Lenovo has had a great start of the year in 2012, having announced and released quite a few new devices, and alongside with their new laptops and Ultrabooks, they’ve also announced a couple of tablets.

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Lenovo IdeaPad S2 10 Reviews –
Unexpected Competitor for Asus
Transformer Prime
Lenovo IdeaPad S2 10 Reviews
– Unexpected Competitor for
Asus Transformer Prime
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Lenovo has had a great start of the year in 2012,
having announced and released quite a few new
devices, and alongside with their new laptops and
Ultrabooks, they’ve also announced a couple of ta-
http://blog.batteryfast.co.uk/lenovo-ideapad-s2-10-reviews-unexpected-competitor-for-asus-transformer-prime/
blets. The IdeaPad K2 and S2 are the successors to
the first models that were released last year, and
they both look like an attractive option for their
respective markets.
Just so we’re clear, we’re talking about the 10 inch
While the K2 is more of a high end business-orien- S2 – there was another prototype at CES 2012 with
ted slate with a quad core processor, fingerprint a 7 inch display, and that will undoubtedly cause
reader and all that, the IdeaPad S2 is a consumer some confusion, although the specs are pretty si-
tablet with a small detail that should make it more milar, so if the smaller model gets released, you’ll
attractive in the eyes of a potential buyer: it has a have to choose just by display size.
keyboard dock, just like the Asus Transformer Prime
(practically making it a direct competitor). But can The IdeaPad S2 has a fairly standard design, with
it compete with the current flagship tablet? the display on the front, surrounded by a chrome
frame, and a nice matte back cover with the Le-
novo logo in the middle. The resolution of the 10.1
inch display is 1280×800 pixels, which is certainly
enough for most apps, but there were rumors that
Lenovo might be going with a Full HD display for
the final model – that would be very nice, indeed,
and it would help the tablet compete with the newer
Transformer Prime 700 series. The whole tablet is
The IdeaPad S2 is powered by a dual core Qualcomm
Snapdragon, running at 1.5 GHz… BUT WAIT, this is
no simple Snapdragon – it is actually Qualcomm’s
new 4th generation Krait platform, which is much
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Lenovo IdeaPad S2 10 Reviews – Unexpected Competitor for Asus Transformer
Prime
faster than the previous chips and should be able get more coverage for the processor – everybody
to compete with the quad core Tegra 3 on equal seems to think that it’s much more inferior to the
grounds, at least in some applications. quad core Tegra 3 (that may be the case for older
chipsets, but not for the Krait, that’s for sure). If
The Krait Snapdragon has a 1000 MHz dual channel the pricing is right, it should be a great purchase,
(DDR2) memory interface, the new Adreno 225 GPU especially considering Lenovo’s quality.
and a handful of improvements to the original archi-
tecture to make the increased performance possible. Related Articles:
Seeing as most of the current apps and even Android
itself is still pretty bad at managing multiple cores,
the higher-clocked Krait will probably be even faster
than the Tegra 3 in the beginning. The 1 GB of RAM
also helps keep things smooth when multitasking.
Now, for the other surprise that comes with the Idea-
Pad S2 – the keyboard dock. This optional accessory
turns the S2 into a small netbook, very similar to the
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Transformer Prime, doubles the battery life from
10 hours to 20, and adds more expansion options,
as well (2 USB ports, a micro USB port, micro HDMI
out and an SD card slot, to be precise). Just as is the
case with Asus’ tablet, you’re probably going to want
to get it for the best experience.
It goes without saying that the Lenovo IdeaPad S2
ships with Ice Cream Sandwich pre-installed, and
of course, it has a customized interface running on
top. It’s not that bad, and some people might actually
prefer it to the original Android 4.0 UI, but I really
hope it’s not buggy and prone to crashes like so
many other custom skins on the market.
The tablet will come in 16, 32 and 64 GB versions,
and it has a 5 megapixels camera on the back with
support for 1080p video recording, plus a smaller
1.3 camera on the front for video calls. It has all
the other standard issue features, as well – Wifi,
Bluetooth, GPS, DLNA, 3.5 mm audio jack are all
present and accounted for.
The Lenovo IdeaPad looks like a winner, and it can
definitely compare with the Transformer Prime, but
it would be nice if Lenovo and/or Qualcomm could
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