Honor Play Tablet 2 is a great tool for watching TV series without lags. It redefines the all-round entertainment tablet

There is no doubt that increasingly powerful smartphones have occupied most of our lives. In contrast, tablets have gradually been marginalized by users.

If there is anything that tablets have an advantage over smartphones, it must be the large screen and large-capacity battery, which provide a better experience for watching movies and TV series.

On May 23, at the Honor brand new product launch conference with the theme of "Youth 4-piece set", Honor Play Tablet 2 focused on the key product point of "a good hand for chasing dramas", continued the product concept of smooth system and high-value design, and redefined the all-round entertainment tablet.

Integrated glass design with eye-protection high-definition large screen

The Honor Play Tablet 2 we experienced this time is an 8-inch high-end version with 3GB+32GB of memory, and supports LTE network, realizing dual 4G data and call support for China Mobile and China Unicom.

You can completely understand the Honor Play Tablet 2 as an enlarged Honor mobile phone, and the Honor logo at the bottom of the front and the design of the virtual buttons inside the screen also maintain the consistent design style of Honor mobile phones.

The 8-inch version of Honor Play Tablet 2 weighs only 350g and is only 8mm thick. Its light and thin body, rounded curves, high-end aluminum alloy material and high-quality spraying technology create a comfortable grip.

It is particularly worth mentioning that based on the integrated glass design on the front, the Honor Play Tablet 2 abandons the traditional screen edge design. Its 8-inch high-definition screen also has the blue light filtering technology authoritatively certified by the National Ophthalmology Center, plus a brightness mode as low as 5nit, which is more in line with the user's health needs for night use.

EMUI5.1 intelligently optimizes Android tablets to prevent lags

As we all know, Honor is the first brand in the Android smartphone field to use system non-lag as the core selling point of its products, and Honor Play Tablet 2 continues this concept.

The EMUI5.1 system built into the Honor Play Tablet 2 is developed based on Android 7.0. Under the operating interface with blue and white as the main colors, the core components of Android have been optimized, bringing a new "Machine Learning Algorithm" that deeply combines hardware characteristics, laying the foundation for achieving long-lasting and smooth operation.

Simply put, the measures taken by Honor Play Tablet 2 to solve the problem of Android system lag mainly focus on three aspects: intelligent perception learning, intelligent scheduling of hardware resources and intelligent storage optimization.

First of all, EMUI5.1 enables the Honor Play Tablet 2 to have machine self-learning capabilities, learn users' historical tablet usage habits, implement user personal APP priority sorting, predict users' next operations, and prepare for application preloading.

Secondly, based on the user's APP usage, EMUI5.1 can also allocate more CPU to the user's frequently used APPs to prioritize the smooth use of the foreground APP. In addition, with the unique memory compression technology, it defragments highly fragmented files when the device is idle, allowing the Honor Play Tablet 2's memory allocation efficiency to be increased by 30%, the background memory compression ratio to be increased to more than 50%, and the memory recycling efficiency to be increased by 20%. When the running memory is insufficient, it actively recycles the internal memory with a lower priority.

Finally, similar to the new AFS file system recently launched by Apple, Honor also uses the new F2FS file system on the Honor Play Tablet 2, trying to reduce system fragmentation and optimize storage IO at the bottom of product design. According to Honor officials, this improvement can improve the fluency of EMUI5.1 by 20% and effectively reduce the occurrence of lag.

After a period of daily use, the stable system fluency performance of Honor Play Tablet 2 is in line with our psychological expectations. It can be said that this is not only the result of the comprehensive optimization of EMUI5.1, but also benefits from the strong support of hardware configuration such as 3GB of large memory.

It should be noted that the Honor Play Tablet 2 does not use the Kirin processor like most Honor phones, but instead chooses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 quad-core processor with A53 architecture. In common game tests, its performance is completely sufficient. It is equipped with an Adreno 308 GPU that supports 60 frames per second high-definition display, which also contributes to the smooth visual experience of the system.

It is also a tablet suitable for children, as it can watch TV series for more than 10 hours continuously.

Having said that, the real pain point of tablets that can impress users is that the larger screen is more suitable for watching movies and TV shows. In addition, the larger body can house a larger capacity battery, and the battery life is much better than most smartphones.

The Honor Play Tablet 2, equipped with a 4800mAh large-capacity battery, is undoubtedly also capable of meeting users' expectations for tablet products. Combined with Honor's intelligent power technology, the official data given by the 8-inch version even reaches a powerful level of about 13 hours of video playback without charging.

Through our actual battery life tests using video apps on different platforms and tracking different series, we found that the Honor Play Tablet 2's continuous playback capability in a Wi-Fi environment is mostly between 10.5 hours and 11.5 hours. This result is already extremely outstanding, exceeding the Apple iPad's 10-hour continuous use battery life.

In addition, considering that we use the speaker mode and it is not an official version of the system, the Honor Play Tablet 2's ability to watch TV series obviously still has room for improvement. After the product system is upgraded to the official version, the official data of about 13 hours of video playback without charging will certainly not be difficult to achieve.

In addition to the regular test items for tablet products, considering that tablet products with large screens may also become "toys" for children at home, the newly added Children's Playground mode of Honor Play Tablet 2 can be said to be quite in line with the needs of this usage scenario.

On the one hand, the Honor Play Tablet 2 is equipped with a baby-specific media library and an exclusive children's app store, which is convenient for recording children's growth photos, paintings, and voice. At the same time, it has a large number of selected high-quality children's apps built in, allowing children to play happily and healthily.

On the other hand, in order to prevent children from becoming addicted to electronic products, parents can also set the single usage duration, usage period, usage interval, use of Wi-Fi or mobile data services, number of times per day, etc. in the Children's Park mode, and set a password for installing applications and programs visible to the baby, separating the child's visible space from the space used by the parents, and truly creating a tablet computer that is suitable for both children and adults.

Honor Play Tablet 2 is another dark horse in the 618 e-commerce festival

Since the launch of Honor's first tablet in 2014, in the second quarter of 2015, Honor tablet jumped to the top position in the domestic Android tablet market in just one year. In 2016, Honor tablet products continued to grow against the trend and won the double championship in sales volume and sales revenue of Android tablet category in the 618 E-commerce Festival.

Today, the Honor Play Tablet 2, which gives people the impression of being all-round, has the strength to continue the development momentum of the Honor brand in the tablet field with its high appearance, non-lag product label, outstanding battery life performance for watching TV series, and innovations in children's usage scenarios, and become a new sales dark horse in the 618 e-commerce festival.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.