![]() ![]() The tablet comes with a standard 16GB of storage. Storage on the LG G Pad X 8.0 is a mix of great ideas and one terrible limitation. It’s also by far the fastest and most feature-rich in this price bracket. By comparison the cheapest LTE iPad sells for more than three times as much. Considering the list price is under $240 in both countries, that makes it one of the cheapest LTE tablets on the market. The version tested for this review is the Canadian model which works on the Rogers network and is sold as the LG G Pad III 8.0. Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, and there is even LTE through T-Mobile which-by no coincidence-is the only place you can buy an LG G Pad X 8.0. That versatility gives you considerable power on-demand with a week-long battery when used moderately.Ĭonnectivity options are all cutting-edge. The other set is designed to sip power from the battery while it’s checking for Facebook updates on your end table. One set is designed to do the heavy lifting when you’re shooting videos or playing games. It’s slower, but still has all the bells and whistles of the top end smartphones and tablets.įor example, the eight-core CPU is better described as two, four-core processors. It’s like getting the mid-range make of a late-model car. What the hell does that mean? It means that it’s a mid-range performer in the current generation of processors. Under the hood is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa-Core at 1.5GHz with 2GB of RAM. It doesn’t have the beautiful design and high quality materials of the LG G5, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be embarrassed to carry this thing around. Fortunately, most manufacturers have moved away from the glossy, cheap plastic look of the past-and here LG uses a textured plastic that feels grippy and doesn’t look half bad either. The design of this new G Pad X tablet is fairly straightforward if you’ve ever used a midrange tablet before. The built-in apps add some functionality but they don’t add much value. The interface is clean and fairly close to stock. Honestly, there’s not much special about this tablet in the software department. Until then (and until we get word that LG will update this device), multi-window is just not well executed here. When Android N shows up later this year it will hopefully come with a more refined multi-window experience, possibly including PiP and freeform windows and more app support. It’s far from what Apple has been able to accomplish with Picture-in-picture. Play Movies and YouTube are supported, but the experience is glitchy. ![]() The 3rd party apps you want to use (like Netflix) aren’t supported. Only a handful of apps support the feature and they’re Google’s built-in apps. LG has built the enabled the feature in their skin, but it still doesn’t feel ready for Prime Time. Multi-window is built into this version of Android, but only as an experimental component. Power users shouldn’t have trouble downloading a launcher replacement like Nova to give them back that flexibility. It looks for good this time as there is no way to re-enable it. With its mid-range specs the LG G Pad X 8.0 isn’t going after that same high-end market, so the app drawer is gone again. Since this was LG’s flagship product, a significant number of early adopters were power users who missed the app drawer. When LG initially released the LG G5, their customized interface removed the app drawer and dropped all your icons on the desktop in a similar fashion to the iPhone. Tapping a button on one can make the other ring audibly for easy location when you can find one but not the other The customized QPair software pulls call, message, and social network notifications from your phone to your tablet, and lets you respond to SMS. The look is clean and in line with what the company did with its flagship LG G5 smartphone. Only a couple months on the market, the LG G Pad X 8.0 runs Android’s latest 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system. You can pick it up at that price, but it also comes bundled in a few different service packages. At first glance the LG G Pad X 8.0 appears to be a well-balanced multi-tool that with features like a mid-sized screen, mid-range processor, and LTE connectivity for under $240. You may not have heard of the LG G Pad X 8.0 (which yes, is an unfortunate name), but it’s a new midrange tablet from LG available exclusively for T-Mobile. Lastly, most tablets are multi-functional enough to let you forget your e-reader at home. But you can also slap a keyboard on it and you’ve got something that resembles a laptop. Running Android or iOS sometimes make tablets feels like just a big phone (as the original iPad got criticized for being). As the options for personal computing have expanded over the last decade, the tablet sits (sometimes awkwardly) in every category.
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