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hi this is Christopher walk from android authority and we're here with a review of the lenovo ideatab s 2110 this is a hybrid style tablet meaning that with the optional dock it can be used more like a laptop while removing the dock leaves you with the standard tablet the s21 10 starts at four hundred and twenty nine dollars for just the basic version of the tablet and can go as high as five hundred and seventy nine dollars for the tablet with more internal storage plus the optional doc let's start by taking a look at the technical specs the idea tab s 2110 has a 10 inch screen and a 1280 by 800 pixel IPS display inside we'll find a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon processor and one gig of ram there are two models of the s21 10 available featuring either 16 or 32 gigabytes of internal storage we also have a 6340 milliamp hour to sell battery inside the tablet and another one inside the optional dock which effectively doubles battery life lenovo claims around 9 hours of battery life for the tablet alone and up to 20 hours with the dock attached in our testing we didn't find this to be quite as high with the battery life ranging from 8 to 16 hours depending on whether or not we were using the dock now let's take a look at the device itself on the front will of course find the screen and the 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera on the left side will find the mini HDMI slot a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and the left speaker port this is actually very well placed as when you're holding the tablet with both hands it isn't easy to accidentally cover the speaker on the back we'll find the 5 megapixel rear facing camera on the right side we simply find the right speaker port and the volume rocker on top of the device we find the power button and microphone looking at the dock on the front we'll find a full-sized SD card slot on the Left we see a mini USB slot as well as two foals USB slots nothing else is found on the rear or on the right side of the dock the bottom of the dock is simply the same surface that we find on the back of the tablet which by the way is surprisingly likely to pick up fingerprints the dock itself works very well the keyboard is especially noteworthy with a nice solid field of the keys and excellent spacing the touchpad isn't quite as impressive it's hard to put a finger on what exactly it is but it just feels wrong and I found myself simply using the touchscreen quite often the sound quality of the built-in speakers is generally good at least as far as tablets go there certainly loud and as we mentioned earlier the placement of them means that you'll find yourself covering them with your hands far less often than you would on some other tablets now let's take a look at the idea tab s21 10 in action the device runs Android version 4.0 point 3 ice cream sandwich it is skin which may put some users off but we didn't find that performance took much of a hit as a result of this the main launcher screen is grouped into widgets with apps separated into different categories like life social games and media tapping one of these widgets expands it and allows you to add your own apps the icons on the home screen can be edited by a long press on the screen which brings you into edit mode allowing you to delete items for example if you end up making a mistake it's easy to simply exit edit mode without saving your changes scrolling on the home screen can be a little laggy due to its rotating cube effect which can't be turned off in settings we said earlier that performance didn't take a hit from the launcher and this is true performance and apps and games won't be affected you'll only notice this slowdown on the home screen and in the app drawer the idea tab s 2110 comes with quite a few apps pre-installed like documents to go sugarsync and a handful of basic games it's unfortunate that these can't be removed unless you run a custom rom luckily some of them like ES File Explorer are useful one thing that can be removed is the Lenovo app shop since it was discontinued in September well the app shop is installed initially and over-the-air software update removed it soon after I began testing the tablet the rear camera on the S 2110 takes decent pictures especially in well-lit situations it still functions well enough in low light but pictures tend to be on the grainy side the video isn't quite as nice well it can look ok the frame rate seems to be choppy and the mic is easily distorted by louder sounds despite being plastic the idea tab s 2110 is very solid feeling without any of the bending or Creek enos we've seen in some other tablets lately the device doesn't twist in your hands at all in general use or even if you try to do this on purpose though it's solid the s21 10 is surprisingly light and thin being just a hair thinner than the galaxy tab 2 10.1 in general despite lenovo not really being a major player when it comes to tablets this is a very polished build despite the fact that it attracts fingerprints the matte surface on the back of the tablet in the bottom of the doc give the S 2110 a very stylish professional appearance ok let's wrap up the review in the end the lenovo ideatab s21 10 is a useful and solidly built tablet with some great features there were just a few things about it that we didn't like but the good outweighs the bad in this case the main problem with the s21 10 is the price if Lenovo drops the price a bit they could find themselves with a solid competitor to the Asus Transformer series now we want to know what you think about the lenovo ideatab s21 10 whether you think it's worth the price or what you'd prefer to see it priced at this has been Christopher walk for android authority and we'd love to hear what you think of this and other android authority videos you