Cube have been on a bit of a roll of late with their dual boot tablets. The newest happens to be the iWork 8 Air, which as the name suggests, is a refresh to the iWork 8.
The iWork 8 Air has an 8-inch IPS display with a 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution. It is powered by the Intel Cherry Trail Z8300 quad-core CPU, along with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of on-board storage.
The iWork 8 Air has dimensions of 213.0 x 127.0 x 9.8 mm and a weight of 339 grams. The front and rear of the tablet feature 2 mega-pixel cameras.
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First spotted by The Gadget Freak, the iWork 8 Air can boot into either Android 5.1 or Windows 10, which is pretty much the standard for dual booting tablets these days. The iWork 8 Air is only on pre-order for now, with an asking price of $99 and an expected shipping date of 26th June.
It’s such a shame that all tablet manufacturers insist on running with the lowly z8300, about time we had a few z8500/8700. There would be some nice dual boot tablets around if they did as they just keep releasing the same old spec over and over with slightly different names. If they want the same success as their phone counterparts receive they do need to start upping their game and including things like fully laminated displays, wireless AC and more powerful processors, hard to find a tablet now without an Intel CPU which is a crying shame.
Won’t be too long though (if you read, Intel is giving up pretty much on the mobile SoC business). Also, it is perhaps the compatibility with Windows that makes Intel chips attractive for these tablet companies.
I know that but they nearly destroyed the PC market with they’re malpractices with AMD and they seemed to be heading in the same direction with mobile SoC’s. I have nothing against manufacturers using them for Windows based tablets, but it annoys me that getting a decent Android tablet is almost impossible as they all use the z8300. My experience with it in its Android guise is a lot of incompatibility issues with various apps. Hopefully they’ve nearly used up all their stock of this dreadful chip?
That’s the paradox: there are ALWAYS more stocks of bad chips, even when there’s none left… Just look at mediatek: stocks of 6735 are just never-ending! ?
And don’t even get me started with the 6580!
Oh gawd, I don’t even want to think about it: throughout this year we’re going to see so much 6580 device I’m going to want 6735 back ?
Yeah and 6753 also like never-ending.
In the long run maybe can backfired to mediatek.
Now if i heard the word “mediatek”, what come out in their mind is “cheapo,slow, not supported chips” muahahahahaha freakin’ idiot. Worse is their smartphone also not really cheap compare to medium end snapdragon. If only different $20 then why i should buy low end mediatek ????
But again, a lot i mean A LOT of people are really darn ignorant. They just don’t care with specs.
I have been waiting for months for a decent 8inch tablet… I think im going to end up getting the Asus Zenpad s8 z580. Its the only one that has decent specs and good price.
Why not go with the Mipad 2, dear
mipad 2 probably the best 8″ tablet coming out of china at the moment, but dear, a bit dear,
somebody should tell Cube , that there are bigger batteries in this world, 3500mah is a fu… joke for a 8″screen, half size screens (5.5″phones ) have bigger batteries
The Mipad 2 doesnt have GPS. That is a killer for me.
are u ok
It would be a lot more convincing if you pretended to be Hugo Barra.
It’s such a shame that all tablet manufacturers insist on running with the lowly z8300, about time we had a few z8500/8700. There would be some nice dual boot tablets around if they did as they just keep releasing the same old spec over and over with slightly different names. If they want the same success as their phone counterparts receive they do need to start upping their game and including things like fully laminated displays, wireless AC and more powerful processors, hard to find a tablet now without an Intel CPU which is a crying shame.
Won’t be too long though (if you read, Intel is giving up pretty much on the mobile SoC business). Also, it is perhaps the compatibility with Windows that makes Intel chips attractive for these tablet companies.
I know that but they nearly destroyed the PC market with they’re malpractices with AMD and they seemed to be heading in the same direction with mobile SoC’s. I have nothing against manufacturers using them for Windows based tablets, but it annoys me that getting a decent Android tablet is almost impossible as they all use the z8300. My experience with it in its Android guise is a lot of incompatibility issues with various apps. Hopefully they’ve nearly used up all their stock of this dreadful chip😃
That’s the paradox: there are ALWAYS more stocks of bad chips, even when there’s none left… Just look at mediatek: stocks of 6735 are just never-ending! 😁
And don’t even get me started with the 6580!
Oh gawd, I don’t even want to think about it: throughout this year we’re going to see so much 6580 device I’m going to want 6735 back 😁
Yeah and 6753 also like never-ending.
In the long run maybe can backfired to mediatek.
Now if i heard the word “mediatek”, what come out in their mind is “cheapo,slow, not supported chips” muahahahahaha freakin’ idiot. Worse is their smartphone also not really cheap compare to medium end snapdragon. If only different $20 then why i should buy low end mediatek ????
But again, a lot i mean A LOT of people are really darn ignorant. They just don’t care with specs.
I have been waiting for months for a decent 8inch tablet… I think im going to end up getting the Asus Zenpad s8 z580. Its the only one that has decent specs and good price.
Why not go with the Mipad 2, dear
mipad 2 probably the best 8″ tablet coming out of china at the moment, but dear, a bit dear,
somebody should tell Cube , that there are bigger batteries in this world, 3500mah is a fu… joke for a 8″screen, half size screens (5.5″phones ) have bigger batteries
The Mipad 2 doesnt have GPS. That is a killer for me.
are u ok
It would be a lot more convincing if you pretended to be Hugo Barra.
IMO Cube is one of the most exciting tablet makers in the market right now.
Cube sucks. They have terrible customer service. Don’t expect much in terms of firmware upgrades. They won’t happen and not only that they lie. I bought their T9 because they promised it would be upgraded to lollipop. They lied and I have a tablet that had been discontinued and stuck with KitKat.
I don’t really trust any of these companies when it comes to upgrades. But there are enough alternate ROM’s for Cubes that software isn’t really a concern.
There’s no lollipop ROM available for the T9.
That’s because it’s a Mediatek. I would never buy an MTK tablet, i don’t mind their phones. The Intel Cubes have numerous roms available as well as both Windows and Linux.
IMO Cube is one of the most exciting tablet makers in the market right now.
Cube sucks. They have terrible customer service. Don’t expect much in terms of firmware upgrades. They won’t happen and not only that they lie. I bought their T9 because they promised it would be upgraded to lollipop. They lied and I have a tablet that had been discontinued and stuck with KitKat.
I don’t really trust any of these companies when it comes to upgrades. But there are enough alternate ROM’s for Cubes that software isn’t really a concern.
There’s no lollipop ROM available for the T9.
That’s because it’s a Mediatek. I would never buy an MTK tablet, i don’t mind their phones. The Intel Cubes have numerous roms available as well as both Windows and Linux.