Best Tablet Lenovo A8 All Features And Specifications

The Lenovo A8 is the middle sibling in Lenovo's A-Series tablets and a new entry in the growing segment of sub-$200 budget tablets. Lenovo has sweetened the deal with the latest version of Android as well as an 8-inch IPS display.

Lenovo A8 Tablet

Display, Design and Size of Lenovo A8

The Lenovo A8 comes with an 8-inch, 1280 x 800 IPS display. That's the same resolution as the Dell Venue 8, and higher than the 1024 x 768 panel on the Acer Iconia A1-830. The screen has good color reproduction for a budget tablet, and viewing angles were wide enough so that a few people clustered around the tablet could see the display. When we watched a 1080p trailer for "No Man's Sky," we enjoyed the vivid saturated colors of the alien world.

Lenovo A8 Tablet

However, the Lenovo A8's screen is dimmer than the competition. The slate averaged only 290 nits on our light meter, compared with the Acer Iconia A1-830's 298 nits, the Dell Venue's 326 nits and the category average of 333 nits. This was especially apparent when trying to view the screen outside.
Based on our measurements, the Lenovo A8's screen can display 83.4 percent of the sRBG color spectrum. That's lower than the tablet average of 85 percent but far better than the Acer Iconia A1-830's 62 percent and the Dell Venue's 70 percent.

Lenovo A8 Tablet

The Lenovo A8's display also offers very good color accuracy. Its Delta-E rating of 1.7 (scores closer to 0 are better) beats the Acer Iconia's 13.1, the Dell Venue 8's 2.6 and the category average of 5.4.

Performance of Lenovo A8

The Lenovo A8 features a 1.3-GHz quad core MTK 8121 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of flash memory. Overall performance was good but not great. When we played "Metal Slug Defense," the slate easily handled the game's 2D sprite-based graphics. However, the Lenovo A8 had more difficulty on "N.O.V.A. 3." Game play was sluggish, and low frame rates made aiming slow.

Lenovo A8 Tablet

When we watched a 1080p episode of "Justified," we noticed some stuttering and lag; users will want to choose 720p videos for smoother playback.

The Lenovo A8 scored 1176 in Geekbench 3, which measure multicore performance. That's ahead of the Acer Iconia A1-830's 1054 but behind the Dell Venue 8's 1301 and the category average of 2141, which includes more premium tablets like the iPad Air and Samsung Galaxy Note Pro.

Lenovo A8 Tablet

Storage of Lenovo A8

Lenovo packed the Lenovo A8 with 16 GB of flash memory. This capacity can be expanded to a max of 48 GB by adding a 32 GB micro SD Card.

Camera of Lenovo A8

The Lenovo A8 comes equipped with two cameras, a 5-MP camera in the rear and a 2-MP front shooter. Both cameras have settings for day and night modes, white balance, color effects and exposure levels. Both cameras also provide normal and face beauty modes, while the rear camera has additional features like live photo, panorama and multi-view shots.

Lenovo A8 Tablet

The rear camera performed well when taking pictures near Madison Square Park. Even without HDR, both shadows and highlights were detailed and colors were bright. The most interesting feature is multi-view mode, which allowed us to rotate the camera around a flower pot to create a reverse panorama.

Photos using the front camera came out a little darker than we would like but otherwise acceptable for a 2-MP sensor. On the other hand, the face beauty mode goes a little too far, which caused our self-portrait to look overly photo shopped and unrealistic.

Videos of passing traffic taken at a resolution of 720p were bright and colorful; the yellow taxis and green trees in the background especially stood out.

Battery of lenovo A8

With its 4200-mAh battery, the Lenovo A8 lasted an impressive 8 hours and 47 minutes on the Laptop Mag battery test (continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi on 150 nits of screen brightness). That's nearly three hours longer than the Acer Iconia A1 (6:08), and about 40 minutes longer than the Dell Venue 8 (8:06) and the category average (8:09).

Sound system of Lenovo A8

Unlike the larger Lenovo A10, which has two speakers, the Lenovo A8 features a single front speaker located opposite the Lenovo logo. On the Laptop Mag audio test, the Lenovo A8 produced 82 decibels measured from 13 inches away. That's slightly ahead of the 81 dB of the Dell Venue 8, the 79 dB category average and much louder than the Acer Iconia A1-830's 70 dB.

Listening to Daft Punk's "Alive 2007" album, we noticed the bass and low end had a hard time competing with the more noticeable mids. Highs were sometimes indistinct when listening to high hats or other percussion.

Connectivity of Lenovo A8

• Bluetooth             4.0
• Wi-Fi     802.11 b, g, n
• Mobile hotspot            Yes
• USB                             USB 2.0
• Connector                    microUSB

Lenovo A8 Tablet

Features

Mass storage device, USB charging

Other

Tethering, Computer sync and OTA sync.

Apps of Lenovo A8

The A8 comes pre-installed with a fair number of apps, including Skype, Texas Poker, UC Browser, Evernote, Route 66 Navi + Maps, Kingsoft Office, Accuweather, Norton Mobile Security, SHAREit and SYNCit.

Lenovo A8 Tablet

We found the SHAREit app to be the most useful of the included software, as it allows users to create a wireless hotspot and share music, video and photos seamlessly with other devices with the software installed. We transferred a 930 MB video from a nearby HTC One in less than 3.5 minutes, making moving large files a breeze.

Price and Release date  of Lenovo A8

Its release date is April 2014. And its price is $179.

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