Lenovo Tab M8 FHD Android Tablet Review - Is It Any Good?
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In this video, we take a look and test out the 2020 Lenovo Tab M8 FHD not to be confused with the Tab M8 HD! The M8 FHD is packed with a 2.3Ghz Octa-Core CPU, 3GB of Ram and a beautiful 8 Inch 1080P display. We take a look at the specs run some benchmarks and test out some video playback Native android gaming with games like Minecraft Call of Duty Mobile and King of Fighters plus I test out some emulation and Game streaming using Project X cloud. Should you pick one up? Let's find out.
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finally a budget tablet with at least 3gb ram
@stalegg672
3 жыл бұрын
There's even version with 4gb ram and a quadcore processer
thanks ETA P, luv your reviews
Fyi: Display is 1920 x 1200 IPS...not 1920 x 1080. Thanks!
How many times do you watch that Bunny?! "Thumbs up for your reviews !
Great to see another budget 8 inch android tablet with a spec bump. These are getting harder to find.
@1HololensfansOfNaruto
Жыл бұрын
Three years later.... The only tablet I could find to purchase with 8 inch FHD display.... This thing is so rare.
I really love your content ☺️
Thanks for the solid review man. Consistently great content. Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you for adding the XCloud/Streaming portion to your reviews! Keep up the good work!
I think we take for granted what we can get nowadays. Somthing like this a few years back would be considered a beast. Great review.
ETA Prime: *posts new video* KZread captions: what's goin' on guys, it's CTA Brine
Is there any way you can make a chart with all the tablets you've tested say over the year and put them in the videos? Like a GN type looking chart. That would be awesome. Great videos man. I been loving your videos for the past few years. Your the man! It would be crazy to run into you one day being we both live in NC❤✌
I just got another one for a gift for my sister for Xmas. The reviews are very good on the FHD And HD.
I kinda wished you would have shown some standard web browsing. I appreciate all the gaming but I’m not buying this to be a Nintendo switch. I’d like to know how it handles Word, email, photo apps, Google apps, kindle app, and web browsing.
Hi ETA Prime - thank you for your reviews of the Lenovo Tablets. Just wondered if you will be reviewing the M10 Lenovo? It's on sale this weekend and would love to know what you think about it. Many thanks!
great review as always. can pls do a review on ipega 9167 bluetooth controller [ cant you use it on redmi note 8 pro,heard rumors its not working on meiatech chips]
Are you going to do a comparison with the 2020 Fire HD8 Pro?
I have the Lenovo yoga tablets.. works great.. Only issue is you can't select the angle you want.. it's set to be either a tablet or laid down.. I like it standing up but more of an angle.
I need an ETA PRIME top 10 tablets for emulation.
Ultimately, I kind of wish I had gotten the Fire HD 10 gen2 when it was on sale for $100 last week over this. I got mine for $115 including tax and multiple coupons. The lack of HD for Netflix due to absence of widevine lvl1 DRM was disappointing. It seems I might hold onto my Nexus 7 2013 longer.
@eric_2468
3 жыл бұрын
Just so I'm clear you're saying this tablet can't play Netflix at 1080p only 720
Thanks for the great review. One question for you is, what can you recommend for android gaming at the same price point and size instead of this one then? Thanks
You should you should test the Nexus 7 2013 again used to compare it with today's Day tablets
Looks good enough for me, I only need a 1080p tablet for watching Netflix, Prime, KZread when traveling.
@r3dblood816
4 жыл бұрын
I need it just for minecraft and roblox and basic tasks and pixel gun 3d
@r3dblood816
4 жыл бұрын
And cod m at low 30 fps..... It will do for me a
@Ab-lf4rd
3 жыл бұрын
How's the display? Does it support Netflix in fhd?
Awesome reviewer, testing Emulators , thanks
Just ordered it today for $125 to replace my Shield Tablet k1. Not bad since I paid $200 for the Shield. I'm most positive I enjoy it just as much.
Thanks for your review ! Really informative ! I am from India and I'm looking for a tablet in the same price or lower which has good battery backup for studies purpose . Unfortunately Amazon tabs are unavailable here which I've heard provides massive battery edit- backup. Please suggest me . Lots of love from NE India.
Oh and it would be nice to see how this performs against the Fire HD 8. If you want to compare it to the Fire HD 10 you should probably compare the Fire HD 10 to the Lenovo m10 tablet. The Lenovo M8 FHD is way better than the Fire HD 8 and the M8FHD hasn’t been $160 almost since it’s been out! It was $99 at Christmas and I just got it today for $103 directly from Lenovo. Great tablet and a great buy!
