Lenovo S8-50L – test tablet

Lenovo offer you will find some interesting proposals – each of them there is something else. I tested the Lenovo S8-50L belongs to the family of stylish products. Indeed, at first glance, it does not spared on design unit, seeking to build equipment with elegant lines and eye-catching appearance. But if the design is the only advantage of this tablet?

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Judging by the specifications may be presumed that Lenovo S8-50L is a direct response to the latest manufacturer's flagship tablets from other manufacturers – Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet, Samsung Galaxy S Tab 8.4, or iPad Mini 2 gene. And 3 gene. The biggest difference is price for the Lenovo S8-50L because we will have to pay about 900 zł, while the Sony Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact (LTE) costs more than 1500 zł S Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.4 (LTE) about 1800 zł , and in turn the iPad Mini 3 gene. (Wi-Fi + Cellular) will cost around 2 thousand. zł. We must therefore admit that in this context it is quite affordable Lenovo proposition, given the low price option with an integrated LTE modem. 

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CONSTRUCTION / WORKMANSHIP

Lenovo S8-50L had a positive impression on me right out of the box and did not stop to admire the next days of testing. Some things, however, remain unchanged. Lenovo still relies on plastic very similar to this, with whom I met on the occasion of new reviews, cheap tablet from A. The front of the family was neatly landscaped. 8-inch display perfectly centered and covered with a hard glass, which yields only for compressing two thumbs. Of course, not rezygnowałbym of purchase or at least the protective film protective case, but it should be noted that during his stay in the manic editorial device did not show up, no scratch on the screen. Digitizer lines are visible – they can be seen even in low intensity light. Though not hinder the tablet, but they can irritate your presence. Run around the screen narrow frame, wide enough to protect against accidental touch panel with your finger.Around the edges of the glass shell plastic display runs border that creates a unified whole with elements of masking the front stereo speakers, and the whole placed in a plastic body. The advantages of this solution I could already mentioned, when I wrote about the first impressions from the use of S8-50L. Tablet works well when watching movies or playing music, when you do not want to wear headphones. Play loud speakers (the volume reaches 81 dB), and the purity of the sound does not raise any objections. Similarly, as in the case of Lenovo A7600 A10-70, so here we find software that will allow you to personalize the sound, I will write more on that in the chapter on the system and applications. On the edges of the body (the part protruding beyond the borders of the display) will find a standard set of ports and connectors. In the upper part of the left edge of the fall, and a microSD card slot microSIM, hidden under the aesthetic cap. It is easy to open, and the closure remains immobile and firmly fixed to the housing. On the other side we find two silver buttons with superimposed grooves. One is used to wake the machine, and the other to adjust the volume. The buttons have shallow jump and nicely presented; questionable for their installation – buttons waver under the finger, especially the larger.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

In the bottom of the case we find a microUSB port and a microphone. The location of the latter favors the use of the device, as with the phone. For the record, let me add that there is a variant of the modem and dialing function. Appeared on tabletManiaKu also voices that you can change the software tested by us on this equipment, which is the model of your phone. Personally, I have not tried to do that. There were 3.5 mm audio output located on a top edge of the tablet.The device has a webcam for video calls, but not mounted sensor light intensity. Plecki tablet, and I could already mention is made of plastic. For the test, I received the black color variant with a matt finish. Such a solution would entail susceptibility to dirt and fingerprints, but you can not say that the tablet did not ultimately gained the finish. Back S8-50L is as nice as the front. Find on his back camera with flash and embossed logo of the manufacturer and discreet indication "Intel inside". [Temperatura_obudowa product_id = "20188"] Now, back to the topic quality. In addition to the previously mentioned reservations, I do not actually more comments. Yes, the cabinet slightly bent, but hard to expect something more from the plastic structure of this thickness. So far not made themselves felt no creaking, as far I include the payment of benefits. Serious ailment tested model is build up in the housing at the top, next to the main camera – the place where most likely the processor resides. During normal use, this area remains pleasantly warm, but with heavy load (for example, when playing) heats up to high temperatures (our thermometer showed 48 degrees Celsius).

