Last updated on September 23, 2015

Jide is a new Chinese startup that was formed by three ex-Googlers to create Remix OS (Android re-imagined for the desktop). The operating system is their main focus and you can read our “Remix OS 2.0 all you need to know” article to get a complete insight on what the OS entails.

After its inception in 2013, the software was first featured in its in-house made Remix ultra-tablet towards the ending of March as a Kickstarter project.

The device shipped to its Kickstarter backers with an early version of the OS, Remix OS 1.0 which was later updated to version 1.5 on the first of July.

Just recently, the guys at Jide Tech decided to start making its Operating System available to whichever manufacturer wanted it on its device and they’ve partnered with two OEMs so far to feature the Remix OS.

The Cube i7 by the Cube Company, another Chinese startup, was the first device outside Jide to feature the Company’s OS.

Recently Charbax of armdevices.net gave us a coverage of an Allwinner A83 convertible running Remix OS 1.5 and we’ll be expecting more OEMs to join the bandwagon over the month, especially after the official release of Remix OS 2.0.

You can watch the first sneak peek demo video that was released in an update of the Remix Mini project on Kickstarter.

The Allwinner A83 11.6 inch convertible is the next device that features the desktop oriented Operating System and was displayed at IFA 2015.

Design and build

The tablet is a convertible that will essentially function as laptop when the screen is docked and as a tablet when undocked. The connector of the keyboard is magnetized and it keeps the screen attached to its keyboard base with a foldable cardboard like kickstand that is adjustable.

The device has a metallic base that holds the keypad and trackpad. The keys are well spaced and it should do well with your document creation without much hassle.

The tablet on the other hand, has an aluminum alloy back and a glass front with huge black bezels on all four sides.

Display

The 2-in-1 Allwinner A83 Tablet/Laptop comes with an 11.6 inch Full HD (1920 x 1080P) IPS panel. It is not mentioned who the manufacturer of the display is neither the protection it comes with, but we’re guessing it’s an OGS (One Glass Solution).

Performance

The Allwinner A83 convertible is powered by its own Allwinner A83 Octa-core chipset which is based off ARM’s cortex A7 design. The cortex A7 is a 32-bit instruction set processor designed to be a more power conservative chipset that doesn’t sacrifice so much on performance, but ask it to do anything more like playing power hungry 3D games and it will stutter a bit.

A 2 GB LPDDR3 RAM backs the chipset for fairly silky smooth multitasking (hopefully). In the video below we noticed a bit of latency, barely noticeable though, while the device was in use.

However we have faith in the Jide folks for optimizing the software for the Allwinner hardware to perfection later on.

Rounding-up

The chipset company also included two USB ports in the tablet and as we said earlier it runs on a modified version of Android Lollipop 5.1 ; Remix OS is productivity-optimized with multitasking capabilities for the desktop.

All-around, the Allwinner tablet features an impressive build with a large screen and features that are worth looking forward to. Allwinner demonstrates the tablet in the video below.

What are your thoughts? Will you be getting the Allwinner A83 Remix tablet when it’s officially released? Hit the comments below and share with us.