Lenovo Yoga Tablet 10
The
Lenovo Yoga Tablet 10’s superslim, unique design makes it easy to hold.The
Lenovo Yoga Tablet 10 hardware is actually not bad for its price, and the faux-metal
finish makes it feel even nicer. The glass display and body give it a halfway
decent feel.The Yoga Tablet is running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with a few
modifications.The general style of Android has been changed including fonts,
buttons etc and while the default looks a bit on the childish side, there are a
couple of better themes to choose from.The opposite side of the power button is
the 3.5mm headset jack, and above that is the volume button and a small
microphone.When the device is facing you in landscape orientation, you'll also
notice there are two front-facing speakers. If you purchase the tablet, you
will have already noticed the Dolby logo on the box.In Lenovo's own words, the
Yoga Tablet 10 has "epic battery life" and at a quoted 18 hours, it
sounds like this may be the case. This figure is gained with a pretty varied
usage though, rather than a more traditional video playback test – 12 hours are
spent reading an eBook.It’s also only $300.
But, The tablet’s
low-resolution screen looks fuzzy and oversaturated, and the heavily modified
operating system is downright ugly.
The bottom line:
Though it feels well-built and has a handy kickstand, the Lenovo Yoga Tablet’s
poor performance makes it hard to justify even the low cost. Specifications
Release date10/30/13
Display type10.1 in
OSAndroid 4.2 Jelly
Bean
RAM1 GB
Processor1.2 GHz
Wireless
connectivityWi-Fi 802.11 b/g/nBluetooth 4.0
Dimensions
(WxDxH)10.3 in x 0.3 in x 7.1 in
Weight1.33 lbs VS
Apple iPad Air The
Air is a tangible upgrade over the previous, fourth-generation iPad, no longer
in production and so banished to the annals of history. The new iPad slots
right in where its predecessor left off, priced at $499 for a lowly 16GB, $599
for 32GB, $699 for 64GB, and $799 for the maximum 128GB configuration. The iPad
Air delivers more performance and comparable battery life in an attractive and
impossibly thin-and-light package. An improved front-facing camera makes
FaceTiming look better, and the Retina Display still looks great.
But, The Touch ID
fingerprint scanner, introduced on the iPhone 5S, is sadly absent here, meaning
you’ll still have to type in a passcode with every unlock and a password with
every purchase. Starting at $499 for 16GB, it’s still expensive compared with
the competition.
Performance:
The
iPad Air shares the same processor with Apple’s flagship phone, albeit with a
slight bump in clock speed. While the 5S runs at 1.3GHz the Air runs at
1.39GHz. It can achieve this because of the increased space and improved heat
dissipation of the Air compared to the much smaller iPhone 5S.
Indeed, before we go
into the detail about performance it’s worth noting that the iPad Air manages
to keep its cool with consummate ease. Even when running intensive 3D games and
apps for hours it barely breaks a sweat and, therefore, neither do your hands.
In practice, the iPad
Air is blisteringly fast. Apps open instantly and games like Infinity Blade 3
look sumptuous and run smoothly. The benefits of having a SoC means that the
GPU can be used to tackle compute tasks, which makes video editing and compute
intensive apps, like AutoCAD, show no hint of slowdown.
The iPad Air performs
59% faster than the iPad 4 in the 3D Mark Ice Storm Unlimited CPU and GPU test
and 91% faster in Geekbench 3 tests. The Peacekeeper browser test, which
assesses web browsing performance, shows that the Air trounces its predecessor
by being more than twice as fast. It's also faster than the stonking Snapdragon
800 processor on the likes of the Sony Xperia Z Ultra and Google Nexus 5. We're
talking matter of degrees here, but the difference is there all the same.
Battery life:
Battery
life on the iPad Air is quoted at "Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on
Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music". We would say that's actually
not a bad estimate, although the drain was closer to 2% every 10 minutes in
general use, which equates to around nine hours' use.
Standby time is much,
much better though. We found that we could stick the iPad Air in a bag, taking
it out for the commute and messing about with on the sofa at home, for at least
three days before it began to get low on battery.
In fact, the only
real task that killed it was connecting to our amplifier via Wi-Fi while
simultaneously streaming music to the same device through Bluetooth. It's doing
things like this that make you realise that this is the kind of thing that we
envisaged at the turn of the century, a tablet that has the brains and
connectivity to do all the tasks we could want.In terms of connectivity, we've
already mentioned the excellent Wi-Fi performance (in terms of distance from
router, rather than improved speed) through the Multiple In, Multiple Out
(MIMO) technology.
4G bands are now
covered throughout the globe, and low power Bluetooth is also on board as well,
making it an incredibly well-connected device.
The bottom line:
Functionally, the iPad Air is nearly identical to last year’s model, offering
only faster performance and better video chatting. But factor in design and
aesthetics, and the iPad Air is on another planet. It’s the best full-size
consumer tablet on the market.
Specifications
Release date11/1/13
Display type9.7 in
OSApple iOS
ProcessorApple
Wireless
connectivityWi-Fi
Dimensions (WxDxH)6.6
in x 0.29 in x 9.4 in
Weight1 lbs
Price:$479.00
VS Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet
Sony's
previous Xperia Tablet Z was an incredibly slender piece of kit, measuring only
6.9mm thick, but the new model has managed to slice off even more, coming in at
only 6.4mm. Its slimness is immediately noticeable when you pick the slate up
as it feels like a thin pamphlet. At 426g it's very light as well, which should
help make it comfortable to use for longer periods.Design-wise, not much has
changed since the previous model. The front is a button-free, all glass design,
while the back panel is a wide expanse of matte black plastic, with the minimal
Sony branding in the middle. Like its predecessor, the Z2 Tablet is completely
waterproof, allowing it to shrug off an errant spilled drink or let you dunk it
in the sink to rinse off smeary fingerprint marks.The 10.1-inch display boasts
a Full HD resolution, making it well equipped to tackle glossy, high definition
shows on Netflix. It's not quite matching the iPad Air's whopping
2048x1536-pixel resolution, although side-by-side, I doubt you'd notice much
difference.On the back of the tablet is an 8-megapixel camera which should be
at least good enough for some Instagram shots of whatever you've cooked that
evening.Stuffed into that skinny frame is a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
processor, clocked at an impressive 2.3GHz, backed up by 3GB of RAM. Specifications
Display type10.1 in
RAM3 GB
ProcessorQualcomm
Snapdragon 2.3 GHz
Dimensions
(WxDxH)0.25 in
Weight15.03 oz
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