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amazon Lenovo IdeaTab A8 reviews
Lenovo IdeaTab A8 has good performance, two built-in speakers, and can be used as a “terrific” screen smartphone. However, the display quality of LCD IPS is not as good as expected.
The Lenovo IdeaTab A8, also known as the A5500-HV, is a successor to the IdeaTab Axxx-Series, introduced in late 2013. Like the IdeaTab A-series, the IdeaTab A8 The company is also equipped with a quad-core processor, flexible connectivity, and multimedia support features.
Compared to models A3000 or A1000-T, the appearance of the IdeaTab A8 is slightly higher because the product is equipped to screen size up to 8 inches. However, the IdeaTab A8 still inherits the design style as the “elder” device. For example, sleekly rounded four-spoke details, sleekly curved edges, thick bezel, and two-speaker design on the front are still found on the IdeaTab A8.
On the hardware side, the IdeaTab A8 is also equipped with a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6582 processor with an integrated Mali-400 MP graphics core, 1GB of RAM with two integrated memory capacity versions 8GB or 16GB. Parallel to the built-in memory is the microSD card slot, allowing users to expand the storage space when needed. The handset also features a micro-SIM place supporting 3G data transfer and performs conversations, texting like a smartphone. Compared with previous versions, LCD panel technology IPS on the IdeaTab A8 also upgraded to 1280 x 800 pixels resolution. This Android 4.2 tablet also fully supports the current popular connectivity standards such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS. Although in the popular segment, the Lenovo IdeaTab A8 is still in favor of integrating Dolby Digital Plus audio technology with various preset audio equalizers available even without a headset.
Design, screens, and performance
With a width of around 136mm, Lenovo IdeaTab A8 is slightly better than some of the other 8-inch screen tablets on the market. This design makes the product difficult to use with just one hand. However, in the process of using, IdeaTab A8 still feels quite comfortable thanks to the clever combination between the design of the back of the paint has a good grip and the curved bezel in the palm of the palm and fingers of the user. The only restriction is that the back plastic details are quite sensitive to fingerprints. The IdeaTab A8 also features a solid monolithic design like the previously-tested IdeaTab A1000-T. Song, the design of physical buttons (power button/screen lock and volume control) is a little difficult to manipulate due to the creation of the inclination angle compared to flat the machine is quite large.
About the integrated camera, it can be said, the secondary camera on the IdeaTab A8 is only suitable for the demand for video conversation over the Internet. The secondary camera position is also only suitable for vertical machine use. The main camera, although the device supports focus with parallel autofocus, shows that this feature only serves as a touch for metering. Most of the photos are focused on the center of the frame; the ability to focus from close range is also limited. Under good lighting conditions, the quality of the main camera image (5-megapixel) is generally moderate due to lack of detail and color saturation. In low light conditions, images appear to have a lot of noise.
On the screen, the IdeaTab A8, while supporting the standard resolution for today’s low-cost tablet models, is not quite as appealing as the pixel density is only an average of 160ppi. Test Lab found that the 8-inch LCD panel IPS technology delivers impressive viewing angles even with narrow viewing angles from the practical experience. However, the characters are small letters that are not very sharp and slightly hard to read, and the screen is still quite heavy light. Fortunately, users are also comforted that the maximum brightness of the LCD is strong enough to improve display quality in multiple light sources. The color quality, in general, is highly homogeneous; the grayscale indicates the degree of contrast is quite smooth – but Test Lab found that this 8-inch LCD has a lot of warm tones. Black is still limited. Throughout the testing process, the machine’s touch screen responds well to most Android navigation operations of the system, but the slow rotation of the screen still somewhat made users feel the device is quiet. The built-in ambient light sensor has good sensitivity, and the automatic screen brightness control feature is also quite flexible when the ambient brightness changes.
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In tests with commonly used evaluation tools, the IdeaTab A8 achieved good results. For example, the results of performance tests with the IdeaTab A8’s Antutu Benchmark 4 can be said to be a lot better than some of the other versions of the company tested – but compared with some opponents across the Price range, the score difference is still not convincing. The IdeaTab A8 processor is based on the Cortex-A7 architecture, much slower than the Krait or Cortex-A9 processors. Actual usage shows that though the speed of screen page navigation and the navigation between the control menus of the machine fast – but with the application “big” launch time is quite slow.
Although it still takes a long time to launch heavy applications, the IdeaTab A8 can satisfy the user’s entertainment needs. Throughout the testing process, the IdeaTab A8 has almost no problems with 2D speed games such as Sonic Dash, Temple Run, 3D action games such as Dead Trigger 2, Fifa 14, Iron Man 3, or Real Racing 3. However, due to the limited power of the graphics (only in the popular), sometimes the car racing in Real Racing 3 and the hard battle level, many zombies in Dead Trigger 2 Still experiencing slight stopping phenomena.
On the user interface, similar to some other IdeaTab A-series tablets, the IdeaTab A8 also owns a highly customizable 4.2 “Android interface but still has a cool style due to the wide gap between iconic apps. The graphical icons of the system are quite nice in design, large fonts, easy to see, but some applications called many characters are still garbled to confuse users never used through Android. With the system font menu setting, the standard “normal” font looks pretty small by default. Best users should choose Extra Large fonts for a better display experience.
The quality of the call on the IdeaTab A8 is generally good, the built-in microphone has a wide recording gap, and the conversation is less echoed or background noise. With IdeaTab A8, users do not need to use headphones to make/receive private conversations (because the sound no longer plays simultaneously on both built-in speakers) like the IdeaTab Yoga 8 Tablet model. On trial screening with maximum screen brightness setting, Wi-Fi enabled, GPS, and continual background application update settings, the IdeaTab A8 has a battery life of about 4 hours and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, if mainly used to browse the web by Wi-Fi with medium screen brightness, the frequency of listening, calling, and messaging is low, the machine’s battery life can last more than 12 hours but still to more than one-half the capacity.
Lenovo IdeaTab A8 is a product with good performance, flexibility with 3G connectivity and also supports the ability to call and messenger as a smartphone screen “terrific.”
