The first and second generation iPad were 132 ppi, and the first generation iPad Mini was 163 ppi - and people didn't complain.

This is £70. You can't expect a brand new Full HD tablet for the price you're paying.

They both have identical screens.

The Yoga Tab 3 has double the battery life.

The processor in the Tab 3 however will be slightly faster than the Snapdragon 212 found in the Yoga Tab 3.

This has two cameras whereas the Yoga Tab 3 has one rotating camera.

It's 70 quid not £170 you .....:laughing:

Wow...your first comment here.Any better choice for same money ?

add to basket for lower price

Seems good value. Only small grumbles are screen res and Mediatek CPU but can't really complain for the money.

waiting for £49 like its predecessor,thanks for alert.

This or the Yoga tab 3 for £99.99?

My daughter has had the 8gb version of this which I think has less ram and it's been bomb proof. Really impressed and she uses it daily.

Resolution 1280 x 800 pixels - it's not enough! Just 188.68 PPI

Good price for 2GB RAM. :smiley:

Great deal - don't need it myself though...

Afraid as much as I wanted to love this, I couldn't. Returned it just after Christmas as couldn't deal with it no more :disappointed: Currently back to my hudl2. It kept crashing, apps disappearing. Was really disappointed and wanted to love it! Maybe my one was just duff :o(

Been using mine daily for over a year now. No issues at all. Great tab, especially for this price.

Brilliant deal, I got mine from Argos for £79 just before Christmas and that was on offer as it was. Far quicker than the 7 inch model which was only 1GB RAM but this having 2GB RAM is perfect for an entry level tablet that is well built

bought for my 5 year old for £80, very happy with it

got this for my 9 year old daughter for xmas and she loves it. Cover available on ebay for less than £10 also that provides good protection

Argos via eBay HERE

MM

Would this be any good to replace my wife's slowing Nexus 7 2013? :neutral_face:

Beware lip synch audio issues with YouTube, Netflix etc on Lenovo devices.

Bought one this morning, seems fine for my use so far, no problems. Thanks op heat added. :smiley:

you buying cos it's cheap or you buying to use it? It's not sandwich ate it and forget about it. You will use it for 12-24(?) months. Instead of spending £20-40 more and getting almost usable tablet you will stuck with tablet with **** screen.

Bought this and thought it looked good on paper - but the screen resolution was shocking, after using higher DPI devices I couldn't go back.

Returned the next day - don't do it.

Your comments means nothing without better example around same money or little more...

Bought the refurbed white one that was on offer last month from Argos for £59.99. Solid device and probably the best value for money tablet you'll get at that price. Only issue I've had with it is some videos start playing with no sound, you have to restart them for the audio to come through (this is across various apps). It's not particularly annoying as a few taps always resolves it.

Has GPS, should make a cracking large-screen SatNav using Waze or Google if you hotspot data to it via your smaller-screen phone

just collected mine - ironically there was a chap next to me returning his due to charging and poor wifi issues

can someone confirm I can use two gift cards for 1 item ?

thanks

Bought one for my daughter just before Christmas - social media stuff, Netflix and YouTube, it's perfect and can't complain for the money, so for £10 less, absolute bargain.

good price for this product.

How does this stack up against a 2nd generation Nexus 7?

merely an observation :-)

People moaning about PPI its rubbish.

we've got Lenovo 10" tabs with "crap" PPI and theyre fine for everyday use and even for movies.

Argos also seems to be the most competitive for the more useful 10 inch version.
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/6779469

Argos also seems to be the most competitive for the more useful 10 inch version.
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/6779469

If you're struggling with a Nexus 7 2013 I can only suggest checking for firmware updates and getting rid of some bloaty apps like Facebook etc. I have a 2013 and it's still running like an absolute dream, best piece of hardware I ever bought (Alongside the Nexus 4 which is also still going (just!))

Yeah but how stupid will you feel when someone pulls out their microscope and scoffs at the lack of 500+ppi.
Come on people it's not worth it, think of the humiliation.

WHICH magazine recommends Lenova brand ,2nd only to Apple. ( best laptops market) so not sure on tablets but I guess they're right up there too with the big boys!

