The BIGME B751C is a Color E-Ink Android Tablet that's cool but it's a bit lacking and pricey...

[@SMOOREZ]

*I was not paid for this review. I have to select Paid Promotion on KZbin since I received an item of value from a third party. All opinions are my own in this one.* A massive thank you to BIGMEfor sending me this sample out for review! I appreciate them letting me take a look at this. Check it out here if you want: bigmestore.com/products/bigme-b751c?variant=40866814197845 My opinions in this video are my own, I am not being paid by BIGME they have just sent out the sample for me to review which is what I like to do :) I have to select "paid promotion" on KZbin as I received something of value from a third party. I hope you all enjoyed this review! I am just not confident in this review, it's far from the best I've made in a while. Let me know if you would buy this device? What are your opinions on this? Let me know down below! Timestamps: Introduction, Links & Disclaimers: 0:00 Current Pricing & Description: 1:08 Specifications: 2:56 Unboxing: 4:41 Around the Device: 6:34 Power On, Setup, System Update etc: 7:45 Shortcuts & Functionality: 9:02 Frontlight Quality & Office Apps: 10:37 UI & Settings: 12:11 Testing some Apps & Rambling about Performance: 13:57 More Apps, System Apps & Battery: 15:40 Browser Test, Checking the Colors & Display: 17:53 Dictionary & DeviceInfoHW: 21:26 Kindle & Speaker Test: 22:36 Navigation & Even More Apps: 24:11 KZbin Test: 25:04 Checking pdf docs, Comics & Picture Quality: 26:11 Stylus Functionality, Note Taking & More about Colors: 28:28 Geekbench & Battery Life: 31:24 Gaming Test - GTA San Andreas & Display Modes: 33:26 This review is all over the place & QuickShortcutMaker: 36:22 A Really Rambly Conclusion: 37:57 Quick Teardown & Magnets work: 41:38 Final Thoughts, Thanks to Bigme, Links etc: 43:11 Outro: 45:00 Any questions let me know! Be good people!

[@Avgaming_747]

Hey smoorez. Watching on my wing

[@gamer101stopmotion]

​@@Avgaming_747 oh yeah I remember you talking about it on the live stream

[@gamer101stopmotion]

Look good content

[@Avgaming_747]

@@gamer101stopmotion ill make the review soon. What do you want to see?

[@gamer101stopmotion]

@@Avgaming_747 SMOOREZ style

[@SanderEvers]

The difference in resolution between the color and black & white screen is because these devices have a separate color layer over the original epaper screen. This layer filters the light in different colors. However the resolution of this colorfilter is lower, thus giving the split definitions.

[@SMOOREZ]

Right, I understand it now. Thanks for the explanation. I'm just really new to E-Ink stuff and I had no proper idea how the colour and resolution stuff worked.

[@johnrobinson3642]

Was just coming to comment on this. good job :) It's similar in concept to how many video compression algorithms will compress colour and luminosity information at different resolutions, often colour information is stored at 1/4 of the resolution of the luminosity info, our eyes have a hard time perceiving the difference.

[@SugnessBaw]

I'm confused, why do you say colour? Why not just color? Sorry, this stuff just bothers me. I just wanna know.

[@Astrid--]

18:51 Screen was flickering because it seems it is set to refresh every time something happens on the screen. The Chrome progress ring icon on the tab was animating so the whole screen did

[@Technology-Repair-Proto]

The ring is for pulling the stylus out for replacement. I have one with my Wacom tablet, and it works pretty well. I'm only 6 minutes in, so I don't know if Smoorez already knows this later in the video but still. Love your videos, dude! :D

[@quadrodcc667]

It might be expensive, but considering the prices of Onyx products with a stylus, this makes more sense.

[@woldemunster9244]

Dunno what Onyx does but color e-ink display at this price point was just the display and display driver board. Now you have smartphone/ebook reader hardware & software including stylus to use with that display.

[@quadrodcc667]

​@@woldemunster9244 I mean Onyx was damn expensive, man.

[@kenshinbattousai374]

​@@woldemunster9244onyx is the only company doing this at a flagship level woth options for 10.3" form factor and support.

[@JessicaFEREM]

The ring is so you can pull out the pen tip to stick a new one out. They come with just about everything with a stylus now, and the pen nibs are almost impossible to pull out otherwise

[@GrumpyIan]

If you don't have one of those rings nail clippers do a fantastic job as long as you're not using too much pressure.

