The Cubot Tab KingKong Mini is built with a rugged construction and carries an IP68 ingress protection rating, making it fully waterproof to a depth of 1.5 metres. It measures 142.4 mm in height and 217.4 mm in width, with a thickness of 14.6 mm and a total weight of 642 g. The device does not include a stylus, a detachable keyboard, or a backlit keyboard, and tilt sensitivity is absent as well.
The Cubot Tab KingKong Mini features an 8.68″ IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 1340 × 800 pixels and a pixel density of 180 ppi, operating at a 90Hz refresh rate for smoother on-screen motion. The display is protected by branded damage-resistant glass, though it lacks an anti-reflection coating and does not support HDR10, HDR10+, or Dolby Vision. Sapphire glass and e-paper technology are not part of its construction.
The tablet is driven by the Unisoc T615 chipset, manufactured on a 12 nm process with an octa-core CPU configuration running at 2 × 1.8 GHz and 6 × 1.6 GHz across 8 threads using big.LITTLE technology, accompanied by a 10W TDP and 1 MB of L3 cache. It pairs 6 GB of LPDDR4 RAM running at 1866 MHz with 128 GB of eMMC 5.1 internal storage, and the memory ceiling can reach 12 GB with external expansion supported via a memory card slot. Graphics are handled by the integrated Mali G57 GPU clocking at 850 MHz with 64 shading units and 2 execution units, supporting OpenGL 3.2, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 2. The chipset includes integrated LTE, ARM TrustZone security, and 64-bit support, while the device ships with Android 15 and records Geekbench 6 scores of 437 single-core and 1461 multi-core.
The Cubot Tab KingKong Mini is equipped with a 48 MP rear CMOS camera and a 16 MP front-facing camera, with the rear unit backed by a single LED flash and a video light. Manual controls cover ISO, focus, exposure, and white balance, while touch autofocus and continuous autofocus during video recording are both supported, alongside a built-in HDR mode. Optical zoom is not available, and the sensor does not use back-side illumination or optical image stabilization. Features such as slow-motion video, timelapse, burst mode, panorama, 360° panorama, and 3D recording are absent, and neither HDR10 nor Dolby Vision recording is supported. The front camera has no dedicated flash, and the rear flash is a single-tone LED unit without dual-tone or RGB capabilities.
On the audio side, the Cubot Tab KingKong Mini includes a 3.5 mm headphone jack for wired listening, but it does not feature stereo speakers or a built-in radio. Bluetooth audio codec support is limited, with no aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC available.
The Cubot Tab KingKong Mini houses a 10200 mAh rechargeable battery with fast charging support, and a battery level indicator is present to keep track of remaining charge. The battery is non-removable, and wireless charging is not supported.
The Cubot Tab KingKong Mini supports Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) with download and upload speeds of 300 Mbits/s and 150 Mbits/s respectively, and connects wirelessly via Bluetooth 5. It accommodates two SIM cards, though it does not include a cellular module or 5G support, and GPS, NFC, HDMI output, Ethernet, and an infrared sensor are all absent. Charging runs at 33W over USB Type-C, and sensors on board include an accelerometer and Galileo positioning support, while a gyroscope, compass, and barometer are not present. On the software side, the tablet offers a broad set of features including dark mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, media picker, widgets, customizable notifications, notification permissions, and the ability to play games while downloading. Privacy options cover location controls, camera and microphone access management, clipboard warnings, and app tracking blocking, though Mail Privacy Protection, cross-site tracking blocking, and Wi-Fi password sharing are not included. Additional capabilities include on-device machine learning, offline voice recognition, voice commands, sharing intents, Live Text, extra dim mode, battery health check, app offloading, mobile device position tracking, a child lock, and multi-user support, while focus modes, Quick Start, direct OS vendor updates, a fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, 3D facial recognition, and a built-in projector are not featured.
In Geekbench 5 testing, the tablet scores 357 in the single-core test and 1350 in the multi-core test, with multithreading enabled to make use of its octa-core configuration. System memory runs on DDR4 architecture, reflecting the memory standard in use across the platform.
