My Favorite Thing About This Rugged Tablet Isn't Its Endurance (but This Overlooked Spec Instead)

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The RT10 tablet is connected waste now for $429 (regularly priced astatine $749).
• This beefy tablet has respectable capacity and unrivaled artillery life.
• If you're looking for thing ray and delicate, look elsewhere.

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For me, Oukitel is synonymous pinch ruggedness. Every merchandise I've ever been sent from them is an workout successful durability. Just picking up 1 nan brand's tablets aliases phones makes you recognize really ray and delicate different brands' devices really are. 

The RT10 tablet is nary exception. It's thick, heavy, and sturdy, but it's nary gimmick. 

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You mightiness deliberation these brawny devices would beryllium a gimmick, but they really service an important purpose. Consider this: You return your delicate iPad retired into nan section (or camping, aliases anyplace that doesn't connection perfect conditions) and upwind up having to transportation it astir arsenic cautiously arsenic you mightiness a newborn baby.

The RT10 weighs successful astatine a chonky 1255g. To put that into perspective, nan 13-inch M4 iPad Pro weighs a scant 523g. Given nan RT10 is an 11-inch tablet, nan 11-inch type of nan aforesaid iPad only weighs 444g. The RT10 weighs astir 3 times nan iPad. 

Of course, nan iPad would shudder if you took it into nan conditions nan RT10 is built for. 

My experience

With nan shape facet retired of nan way, let's talk astir really I fared pinch nan Oukitel RT10. After unboxing nan tablet, I connected Android to my Google relationship and group up nan accustomed features (fingerprint, etc). As pinch immoderate Android device, it was incredibly easy.

I past went astir my accustomed testing. The first point I do pinch tablets and phones is spot really responsive nan UI is. In nan lawsuit of nan RT10, nan Android UI was a spot sluggish. 

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That aroused my curiosity. I decided to instal a different homescreen launcher. To beryllium specific, I went with O Launcher. Why did I do this? Primarily because O Launcher uses less strategy resources than most, truthful I figured it mightiness lick nan sluggishness of nan tablet.

Lo and behold, utilizing O Launcher arsenic my default solved that issue. Now nan RT10 runs for illustration an absolute champ.

With velocity nary longer an issue, I put nan tablet done nan accustomed paces. Here are my conclusions:

• Display: It's rather crisp. I'd spell truthful acold to opportunity that this is nan champion tablet show Oukitel has produced.
• Sound: The speakers are tin of producing very large sound. On apical of that, it offers a beautiful bully magnitude of bass, preventing nan sound from being excessively tinny (like truthful galore tablets). This mightiness beryllium nan best-sounding tablet I've tested.
• Performance: Once I installed O Launcher, nan RT10 performs very well. Out of nan box, however, it was a small sluggish.
• Battery: Good grief, nan artillery conscionable keeps going and going. I group up nan tablet and put it distant for complete a month. When I started it up again, location was still a 94% charge.
• OS: It's Android 15, truthful I've sewage nary gripes there.
• RAM: Out of nan box, you get 16GB. Like each Oukitel devices, you tin bump that up pinch what they telephone Memory Expansion. In each of my clip testing Oukitel devices, I've yet to spot nan representation description really person overmuch power complete performance. This time, however, I did announcement a spot of a bump aft enabling nan feature.
• Cameras: I was really amazed by nan value of nan pictures nan cameras produced. Even nan selfie camera wasn't excessively shabby. No, they aren't arsenic bully arsenic nan Pixel cameras, but they tin clasp their own. The Camera app besides doesn't see a horde of AI features, truthful it's conscionable point-and-click goodness. The Macro camera is beautiful good, but don't deliberation you're going to triumph immoderate awards pinch it.

Me and my goofy mug.

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The large rumor immoderate users mightiness person is nan weight. The RT10 is arsenic dense arsenic a tablet tin be. What you person to remember, however, is that's portion of what makes Oukitel's products so unique. 

The RT10 is specifically made to thrive successful reliable conditions. Take this tablet to nan beach, connected a hike, to a building site… it doesn't matter because it's sewage nan oomph to guidelines up to conscionable astir thing you tin propulsion astatine it.

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Another point I really admit astir nan Oukitel tablets is that astir of them vessel pinch a useful (and very sturdy) kickstand. The kickstand has to beryllium attached, and it adds to nan weight, but it's very overmuch worthy using.

Gotta emotion these beefy kickstands.

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You besides get a manus strap you tin attach. Both of these accessories are attached by measurement of screws, truthful they are stone solid. Lastly, there's a carrying strap you tin connect to nan kickstand to make carrying nan RT10 astir easier.

ZDNET's buying advice

The Oukitel statement of devices appeals to a definite cross-section of society. If you thrust a Ford F150 to activity and you travel location caked successful ungraded aliases building dust, this tablet is for you. If you're a hiker aliases camper, ditto. As well, if you want a tablet pinch an perfectly monolithic battery, you could do a full batch worse than nan RT10.

If, connected nan different hand, you for illustration a tablet that weighs nothing, looks for illustration each different tablet being carried around, and you don't for illustration Android, this tablet is astir surely not for you.

Oukitel RT10 tablet specs

• Display: 11-inch IPS FHD+ 1200 x 1920 pinch a 120Hz refresh complaint and 500 nits brightness.
• Processor: MediaTek Dimensity 7400X (4x 2.6 GHz Cortex-A78 + 4x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55).
• Memory & Storage: 12GB LPDDR5 RAM (expandable up to 36GB) and 512GB UFS 3.0 soul storage, pinch support for up to 2TB expandable storage.
• Battery: 25,000mAh capacity pinch 33W accelerated charging and reverse charging capability.
• Cameras: 64MP main rear camera (OV64B40), 20MP Sony nighttime imagination camera, 5MP macro lens, and 32MP Samsung beforehand camera.
• Ruggedization: IP68/IP69K water/dust guidance and MIL-STD-810H certification, surviving drops up to 1.5 meters.
• Connectivity: 5G, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, and GPS.
• Audio & Ports: Dual 5W speakers (>130dB), USB-C, and pogo pin connector.
• OS: Android 15.Industry Version 
• Features: Includes a 2D barcode scanner and a customizable fingerprint module for endeavor use