[@user-dingus-dingus]

I love this thing. I just ordered it thanks to your review. I wanted an eink Android device for a long time but the abscense of color and terrible fps stopped me. But this is amazing, it's not terrible in terms of performance, it easily handles videos and games (idk why it crashed in GTA tho), it gan go up to FIFTY FPS (I'm pretty sure you are the only one who maxed it out on video). The colors are dim, but there are settings like brightness and contrast which for sure can make it look good even on extreme 50fps refresh. Will absolutely post an update when it arrives!

[@mattelder1971]

That Amazon packaging is pretty standard fare in the US. I think some of their shipping centers only have a few standard size boxes that they can ship things in, and they don't seem to believe in filling in empty space with bubble wrap or other packing materials. Maybe it's something to do with not creating extra waste, but it does get annoying sometimes.

[@doka-sp]

This thing would be absolutely amazing for PSP emulation; you get the authentic PSP 1000 screen-smear experience but you can ALSO play it in sunlight!

[@mattelder1971]

If it's like some other devices I've seen, that ring has a split in it. It's meant to be used as a tool for replacing the stylus tips! You split it open and use it like pliers to grip the old tip to pull it out.

[@TartarSauceIsNotDead]

You know, since transparent OLED is a thing it's surprising no one has made a hybrid yet. Give me a budget and a few connections and I'll make it happen.

[@woldemunster9244]

Who needs an ebook reader that uses power like a normal tablet and would be even more expensive? e-ink retains the content without using power and is really good to read, like ink on paper and the battery lasts a month in ereader use. basic oled consumes power even if the image is still and you have to charge the device like any smart device you already have. And you think it would be feasible to have two resolutions and refresh rates and color mappings in memory, then compose the two displays over some kind of protocol and the gpu does double duty constantly. I you can spend thousand aussie bucks on a 7" display, yeah "for shits n giggles" is how some people make buying decisions. :D

[@rotemlv]

The UI looks very very similar to the ONYX, at least to how it is in my note air (1) after the last update.

[@sorsu]

I noticed that too, it even has the multi-function circle that boox has, and the design in general reminds me of my boox page Wouldnt be shocked if its same factory or companies "sharing" designs

[@lunacyt2214]

I love e-ink displays, and one day hope to be able to tinker with them in some home products, since they seem like they would be really nice for semi-permanent displays, things that you might use but not always need a lit display for, and could see some degree of power saving by only needing to power when the display changes. It seems like a technology that could see interesting integration into smart home tech, but I also love to see the tech advance in general, even if I can't justify the cost to try more of them myself.

[@app0the]

It's been quite some years since people started buying surplus eink price tags off eBay and the like and integrating them into Home Assistant and such, so that might be one route you might want to check out!

[@evickaklierova3107]

I just love your videos. So detailed, so much fun and education aswell. Thank you!

[@nadiaholmquist]

With how good the refresh rate on this display is, if you wanted to do gaming on it maybe emulating Game Boy games would work well, since they’re mostly monochrome and designed to be high contrast and with screen ghosting in mind.

[@SMOOREZ]

That's also a pretty good idea. Thing is anything out of reading ebooks and such, when the display is constantly refreshing then that battery life starts to drain so while you'd be able to play some GB stuff it wouldn't last terribly long, maybe a few hours or so.

[@woldemunster9244]

@@SMOOREZ This is why all the "high refresh rate" options shouldn't be there by default, like having more than 4-bit grayscale on e-ink panel. People immediately start thinking about emulators and stuff when real gameboys are available for peanuts. Same energy as buying that Samsung smart-fridge to play Skyrim and you have no money to buy food because you bought that fridge. Maybe you can buy just the door without the fridge part and get a "portable" smartfridge gaming system....

[@Klinkertinlegs]

I have a boox Palma without color, but putting it in my backbone controller and playing gameboy games on it is REALLY nice. The screen refresh on these is so good that I even streamed a couple Steam games to it, and while it wasn’t a GREAT experience, it WAS playable.

[@JuliaMono]

I love how they fail to write out „TÜV Rheinland“ for lack of the umlaut supposedly… they do Standards Certification. Rheinland is just a region 😂 2:40

[@kiyoshi_the_devil]

Thought the same 😂. "German Rhineland Certification"

[@bl3ivids]

I like the self portrait at 28:57 🤭

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

The gosting on the screen reminds me of those DSTN displays from the 90's :p amazing lil device!

[@z_o_di_a_c_]

That's a very good E ink display 👀

[@HoopyAmero]

Considering it's priced cheaper than Amazon's black and white Kindle Scribe, I rather have this than the Scribe, but must note that Scribe is much bigger. Only deal breaker for me is writing isn't wacom. If it had that I would own one already, instead I'm gonna wait to see if it drops sub $200 USD during the holidays or if they have something better down the line.