CAMERA

Photographic equipment we tested the model consists of an 8-megapixel camera and a single LED Illuminates. As it turned out, to use it you need to install an external camera application – we offer that since Google . It's hard to estimate how much it will be an important element for the future users, but usually pay attention if the camera has a built-in autofocus efficient and is able to record Full HD movies. These two elements are from my point of view, the most important and was encouraged to note their presence in the tested model. Lenovo uses a standard photographic Android application. So finding any number of settings to adjust the size and quality of your images and movies, but not as nearly as much as it has in the case of the Samsung tablet.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

analyzing the sample photos pressure made my lips the word "decent". In fact, it is impossible to describe them differently because of limited available light conditions or on cloudy days the camera device is doing quite well. The colors are faithfully reproduced, but you can see some loss of quality, which are the result of negligent shadow detail subjects. Much more like I registered in the same conditions films that present themselves very well. We may record material in Full HD and 720p, and in both cases, the writing speed is 30 frames / sec.

Sample Images

Sample movies

SCREEN

It's hard not to talk about the fact that Lenovo S8-50L has competition in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S Tab 8.4, the iPad Mini 3, Sony Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact and LG G Pad 8.3, if we consider the diagonal of the screen of the tablet. S8-50L, with the 8-inch IPS matrix operating at a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels, there is no reason to complexes. When the screen of this size, the use of resolution slightly greater than full HD translates to 283 ppi pixel density, which is at the Sony Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact and slightly less than the Retina screen mounted in two generations later iPad Mini (where the pixel density ratio is 324 ppi).

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

Reading a book or browse the web on the tablet is a pleasure. Number of points displayed by the display is large enough to provide adequate smoothing fonts. I did not have a particularly zoom in specific parts of the text. Due to the use of a matrix IPS display's viewing angles are very good. Matrix persists competitors that stereotypically are considered better because of the higher price or prestige. White point remains in the neutral range (which has), you will not find it in the options for the possibility of manually configure the color profile.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

backlight intensity measurements showed a maximum value equal to 313 cd / m2, which for this price range parameter is not commendable. In most cases, we will feel no discomfort while using the tablet, but in strong light readability can be problematic. Let me remind you that the screen Sony Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact in the same test recorded a value of 613 cd / m2. Minimum illumination measurements indicated a value of 11 cd / m2 and this result we can include longer good. When you use the tablet after dark, the light emitted by the screen will not hurt us in the eye. The uneven illumination is 11% – is good.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

I can not ignore issues related to adjusting the screen brightness according to lighting conditions. While the tablet does not have a sensor for automatic backlight adjustment, but in the course of using the device, I noticed that the brightness of the display is changed. It's hard to judge according to what rules the tablet manipulates backlight. I noticed that it decreases after the development of the beam with shortcuts, and is intensified when you go to settings. Touch panel recognizes up to 10 points, and issued commands I have always been correctly interpreted. I had not any problems when entering text that stands out (positively) Lenovo S8-50L from a group of low-cost tablet.

EQUIPMENT

Wi-Fi – 802.11 a / b / g / n – spisywało very well throughout the testing period. I have not encountered any problems when connecting to my battered, home router. It did not appear any problems while downloading large files (eg. Google's games from the store). Of course, WiFi sensitivity also checked on the basis of editorial router and our standard procedure. During the measurements, it turned out that after gripping the tablet by the upper part, substantially decreases the sensitivity of wireless communications – and they are drops of approximately 20 dbm, so noticeable. The following results have registered when you hold the device in a vertical orientation. In this position, he wrote well and did not lose the connection to the router even after changing the story. [Test slug = "wifi-Tablet" axis = "negative" product_id = "20188"]

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

For example, the entry made on the map tracks recorded while walking with the tablet proves that the built-in GPS works fine, but at a time when I came S8-50L belt a little lost. Still, tablet coped very well in this test and do not see any obstacles in order to use it as a car navigation. Map locating device took about 30 seconds.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