I Love this Tablet! One Thing I could Not find Out yet is how I make the Splitscreen here. Can you Help? Thank you
great video but you say in the video its a 1080 x 1920 display but its actually 1920 x 1200. I just received mine today and I'm loving it so far. I dont think i'll be using my amazon fire HD 8 and 10 much anymore except for video camera monitors.
@Ab-lf4rd
3 жыл бұрын
How is the display? This one or Samsung tab A 10.1?
Informative 💪
got one and it's amazing
Ohhhh just a heads up ETA.. There is a new N64 core on retro arch Yay finally some good N64 game demoes to come.. Can't remember the name of it but Google N64 retro arch new core..
@boimesa8190
4 жыл бұрын
How is it VS daedelus64?
@MoejiiOsmanTV
4 жыл бұрын
@@boimesa8190 are u talking about playing n64 or other retro games on ur ta let's? What's the app?
@godchi1dvonsteuben770
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's running better. Can finally handle BOTH Turok 2, AND Perfect Dark...
@garystinten9339
4 жыл бұрын
@@MoejiiOsmanTV sorry not games but cores (emulators)
8" tablet is perfect compact size. Phone is too small and my iPad 9.7" is too big. The Lenovo M8 FHD is great with nice performing processor, great looking screen, good speaker that gets loud, clean stock Android interface, 18 hour battery life is legit as I came close to that, nice hardware build and real good benchmarks for the price (antutu score is similar to Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 that sells for $229.99 retail). Only con for me is inability to stream in HD for Prime/Netflix but does stream in HD in my other video apps. I ran DRM info app and it says level 1 too. My pixel 3a and Moto z2 force also says level 1 but can't stream Prime in HD either. Not big deal for me as I only watch prime through fire stick. Another con is available cases are limited...... I will absolutely take this Lenovo tablet over the weaker 8" Fire tablet or the 10" Fire tablet. I had older Fire tablet in the past and put the Google store on it. Too buggy. Later flashed it. It doesn't work as polished as a regular tablet like my Lenovo or my Samsung tablets. If you are looking outside watching Netflix/Prime, I would definitely rather go with Lenovo for 8" tablet or if looking for 10" budget Android and pay like $159.99 sale for Samsung Tab A 10.1 even though the antutu score is less than Fire tablet. I guess if you are big gamer the fire tablet 10" is more appealing at $99.99 sale but I rarely game and when I do, it is a casual game.... I use my Lenovo tablet as my go to device for basic use more than my more powerful 2017 iPad and my more powerful phones (Pixel 3a and Moto z2 Force). Form factor with it's combination of size and weight is perfect! Battery life is a huge PRO.
@SebbS82
4 жыл бұрын
The speaker is good?
@Bflo23
4 жыл бұрын
@@SebbS82 Yea. The speaker is good. It is from the top which I prefer over bottom speaker as it gets muffled and it gets plenty loud for a budget tablet.
@cadysvids
4 жыл бұрын
Does the usb support OTG or just power? I am wanting to be able to use a thumb drive. I am coming from very old galaxy tabs which all had OTG usb, but since no one seems to mention it anymore in tablet reviews I don't know if this is because it is now standard, or no longer used because of bluetooth?
@Bflo23
4 жыл бұрын
@@cadysvids Yes. It supports OTG. This is from their manual. "One Micro-USB 2.0, supports Lenovo T-Hub, OTG, 3.5mm (0.14inch) combo audio / microphone jack, one MicroSD/TF slotor dual-card slot for Nano-SIM card and MicroSD/TF card.".
@davidepiomaggiorinoortuso8233
3 жыл бұрын
Is It still good today? Did It update?
How does it accomplish full screen 1080p content? The screen is actually 1920 x 1200, not 1920 x 1080. In order to display 1080 content, it must be doing one of three things: 1) letterboxing (putting black bands above and/or below totaling 120 pixels in width), 2) upscaling from 1920 x 1080 to about 2133 x 1200 but then cropping off about 106 pixels off each side, or 3) upscaling from 1920 x 1080 to 1920 x 1200 so you don't lose any material on the sides but which would make things appear too skinny, for example, by about 11%. This seems fairly important. The screen is not the right "shape" for HD content. How it deals with that is interesting.
Hi. Have you had any updates since on the M8 FHD? And can you confidently say Dreamcast and PSP games will work in medium graphics settings? How about streaming sites such as KZread, Netflix or Amazon Prime? Does the speakers sound meh or decent? Does some audio come out from the top earpiece as well?
