 Welcome to my unboxing of the ITAB F931A. This is an 8.9 inch Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich tablet. Okay, it uses a 4 by 3 aspect ratio, so it's 1024 by 768 in terms of the screen resolution. Let's have a look at what's included. Oh yeah, okay, it's got a fairly complete overall accessory package. This is handy. So a mini USB to full size USB adapter allows you to easily plug a USB device even, hey, if you even wanted to use like a 3G modem USB adapter, you could even plug that in. So while the unit is not 3G capable out of the box, you can use that as a solution as well. This is just for data transfer and syncing and whatnot. You've got a power cable for charging. It takes about 5 hours to charge the device from a standstill according to the manufacturer spec. We have another USB cable. So this one's USB A to mini B. So for whatever that's for. Okay, lots of USB cables. We've got for whatever reason what appear to be Apple OEM headphones. Really? They must be clones. Yeah, they must be clones. Okay, well white headphones that are included. Okay, we've got a little guide to Android 4.0. Let's have a look at the tablet itself. So you can see the screen has what is called a bubble screen. So this is a capacitive five point multi-touch screen and the technology behind it is because the button, no, I'm just kidding. It does have a five point capacitive multi-touch screen, but it is not a bubble screen. That is just a screen protector that came in the box. So you can see the aesthetic is an awful lot like the iPad. It does have a front mounted camera as well as a rear mounted camera. So you can use it for chat applications. That card that I threw over there covered up my notes, but let's go ahead and take the back off of here. That's quite nice actually. It has a metal back. So kind of an anodized metal finish on the back. That seems like it should be reasonably durable. Not much flex to the unit. Great. Okay. Volume controls are here. These look familiar. And then that's, you know what? Give me a sec here guys. So I don't remember where we left off anymore. It's actually been a while. I connected to wifi, installed Angry Birds because everyone loves Angry Birds. Look at those birds. They're so angry. Actually that's the only one that's angry. He's more confused and so is he. He's sad and he's really confused and hopefully it'll go ahead and sort of let me play the game. Overall, the tablet is very smooth. It's actually using an A8 processor. So it's, while it's not necessarily the, yeah we get it. While it's not necessarily the newest possible thing, it does run pretty cleanly, pretty smoothly. You can see scrolling around here, scrolling around inside the ice cream sandwich, various home screens. Internet is not tested yet, but hopefully it's pretty good because we're about to try it. No idea. Oh, okay. Give it a sec. Alright. So let's open a new tab. Let's go ahead and go somewhere. So let's go to NCIX.com because there's a bunch of flash and stuff going on. Again, one of the advantages of Android tablets versus an iOS device is the ability to run flash. So you can see all of the helpful advertisements on NCIX.com such as this one. Actually it's possible we don't have flash installed on it yet. Oh no, there it is. Okay, so web browsing could be smoother although that's a complaint about Android in general. So probably helps if I, oh wait, wait. Give it a sec. There we go. Okay, so not too bad. Let's go to the form. Wow, accuracy is really good. I was able to click on that tiny little form button without any difficulty whatsoever. Huh, look at that. So web browsing could be faster, but don't hold that against the tablet because part of the problem is almost, well, is definitely the fact that we have so many interfering Wi-Fi connections around here. There's got to be about 25 wireless networks within range of the Tech Tips Room which is one of the reasons it's so difficult for us to demo anything wireless in here. So basically there's your zooming. Looks a little something like that. There's your scrolling whenever it's not waiting for the page to load. So actually not bad at all especially given the price point. So let's just see if there's anything else. Right, right, we haven't even looked at the unit physically yet. So this is a 16 gig model. There's a sticker somewhere that says 16 gigabytes. It's a two megapixel camera on the back. Oh right, whatever these buttons did. So these buttons evidently are not volume control. I assume they were, but that's apps and options. And then this is the back button. So you actually have a physical back button