We test the Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F – inexpensive tablet with versatile capabilities. The equipment is nothing to distinguish: has stereo speakers and Android Lollipop, but as always, low price entails certain consequences. What? We invite you to read the test.
Abbreviation, ie video test Lenovo TAB 2 A8-50F
HOUSING / WORKMANSHIP
Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F is the latest model in the series of inexpensive tablet manufacturer, which in some way determines expectations for materials and workmanship housing. In fact-reviewed model it is very similar to its predecessor – tested by us before A8 A5500-H. Both models have in common is the same design and materials used, as I already mentioned in the announcement of the test. Does Lenovo ran out of ideas?
Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
tablet is universal colors – dark blue plecki occurring on the side edges combine with a black front panel. Here and there dopatrzymy of fine ornaments in the form of a silver ring around the camera running or logo of the manufacturer. And, as clearly envisaged parent material is plastic. A closer comparison with A8-50F of A5500-H will show that newer equipment is slightly narrower side edges and lower weight, reduced by approx. 10 grams. Thanks to these slimming treatments, the device weighs 352 grams, which is still more than even aluminum (not plastic!) IPad Mini with Retina. Despite this cosmetics still can not resist the impression that the device looks blocky, although I admit – I am hard for me to state clearly what is causing my feelings. Objectively speaking, the tablet is neither particularly big nor fat.
Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
In daily operation the use of the tablet is comfortable, which is the domain of most products with an 8-inch screens. In my opinion the optimal diagonal, giving the reader the greatest versatility between websites and e-books and mini-computer for mobile applications and Facebook. This tablet is also easy to stow in a bag or backpack, since it does not take up much space. Practically no changes were made not in terms of the deployment of individual elements. Naturally, most of the front panel is a screen, beneath it we can find the manufacturer's logo and one of the two front speakers. Above the display are still camera for video calls, and ran out of the sensor to automatically adjust the brightness of the screen (I wish!).On the reverse we find the main camera in the top left corner, again the manufacturer's logo and a few stickers informing about the model, series etc. (not very nice it looks). On this side of the device there is also the hiding cap microSD card slot. It is large, but well-kept housing. On the side edges still find the physical buttons – wake and volume control located on the left side and microUSB port and audio output at the top. The quality of the tablet is very good. Yes, the design is based on the plastic frame bent, but not made themselves felt no creaking or crackling. All the elements are together a good fit and I feel that the tablet would stand no one fall (which, however, I had no opportunity to convince himself). The only reservation I target at the display cover, which I suppose is the glass, but bends under stronger pressure. Especially when the pressure will have in the central part of the pane. The structure is one particular advantage – does not exhibit the tendency to overheat. Even under very heavy load I managed to warm up the processor to a mere 43 degrees Celsius, while the temperature of the hottest places housing pointed to 34 degrees C. Similar results we registered in the test tablet Archos 80b Helium-based 4G stronger than in the tested model, MediaTeku MT8732. [Temperatura_obudowa product_id = "21080"] From a user perspective is a very important point, since cold nature installed in S8-50F MediaTek provide comfort using your tablet regardless of whether we play it, talk through Skype or watch movies.
THE CAMERA
On equipped the tablet into a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus supported standard for Android application.
Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
Among the settings you will find the ability to run different modes: HDR, panorama, beautifying face and normal. The other settings are, however, limited to the quality of photos and videos, and their size. The photographs made tablet, especially in an environment where there is a small amount of ambient light, there are no more details. Despite AF it happens that the images will be very clear, so you should use the HDR mode, because it improves not only the tonal range of images but also in their clarity. The camera does not have major problems with the selection of exposure.
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Join sample movie has a surprisingly high liquidity and high quality. The tablet allows you to record 1080p video with 30 fps. / Sec. The image is stable, and the camera has no problem with filming moving objects. The end result spoils the sound quality – manifest themselves distortion characteristic of the track subjected to high compression, and more than a device does not have a second microphone, which wyciszałby noise for example. Arising as a result of dowry wind.
