In the Comments at this post, reader Iain has kept us informed of his Chuwi V88 purchase. I’ve decided to reprint those two Comments here as a post so they’re more prominent and will show up at search engines.
Here is Iain’s first Comment:
I live in London and just received mine yesterday. Purchased from Merimobiles, which I wouldn’t recommend others do. Customer Services is poor at best, in terms of service, correspondence and clarity. Poor Sino-anglo translations notwithstanding.
On the whole, however, the tablet’s great. Well constructed, fast, responsive (1GB version though–bloody Merimobiles), light, great battery life, nice screen. A few niggles though:
1.) The volume rocker’s the wrong way around. Up is down and down is up.
2.) Wifi turns off once you turn the screen off and doesn’t restart automatically when you turn the tablet on again.
3.) Not sure if it’s just me, but my battery won’t charge up. I’m heading out later to see if a replacement charger will solve the problem. I wish it could charge via USB.
As a result of the battery situation (I used up the battery downloading apps) I haven’t had a chance to really test the tablet.
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