Camera
There’s nothing special about the 5MP camera
mounted on the back of S2110. It’s convenient and be able to shoot pretty nice
photos. Though UI is pretty old and user-friendly – you have regular scene modes,
exposure settings, flash and autofocus – we recognize a repeating problem after
a day of shooting – the accidentally shots. The delay between pressing the
shutter button on the screen and actual shooting seems to be remarkable and
makes us collect more accidental photos about the feet and the street than we
expect. In general, the images are fresh, not mentioning a little washed out
and good depth of field display. Panorama mode creates some troubles, just
because it requires an extremely slow pan movement.
There’s
nothing special about the 5MP camera mounted on the back of S2110.
On the other hand, the 1,080p video quality
of the tablet is poor and of course you will get our opinion in the following video
sample. The sound is extremely scrunching, muffling, full of ambient noise
which causes distractions and is totally not synchronized, at the same time,
the average frame rate is slow and it’s extremely obvious. It sure causes
disappointment, but as we don’t know that many people use the tablet mainly for
its camera, we’re not quite disturbed. However, it’s a problem the company
should solve.
Competitor
So, what are the other options? First is an
obvious choice: Transformer Pad TF300 of Asus. As we have said, it’s a convertible
tablet having enough technical specs to go head-to-head to S2110. With only TF300,
you will have to spend 380 USD, but it gives you 32GB of capacity, comparable
screen, Tegra 3 CPU and vanilla ICS. Spending an extra of 120 USD and you may
include a dock which helps to increase battery life. Comparing it to 430 USD
for 32GB S2110 and 580 USD for the same model with dock, the more beneficial
choice is obvious.
Asus
Transformer Pad TF300
If you don’t like the custom dock and want
to follow the tablet route, there’s always Iconia Tab A510 of Acer, another 10-inch
Tegra 3 tablet with 1,280x800 screen, 32GB of capacity and built-in Android 4.0
– with the price of 420 USD. And if you’re looking for a OS which is not
created by Google, you can buy WiFi-only iPad 2 of Apple with 400 USD, which
gives you 16GB of capacity, 9.7-inch screen, 1,024x768 and App Store access.
Acer
Iconia Tab A510
Conclusion
So should you buy IdeaTab S2110? It depends
on how much you want to tap the tablet – and whether you’re fond of the Lenovo brand.
As we sketched above, there’re other tablets, convertible…etc. – providing
similar technical specs (if not say that it’s better), working just as well and
having lower price. In addition to the pretty redundant interface of the
company, the utilities and pre-loaded app, it seems to be the case of the
add-ons. While the media giant such as Sony can cram the ecosystem content on Xperia
Tablet S as a distinguish thing, Lenovo don’t have anything that is almost as
attractive as that thing.
Does that make it a poor product? You wish.
It’s well-built, has no performance problem and has one of the best tablet
keyboard dock we’ve ever seen. Our problem on the whole is the price. It’s
better for you to spend on the cheaper rivals or wait until this tablet has a
discount.
Info
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Price: $430
Advantages
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Stable structure
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Smooth performance
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Huge battery life when combining with dock
Disadvantages
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Pre-loaded with uninstalled floating software
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Unnecessary UI 3D animations
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More expensive than the same choices
Key point
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IdeaTab S2110 is a powerful and durable hybrid Android
tablet which is a little overpriced compared to the experience it provides.
IdeaTab
S2110 is a powerful and durable hybrid Android tablet.
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Technical
specs
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CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060A Processor
(1.50GHz 512KB)
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Operating System: Google Android™ 4.0 Ice
Cream Sandwich
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Memory: 1 GB (LPDDR2)
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Dimensions: 259.8x178x8.69mm (10.2x7.0x0.34")
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Camera: 1.3M HD webcam (front); 5M autofocus
LED flash webcam (back)
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Display: 10.1" 1280x800 in-plane
switching (IPS) display
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Weight: 580g (1.28 lb)
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Audio: 2 speakers; SRS TruMedia
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I/O Ports: Micro-HDMI; Micro-USB; SIM card
slot; Audio jack; 2 USB 2.0 ports
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Storage: 16GB, 32GB (eMMC)
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Wireless Connectivity: 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi;
Bluetooth® 4.0; AGPS (3G models only); WCDMA/EVDO
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Battery Life: 9-10 hours Wi-Fi web browsing; 18-20
hours with docking station |