@catgarcia2238
3 жыл бұрын
Ya it can handle Dreamcast and psp.
Hey. Thanks for all the videos. How did you get the Ipega 9617 synced up to the Lenovo. Their website says that these controllers are not compatible with Mediatek chip based devices??
I wonder how some of these lower performing tablets would do overclocking them.
@MoejiiOsmanTV
4 жыл бұрын
IMO this isn't a lower grade ta let I feel like it's in between the cheap 80 ta let's to the 300 ones
How good is this one compared to the Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite 8?
They really need to put better chip into this form factor. Something like Helio G90T or G95T with 4gb ram. They can keep hd screen and everything else about it.
Hey Etaprime! Ty for reviewing all these products! Quick question: i am looking for for an tab that i can directly conmect to a tv without loosing resolution. Is this possible?
@ETAPRIME
4 жыл бұрын
The galaxy Tab 4, Tab S5e it the galaxy Tab 6 and the only ones that come to mind.
@garuda
4 жыл бұрын
Or is it better to get an pi 3b and a tablet like this one to stream directly to the tv?
@garuda
4 жыл бұрын
ETA PRIME figured it out by accident. I just installed Osmc and used an old galaxy s4 with lineagos to stream moviebox to a tv. Lol if u watch eta’s vids the answer just pops up in your head unknowingly.
They had me, right up until you mentioned it's ONLY a single speaker setup. What's with these tab makers? Do they really think everyone only has one ear? LOL Thanks for the video.
@timmyburden5701
4 жыл бұрын
Ha I thought the same for the high price it should have 2 speakers.
@BrickTamlandOfficial
4 жыл бұрын
tab makers assume you aren't putting the tablet in your ear to listen to it. thats why they put an audio jack.
@ThomasGrillo
4 жыл бұрын
who even uses those nasty ear phones anymore, anyway. I know I don't. disgusting things. I want full sound, through two speakers. LOL
@Vratikusz
4 жыл бұрын
I love my huawei mediapad t5 10". It is not the most powerfull one but full hd screen with stereospeakers on the bottom in landscape.
@Bflo23
4 жыл бұрын
The 1 speaker sounds good though and gets really loud. I have yet to go over 70%.
still a quadcore mediatek 2gb memory tablet in 2020 should be price under a $100 and it will be good for like gaming, ebooks, taking & referencing notes, basically something i wouldn't mind tossing into my bag with just a soft case. like my asus fonepad 8, but its crawling with a gb of memory.
Comparing 8'' tablets with 10'' tablets makes no sense. These are different device classes.
Thanks for the video. But no usb-c no sale
How about a android tablet that can run god of war games at full speed that has a cheaper price tag? Any idea? Does such a tablet exist outside of the Galaxy Tabs?
A matter of waiting for the right price
Those are some impressive specs. I'm actually surprised. Cost is good, too.
Is it me or does that home button look... a bit off?
I bought the M10 FHD last month. M8 was too small for my eyes. I love mine.
My mi pad 4 performs amazing and it has got a snapdragon. bought it months ago on aliexpress
@garystinten9339
4 жыл бұрын
Got a link?
@Vratikusz
4 жыл бұрын
I got it also. Perfect tablet. The i droped it on the back in case. Nothing broke but screen got lines everywhere. :(
In China, this tablet is about 158 USD (1099 RMB) with more RAM (4gb), and more storage (64gb)
@dhilsiva
3 жыл бұрын
In India, the same model with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage is 14999 INR.
if possible do a review of Xiaomi Mi Pad 4
Half-decent entry-level tablet. Only thing I don't like is the Mediatek SoC. Slow A-53 cores and an old low-end GPU. But for the price, you can hardly ask for more. 3:37: There's no such thing as "server-side decoding". Plex is only transcoding (or transmuxing) your video to a format that is compatible with your device. Device itself still has to do decoding of whatever stream Plex provides it with.
Thank you for the review! Are you sure that you got FHD in Netflix? That would imply Widevine L1 certification, which the Tab M8 HD definitely didn't have.
3DMark Bench for Tab M8 HD oder M8 FHD?
Just got mine for 105 and can't wait to use xbox game pass for it.
Dumb question maybe - what if you just ran the tablet at 720p when not streaming?
Isn't streaming from your ps4 also possible?