[@ika5666]

Really good and helpful review! It would be good to see PDF color annotation.

[@BlackCatRedScarf]

All the ghosting on it, reminds me of really old LCD tech from 90s, like some ancient Macintosh PowerBook 100 passive matrix, some old Compaq laptops or stuff like gaming on Palm m100. Those weren't gaming machines, but I played a lot of games on those despite the ghosting. E-Ink is almost there, but it's too expensive for what it is right now and it doesn't offer a good quality. Still... It is really cool.

[@JasonTzeng]

Thanks for the review. It is helpful. What attracts me most about Bigme B751C is that it allows to download 3rd party apps like Kindle or Kobo apps. I'm thinking that maybe I can use this color eink device to read my ebooks across different platforms... but is it feasible? I guess my question for you here is: in your experience, do these 3rd party apps work smoothly on B751C? I've tried other old ebook readers manufactured from some Chinese companies, but 3rd party apps were just simply not workable, limited by Eink technology!

[@kaskuban]

Finally, something interesting to have lunch 😁

[@thegoodiegames6595]

I love smoorez

[@evickaklierova3107]

Same here!

[@userless_world_9540]

5:02 Amazon Boxing is always an adventure sometimes they are way to small so the stuff gets crushed but most of the time they are way to big. They had send me a Vinyl record in a paper back before

[@ShadowCorrupted]

Wow, this is a thorough review. Really pushing the android capabilities.

[@MissFoxification]

In all honesty it's price competitive for the size and especially for being colour. I am considering something like that. Right now I use a gaming handheld (Odin Lite 1) with a Dimensity 900 for readiing, it lasts around a month just for reading and some low spec gaming... the colours on my LCD definitely pop, but it is small. I think it's fairly priced for what it is and what it does. I'd have to know whether a couple of apps I use would work on it... but it's worth considering.

[@SMOOREZ]

I guess it's because I'm too used to regular devices and not E-Ink stuff. I thought for the money you do get color but battery life is iffy and it lacks some features. But folks like yourself that know more about e-readers and pricing may be more drawn to this rather than I am if that makes sense?

[@MissFoxification]

@@SMOOREZ Yeah it makes perfect sense. To many people it's just a slower and more expensive tablet with worse colours. I think it might come down in price as more enter the market but not by much. Even greyscale readers of a similar size cost a similar price.

[@UmbreWolf]

Hey, just wanted to point this out. While the price for a device like this may seem high, but maybe if I told you that color e ink display on its own is 250 to produce. Might make it seem a bit more reasonable no?

[@UmbreWolf]

These things aren't as widely produced as an lcd or amoled. Small color e-ink displays something small enough for a smart watch is still almost 100, sometimes more depending where it's sourced from. It's the display..simple terms are they are expensive to produce. The company still needs to make some kind of profit to keep it in production.

[@SMOOREZ]

I knew e-ink wasn't cheap but I had no idea it was that pricey. I guess what I tried to think of in this review is that it's a fairly lacking tablet hardware wise but with the e-ink display on top it's not justified. 4GB RAM, 64GB, Helio P35 and Android 11 is on that sort of low to mid range. Maybe my opinion was a bit harsh but it's just how I felt during the review.

[@sorsu]

Thats fine, typically these tablets dont get high-end hardware whatsoever, putting most of the money in the screen, build and/or the pen layer. theres a lot of reasons why eink in general is expensive, including licensing the patent or putting features like "paper like screensaver" for better clarity/writing, but it is a bit annoying they dont also put in a good CPU (or in that matter, an actual gpu, ive only seen a couple with dedicated GPUS) unless you go on the high-end, which is aimed for businesses usually and cost 800-1200$USD I guess argument could be made that "lower powerdraw = better" but... cmon you can find a stronger ARM chip with equal/less powerdraw than that

[@UmbreWolf]

@@SMOOREZ from your standpoint of veiw, yeah something like that should have better specs, i'm not going to lie, but that would just drive up the cost even more. Maybe like you said they will get better and will get more widely adoptd across devices. Thats really the only reason they are so expensive. They are being poduced but not mass produced Remembers sony first oled tv? It was only 11 and it was selling for 2000$ and that wa sjust a tv. that wa sbefore it was widely adopted. just an example. But yes the hardware could be better

[@purplegary]

Love all your videos, not yet found I couldn't watch it all the way through. Little side note. . . . Links to 2 videos at the end the left had the picture for your last video but the wording for it was under the right video.

[@AmirRazan]

Big Me, that's a good Foo Fighters song. BIGME, that's a company that makes NOT-so-good E-Ink Tablets.

