Very big potential but ultimately too limited in multimedia

Very big potential but ultimately too limited in multimedia

Lenovo Yoga Tablet Tab 2-1050 tactile10.1 "Grey (Intel Atom, Hard Drive 16GB, Android 4.4 KitKat) (Personal Computers)

Customer Review

The pack contains 2 The Yoga metal gray version and 16GB WIFI, AC adapter, microUSB cable and a small Quick Start booklet, and a leaflet with various accessories compatible with this Yoga 2.

There the great 10.1 inch screen with an IPS panel technology offering a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1200p. In terms of connectivity, it offers a MicroUSB port, a 3.5mm jack and a microSD port.

Downstairs, on the gray metal part, there are on each side of the speaker, and center, the pivoting part of the base which is the peculiarity of this Yoga 2. This area conceals the cylindrical Li-Polymer 9600 mAh battery that feeds the tablet.

As regards the design, this Yoga wafer 2 with the usual tablets. Although at first, it seems classic with the front aesthetic offering a duet with the entourage of the lacquered black screen with thicker edges, as there are more classic, but making the transition part gray plastic low metal incorporating the speaker and the swivel base. This innovation allows to break the classic line of the tablet.

At the finish, is the use of plastic and metal. The whole entourage of the screen is black lacquered plastic. On the bottom, there are gray plastic with metal effect. Found on the back cover grainy with honeycomb effect, but it is hardly feels the touch. This is visually pleasing and gives a little more style to the yoga class 2. The swivel base is metal / aluminum with a smooth and cool to the touch.

But what really sets this tablet from other relates to its aesthetically profile. The cylindrical portion containing the battery and its swivel base making a projection on one side of the tablet, giving the impression of having a lump under the tablet and breaking the line of Yoga 2 profile.

The cylindrical portion of its shape (teardrop) and its thickness provides good tablet grip to hold it upright like we kept a book in his hand. Laid flat, it helps to have a slight inclination to sail with a viewing comfort compared to conventional tablet completely flat.

Yoga 2 runs on the Android OS version 4.4.2 Kit Kat wrapper with Lenovo.

The first and foremost change is the removal of the application menu. Simply put, all the applications that you install will meet again directly on your home pages. Of course, you can create folders to organize your applications into categories for you locate information.

Access to the notifications bar conventionally slidant in the top of the screen down. Note that the notifications page has its own dedicated menu for the set.

By cons, to access the connectivity page (activation WIFI, Bluetooth, etc.) requires the slider bottom of the screen upwards. Usually, you can access this page directly from the notifications or slider so you had the right top of the screen, then down (eg Huawei Mate 7) or one reached there with a additional tab of the notifications. (Infinix Jet Race 4G).

We will say that this new way of slider at the bottom of the screen to the top, is not at all obvious to apply or at least take a little getting used to.

Desktop options

Options can be accessed by clicking on the items at the bottom of the screen on the touch keys bar. This menu can also be opened by a slide on the screen. (See Settings gestures office described below)

You can add or remove a widget on a home page or delete applications.
We can choose to change the wallpaper of the office and / or the lock screen.

The screen manager for changing your home pages. You can increase or decrease the number of home pages. You can change the display order of the pages. This is where we chose the main homepage. Just click on the Home icon / home down the determined home page.

Desktop settings: you have several options.

Wallpaper scrolls with the screen: Enable or not

Transition Effect on the desktop: you can change the transition effect between home pages. There are of course several proposed effects.

Backup and restoration of the office: to save the configuration of your desktop and can restore it later.

Settings office gestures: these settings are related to the notifications bar and the desktop menu.

The options are chosen which will open when you slide up or down, and after a double-click on an empty space. Just drag your finger across the screen up or down depending on your choice set to open menus mentioned above.

By default, an upward sliding open the desktop menu. It offers 4 choices: none, open the Desktop menu, open the notifications bar and open the lock screen.

For a slide down or double-click include the same options as for the sliding upwards.

Automatically Arrange Icons: If activated, the icons on the screen are collected, except for the main screen.

Settings: To access all the general parameters of the Yoga 2.

There is a Multi-Window mode for displaying up to 3 applications simultaneously on the screen. Unfortunately, the number of compatible applications is very limited. You can change the arrangement of windows by dragging them. To highlight an application, just click on the arrow at the top of the screen and it will be displayed in full screen. You can reduce the 3 applications that will remain down on the touch keys bar.

Gallery

The big downside of Yoga 2 Multimedia regarding the portion where it is too limited to video and audio codecs.
Yoga 2 supports virtually any format encoders, mkv, mp4 and avi.
It supports video codecs, H.264, Xvid and stroke. Unfortunately, standard audio codecs, it supports mp3 and AAC (from my tests). So we forget the AC3 and DTS that are not legible.

