5 reviews for Lenovo M8 (2nd Gen) 20.32 cm (8 inch, Only 3 GB RAM, 32 GB) [Year-2020]

1. 

   Prithvi K – August 22, 2024

   Awesome, seriously.
   Well, I pondered over good 2 months on buying a tablet and which one to buy – from galaxy s6 to A10 – I just wanted a tab to separate my personal life from my work phone and laptop. And finally I bought a Lenovo m8 fhd 4gb WiFi only version, a bold move despite being a Samsung/apple fan. I have been using this for some days now and good god, I am simply happy with what I bought! I saw this tab stuttering in processing/smoothness in many reviews but it has been quite fast! I am mostly a Netflix, Reddit, Tumblr user with a lot of offline movie and music downloads and libraries, and some note taking and few games like need for speed, beach buggy racing game etc. I am extremely happy with its performanc and battery and it looks cool and stylish in hand!Two things I wish it was better – if the back cover could have been dark metal grey becoz I am a fan of dark colours, and if the 13mp camera was a good – it is a very average camera just for the sake of clicking pictures. But for this price, this tablet in its entirety is already a gem!I just customised the launcher with a custom one 🙂 the screen resolution is just awesome, being FHD. I love this tab.

2. 

   Soumik Chatterjee – August 22, 2024

   Pretty decent product if you know the limits of the device
   I purchased the tab as a replacement of my 6-year-old Kindle. Having read many reviews online, I knew exactly what to expect from this tablet. I wanted an 8-inch tablet as my primary purpose was to read e-books, hence my first requirement was a small tablet with the best possible display. So here are my observations for anyone who is planning to buy this tablet.Pros -1. Excellent Display. It is the only 8-inch tablet with a Full HD+ display. No other 8-inch tablet has a resolution and PPI like this one. The display is also IPS LCD. It is adequately bright and crisp with good viewing angles. (I was waiting for the RealMe Pad Mini but it is not full HD hence opted for this.)2. It supports dual-band Wi-Fi and there is no lag in terms of connectivity.3. If you are clear on the fact that this is a very Mid-level Tablet in-terms of specifications, then performance wise you will not face too many issues. My sole purpose for it was to have a device for E-Books, a little media consumption and from that aspect performance is fine.4. The tablet has a single speaker which is loud enough to hear the notification sounds. However, the audio from the 3.5mm headphone jack is excellent. It is tuned by DOLBY and will satisfy the requirements of most people.5. Battery life is great. The tablet lasted me over 4 days on a single charge (keeping in mind that it was used mostly for reading and light YouTube viewing.)6. The reading experience, which was the primary reason I opted for this tablet, is excellent. The tablet is not too heavy and can be held for a long time. The reading mode makes it very easy to use at night. Hardly felt any eye strain. Kindle is not good for reading PDF documents but this tablet is just perfect for it. I use an app called ReadEra for PDFs and it is just as good as can be expected.7. Although there is no fingerprint sensor, the face unlocking feature is there. It is a bit slow but reliable even in low light.8. The tablet came out of the box with Android version 10. It received the latest security patch as well. The system-wide dark mode works well.9. Last but not least is the build quality. The metal body is very sturdy and the side bezels are quite narrow. Tablet is light weight hence easy to carry or held in hand without fatigue.Cons -1. One of the main cons is the performance. You have to buy this tablet keeping in mind that the hardware is pretty old. This is NOT a tablet for playing games or heavy work. If you limit your usage to light work, the tablet will get you through. Even then slight lags here and there are pretty noticeable.2. Although the camera is not something I use on the tablet, the quality of these (both front and back camera) is just about average. You can take passable images and that is that. Unlike most tablets in this price range, you do get a flash light.3. The speaker volume is not that great, luckily for me it is not a big deal but mentioning it, in case someone needs to know. It is a single speaker setup and sound quality and loudness are average.4. Although the display is excellent, one of the most annoying thing is the Automatic/Adaptive brightness. This does not work as expected and I often have to manually adjust the brightness. I hope Lenovo fixes it soon.5. A major con is the absence of a USB Type-C port. This tablet is still stuck with micro-USB in 2022 (the device was first released in 2019) !!! It is not a big deal in general but you have to carry an extra cable just for this one device.6. Although the tablet comes out of the box with Android 10, it is quite possible that there won’t be any further OS upgrades for this tablet considering the below-average hardware.7. Although the battery life is quite good on this tablet, the charging time is rather long. There is no support for fast charging. The best option is to keep the device for charging when you go to bed and have it ready to use in the morning.8. It does not feel value for money considering the performance. This tablet should ideally be around 10K.To conclude the review, I bought the tablet as a replacement of my Kindle and I use it primarily for reading E-Books and to that extent, it is a very decent tablet. My primary requirements were size, display and battery life. As mentioned above, the display and battery life are both excellent. If you know the limitations of this device and work with that you will find it a pretty satisfactory product. (ALSO DON’T BUY THE WIFI-ONLY MODEL AND THEN CRY ABOUT THE LACK OF A SIM CARD. READ THE DESCRIPTION BEFORE YOU BUY THE PRODUCT.) Kudos to AMAZON for delivering the product on time.

