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Teclast X10 tPad Tablet Phablet Review
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May 30, 2025
Tired of losing or breaking expensive tablets? Wish you could have a tablet that offered a basic Android environment and worked with your cellular carrier - just add a SIM? Then check out the entry-level Teclast X10 Android phablet. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ gives it a close look and finds that it's a decent unit, except for one major design flaw. But watch the review and you can decide for yourself... Ready to buy one? Here's the link: http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_330510.html?utm_source=GB&utm_medium=GBWY
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Dave Taylor here again and this time I
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want to look at the entry level on the
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Android tablet market what we have here
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is this is the teclast x10 tee pad
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phablet tablet phablet whatever you want
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to call it it's a 3G and it runs android
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5.1 now you're looking at this 10.1 inch
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screen but don't get too excited because
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while it's a slick little device and you
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can see it's you know actually running
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Android and we have all the modern
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Android amenities including all the
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games that we've put on it it runs
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Android but it's really an entry-level
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device so the screen resolution for
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example is only 1280 by 800
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that's not even HD and it's running an
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mtk I don't know why it's doing that
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sound has a life of its own but it's
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running at mtk 83 92 octa-core at 1.4
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gigahertz but be that as it may it's
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it's decent enough at speed but it's not
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gonna win any championships if you're
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trying to use really CPU intensive
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Android apps what makes this really
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interesting though isn't the specs it's
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the fact that you can drop in a SIM card
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as long as you're running on GSM or W
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CDMA networks you can drop in a SIM card
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and it also works on cellular so that
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means you could actually take and
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receive phone calls and use cellular
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data if there's no Wi-Fi handy now this
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is great internationally in the US it
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supposedly works with AT&T Verizon
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Sprint and t-mobile among others but I
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would highly recommend that you check
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with your carrier before you buy this
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hoping to use this as a phone and of
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course it's not really very comfortable
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to use it this way so probably you're
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gonna want to plug in some headphones or
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earbuds so that actually is a fortunate
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feature that it supports that so let's
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see so it's 1280 by 800 and what else
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can I tell you about it so its
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entry-level specs so the rear-facing
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camera is a 2 megapixel the front-facing
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camera is a point three megapixel camera
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so it's less than one megapixel it works
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with Skype it's going to be good
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but it's really not going to be
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something where you're going to be
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taking these wicked good selfies that
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you're going to be able to share and
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print an eight-by-ten resolution it does
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support Wi-Fi but it's only be we get
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this right B G and n so it doesn't
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support AC but 802 11 AC automatically
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will roll down not a big deal
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Bluetooth 4.0 it supports microSD cards
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because it only has one gig of ram and
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16 gig of storage but you can drop in a
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micro SD card or they call them TF cards
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internationally and it'll give you up to
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128 gig of extra space and not for a lot
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of money 64 gig microSD cards on Amazon
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right now under 20 bucks so it's a
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really easy way to give this a boatload
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more storage and what else can I tell
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you that it has a 1500 milliamp hour
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battery which gives you about six hours
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on video maybe 10 to 12 hours of usage
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you can of course use it as an e-book
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reader with the Kindle app if you're so
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inclined so there's lots to like about
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this and the price tag is pretty amazing
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I'll get to that in a second but there's
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one design decision that they made that
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I think is really kind of bizarre if you
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look on the side here you can see that
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it has a micro USB connector just like
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every other Android device in the world
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but it also has this little round
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connector turns out the round connector
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is actually your charging connector so
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you need this special cable and the
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special cable is the only way to charge
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this which means that if for any weird
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reason the cable vanishes then you've
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got a serious problem because that means
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you can't charge your tablet now I don't
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know why they made that decision because
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99% of tablets you charge through micro
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USB same with smartphone same with all
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these other kinds of devices but for
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some reason tech lasts decided that they
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wanted to have a separate charging cable
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now in some usage scenarios like if it's
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grandma at the retirement home and she's
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using us to read e-books then it might
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be the case that that cable will just
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permanently be plugged into the wall so
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it's no issue but if you're a very
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international traveler and you want to
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throw this in your backpack then you
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lose that cable you're really
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luck cuz you're not gonna find one of
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those that the local Best Buy and you're
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not gonna find it on Amazon as far as I
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know so that is a weird decision on
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their part but if you can live with that
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I will tell you this is a quite capable
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little tablet and it runs a hundred and
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sixty-five bucks at gearbest.com but
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they're running a promo right now so
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it's actually only a hundred and
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eighteen dollars for a ten inch color
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Android tablet that is running android
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5.1 and also drop-in a micro sim and
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you're rocking it with the phone network
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too so you could even take and receive
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phone calls so very very capable very
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nicely designed unit with that one weird
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design decision about power and charging
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if you can live with that this could be
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a nice option for you so this is the
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teclast x10 3g phablet hate the word
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phablet and you can learn more at
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gearbest.com dave taylor and catch you
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in my next video