Ik heb de P9 afgelopen vrijdag in ontvangst genomen. Ook via Banggood besteld met de gratis (Swiss Post) verzendoptie. Opgegeven waarde bij mij iets van $22,- en geen invoerrechtrn hoeven betalen.
Ik heb een flipcover hoesje besteld op aliexpres (nog onderweg) maar banggood zal ze ook wel hebben. Je kunt ook zoeken op Pipo M9Pro, is namelijk exact dezelfde behuizing.
Ik heb een engelstalige review geschreven, en heb geen zin om het nog eens in NL over te doen, dus plaats 'em ook hier maar:
Here's my view on the P9 now that I've been able to play with it for two days (written to put on banggood, so some 'obvious' bits might be included). Some of the issues I posted in the P9 ROM thread have not resurfaced (loss of sound after rebooting, not charging to 100% the first time) and yellowish tint on the screen disappeared after removing the protective film that was on top of the factory applied screen protector (duhh..). The Pipo P9 is starting to grow on me, even running the out-of-the-box firmware.
Two days ago I received my Pipo P9 tablet from Banggood. It took about at 15 business days to ship and arrive in Banggoods typical Styrofoam box. Included in the packaging were a charger, headphones, reset pin, USB cable, USB otg cable and an appropriate adapter for the charger.
The tablet reached me with a 31% charge in the battery and a screen protector installed. The installed firmware was dated 20140825 and contained KitKat version 4.2.2.
The Pipo P9 is replacing a nearly 2 year old RockchiSoC rk3066 based 10.1" tablet from our local chemist (Kruidvat). I have tried a Samsung Galaxy TabPro 8.4 but found it too small for my needs. I decided on the Pipo P9 because it was the only 10.1" tablet with a recent and powerful SoC within my budget. It also had my SoC of preference (over Amlogic m802 or Allwinner A80T) good support from the modding community, decent size battery, and the 1200p screen resolution I prefer.
The P9 doesn't have a fancy unibody case like some of the Teclast or Ifive models out there. Instead Pipo chose to reuse the case of it's predecessor, the M9Pro. No doubt in an effort to bring the P9 to the market quickly.
The case therefore is made of plastic with an aluminium back panel. The tablet feels quite solid, with no obvious panel gaps, sharp edges or creaks.
Part of the rear is textured which gives a nice solid grip when holding the tablet. The rear speakers are rather small and sometimes struggle to produce enough volume. Which is a bit of a let down, especially as higher volumes also tend to resonate the case.
The 1920x1200 screen looks nice and crisp to me, although not eye squinting bright at maximum and quite reflective in sunlight. Although higher resolutions are available these days, I prefer the 1200p resolution as a good balance between sharpness, performance and battery life. The touchscreen feels nice and sensitive, so no issues there.
All ports and buttons are placed at the top of the P9, which feature a micro sd-card slot, 3.5mm headphone plug, two micro USB ports, reset hole, mini HDMI port, charger plug, on/off and ESC button. The P9 has both front and rear camera, the latter with flash. I rarely use them, so have not tested them as yet.
In day to day use the P9 feels super smooth. I've run some benchmarks and tested some of my favorite apps. I watch TV on the P9 with my isp's 'Ziggo' app and watch Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP races with Dorna's 'Videopass' app. Both work without incident.
One of my favorite games, Realracing 3 runs beautiful as well, except for some garbled sounds on occasion. I'll have to see if reinstalling or an updated firmware can correct this.
Battery life seems good also. Running a full HD mkv of Prometheus at half screen brightness for 6,5 hours ran the battery down from 100 to 15%. Which would make for a theoretical play time of 7.5 hours if completely run down.
Just browsing, playing light games, checking mail etc 5-6 hours of screen time should be no problem. And RealRacing 3 should last for 3-4 hours I feel. In standby the P9 loses just 1% charge every 8 hours, so deep sleep is working like it should.
Charging isn't very quick unfortunately. Charging from15 back to 95% takes four hours. Add another hour for the final 5%. The P9 does allow for USB charging as well. But charging from 7 to 9% took me over half an hour on a 2500Mah charger, so I haven't bothered testing that any further.
Antutu 5.1: 35957, with a 10672 3D score
GfxBench t-rex on/off screen: 18.2/19.0fps
GfxBench Manhattan on/off screen: 7.0/7.3fps
3Dmark Ice Storm Extreme: 7869
3Dmark Ice Storm Unlimited: 12436
The tablet doesn't get noticeably warm during benchmarks. Only RR3 seems to stress it hard enough to make the right side of the back somewhat warm (but never hot). CPUtemp registers a steady 27°c CPU temperature at all times, so I'm not getting an actual reading. Cpu spy reads the maximum attained frequency at 1608Mhz, with 1704 and 1800Mhz as unused states. Hopefully an updated or custom firmware will push the rk3288 SoC to it's advertised 1.8Ghz rating.
I might sound a bit harsh here and there, but overall I'm happy with my purchase. I would struggle to find a tablet under €250,- that checked more boxes then the Pipo P9 does (at just €180,-). With 2GB of ram, 32GB of storage, a Rockchip rk3288 SoC with solid performing Cpu & Gpu and hardware h.265 decoding as a bonus, the Pipo P9 should last me a long while.