SCREEN
The tablet has the same screen as its predecessor. Once again we meet with IPS matrixworking in the standard for this price range resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. The ratio coefficient pixel density of 189 PPI gives value. TAB 2 will allow for comfortable content consumption, because the image has reasonable clarity, but from the point of view of a maniac could expect something more.
Lenovo TAB 2 A8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
The advantages include screen rendering technology that allows for wide viewing angleswithout the fear of degradation of the color. Even with larger deviations values of the displayed image remain unchanged, provided that we are in an environment with a very large amount of ambient light – and that's because they used display cover does not protect against reflections that when looking at the tablet at an angle interfere with the reading of the displayed content .it does not help the backlight, which admittedly goes back to the value of 337 cd / m2(irregularity of 11.6%), which is theoretically result pretty good, but under conditions where there is a large amount of ambient light, eg. On a sunny day, often we see his reflection on the screen rather than display contents. It will not be for this problem using tablet after dark, because the backlight minimum value does not exceed 14 cd / m2, and it ensures that the screen will not hurt us in the eye.
Lenovo TAB 2 A8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
The tablet does not have problems with the interpretation issued my command and successfully handled up to 10 points simultaneously. I did not notice a visible traces digitizer.
BATTERY
Lenovo Tab 2 has a dip of capacity. 4290 mAh, 90 mAh or greater than its predecessor. The battery of this size seems to be a reasonable facilities for the tablet having a screen size of 8 inches and processor MediaTek, which in nature is to save energy. Synthetic tests only confirm this thesis, because I have shown that the tablet allows more than 8-hour watch a movie or nearly nine hours surfing the web, using Wi-Fi. [Test slug = "accumulator" virtual = "video-wifi-offs, internet-wifi, batteryxprt-online, PCMark-work, load-ac" product_id = "21080"] In practical use had no problem with the fact that survived tablet the whole working day without recharging the battery. Of course, it all depends on the degree of exploitation. After about 40 minutes of playing games with the backlight brightness to maximum, disappeared 20% of the battery. With less demanding tasks we can not count on the fact that connect the tablet to the charger will be necessary after approx. 1.5 – 2 days.
EQUIPMENT
The tablet has a front stereo speakers – they play with the loudness of up to 82 dB and emit a very pleasant sound of a well-mapped highs and low. What's more, they do not give to hear a strong distortion.
Lenovo TAB 2 A8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
The wording of the speaker supports Dolby Atmos technology. Using a special application, we can customize the sound profile depending on the playback media – film, music, games, and also personalize the two own. Other settings allow for normalization of sound, emphasizing dialogue and sound virtualization.
Connectivity and GPS
Built-in wireless card compatible with 802.11 b / g / n, working in two ranges – 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. During testing, the tablet had problems with the stability of the connection, and detailed measurement showed that when the tablet will be on a different floor than the router, the network connection may be broken. I did not notice, however, that the housing tablet had a blind spot, which touch would translate into a decline in coverage.
Lenovo TAB 2 A8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
Lenovo TAB 2 A8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
GPS unit to locate the tablet in less than 30 seconds, but the test showed that no measurement is not too accurate. For example, the recorded route on the map differs significantly from the one that actually went through. In this model the use of A-GPS is not so much optional, which is almost necessary, so try to equip themselves with the model of the modem.
Memory, OTG, miracast
The tablet has 16 GB of internal memory, of which 9 GB is the actual space that the user receives on their own data. The memory can be expanded with a microSD card up to 128 GB, which I tested on our editorial
Kingstonie 128GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-1 Class10 . Manager application has a module on external transportation carrier, but is transmitted only APK file.
Lenovo TAB 2 A8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
The tablet supports OTG accessories, although not all – there is no problem with the mouse and USB flash drive (FAT32 file system only) and, interestingly, an external modem. Finally, I could not connect to the mobile network, I do not know why, but the tablet is compatible with the following modems: Huawei E303, E3131, EC177; ZTE MF667, MF197, MF193A, AC2787, AC582. The equipment does not have a problem with service miracast technology. The transferred image is smooth and very good quality.