In addition to this, we must add that the tablet only supports MicroUSB and MicroSD for its ports as FAT32 file system with its 4GB limit for the size of a file.

Being incompatible with the Microsoft NTFS file system, this will limit the ability to copy the MicroSD card or other large files that exceed mkv most of the 4GB time. Anyway, anyway, the unsupported AC3 audio codec already enough to limit copying mkv. Lenovo could at least make his Yoga 2 compatible AC3 is most common on mkv. For me this will certainly restrict my use of Yoga 2 compared to my Miix 2 Windows 8 which in addition to support NTFS, it is compatible with AC3 and DTS.

This is all the more regrettable because with user comfort and pleasant viewing, thanks to its swivel base that allowed to tilt the tablet to watch videos and movies with a viewing angle at the top, we could really benefited the quality of its screen to watch movies for hours.

During playback, you can adjust the volume by slidant upwards on the left side of the screen and adjust the brightness on the right side. For the options available, there is the screen capture, the ability to switch the video thumbnail and floating lock the video playback. These three options are to the right of the playback progress bar.

When your video is displayed in a floating thumbnail, you can close the main window, and continue to watch the video in the small window (not resizable) while doing something else at the same time, whether navigating menus Yoga 2, surf the Internet or view your photos. To clarify the boundaries of this multi-tasking in sound because you have to choose between the sound of the music video or if you choose to view the video thumbnail in while listening to music

Note that the rotation of the screen while a video is done manually, you have to click each time on the small icon on the top right to switch from landscape / portrait and vice versa.

Audio player

It supports MP3 and FLAC. The interface of the music player follows the tablet's rotation.

For playback options include classic, shuffle and repeat one song or all.

In terms of general options, you can access the dedicated application of Dolby Digital audio equalizer. It is very complete and configurable according to the type of audio sources.

Webcam

The Webcam has a rear 8MP sensor and the front 1.6 Mp. As the webcam, they have no flash.

Outside, photos are beautiful.

Interior with artificial light pictures are fairly noisy. But compared to other competing tablets, photos are not too bad for a tablet.

Regarding the videos, Yoga 2 lets you take video at 720p, so with a maximum resolution of 1280 x 720p. It uses the .3gp video format which allows for good image quality for a not too heavy file size. For the image, we have the AVC video codec and audio, there are of course the AAC. Video 5 min weighs 300MB.

Internet

Internet browsing is very pleasant on a large 10-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200, there is no need to zoom to read an excessive fine print.

For navigation, it's hard to find a weak spot in the tablet. It is really designed for that. It features a large screen, very bright, high image definition and a stand to tilt the tablet for convenience. But above all, the most important to know very good accuracy and responsiveness of the touchscreen. In comparison, the tile Miix 2 is less accurate and responsive as it is often necessary to try several times to get to click in the right place.

Autonomy

Yoga 2 This is a real camel. In standby, it held 40 days (there was 3%). I was serving in from time to time to test a few things, and it was connected to the PC via the microUSB port to transfer some movies but just time to recharge a bit. This suggests that the standby time should be even higher if I had not used it in.

I wanted to redo an autonomy test and I got a nasty surprise. The standby was almost halved (24 days and there is 2%). The only major change between the two tests was to have made an update of the firmware. Although some connections of the tablet PC could have slightly increased autonomy when testing the 40 days of autonomy, it seems that the firmware update is the culprit for this significant decrease of autonomy. I could see that the battery consumed more than before, because by controlling the tablet almost every day, it lost about 5% against 5% per day in 2 or 3 days with the old firmware. Yoga 2 tells me that a new firmware is available, I would see if it improves the autonomy or not. Still, even with a little over 24 days of standby time, it is part of the best.

In common use, autonomy manufacturer data is 18h, which is already huge compared to other tablets on the market. I have not yet tested this autonomy, because I have not extensively used the Yoga 2.

Compared to Miix 2, it should beat easily because it has a battery of 6800 mAh compared to 9600 mAh of Yoga 2.

For use of the rather limited shelf as surf the internet, take a ride on social networks, watch 2 or 3 youtube videos, read your mail, you will be quiet, the battery easily take the day to see two.

By cons, for multimedia use, the battery will take less time.

For information: The viewing of a .mp4 40 min lost 10% to the battery.

The charging time is from 5:30 to fully charge the battery. This may seem long, but do not forget that the battery is almost 10,000 mAh, 3 or 4 times the capacity of a standard battery of a mobile. So the capacity / charging time ratio is quite logical.

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