3. 

   This the BEST of bests within this buget. – August 22, 2024

   Just go for it!!!
   All I have to say is that this is THE BEST tab within this buget.

4. 

   Anonymous :/ – August 22, 2024

   Almost perfect
   My expectations were quite low on this product thinking that tablets can’t even handle basic games because of all the negative reviews I encountered and that I could only do my school work but this was wrong!This is a 4gb ram and 64gb rom variant which is the best in this price segment! The processor isn’t that good but it’s octacore and handles mid-mild games at default settings very well! I’ve only played minecraft with the default settings and I experienced no lag…Camera and speakers are average though but the speaker’s loudness can be further increased through the built in Dolby audio appReading books on this tablet is very pleasant because of the slim bezels and premium feel of the tablet. Amazon Kindle supports dark mode for the books too so I experience no eye strainCharging takes a looong time! That’s the worst part. I wish they had a fast charger with this handset plus idk if I can use my fast charger with this. But it packs a 5k mah batter which lasts even longer and I don’t feel the need to charge at regular intervals which happens frequently with phones.Another con is that it doesn’t support system wide dark mode (which will be resolved in the next android 10 update so that doesn’t pose a future issue)All in all an asset for a student as it has a huge display and numerous features with multitasking and no bloatware (so no ads) and ideal for online classes and copying notes.Edit 2/1/21After using it for months, I feel that this device does have flaws so decided to reduce it to a three star. Since I’ve already talked about the pros, I’ll state the cons all together- the UI is bs, just got the android 10 update and it made things worse, the notification bar is thinner and harder to use, the sound bar is incomplete, added bloated apps (which can be disabled but still >:( ) the only good thing about this android upgrade was system wide dark mode and support for resizeable windows which provides a more desktop like experience with mouse and keyboard- The screen doesn’t have gorilla glass which is the industry standard nowadays, as a result it got minor scratches and thereby I had to install a glass screen protector to prevent further damage.-Camera is horrible, not suitable for scanning documents also. Images are usually blurry and lack detail when using Adobe scan. Front facing camera is average and usually does the job for online meetings- frame drops while gaming. Low refresh rate and poor graphics card and processor but the games run well at low settings.- The volume buttons have some sort of problem. If you press it for a second or two the volume maxes out instead of going up a bar or two and my ears pop out, thereby I have to press it cautiously which is a problem- micro usb port!!!! Come on, its 2021- last but not the least, this doesn’t have an inbuilt messaging app and as a result, jiocall doesn’t work 🙁 I was quite disappointed when I found this, it just says connect to a valid jiofi connection and unfortunately, I didn’t come across a solution.So these are some of the problems that I’ve faced, if these don’t pose a problem then you can go for the device, else my suggestion would be to go for the newer Samsung m7 if you can spend a few more bucks…

5. 

   Avradeep Chaudhary – August 22, 2024

   Good product
   Having using this for month, the product is good for watching videos. However the Android interface is not so smooth. Charging time improves after the Android update, however still it’s very slow as compared to the other products.