PERFORMANCE
The tablet works on the 64-bit system MediaTek, which occurs at two different designations – MT8161 and MT6735, while they concern chipset with the same parameters: having a 4-core Cortex-A53 processor clocked at speeds of 1.3 GHz and supported graphics Mali- T720, which in this configuration is likely to have two cores. The entire complement small, because 1-gigabyte RAM.
Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
Compared to the previous model in the series, TAB 2 S8-50F is characterized by higher performance hardware, though still digitizer fails to trigger from a group of dedicateddevices essential steps. Synthetic tests show that the performance of the graphics chip is twice the size of the Mali-400MP unit mounted its predecessor, while the note itself is not the greatest. [Test slug = "gfxbench-fps" virtual = "t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen" product_id = "20046,21080,20092"] Unit capacity is comparable to that which offers the Intel Atom Z2520 – the weakest of Intel mounted Kiano Intelect 8 3G. It is worth at this point to look at the summary of the overall ratings awarded AnTuTu test. These show that a newer system, though 64-bit, does not introduce dramatic improvement in performance. [Test slug = "android-antutu" virtual = "antutu-total" product_id = "20046,21080,20092"] Translate, however, the overall work culture system which most of the time is impeccable.There are however times when the tablet slightly trim the or when going to need more time to run the application. It happened also that the browser had problems with liquidity action. It's strange, because the device itself did not have any trouble activating even more demanding games. I tested Asphalt 8: Airborne and Dead Trigger 2. Both were characterized by very good liquidity operation at medium graphics settings. Newer system for better compatibility with video files. Although 4K movies is still too high bar for MT8161, but with Full HD already can cope. In this case, we note the greatest improvement compared to its predecessor.
Synthetic tests and benchmarks
[Test slug = "peacekeeper" product_id = "21080"] [test slug = "SunSpider" product_id = "21080"] [test slug = "android-antutu" product_id = "21080"] [test slug = "3dmark" virtual="3dmark-ice-storm-total,3dmark-ice-storm-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-physics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-total,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-extreme-physics" product_id = "21080"] [test slug = "PCMark-android" product_id = "21080"]
Playing Media
Marked in red unsupported formats:
– MKV, 480p, xvid, 1Mbps, he aac, subtitles; – MKV, 720p, h264, 600kbps, AAC / MP3 audio dual; – MP4, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, aac; – MKV, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, vorbis, subtitles; – MP4, 720p, h264, 6Mbps, ac3; – MKV, 1080p h264, 10Mbps, dts; – MKV, 1080p h264, 40Mbps; – Mp4, 4K (3840×2160), h264, 34mbps (illiquidity); – Mp4, 4K (4096×1716), h264, aac, 35Mbps (lack of liquidity).
Tablet works on the Android Lollipop version 5.0.2, which is also enriched with a cap manufacturer. Most of the changes, unlike some models of Lenovo, introduced in the layout. Integrated applications from the desktop grid thus streamlining the work on the tablet, dump the program icons and added some applications. We will not find here any improvements but the likes of multitasking or mini-applications that run in small windows. Also resigned from the beam pull-out from a side edge of the display – this could be found in some models of the manufacturer .. pity. Among the value added for Lenovo we find a standard set: SYNCit HD and ShareIT for sharing and storing data in the cloud and HiCare – assistant technical support. The tablet also has a few other pre-installed programs, but they come from Google's store, for example. Snapchat, Instagram or WPS Office.
CONCLUSION / EVALUATION
Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F, like its predecessor, is a great choice for people who want to save money on buying a tablet device and expect broad support for multimedia. S8-50F, thanks to stereo equipment and screen for optimum size, will allow you to comfortably watch movies or listening to music while browsing the web.
Lenovo TAB 2 S8-50F / photo. TabletManiaK.pl
The tested model is not the most efficient, although better or worse, but can handle most games. It may not be at the same time clearly better than its predecessor, but asset tested model is factory installed Android Lollipop. It is also worth mentioning that, despite the installation of a newer processor, the battery still allows for long hours of operation tablet. And this is his greatest asset. [Temperatura2 product_id = "21080"] [inne_propozycje product_id = "21080"]
