Gadgetory

when I first looked at the Lenovo idea to have s 2109 a it looked like a heck of a bargain it's a 10 inch tablet with a useful number of connection and expansion options for only three hundred and fifty dollars sounds exciting but then I pull that excitement rug right from under you by mentioning that the tablet market moves fast and what may have seemed like a great deal even six months ago isn't so much compared to the competition of today hi i'm eric franklin and today i'll take a first look at the lenovo ideatab s 2109 a lenovo is a 10-inch tablet running android 4.3 with a very iPad like 43 aspect ratio and even more specifically an ipad 2 like resolution of 1024 x 768 what this gives you as a more square shaped tablet that lenovo made fairly thin and pretty like compared to others other things Lenovo made this seem here that actually feels more like a crevice and comes off as kind of shoddy as for ports the idea tab sports a microSD slot micro HDMI and a micro USB port there's also a volume rocker a 1.3 megapixel front camera and four speakers on the back inside it houses a dual-core omap cpu which I know dual-core get you all excited but seriously it's not all that great launching apps is fast and screen transitions are actually really smooth but sometimes when you're navigating through menus there are some of what i call unplanned pauses also app download speeds were a lot slower than other tablets in its class and while the screen was responsive the vast majority of the time there were instances when i spent like 10 seconds attempting to swipe the lock screen open most movies run smoothly including some 1080p files but one of our test vids that runs like butter on most tablets was a stuttery mess here Riptide achieved playable frame rates but I gotta say when I don't get those Tegra 3 specific effects I kind of miss them the camera is lacking in quality to say the least but does at least include head tracking the Lenovo is a good tablet and $350 is an appealing price till you start paying attention to what else is out there when I started doing that it became really hard to recommend it there are clearly better tablets out there for just a bit more money once again i'm eric franklin and this is in the first look at the lenovo ideatab as 2109 a