Had this in my cart for the last 30 minutes but slightly slower than a Nexus 7 ?

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/6780425

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/8258865

Thanks for the reply. As I suspected as been looking for a replacement with no bloatware and as near to pure Android as possible. Seems like the Sony Z3 Compact Tablet is my only option at the moment. Thanks again.

2GB RAM , Quadcore processor def + points & steal at £70, the 10inch for £30/£50? more it's worth it as better specs

How does Kodi work on Android systems? Is it an easy install ?
Anyone loaded & running Kodi on these ? or is there a better tablet out there for Kodi?

I basically want one so for Kodi, SkyGo , movies , youtube , iplayer internet etc etc

Couldn't be easier to install - get from the google play store like any other app.

You could also look into sticking a Lineage OS on it under the Google section below. May require some reading up about root \ TWRP etc and Youtube watching - but putting Cyanogen Mod on my old samsung tablet 3 and TWRP gave it a new lease of life. And removed all the bloat and upgraded Android
https://download.lineageos.org/

How can a Nexus 7 from 2013 run as smooth as a tablet 3 years` spec younger? Those Nexi (or Nexuses :smirk: must`ve been way ahead of their time)

Argos Ebay do the 10 inch,( though ONLY 1gb ram) version for 85 quid...

£85 for refurbished one

​why would you trust a witch?

Can anyone tell me if chrome-cast works on either this tab or yoga 3?

Not a stupid reply by any means (and thanks for the link, my N4 could use some love) but this requires root which will disrupt some usage of popular apps, ie anything banking related and most protected streaming software like sky stuff.

I currently have a nexus 7, I love it but it's starting to be temperamental. Does anybody know how this would compare to my Nexus? I would buy another new Nexus if I could but for some reason Google stopped making them :disappointed:

Would this be much of upgrade over a HUDL1? Obviously its a bigger screen and 2Gb RAM but the processor looks a bit dodgy.

Yes, it's better than a Hudl1. The CPU is fine, certainly better than the Intel one in the Hudl as Intel processors don't always play nice with Android.

iPad 2 is 6 years old.

Just picked up 2 with the case offer at £13 per case.

Fired up screen with 50% charge and initial impressions ..... NOT TOO SHABBY FOR THE PRICE !

Box says 2Gigs with is the clincher for me

I have this tablet and the performance is really poor. It's very surprising because the spec on paper looks ok, probably worse purchase i ever made.

​What difference does it make if it's his first comment? he's still right.

Anyone know if you can download from netflix onto this? Some tablets wwill stream from the netflix app but not download..

​why what will the issue be will it slow down or keep crashing it's just the look most people are concerned about the freezing issues etc screen resolution is probably not a issue for most people I personally liked the older tvs that had the tubes in them and people want flat screen but hey ho.

Ordered. thank you for posting the deal. Hot for me.

I just installed the NF app on one, and it had a pop up telling me about the ability to download, I have not tried it yet though. I will do so now and edit an update :smiley:-

Downloads fine :smiley:

Cracking little tablet so far

Lmao it's £69 not &300 iPad

My £700 iPad Pro (slightly larger screen at 9.7") is only 260ppi, so what are you expecting exactly?

Great little tablet, have the older one for the kids and its survived brilliantly

Yep this tablet is crap considering the Specs

Big downgrade from the Nexus 7

Time to refund me thinks, something is not quite right with this tab

And still changing hands for more than £70.

Not sure why so much heat for this myself. I would of thought for an extra £30 you get the much better yoga 8" with 4g and more than double the battery life.

The Yoga Tab 3 is also WiFi only.

​That's significantly larger for a tablet actually... 1280 x 800 is pitiful for an 8 inch tablet these days, especially as there are many Chinese tablets around this price with much higher resolutions.

But with...

Questionable battery life
Possible pre-installed spyware
Lower build quality
Dodgy screen viewing angles (undoubtedly not IPS screens)
No warranty

You pays your money and you takes your choice

You're obviously not aware of Lenovo installing spyware....!

.......only trust one named Blair , if stuck in the forest.