[@mrinaldutta1812]

Bro Iam watching your channel from long time ago you should also do some new phones and gadgets because the way you do in-depth video no body does include some newer branded phones and gadgets newer clones just a feedback

[@TartarSauceIsNotDead]

Would like to see more tablet reviews.

[@r3n846]

I wonder if the reason why it looks so detailed is that they're not exactly pixels. The same reason why CRTs look better than LCD displays.

[@AtomSquirrel]

They are probably owned by Realme. Also, it’s funny that the blocks for their logo say ME BIG like a caveman. Also, Bigamy

[@attilamagyar91]

This is a very good looking product

[@michaelleeper3649]

The Big Me, Just For You, 7 Inch. Who designed this box? lol

[@Nurf]

the rings probably for removing the tips from the pen. just a guess. you didn't really show it properly, but that's my guess :D

[@JayTheComputerGuy]

PowerVR still makes things?!

[@KLRN-qc7jp]

I would really like to see how games like Baldur's Gate would look on this...

[@Avgaming_747]

SMOOREZ Sniffing the color confirmed

[@SMOOREZ]

Wait what :/

[@Avgaming_747]

@SMOOREZ idk do you like the color

[@SMOOREZ]

It's cool technology and there is color but it's not as vibrant as they advertise and it seems color e-ink just isn't quite there yet but it's cool nonetheless.

[@Avgaming_747]

​@@SMOOREZNUTSTORE

[@PrinsessePeach]

My experience with buying books from Amazon is they put a heavy book in a way too big flimsy cardboard box with maybe two or three plastic bags filled with air, the book is always damaged on arrival, and I complain, and get partial or full refund. 🤷‍♀️ I have stopped buying books from Amazon because I prefer a book without damage.

[@CanizaM]

Won't run Genshin Impact? That would've been a good way to test the colour capabilities.

[@Rizzaural]

P35 can't even run benchmark, there is no point

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

If the firmware wouldn't be so sketchy, this would be a nice device. The price is a bit steep. The Tolino colour E-Reader which is sold here in Europe is 200€ with a 7" 4096 colour display and stylus. And the PocketBook InkPad 3 is 320€ with a silgtly larger 7,8" display, but without stylus (afaik). Addendum: The InkPad Eo has stylus input, but its 540€. It also has Android, but that is not important for an E-Reader in my view. And it has a 10,3" display.

[@gentuxable]

Look, hardware motion blur! Just like on the Pentium 60 Laptop‘s CSTN display I once got as a child.

[@zenny1884]

ring for changing the stylus pen tip.

[@seanet1310]

If i was still spending every second week at the airport, the cost would be woth it in my view. The colour e ink back then was expensive garbage. This is all for the right use case. Almost $500 for someone who just wants a tablet is over priced. For someone who can benefit from e ink, and wants to avoid a backlight.... A real shame the charging is so slow.

[@stevenspencer5367]

Well I'm on my 3rd viewing. But don't really know where to start. Lol Ok. I'll start with your vignette. I feel the frustration of Amazon ludicrous packaging. I'll say no more. I'm not really sure what to make of this device. It seems a bit niche. The screen can look and feel like you are writing on paper. Or even draw some awesome doodles. But can you do this on your existing phone ot tablet. The other week on the mammoth live stream you were doodling on an iPad 9nth gen. I was impressed by the options it had. So I had a try on my phone and tablet ( both Samsung) and I could takes notes or doodle, badly but that's me not the device's fault. Lol The screen doesn't really look very clear, hopefully it's better in real life as opposed to viewing through a camera. The colours looks washed out and the images look grainy. I do like the pen/stylus and it's extra functionality. One food point. I do like the bezels and the extra real estate to the side of the screen where the buttons are. Being able to hold it without blocking the screen with my stubby fingers is brilliant. Another plus with the extra large bezel is in landscape mode. If watching KZbin have the screen slight higher up, for me, is really neat. Lol I do like that you can get inside to replace the battery. Which I think is woefully under what I thought it should have considering modern tablets. Music sounds OK for listening to KZbin but not for anything more than background noise. Bluetooth headphones/speaker may improve the sound quality. I prefer a wired set up. So would a dongle be OK to attach to give a headphone jack? I wouldn't really want to use this for watching anything to be honest. The screen isn't designed to be clear. However, the Devine Ms Ripley looks uber cute as a little big eyed cutie bundle of fur. I am torn. I do like this device. I do like the stuff you are demonstrating. The colours look more like pastels and muted. But OK for what it does. However, I'm a boomer. Lol. If I'm going to shell out a lot of money on something. Then this lacks so much. A camera would be welcome. It's seems so weird that it doesn't have one. Multifunctionality is a big part of deciding on what to buy. I would still need a normal tablet to watch any streaming services. I could maybe play card games on this OK. I like spider solitaire lol and the trainings of the screen probably wouldn't be a problem. I too had a really good chortle at the names of those apps. The double meanings were so obvious lol. So I'm going to say that I like this devices. It seems easy enough to change the battery. Which is so important if they want you to fork out so much money for this device. If I'm spending money on something. Then I want that something to have a decent live span. Planned obsolescence is not cool. I want things to last. So for me it's overpriced. I sieve you can get screen protectors that make it seem like you are writing on paper, if that's your thing. Plus a tablet seems to have more going for it. Maybe in the future. But not for me. Having rambled myself with random points just popping up with no seeming rhyme nor reason. I have throughly enjoyed watching this video. Maybe it's getting me to think outside of the boomer mindset. Lol 😂

