UMIDIGI G1 Tab mini Android 14 New Tablet 2024, 7(3+4)GB+32GB 1TB Expand, Wi-Fi 6 Model, 8 inch Tablet with Quad-Core Processor up to 2.0 GHz, 5000mAh, Dual Camera, BT, 1280*800 HD IPS Touch Screen

I've only had this a couple days, and it has yet to reach its end user (my dad) since I'm still setting things up, but so far I'm very pleased! It even came with a simple rubber case and seems to have a screen protector already installed. I'm setting it up to be an ereader for my dad, and so far so good! I was particularly happy to see ZERO BLOATWARE! I had settled in to uninstall all the candy crush and other nonsense games and things that often come preinstalled on devices, only to discover...there weren't any! Just all the usual google apps.Now, I don't expect this to stand up against, say, the latest samsung tablet, and neither should you--not for this price. In particular I suspect it would struggle with having multiple apps open and running things, so I've made sure to regularly close everything as I worked setting it up. But it's worked smoothly and without any real delay so far, even as I've installed multiple apps at a time and downloaded books. Again I'm just planning for my dad to use it as an ereader (I even disabled youtube), so I wasn't looking for a powerhouse by any means, but I'm impressed nonetheless.As far as picture quality...well, I'm no videophile. It all looks perfectly sharp to me and will certainly work for reading. I haven't tried the sound, either via speaker or headphones, but you don't need anything fancy for audiobooks.It IS a little heavy, fair warning. And it's thicker than most tablets, so the "universal" case I got for it doesn't quite fit. But I don't think it will be hard to find one that does fit, just stick to the ones with rubber bands rather than hard plastic clips on bungees.The storage space is getting eaten up a bit fast, but there's a micro sd card slot so I foresee little difficulty with that. (knock on wood, of course!)All in all a solid tablet at a reasonable price point!

This device does everything you would expect from an Android tablet at this price range. The screen is nice and large, and I have no complaints about its quality. The camera is not the best, but it works for taking photos just fine. It comes with Android 14 and all related features. The charger was a pleasant color, and it also included a nice transparent smoke-grey protective color. The bezels aren't too big, either. In terms of hardware, the processor is fast enough, although it seems to be limited by the 3GB of physical RAM; it does not reply instantly to gestures, but the speed is easily accustomed to. Overall, it is a handy tablet for browsing, games and productivity for a very good price range, and isn't easily beat on sale.

I bought this tablet primarily for watching YouTube videos, reading, and occasionally browsing the internet. Maybe even playing a light game or two. But, really, I didn’t have anything intensive planned for this tablet.I was really frustrated when I learned that this tablet couldn’t even handle what little I wanted from it.I would have said that the screen was acceptable until I noticed five small dead pixels on the top of my screen. I was also shocked by the amount of light bleeding. It looked really bad in some angles. It was too much for my liking, very distracting. At this point, I knew this tablet was going to have to be returned. Dead pixels are no joke! I just couldn’t take a chance on that. But, since I had it with me, I decided to keep testing it out before putting it back in its box.The speakers weren’t amazing, but they were passable. That was probably the only thing that I didn’t have an issue with because when you’re buying something on a budget, you can’t expect high-quality speakers.Watching YouTube videos was incredibly frustrating. Every time I clicked on a video, it would play for about 53 seconds before buffering. It wouldn’t load the video after that. I tried it with multiple different videos and it did the same thing every time. I even tried changing the video quality but it didn’t seem to help. Eventually, after about 15 minutes or so, it started working! I’m not exactly sure why but videos started to actually play. However, this should have worked in the first place.For some reason, it automatically played videos in 720P. I’m not sure why because I could change it to 1080P and it would play just fine but if I wanted to change the video quality, I would have to do so every time I clicked on a video which was annoying. Even after clicking “advanced settings,” in the YouTube app, it still defaulted to 720P. Now, I wasn’t too caught up in the video quality, 720P is fine but I thought it would be worth mentioning to those of you who care about stuff like that.Lastly, I think the second biggest issue that I had with this tablet besides YouTube, is just the fact that this tablet is really slow. It takes too much time loading up the Google web browser and apps. It also stutters a lot while you’re scrolling which happened pretty much every time I scrolled.Overall, I would not recommend this tablet to anyone. For the same price, you can purchase the Alldocube iPlay 50 mini Lite with a coupon and it’s better in pretty much every way. I would know because that’s what I did! I was actually trying to decide between this one and that one and the only reason I went with this one over it was because it came with a pre-installed screen protector and a case. I promise you, having to buy those separately is worth it if it means that the tablet you’ll be buying actually does what it’s supposed to do and it’ll save you a trip to the UPS store! (Update: I had to return that tablet too. I found out that it has a screen protector on it already installed as well but it’s super thin and doesn’t do anything. Took it on a trip and the screen somehow cracked despite me being very careful with it. I would still recommend it over this one but get a good screen protector if you decide to purchase).Seriously, don’t buy this tablet. Umidigi should be ashamed of themselves for releasing something that can barely load their own website.