Cheers CB...anyone else using Kodi on these Lenovo tablets ? Thoughts?

looking for one to replace my dell venue 8 pro with 3g built in and my amazon fire.............for commuting............

is the screen really that bad?

this looks to fit the bill as i have 20 gb of tetherable data on my phone now so dont really need a 3g/4g one unless the price is right......

yes looks very good, better than the tab 2 a 10?

​sorry wouldn't trust Tony Blair with a penny

These tablets are great, I have 2 for the kids. The Yoga and 10" versions have much slow GFX chips I returned 1 to get another 1 of these instead.
The PPI is fine for a £70 tablet unless you are using it all day to read really small text. People moan about ppi but then are happy enough to sit in front of a 1080p 23" PC monitor which has less than 100ppi

Hi all. I am tied between this and the Yoga 3 offer. Any advice?

Is it worth paying the extra for this over the amazon fire 7 to be used mostly as a kindle, few apps and a bit general surfing now and again?

Yes. The Fire 7 has only 1GB of RAM, and officially you can only download apps from the Amazon App Store. Google Play is not officially available on the Fire tablets.

As others have mentioned, it depends what you're looking for.

The Yoga has much better battery life.

This Tab 3 has superior processor and graphics performance, and is also slimmer and lighter.

Meant Blair Witch project, agree I wouldn't either , Tony's the Devil

​But thats all just speculation on your part.

You just have to watch YouTube reviews etc to find out how those things are.

E.g. I just read a review on techradar for this tablet and it states it's cheaply built, not fast, clunky...

For the small amount of money you'd be paying on this, I'd rather take my chances with a Chinese tablet.

Any particular Chinese tablet?

Yes, works on both. Get the Web Video Cast app from Google Play and you can cast any movie or video to your TV

​For the same price, Onda V80 Plus or Chuwi HI8, or for slightly more there's the Chuwi HI8 Pro.

I hear Lenovo are a good chinese brand :wink:

Oh dear! reserved 3!

Got a link please?

The Yoga tab 3 has excellent sound if that's a factor in your decision, it was for me.

I assume it is this one https://www.argos.co.uk/product/6732932

Hahahahahaha, touché, lol. :-)

Good on you!.

When should I pop round to collect mine from you then? :confused: hehehehehehe. :man:

Nice one!, never heard of this one before?, thanx. :-)

Sorry, mine to replace a hudl2, 1 for the wife replacing an asus, 1 for the daughter to replace a hudl1. My 3 year old (who only goes on it every now and again) wants to keep his red one, lol

1st look at these tablets are good. In comparison to hudl2, hudl1 and asus. In my opinion -Picture is good, sound good and seems fast enough. Everyone in our house seems happy.

​I know what you meant. :wink:

Damn, this site should have a health warning.

Decide within first three posts I have to have this. Then people point out the things the Yoga beats it on. Up most of the night doing more research. Can't decide which is best.

Bought both :confused:

Collected, both shrink wrapped and with tamper-proof seals. Rats. Anyone know from experience whether Argos would accept tablet returns clearly opened if we decide we don' t like one - or both?

Annoying as I've bought more expensive tech from them with none of this security...

Don't open them if you don't intend to keep them. I returned the Yoga Tab 3 a few days ago and decided to go for this instead. They made sure none of the seals had been touched before accepting the return - this included the seals on the free case.

Biased because I bought one, but Yoga IMO. That kickstand is the making of that tablet - without it, it's just another budget Android tablet (which are ten a penny). Great battery life too.

I can't recommend the Hi8 Pro less. If it goes completely flat (yes, with the latest firmware that allegedly "fixes" it) good luck getting it back up and running again. It *might* recover if it's left on charge for 2-3 days. It's dual boot in a tiny cramped drive so you can't do much with either OS. The screen flickers (which also has a placebo "update"). £100 or so went down the drain on that!

hi, I need some advice for real. I haven't followed the tablet scene for a while. My 2012 Nexus 7 has been struggling for a while despite all the cache wipe and TRIM. It is just not as snappy anymore like it used to.

How does it compare to Nexus 7? I don't want much, just something like the Nexus 7, but more suitable for all the heavy apps nowadays I guess, more snappy but can handle my missus Amazon browsing and facebook. I found the FB app to be the Nexus killer and had to uninstall it

This will be significantly faster than the Nexus 7 2012, but only slightly faster than the 2013 version.

