Unboxing the Kazam Vision 8 gaming tablet.

A few days ago I saw this little slugger on a daily offer website.

Personally not having a tablet yet, the feature having added controllers, utility and the very cheap price of 60€ lured me into getting one.

The things I imagined it could do with it felt like it's practically a steal so I went ahead and bought one.

Now, the idea of getting a tablet never crossed my mind before, because why should I? Having the gaming area covered by owning a gaming laptop to play games and a decent middle end smartphone to browse the daily interwebs, news and mail I never felt the need to own a tablet.

This one running windows 10 and coming packaged alongside with an added Xbox compatible controller cradle changed the matter though.

So one of the main features it will be used for is for playing games I have on my Steam library, letting my laptop do the hard work and then beam it up to the tablet.

Games like Skyrim, Borderlands and Elite Dangerous are all potential candidates.
Actually everything that can be played with a controller is eligible.

So basically the thing behaves a bit like a Nintendo Switch, you can slide the tablet in and out the cradle so it behaves like an ordinary tablet for browsing stuff or it can transform into a handheld console.

In it's idle hours it will be crunching citizen science projects and help accumulate Gridcoin (GRC), another benefit of working exactly like a Windows 10 computer.

BOINC is already up and running and the device already integrated in the host list.

With a quad Atom processor it won't be a stellar contribution but with a maximum power draw of 10 Watts who cares?

Unboxing:

The box cover art features a Battletoad!
That's no generic toon for sure, having played enough of their fun but hard fighting games on the SNES in my early days, apparently he's facing Fulgore from Killer Instinct.

The tablet, cradle and accessories are securely and well packaged with a foam protecting against falling. It feels very much like I'm unpacking a pricey premium product.

The tablet is heavy and THICC though ! Surely not as light and thin as my wife's iPad Air.

Probably the reason for this is that the body is made from metal and is sporting a 6000mAh battery pack. The cradle itself also has a sturdy feel. No 'plastic is fantastic' flimsy here, great.

The specs:

Intel(R) Atom(TM) x5-Z8300 CPU @ 1.44GHz [Family 6 Model 76 Stepping 3]

Clock speed 1.44 GHz
Turbo clock speed 1.84 GHz
Cores: Quad core
Bitcoin mining speed: 5.83 mHash/s

Intel(R) HD Graphics
OpenCL 1.2/20.19.15.4331

2GB RAM, 32GB memory, micro sd slot, Full XBOX Controls including Backlit, 1280 x 800 Screen Resolution, Windows 10.

Performance:

Screen is bright and lively, sound is clear but too loud music can crackle the speakers a bit but I generally listen to music with headphones anyway.

The controls are fluid while playing but the lag/stability from streaming will depend how fast your pc and wifi connection is.

It also is happily crunching along science projects, benefit of having a metal body is that it dissipates heat generated from the cores pretty well indeed:

Conclusion:

Another great addition to my growing army of little devices helping out science while generating a little bit of useful cryptocurrency. While at the same time is a very budget friendly and sturdy 'handheld' that can stream high end pc games!

By the way if your interested in crunching these citizen science projects go to:

https://boinc.berkeley.edu

You also can earn cryptocurrency while helping out with the variety of research projects called Gridcoin (GRC), you can read up all about it on:

https://www.gridcoin.us/ and
https://gridcoin.science/

And by searching the boinc and gridcoin topics and communities on Steemit!