[@fockerriq]

Do you know how to set the dictionary?

[@Boogie_the_cat]

37:06 I will seek no further because god is here in this game.

[@vivekanandan5093]

Can you try Lava phones from india? It's a bit hard to get but I would love to see what you think about our homegrown company 🎉

[@_snaiio5492]

ask Lava!

[@AguevadoConCaraDeSonso29]

At 15:51 there is a question that says "should the young people be naked?" and you forgot to censor it...

[@jdargui1537]

No way Chad gpt kinda peddy today huh 😂

[@z_o_di_a_c_]

Box in the box in the box......

[@deathdogg0]

Whoa it really does sound like paper... Ironic how paper-like we like tech to be

[@gabri2734]

Here in Europe on Amazon it costs 310 Euros, for me it's a Big NO

[@immameme]

Tablet and TechImma1st Don't take my comments seriously. It's only a meme

[@MichaelStoneham]

Can you change the system settings to English

[@SMOOREZ]

They are already in English so no need to change anything. There's some apps that are Chinese but you likely won't use them.

[@markenetube]

Odd how the colour of the reaader comes over as very poor, compared to some of the janky phobes you review.

[@kenshinbattousai374]

Pricey? This thing is 244 on aliexpress, and 286 usd with case and pen.

[@SugnessBaw]

Kind of sad that this E ink tablet has better color than my cousins $45 tablet😊

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

i use a note and i can easily see the delay of the pen lol, also the samsung software is way more complete than this. the screen is big enough to read and the battery holds pretty good while having all the other stuff so it's a big no for me about this device. it's pretty expensive, and you can't even push it as a normal device so no. the display is good tho.

[@bokexd3173]

37:23 plants vs zombies theme

[@FluffyFlounders]

Thats a really cool device, shame its so expensive

[@iSamYTBackup]

Helio g99 tsmc 6N manufacturing

[@itemuspl8557]

Why you didn't test DOOM on this screen? WHY?

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I'm left handed, and even i think it's blasphemous to have the page turn buttons on the left side. disgusting.

[@SMOOREZ]

You can flip it and use it that way :) May have to modify the case though for it to fit but it can be done!

[@who_goes_there_studios]

$450 for android 11 is sad

[@SMB1568HPlaysOMSI]

Invalid in extreme mode: 🗿

[@URACLE7]

thank you for adding idr (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)

[@smallmoneysalvia]

Excuse me what the frick did that fricking AI just fricking suggest (fifth option down)? 15:54

[@x.xlx.x]

❤

[@johnvosh1986]

Your Amazon packaging is as bad as Lego. Take and order a couple things from the Lego store and they put them in a big box with next to zero padding or anything, so the boxes just slide around and get destroyed.

[@GroupNebula563]

me me big boy

[@seireiart]

jacksfilms fan spotted xD

[@Shiawase813]

NutStore ughh ambatunat

[@Lazy_Tim]

Cool tech. Not worth $450.

[@richchester187]

If I was part of the company that sent this I'd have put the SMOOREZ logo on before sending I thought I had never heard of a welcome device and then i turned on my u8 'smart' watch to be greeted by Welcome

[@iconiazeta]

another AD commercial video of "BIGME contacted and send me to review". Dislike . Guys , this channel goes bad

[@AmirRazan]

You don't seem to understand.

[@blanc0314]

Will you shut the hell up?

[@_snaiio5492]

yeah some idiots dont understand how reviews work. companies supply hardware to youtubers, the utuber has the option to be honest OR a shill - its obvious this is not an ad or unboxtherapy clueless bullshit​@@AmirRazan