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what's going on folks this is Clayton Youngberg coming at you from your number one source for all things Android Android authority comm today we're going to be going over the Lenovo idea tab now this Pacific model of the idea tab is the s20 109a this is a pretty good tablet I've had in my possession for about a week and a half now and I've got a good chance to go over everything you know just basically go in and out of the tablet see what I like and dislike and so I'm just going to show you some of its features its build quality and then it's a software performance so anyways let's just get into specs as we look over the body you can see we have our power button right here a nice little red accent in there we can easily just press that we've got our volume rocker here goes up to the left and down to the right and a small microphone there you have some cool audio features on this tablet this has a genuine SRS audio we have two speakers here and then two right here as well I did find that these sometimes were covered up by your hands if you're holding the tablet in landscape mode though anyways also we have our mic over here okay so we've got a mini SD slot we've got a mini HDMI port we've got a micro SD which I you can charge from and then we actually have a AC adapter charger port there and that's how they want you to charge the tablet so anyways let's just power this on here we'll turn on the device as you can see we do have our basic Ice Cream Sandwich lock screen this is running the Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich software you know the Ice Cream Sandwich software is powered by a one gigahertz dual-core TI OMAP 4460 tab first generation we do have one gigabyte of RAM though which is basically the gold standard these days our display is a nine point seven inch TFT else d-does have IPS so it has in plane switching the liquid crystal and display for optimal viewing angles i found this device to have a really reflective display though it was almost sometimes not usable during the day just because of how reflective it was I'd see like everything behind me if anyways it does well if you have the brightness all the way up does have the auto brightness feature right here but I you I usually like to turn mine all the way up so anyways on the front right here we've got a 1.3 megapixel HD front-facing camera and you know it's basically a good tablet it does have a little bit of some build quality issues as you can see here the edges of the tablet just don't really you know fit perfect you can kind of pull those down with any amount of force but then again no one's really going to be doing that so their tablet it's just a build quality aspect I noticed so anyways let's go into our app tray here of course it comes pre-loaded with some fancy lenovo applications such as the lenovo app shop it does come with evernote which is third-party it comes with norton security we've got the Ovoo app we also have docs to go pre-loaded of course the movie studio then all of our google apps like play music we've also got these sugarsync we have the UI intro which is basically just a rundown and it's a little video that comes pre-loaded on the tablet in order to just give you the basic rundown on the tablet as with all Ice Cream Sandwich tablets we do have our little dock bar here or status bar and then when we press the little Settings slider it comes up with our settings we've got airplane mode Wi-Fi we can audit rotate the screen turn the brightness all the way up we have notifications and then we can go to our full settings menu and our full settings we can enable the SRS sound we can change the sound options such as the volumes for all the different things we've got to display options our storage battery and apps and then I will just go ahead and go into our about tablet we have Android 4.0.4 running of course with our nice little Easter Egg there the display does work fine just a bit reflective for me at time anyways we have our developer options of course with all Ice Cream Sandwich devices we can enable the 2d hardware acceleration stuff like that when there are more options we cannot enable airplane mode now this just operates via Wi-Fi this is enough for G capable device sometimes we'll go back and we'll perform a quadrant test on the TI OMAP processor here so anyways our device got a 1943 which is a pretty slow for today's standards but it is still a very capable tablet as you can see that's even below the original Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 just one more thing I noticed about the tablet complaint wise we're going to go ahead and go into YouTube and as you can see the nine point seven inch display is this sort of an oddball display there's not many tablets that are actually of this size so a lot of the apps developed don't really have the compatibility as you can see YouTube we have our video here on the far left bezel just cut off because of the size you know I'm sure YouTube thinks this is probably a 10.1 inch tablet or something like that but anyway as you can see here it does have the nice user interface and just breeze through like that but in the end it does cut off the video there on the side so anyways guys if you're looking for a budget price tablet that has the power to do a lot of your daily tasks and it looks nice to go ahead and check out the lenovo idea tab and also stay tuned with android authority comm because we've got plenty more where this is coming from