The tablet has a built-in microSD card slot support – the device can handle the card with a capacity of up to 128 GB (I have used during the test medium Kingston 128GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-1 Class10 ). You can transfer files to the external memory, but sent APK files only, not content (I checked on the game Asphalt 8). Factory Tablet has 16 GB of built-in memory (of which the system takes about 4.7 GB). The built-in modem supports Aero2 network, as well as allows you to send SMS messages, which we will use to create a standard Android keyboard – convenient and very intuitive. Removing the SIM card does not reboot the tablet. So we can easily translate the card without turning off the device.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

OTG accessories in the test I was able to gain access to the memory stick and an external drive with its own power supply. The condition is to format the media to the FAT32 file system. Also successfully connected the mouse and HUB active (that is, one that has an external power supply). 

BATTERY

S8-50L has a built-in rechargeable lithium polymer battery with a capacity of 4290 mAh – charging the device takes about 3 hours. I usually enough energy for one day, but I have to mention here that used the device on and off and to basic operations such. Reading books, surfing the web, using a modem 4G, listening to music on the built-in speakers and play movies on VOD. Left in standby mode-enabled Wi-Fi, the tablet lasted about 20 hours. The results of extensive testing can be found below. [Test slug = "battery" virtual = "video-wifi-off, internet-wifi, internet-3g-wifi communicator, charging-ac" product_id = "20188"] The poor performance of the tablet corresponds to the energy-efficient embedded processor questionable. This is not the first time that the Intel Atom demonstrates his considerable appetite for energy, especially when performing some operations. It is true that in the previously tested Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 (which works on the same system) for the length of time for charging not complained, but there was at stake other battery capacity. Meanwhile, the slim Lenovo has S8-50L weakest link, and at the same time has to compete with Sony Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact (4500 mAh) and Samsung Galaxy S Tab 8.4 (4900 mAh), which test Internet browsing using Wi-Fi recorded respectively 9 and 7 hours.

PERFORMANCE / FUNCTIONALITY

Intel Atom Z3745 is a very powerful unit – especially if you look at the tabletom we tested last year, when it was dominated by models with media library. Mounted system with a 4-core processor clocked at 1.8GHz with a maximum 64-bit architecture could successfully handle Windows 8.1. Adding to the Intel Graphics HD Graphics (Bay Trail-T) with a maximum computing power 778 MHz and 2-gigabyte RAM, can not be denied that the tablet has a considerable hardware.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

The performance of the tablet in the individual benchmarks are comparable to those we saw during testing Sony Xperia Z3 Compact or Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4. The eye-catcher is the result GFXBench – just like in the test 3DMark, Lenovo S8-50L falls somewhere between the Sony and Samsung. All these tablets leaves behind NVIDIA Shield, the equipment has no equal among the 8-inch items included in our ranking. [Test slug = "gfxbench-fps" virtual = "t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen, offscreen-manhattan, manhattan-onscreen" product_id = "20188,20120,20086,20136"] [CST_36 ] Real Racing 3 starts without any obstacles, the game does not appear there any jams. Satisfactory is the amount of FPS, but you will notice a slight decrease in the quality of graphics adapted to the tablet. Much better exponent in this case, Asphalt 8: Airborne , which suggests graphics setting at "medium", but to force the highest detail does not prevent playing. Then we see only occasional and slight decreases in liquidity. The latter are more evident in the case of games Modern Combat 5 , but graphically, this item is presented well on the test tablet.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

[wptab style = "4" title = "key test"] [test slug = "peacekeeper" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = "android-antutu" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = " gfxbench-fps "virtual =" t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen, offscreen-manhattan, manhattan-onscreen "product_id =" 20188 "] [test slug =" 3dmark " virtual="3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-total,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-physics" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = "PCMark-android" product_id = "20188"]