I got rid of my Nexus 7 2012 ages ago, because it was making my hair fall out. God, that thing made me angry.

Nexus 7 2012 should've been left at Android 4.4. Version 5.0 killed it

This is about the same hardware as the Yoga, which runs version 6.0 without breaking a sweat.

Try the mobile site, it worked for me when i was using two gift cards to pay for 1 item

Horrible Tablet, originally Had a LenovoTabs850, this ticked lots of boxes until i tried to use it worst touch screen i have ever used on a tablet. makes the Original Google Nexus 7 look slick in comparison. Save your money and look elsewhere.

:-)

But your Lenovo Tab S850 and the OP's Lenovo Tab 3 A8 are not the same Animal's though?.

So how can you compare them as like for like?, or .....

Hi Preecey,

Thanks for the advice. I took the plunge and went for the TAB3 8. It's a snappy little thing and I am very happy with it. I already have a nice little external charger, courtesy of HUKD, so the battery life on the yoga was not a feature that encouraged me. Hopefully the TAB3 8 will hold out for a good few years and not grind to a halt after a few months of abuse

loving mine - fast n slick: slim device feels great: love it!

​Actually/now thinking of it?.

As the MWC (Mobile World Conference) has noe kicked off in it's fore, this Lenovo Tablet just MAY end up having a sudden price crash now after all?, hell yeh!, hehehe. :-)

But maybe not for today though?, as it's still showing up on Argos's website as £69.99 ... (but hopefully from Tuesday going would be very cool though?) lol.

Sorry, my mistake. Had ordered that many things online around xmas, the one I got was from Amazon and cost £15. Its a great case for kids as has a good bumper. States Tab 2 but fits the 3 perfect without any connections ie headphones, charge port and speakers covered over.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016TQXNQ6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I bought the Tab2 a couple of years back and it is still great.
I find the screen is really good, as are the speakers. The Dolby Atmos actually works quite well, even though it's a bit of a gimmick.

High DPI are overrated in my opinion (although nice to have up to a point) and only really chased by Apple fans to convince them they spent their £400 wisely.

For £70 this is a good price, plus you get memory expansion via Micro SD, connection to a hard drive/USB stick, USB controller, etc.

Tab 4 out so may be worth waiting. These could get cheaper.

Bought one on the weekend and overall very pleased with it. A nice upgrade from my older 7 inch lenovo tablet.

But I've tried installing the dropbox app at it won't run. The moment you start it, it says "Unfortunately dropbox has stopped". I'm not even able to log on so it's nothing to do with my account.
I've installed very little on my tablet so it's almost out of the box.

Anyone else managed to get dropbox working or fancy having a go?

It's one of my most used apps so if I can't run it, it's a bit of a deal-breaker.

I've had a similar issue happen to me before with a different app. Restoring to factory settings did the trick for me. I hope it does for you too. Otherwise it's a complete incompatibility issue and as you said, that's a deal breaker. Unless you use one of those "tweener" apps like:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cs4apps.clouds&hl=en

I hope this helps. :smiley:

Well I tried a factory reset (not easy as I ended up with a chinese recovery menu!)
Installed dropbox before I did anything else and it works.

Odd because I hadn't done much to the tablet before. We'll see if anything breaks it.

As you say - there other apps to try.

thanks for the help.

I'm a little confused?.

I'm confused that a Product base destined for the 'UK Market' should STILL 'default' to Chinese?, and NOT English?. :-(

Am I missing something .....

Hehehehehehehehe, as per my earlier comment above (115), or here too:


IF the OP's Deal drop's to anywhere near £50ish each?, then I'll be then looking at perhaps 2?. :-)

Yes - I was surprised by that.
But that's what I got when I did the volume/power key combo which is how you normally get the recovery menu on android.
One of the option had "MMC" in english in it which I hoped what the factory reset and it seemed to work.

Has this expired ? showing as £99.99 clicking the link or am I missing a code

Your CORRECT, this Deal needs expiring ...

Hehehehe, just as well you got it 'sorted' when you did/for how you did?. :-)