The Cubot Tab 70 has a physical footprint of 257.6 x 169 mm with a thickness of 8.1 mm and a total volume of 352.63 cm³, while tipping the scales at 555 g. The tablet does not include a stylus, a detachable keyboard, or a backlit keyboard, and it offers no water resistance rating of any kind.
The Cubot Tab 70 features a 10.95-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and a pixel density of 138 ppi. The display does not include branded damage-resistant glass, an anti-reflection coating, or sapphire glass, and it has no support for HDR10, HDR10+, or Dolby Vision. It is also not an e-paper panel.
The Cubot Tab 70 is powered by the Unisoc T616 chipset, built on a 12 nm process and configured with an octa-core CPU running at 2 x 2 GHz and 6 x 1.8 GHz using big.LITTLE technology, backed by 8 threads and a 1 MB L3 cache. Graphics are handled by the Mali G57 MP1 with a turbo clock of 750 MHz, integrated graphics support, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 2. The tablet comes with 6 GB of DDR4 RAM at 1866 MHz — expandable up to 14 GB — and a maximum memory bandwidth of 14.928 GB/s, alongside 128 GB of eMMC 5.1 internal storage and a microSD slot for further expansion. Additional platform features include integrated LTE on the SoC, ARM TrustZone support, 64-bit compatibility, and the device ships with Android 14.
The Cubot Tab 70 features a dual rear camera system consisting of a 16 MP main sensor and a 2 MP secondary lens, both using CMOS technology, with the main camera capable of recording video at 1080p and 30 fps along with slow-motion support. The rear setup includes a single LED flash with a video light, touch autofocus, continuous autofocus during video recording, and a range of manual controls covering ISO, focus, exposure, and white balance, though optical zoom, optical image stabilization, manual shutter speed, HDR10 recording, Dolby Vision recording, burst mode, and panorama shooting are not supported. On the front, there is an 8 MP camera without a flash. Neither BSI sensor technology, dual-tone flash, RGB flash, 3D recording, nor 360-degree panorama capabilities are present on this device.
The Cubot Tab 70 includes stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headphone jack, covering the basics for both built-in and wired audio output. It does not have a radio, and on the wireless audio side, none of the advanced Bluetooth codec standards are supported — there is no aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC.
The Cubot Tab 70 is equipped with an 8200 mAh rechargeable battery that includes a battery level indicator. The cell is non-removable and does not support fast charging or wireless charging.
The Cubot Tab 70 supports Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) with download and upload speeds of 300 Mbits/s and 100 Mbits/s respectively, and connects wirelessly via Bluetooth 5.0; it also accommodates two SIM cards, though it lacks an active cellular module, 5G support, NFC, and HDMI output. For positioning, the tablet includes GPS with Galileo support, and its sensor suite covers a gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass, while a barometer and infrared sensor are absent. On the software and usability side, the device runs a free and open-source platform with multi-user support, dark mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, a media picker, widgets, customizable notifications, notification controls, a child lock, battery health check, on-device machine learning, offline voice recognition, voice commands, Live Text, sharing intents, and the ability to play games while downloading; it does not support Quick Start, Wi-Fi password sharing, focus modes, app offloading, or direct OS vendor updates. Privacy controls include location privacy options, camera and microphone access management, clipboard warnings, and app tracking blocking, though cross-site tracking blocking and Mail Privacy Protection are not present; 3D facial recognition, an iris scanner, and a built-in projector are also not included. The tablet features a USB Type-C port and supports device position tracking.
In Geekbench 5 benchmarks, the Cubot Tab 70 scores 380 in the single-core test and 1391 in the multi-core test. The device uses DDR4 memory.