Multimedia Playback

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 (no support for DTS); – MKV, 1080p h264, 40Mbps – mp4, 4K (3840×2160), h264, 34mbps; – Mp4, 4K (4096×1716), h264, aac, 35Mbps. [/ Wptab] [wptab style = "4" title = "All tests"] [test slug = "peacekeeper" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = "SunSpider" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = "kraken "product_id =" 20188 "] [test slug =" quadrant "product_id =" 20188 "] [test slug =" android-antutu "product_id =" 20188 "] [test slug =" gfxbench-fill "product_id =" 20188 "] [test slug = "gfxbench-fps" virtual = "t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen, offscreen-manhattan, manhattan-onscreen" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = "3dmark" virtual="3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-total,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-physics" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = "anomaly-2" product_id = "20188"] [test slug = "PCMark-android" product_id = "20188"]

Multimedia Playback

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 (no support for DTS); – MKV, 1080p h264, 40Mbps – mp4, 4K (3840×2160), h264, 34mbps (illiquidity); – Mp4, 4K (4096×1716), h264, aac, 35Mbps. [/ Wptab] [wptab_end]

The use of 64-bit Intel system will interfere with the pre-installed on the tablet version of Android 4.4.2 KitKat, which does not support the installed processor architecture. We can not be sure that the tablet will receive an update to Android 5.0, but I have to mention that during the testing of the tablet appeared fix the system. This augurs well. Unlike Lenovo tablets I've tested so far, has a very well S8-50L Polonised cap system, which work culture deserves praise. Have not noticed any problems with the stability of the application. The fluidity of the system also does not raise my objections. Overlay, though rich in various animated transitions, working with his characteristic lightness.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

The changes in the appearance of the system are not a surprise to me because I met here for solutions I've seen when I tested other models of this manufacturer: Lenovo S5000 or both models of the A5500. However, you may notice subtle differences, showing that Lenovo will not seek to harmonize its cap system. From the desktop get access to two beams – Notification and shortcuts – and the transition to the Grid applications is done by the shift of the screen to the left or right. I really like the application settings because it is colorful and very clear – user-friendly word. Well, the manufacturer went from dark style imposed by Google. The system can personalize with a Manager dashboards, where we will add up to 18 startup screen (sic!), Change the screen transition effects, set the themes and many more. There is an opportunity to establish user accounts. This way we will be able to share with someone tablet, but each retains its own desktop and grid applications. We can also define gestures to the desktop, where eg. Double tap on the screen will expand the notification bar. [Nggallery id = 904 template = techmaniak] application kit is quite rich, which also speaks in favor of the tablet. We can find such programs as:

• SecurityHD – a full featured tool for purification of memory tablet, block ads displayed in external applications and application manager used to uninstall, freeze or transfer programs. The program has its own update module and is well written. Running smoothly and has intuitive menus.
• ShareIt – application to send and receive files via WLAN. With this software, configure the appropriate network, will establish the connection with the other device and replace data between them.
• CLONEit – application to transport the message text, contacts, etc. from the old machine to the new one.
• SYNCit – an application to synchronize data from the cloud. Through her back up your data tablet and microSD card.
• Dolby – powerful equalizer, so that we can personalize the sound of the music on the built-in speakers tablet.

SUMMARY / EVALUATION / OPINION

Astute readers will notice that throughout the test had never appeared directed at Lenovo, the term "Chinese producer". It was not done on purpose – it comes from the fact that during the testing S8-50L I had the impression that I use the cheap, Chinese tablet. The equipment makes a good impression right from the start and it seems that a few things you can not really fault. The main disadvantages of the device I include heating of the housing, which at the time of playing or surfing the web, is warmer than most devices we have ever tested. I'm not thrilled uncertain backlit tablet which behave strangely while using the device. Finally, the battery – after all runs on the battery could be a bit longer.

Lenovo S8-50L / photo. TabletManiaK.pl

All this does not change the fact that Lenovo is a very successful S8-50L equipment – both in terms of design and equipment. The choice of Intel allows a good gaming performance comparable to more expensive tablets, and roomy main memory for smooth operation of the system and browsers. We can not forget the 4G modem with the function of writing SMS or stereo speakers, which in the course of watching movies are like found. Built-in Display Full HD and nice-looking cap system. And to the price of the device does not exceed 1000 zł. What do you want more? [Temperatura2 product_id = "20188"] [inne_propozycje product_id = "20188"]