Medion Lifetab S8311

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Reviews for the Medion Lifetab S8311

79% 8-Zoll-Tablet ganz groß
Source: Chip.de DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/17/2015
Rating: Total score: 79% price: 93% features: 56% display: 76% mobility: 72%

80% Medion LifeTab S8311 (MD 98983)
Source: Connect - Heft 04/2015
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 03/16/2015
Rating: Total score: 80%

Diesmal kein Preishammer
Source: Tom's Hardware DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/03/2015

74% Günstiges 8-Zoll-Tablet mit UMTS
Source: Tabtech DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/25/2015
Rating: Total score: 74% price: 80% performance: 90% display: 60% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%

82% Medion Lifetab S8311
Source: Areamobile DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/11/2015
Rating: Total score: 82% performance: 68% mobility: 73% workmanship: 95%

92% Medion LifeTab S8311 (MD 98983)
Source: SFT - Heft 3/2015
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 02/01/2015
Rating: Total score: 92%

Comment

Model: The Medion Lifetab S8311 is a classy 8 inch tablet packed with capable hardware in a sturdy shell. One can only expect high quality offerings from Medion and they certainly back up their claim with a 2 year warranty on this particular tablet. The sleek and thin profile makes the Medion Lifetab S8311 a perfect companion device. At just 360 g, the tablet comes in a beautiful glossy black front bezel and a metallic grey rear cover with the usual laser-etched Lifetab branding. Users will definitely feel the device's solid build quality the moment they pick up the tablet.

The Android 4.4 KitKat device comes with an 8 inch Full HD LIFELIGHT display that produces sharp images and vibrant colors. Other display properties include a large viewing angle and an anti-fingerprint coating ensuring a cleaner screen. The Medion Lifetab S8311 comes with a MTK 8392 octa-core processor clocked at 1.7 GHz, 2 GB RAM and a 16 GB internal storage. Users can up the storage using a microSD card. On-board are also two cameras with the 5 megapixel primary camera at the rear and the 2 mega-pixel secondary front shooter. Other capabilities include Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0 with USB host function, A-GPS and integrated UMTS module for blazing fast mobile internet. The Medion Lifetab S8311 comes with long lasting battery with usage times up to 10 hours.

ARM Mali-450 MP4: OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU for ARM based SoCs with 4 fragment processors and 1 vertex processor.

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

MT6592:

ARM Cortex-A7 Octa-Core Soc for smartphones and tablets.

8":

This display size is a threshold between tablets and smartphones. Most tablets have larger screen diagonals but a lot of smartphones offer such a big screen.

Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.

0.36 kg:

This weight is somewhat high for a smartphone. Smartphones with a big screen and small tablets weigh as much, usually.

Medion: Medion AG is a German consumer electronics company. It operates in Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific region. The main products are computers, TVs, refrigerators, toasters, and fitness equipment. The manufacturer of laptops Medion mainly is active in the German market, but to smaller extent also in Western Europe. Market shares and amount of reviews are low. Above all, supermarkets like Aldi sell their laptops. In 2011, Medion has been acquired by the laptop manufacturer Lenovo.

Medion reviews

81.4%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.

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