which is kind of cool. Oh, that's a camera apparently. Let's look at another tablet through a tablet. It's like a tablet-ception. So there's your dedicated back button. On the side we find a bunch of stuff. So there is your grill for your speakers. There's your headphone jack. There's your mini USB. There's your micro SD so you can put up to a 32 gig micro SD in here for expanded storage. There is your, right, that's where you can plug in the 3G dongle using that included cable. Then there is your, ah, mini HDMI. Excellent. Power and finally, well power in and then the power button. So battery life is in the neighborhood of depending on who you ask, anywhere from about 5 to 10 hours. And it can go up to 20 days in standby which is nice. I have an Android tablet that doesn't last that long in standby. It's kind of a pain in the butt. Not this one, it's a different one. Um, 1024x768 screen. I think we covered that. Supports HD playback. Doesn't have Bluetooth unfortunately, but obviously it does have WiFi. Front and back camera can connect to, yep, yep, yep. Can expand, mini HDMI and I think that pretty much covers it. So basically in a nutshell, nice overall, my nice overall build with the metal back that is very fingerprint resistant. Like no matter what I try to do, it's not getting all grubbed up which is a complaint that I have even about the iPad in spite of its otherwise awesomeness because Apple made it and it is therefore amazing. Um, screen actually feels pretty good. The screen is actually pretty impressive. I hate personally seeing the touch screen interface of a tablet. I find that very, very bothersome. Um, and you really can't see it. It's a very flat screen, no ripple to it and you can just barely make out some vertical lines. I thought you couldn't see it at all actually until I just saw those now. So it doesn't bother me at all even compared to something like transformer gen one where it's got those dots all over the screen. That just drove me crazy. Yes, crazy enough to like say it like that. Like crazy. Uh, so we're going to install fruit Ninja free just to check out the, uh, accept and download, check out the five point multi-touch. I guess we can also see the download speed here. Just pretty good considering we're in the tech tips room. I just re reset the router so maybe that's a, maybe that's helping a little bit. Maybe it jumped the gun there. Hard to say. So you guys, yeah, I mean this is some, this is some usability time with the tablet. There's your responsiveness. I'm actually, I'm overall, I'm pretty impressed, especially given the price point. It's not bad at all. We can like go on the YouTubes and uh, can see if we can find a video of like some guy talking about tablets or something. If you guys want to see a video of like a, oops, okay, there we go. If you guys want to see a video of a really unresponsive tablet, I'll show you a really good one. Um, it's like, lols. Um, yeah, that one. This one, it was like eight minutes in between trying to do things and then actually happening. Linus Tech Tips video! How do I adjust the volume if those aren't volume buttons? There must be some way. I don't know, Slick's pointing at something but I don't know what to do. Hmm, sound. This probably isn't the fastest way to do it but it's done now. There we go. Okay, back. I'm not actually an Android expert by any stretch of the imagination so. Not bad, it actually looks really good. What do you think? Just looks nodding. Viewing angle's not bad either actually. Wow. Yeah, I'd say it's very usable from about here to about here. Here, well why don't you look at it? Wow, that's awesome. Okay, so moving along, Fruit Ninja Free. We get to see my Fruit Ninja skills and then I think we're pretty much done. How long is this video? It's a long video. Sorry guys, tablets are one of those things where if we don't do a little bit of usability though then the video's sort of a waste anyway. Nobody cares about Open Feint and my stats on Fruit Ninja Free. Come on. You can do it. Ooh, zoom to fill screen. Stretch to fill screen. Zoom, stretch. Zoom, stretch. Zoom, stretch. Zoom, stretch. Okay, give me a sec guys. Alright, so here's our Fruit Ninja demo. It did finally manage to load. And then for sure it'll be a bomb next. I've played this game before. So there's our five. This is the hack-store way to play. Whoa, so neat. Oh, dang. Okay, well it's got a gig of RAM which I didn't mention before and I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at this pretty value-oriented and I'd say pretty good value little tablet. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.