Well for basic stuff it should do just fine although the price is at little steep. Currently I use a tablet mostly for writing, I have the old Tab 10 from Lenovo but the resolution is at 720p and it even makes text look bad at 10 inches. Something with a full HD screen to make it look sharper and a better CPU from the darn Snapdragon 200 or 210 it has it would be a massive upgrade. As well as more ram and faster storage, the old one has such a slow storage that it can easily take over a hour just to update 10 small apps! Ridiculous! Lenovo needs to step up their game and let's not forget the software department, they tend to abandon those devices with the Android versions/security patches they have out of the box.
The resolution is 1920x1200 (16:10), not 16:9 1920x1080P
what dreamcast emulator do you use? thanks
I grabbed a M10 FHD, Aus spec'd, If there was the M8 FHD available here how, i would of grabbed that instead, 8" is a good portable size
@MrJaz8088
4 жыл бұрын
The 10 FHD is USB-C charge only, Finished watching and she's No Good what a shame
I'm searching for a good capacitive stylus on for drawing on the tablet. any ideas?
Brother..I want to buy a tab only for study with good battery life...is this better or Samsung tab a 8.0?? Give me a honest suggestions
Hey Which is a better option Lenovo Tab M8 2nd gen FHD (4gb, 64gb). Or the latest Samsung A7 (3gb, 33gb).
I wish they'd use Snapdragon socs in these cheaper tablets.
@AJ42069
4 жыл бұрын
Then it wouldnt be cheap 😭
@BrickTamlandOfficial
4 жыл бұрын
if only snapdragon would get cheaper.
@reeseyme9613
4 жыл бұрын
maybe the snapdragon 400 series for lower end lower power devices
@dominick253
4 жыл бұрын
I wish Ariana was my side chick too....
@Bflo23
4 жыл бұрын
This mediatek is a smidge below on antutu than that of a Snapdragon 636 processor used in a Moto Z3 Play. That is pretty impressive considering the price. Nothing wrong with that at all. Unrealistic to expect something superior than a Snapdragon 636 performance.
Hmm it's like it's got two bezels from that kind of design O.o
In this tablet It is possible to use Two task in two Windows at the same time?many thanks!!!! I dont know to bUy this One or huawei mediapad 5 lite 8’
Didn't know this one even existed.
A flash is pretty rare on a tablet!!
Does it support HDMI out?
How smooth does this run?
do you know the MT model number for the P22T Soc in the tablet? just searching P22T doesn't give me results...
have you reviewed the Vastking Kindpad 8 tablet
I was excited and then disappointed that it's not USB type C
not a bad one but need's more power since demon ps2 is getting more and more being fix.
Will it play war robots with shadows?
Hey eta prime totally not related to this video but do you know any new scrapers for batocera? Universal xml is down and my batocera won’t scrape
Why won't they release the smart tab m8?
Any chance for a windows tablet?
is it 1080p on netflix or 720p ?
damn the lack of usb c kills this for me
Hi, this tablet comes with Android 10, I don't know if it's from the version, but the three navigation buttons don't appear at the bottom of the pages. How do I fix this? There is no option to add them in the settings.
So it has a dedicated gpu?
you pay your money and you get what you pay for 8 cores probably means you get four fast cores that use a lot of energy and 4 cores which are slower and use less energy
Does anyone know where I can the stock ROM for this tablet? I need to root it and cannot find it anywhere.
@catgarcia2238
3 жыл бұрын
Look on lenovo's website. There's a software that will flash the firmware with the app Magisk
Sir, please show some word, excel works on this tab. I want to work on tab than in pc. I don't know it is suitable for ms word, excel works.
On sale right now for $103 from Lenovo.
Can it make a call by sim? Thanks
Looking for a controller clip for my Xbox One S controller big enough for this 8" tablet.
What would be the best tablet to make a Waze GPS unit. I want something faster than the Lenovo m7 which is what I have now. I would prefer Android. 8inches or smaller. Thanks
@zckom
4 жыл бұрын
I use Samsung Tab A with S Pen for Android Auto with Headunit Reloaded.
I have the m10 smart tab with Alexa
Looks so much like the huawei mediapad m5 8
This could be a great review, but in my opinion there is too much emphasis on gaming (which I am and maybe some other people are not interested in at all), but you do not say anything about the cameras or how the sound is when listening with head phones...
Can somebody explain me at 2:30 storage sd card upto 2tb what does it mean????? Does this tab really support 2tb sd card or its the limit of external hard disk that can connect to it. Please explain properly.
Can you install Linux on it?
I'm on a Lenovo lap Top. Built like a Brick House but ZERO expansion ability. Disappointed I was.
Does it support stylus
Does this tablet have any pen support?
You should try out xiaomi mi pad 4
Does it supports wired keyboard using otg cable