meant to be used as a tablet and whereas something like the Samsung tab actually tries to modify Android to make sure that it actually it works as well as a computer and this one doesn't this one is a tablet it's meant to be used as a tablet you don't even get like floating windows you you get split screen and that's it ensure this is nice but if you have like a touchpad with buttons you would expect some floating window manager like Samsung dexas but I mean Gingo S this was intended to have Gingo S but it clearly isn't a hardware is made to be used with Android Gingo S doesn't work on this hopefully we'll also get like an Ubuntu port the people working on the Gingpad also released the Android ROM as open source whether I sent the open source code to somebody that was like working on this kind of things and it was like I don't understand anything they're saying so they also published the source code not on github but divided into eight different zip folders uploaded on mega which is the worst way to actually share source code like oh but I mean better than nothing I guess and in theory that should help other port operating systems to the Gingpad if somebody ports like I don't know full-fledged kd plasma desktop on this thing I will be super super super happy or I don't know Ubuntu touch I will also understand and try it out right now this thing is keeping Android because Android right now is the only operating system that actually gives sense to this tablet this tablet as nice as it is it's made for Android this is an Android tablet could have been could have been maybe a linux tablet with a bit more could have been a linux tablet with a bit more care and using the right tools to actually develop operating system but ging west decided to do everything everything from scratch and they messed up I don't know what else to say this could have been a nice linux tablet it isn't it is an android one a good one it's a very very good android top that was everything thanks for following 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