Android tablet with decent speakers for the kitchen?

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BadMouth:
Ordered a Lenovo Yoga Tab 3. (2GB RAM version)

pbj:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on October 24, 2017, 11:46:58 am ---Ordered a Lenovo Yoga Tab 3. (2GB RAM version)

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I took a hard look at those. My wife had one of their Yoga laptops and it ran laps around a comparable MacBook. Unfortunately those in academia have a love affair with Apple, so after 3 years of brutalizing the Yoga, she replaced it with a MacBook. Within a few weeks, we were buying a cheap Dell to run software incompatible with Macs....

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RayB:
Recently considered a Yoga pad, as I found its design and sturdy body appealing, but its specs are underpowered. Instead went with an LG Gpad III. At about $180 USD its the only tablet I could find at that pricepoint that did 1920x1080, 8" screen, octa-core cpu, and even supports sim cards.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: RayB on October 24, 2017, 10:24:46 pm ---Recently considered a Yoga pad, as I found its design and sturdy body appealing, but its specs are underpowered. Instead went with an LG Gpad III. At about $180 USD its the only tablet I could find at that pricepoint that did 1920x1080, 8" screen, octa-core cpu, and even supports sim cards.

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Yep, the specs and it being a 2015 model did make me reluctant to pull the trigger, but the integrated stand and louder front facing speakers are perfect for how I plan to use it in the kitchen (recipes & watching TV with breakfast). I paid the extra $15 for the one with 2GB RAM (10").

BadMouth:
Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 (10",2GB/16GB) came in yesterday.

Performance is satisfactory, no more, no less.

1280x800 screen look better than expected. I don't really see individual pixels. It shows smudges horribly, but is getting covered with a screen protector anyway.
(I don't use screen protectors on my phones, but since this is going in the kitchen...)

I like having a bulkier side to hold onto, but it's also the one part of the device without a rubberized coating and is therefore slipperier.
The stand is perfect for the kitchen. (referring to recipes while preparing them and watching TV while eating)

The speakers sound great for most things despite the built in dolby atmos EQ app crapping out and not working with most of the apps I use.
(sound still works, just no EQ, and the dolby app doesn't work again until the tablet is rebooted)
Teh Googlz would lead me to believe that the app worked fine before Android Marshmallow and has been a PITA since.

EDIT: Let me clarify "sounds great". They sound great for a tablet.
Without the processing they sound like an average laptop.
It's not going to replace music speakers, but it's much better than you would expect from a tablet.
They do remind me a bit of the speakers in my Alienware m14x. Not as loud, but just as clear.

Unfortunately the one app I was hoping to benefit from the EQ doesn't sound so good. With Slingbox Player the sound is actually noticeably louder than other apps, but if you turn the sound up more than 3/4 the speakers start crackling. As high as it can go without crackling, it's loud enough to hear over running water when doing dishes, but I wish it was just a little bit louder.
If the dolby EQ worked it would be a simple matter of turning down the bass.
EDIT: Odd, but the crackling goes away of I turn the slingbox stream down to standard quality instead of HQ. Seems to be a slingbox issue and not a speaker issue.
I am on my home network. Bandwidth should not be an issue.

Overall satisfied. It met expectations (didn't exceed them). Would buy again.
There's not really any reason to recommend it over other similarly priced tablets unless someone wants a tablet for exactly the same purposes as me.
As was said, you can probably get better specs elsewhere for a similar price (but not the form factor).

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