My Review of my new A2109 Things to consider for possible owners....

[arbarnhart]

The low tech high tech way to clean up memory is to swipe things off the window list. Run a few apps and then go into settings and look at the available memory. Press the icon to get the window list and start swiping them to the side. You will see memory go up and if you go to running applications you will see that they disappear. I like some apps to stay loaded so I still have the same context. But some apps, especially memory hogging games, I want to unload.

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[dieseltown]

Very nice review

[vampirefo.]

Nice review, I agree that the tablet has gorilla glass.

[arbarnhart]

Nice review, I agree that the tablet has gorilla glass.

When you search:
lenovo a2109 gorilla glass - Google Search
you will find reviews that says it has it and reviews that point out the lack of it as a deficiency. The official specs don't mention it and I can't find it in any Lenovo provided information. I really hope you are correct, but I would be hesitant to claim that in recommending or selling the tablet without some reference to Lenovo specs.

EDIT - BTW, Corning does have a couple of competitors in the "strong, flexible glass" space. So just because it might not be Corning Gorilla Glass® doesn't mean it is fragile.

[jimbot82]

Excellent review, Ive been pondering over buying one for last 2 weeks, can get 16gb for £199. My mind is now made up, buying one tomorrow.
Excuse my ignorance but not very tech myself, it says it comes with ice cream and not jellybean, whats the difference?

[arbarnhart]

Excellent review, Ive been pondering over buying one for last 2 weeks, can get 16gb for £199. My mind is now made up, buying one tomorrow.
Excuse my ignorance but not very tech myself, it says it comes with ice cream and not jellybean, whats the difference?

JB is the newest release. If it comes with ICS, you can go into the settings and get the update (while connected to a good link) and get JB. Some things appear to be slightly faster in ICS and because of that some people prefer to stay at ICS. I prefer to be running the latest. Both are plenty fast and stable.

[FloRider]

Excellent review, Ive been pondering over buying one for last 2 weeks, can get 16gb for £199. My mind is now made up, buying one tomorrow.
Excuse my ignorance but not very tech myself, it says it comes with ice cream and not jellybean, whats the difference?

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[WasteLandSavage]

Excellent review, Ive been pondering over buying one for last 2 weeks, can get 16gb for £199. My mind is now made up, buying one tomorrow.
Excuse my ignorance but not very tech myself, it says it comes with ice cream and not jellybean, whats the difference?

There really isn't a whole lot of difference.
Except JB's a lot faster and more stable then ICS, there's also some cosmetic differences but that's really all I see.

Mine to said ICS came with it but instead it had JB 4.1.1 on it out of the box.
They started shipping JB stock about a month ago, and most places just are very slow or never update their ad pages on their sites.
In an event your going to love it and WELCOME to the family......

[vampirefo.]

This part I disagree, ICS is faster and way more stable than the version of jb we have.
I guess most people don't release we got the lowest jb, there are several versio of jb out there, the first release which we have is considered beta, ie not very good.
We would need 4.2.2 to be on par with ICS.

[arbarnhart]

This part I disagree, ICS is faster and way more stable than the version of jb we have.
I guess most people don't release we got the lowest jb, there are several versio of jb out there, the first release which we have is considered beta, ie not very good.
We would need 4.2.2 to be on par with ICS.

I used to think JB was faster, mostly because of my experience with one app in particular - the TWC live TV viewer. But when I updated to JB, an update to that app became available that may have caused the speed up. This thread:
Epic Citadel - awesome demo with a meaningful benchmark
has me thinking otherwise now. That app runs exactly the same version under ICS and JB and as you can see in posted results, ICS did better. But both were rated "High Quality" and got good frame rates. I have not experienced instability that didn't have another cause (that crazy inverter power thing happened to me in both) in either. I don't think either is a slam dunk choice over the other. But if you ever have a support issue that seems to be software, the first thing they always ask is if you have updated to latest code.

On the issue of Gorilla Glass, I think it is about to go the way of Zytel. Zytel is Dupont's ultra rugged nylon. It's been around for years. It is still heavily used in products, but you hardly ever hear of it anymore because competitors have stuff that is pretty much the same. Gorilla Glass is approaching that sort of status - yes, it is good if you have it but because other manufacturers make roughly equivalent products, it may not be such a plus as to merit any special mention in your literature. I think the A2109 has some kind of tough, flexible glass covering the display. Whether it is the Corning product or another, I don't know...