Lenovo IdeaTab S6000 10.1″ Android Tablet Review

Android Interface

Google’s Android interface is one of the most well-known mobile operating systems on the market, with Android based tablets Primarily from Lenovo and Samsung making up nearly two-thirds of all tablets sold around the world. In comparison Apple’s iPad share dropped to below 30% at the end of last year so whilst the iPad may appear to be the more popular option to go for, the figures show that Android is in-fact the must have operating system.

Whilst the majority of the Android Jelly Bean features that we see throughout the system menus are as we would expect to find on any other Android device, one option within the menus stands out to me as a great feature for Android based tablets. The biggest feature that any person typically looks for is a long battery life and the longer a unit lasts, the more popular it will become. It is therefore no real surprise to see some form of power management settings within the menu and as we can see, this allows the user to pick and choose a time during the day where the tablet powers itself down completely and then a second time where the tablet can then turn itself back on ready for use.

As seen below, by default the S6000 has been set to turn itself off at just gone midnight on each weekday and then at 7am each day it turns itself back on. Now I can imagine that a number of you are wondering what the point in this feature is, after all the screen is off so surely the battery should last long enough whilst it’s not in use. Well whilst this statement is true, we still have to remember that it is using power all the same, and during the night for example, when we are recharging our own batteries, there is not any real need for the tablet to remain on, so by turning it off you will be saving a bit of power which will lead to a longer period of time between charges.

When it comes to saying who has the best mobile operating system, many a person will state that iOS is the operating system to go for when looking at ease of use and simplicity. Well in my eyes I don’t believe this to really be the case. Many people will say that Android and even the Windows Mobile platform are much harder to work your way around, but after giving both this tablet and an iPad to some very novice users – namely some of my family – the result is that they find both operating systems a little confusing to start with, but after being left to play around with both systems for a while, the result is that they find both just as good as each other.

When it comes to using Android based tablets and this one in particular for use on a day-to-day basis, I’m going to say that as an existing Android user myself, I found the S6000 very easy to use and once I’d signed into my Google account, certain features such as my contact lists and calendar were instantly available to use. Apps are also very easy to do and I don’t even need to be using the tablet directly in order to search and install them – this can all be done from my desktop system through Google Play.