Jun 21, 2015 04:39 PM
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I was looking to buy a tablet for quiet sometime. I was kind of falling for the iPad Air or Mini and then the Nexus 9. The Nexus is feature rich I admit, but I felt its too pricey.
And the iPads, I know its the well engineered , optimized and polished piece of cake, but you need to be all Apple to get the full benefit of it. And then on one good day I came across this tablet , the Lenovo tab S8 which has almost every features I needed as tablet user.
Right away I ended up looking for user reviews in Flipkart , Amazon etc as everybody does. But there where none because the device was a new launch. And finally on the basis of few hands on video reviews on YouTube I decided to buy one. A spontaneous decision.
The physical look of this device is excellent , with 299 gms it feels light in hands. The rubberized feel of the back panel feels good with nice grip to hold. The first thing which strikes when you look at the tab for the first time would be the IPS display which is really bright and vivid. Albeit when viewed in an angle with the screen switched off will reveal some kind of matrix / patterns on the screen. Can live with it , as it is not a distraction when the screen is on.
When talking about the screen I should mention this small glitch , that when you hold the tab close to your ear and keenly listen you could hear a small whistling kind of sound from the upper speaker, and when the screen switched off its gone. I don't know if its the problem with this piece alone. But still its not much of a problem, because in normal usage you don't hear anything ..the sound is that feeble. May be a software update will solve this glitch. Then one thing I felt about the power and volume rocker switches is that they seems a bit loosely mounted , which in turn reduces the tactile feedback. These are my views on the hardware. In short I should say that it has got a very good built quality.
