ASUS ZenPad S8 8" (2048x1536) 32GB Black Tablet - Z580C-B1-BK

This is about the 10th tablet in the household. No, those are not all mine but I've had about 4 in my hands. This was an Xmas gift for my son, an upgrade from his samsung galaxy tab 3 8. Lemme just first say that I am staying clear of samsung products. Even though they put a reasonable quality product on the market I think they're overpriced for what u get. It's loaded with bloat and model after model, u don't get a lot of hardware improvements. Tablets that are made today still have a similar screen as my son's old samsung. Now, onto the asus tablet. I have to say that the first impressions were very good. I loved the screen. I agree with some people that it doesn't seem to get overly bright but I don't think that would be an issue. Max brightness isn't too bright like so many other tablets. The tablet is fast. Loading the same program on my son's old samsung and this new asus wasn't even fair. The asus was faster in every aspect. Smoother, way better screen and just ran everything faster. There is quite a bit of bloatware and that's annoying but to be honest, I don't think u can get away from that unless maybe u get a nexus tablet. What I do like though, for all the bloat, you can use one of the programs to stop programs from starting and draining Ur battery. I was even able to uninstall some too. I read some reviews that said u couldn't and maybe I haven't come across the programs that u can't Uninstall yet but so far, it's been fine. I've been able to Uninstall what I want. We played some Madden NFL mobile and hitman sniper today... Got many many hrs of play out of it. Can't say how much exactly but we started playing around 1 and with breaks in there, the tablet died at about 10. I'd say not bad for continuous usage on a pretty good program that probably has high graphics demands. The 2 things I found annoying were the double tap to sleep function. I think it put the tablet to sleep when I double tapped in the middle of a game. Annoying so I had to turn that off. The other thing that was annoying was that during hitman sniper, the screen would turn off for a few seconds and then turn back on. It never lost the game but it was questionable when the screen went dark. I'll update as I figure more things out but after the first day, very happy with the tablet. Except for the above mentioned issue that I haven't figured out yet. But my son is happy with it so I'm happy. My list of tablets Samsung Galaxy tab 7 plus Amazon Kindle Fire hd 8.9 (original) Asus memopad... Forgot which model. About 2 yrs old. Lenovo yoga tablet 2 (current) My son has owned Archos 80 g9 Samsung Galaxy tab 3 8.0 Now the asus zenpad s 8.0 I've had a lot of tablets and a lot of different phones and I've rooted a lot of them to make them work the way I want them to. I'm thinking I won't have to do that to this asus tablet. It's early so we'll see but it's looking good so far. Update. It's been a week and while the tablet rocks when it's working, the screen issue still happens. I've been able to either disable or Uninstall most of the asus bloat that I don't want. This includes a lot of the display modifying apps which I personally find to be a nuisance more than anything. With all that I've done, I've been able to minimize this screen off problem but it hasn't gone away. I'm starting to think I may have received a dud. My son watched a movie and the screen turned off maybe 3 times but while the screen is off, u can still hear everything. So it's still running in the background but the screen just turns off. So, the search continues to find the solution why this one problem keeps happening. Other than this one problem, the tablet is really nice. I thoroughly enjoy it. More so, my son is enjoying it even though he's having the screen issue. I'm downgrading to 4 stars because of this. The positives are still there. I've never been super picky about battery life as long as u don't drain a ton on standby when I'm doing nothing and as long as I get about 6 hrs plus play time. If it gives me that, I'm good. I think this zenpad does give me more than the 6 hrs. I say I but I really mean my son. I mess with it a bit but he spends most of the time on it. The speed and the performance has been very nice. Things are smooth and load fast. Lotsa ram which is also great. Lotsa storage too. My son almost filled up his galaxy tab. Both internal and SD card so having a big internal memory to go with the 64gb micro SD card is awesome. It supports more but that's his old chip and I'm not getting another one yet. Still, I'm Pleased overall and will be very happy if I can figure out this screen issue. I'd root it except I don't know that will fix the issue. Update: So, I figured it out about a week ago after looking at all the programs on the tablet. I Cleaned it out the best I could and it was still an intermittent problem. Then I realized it might have been the case. Tested it and sure enough, it was the case. After this I took steps to make sure that the case wouldn't be folded back when the tablet is in use. It's a minor annoyance having to do this with the case but the problem is solved and I'm good with everything now. I've upgraded my rating to 5 stars. I did submit a ticket to asus customer service and it took about a week for them to respond. Not much help with the response but at least they responded. I'll keep an eye out for this problem to make sure I was right but I'm pretty sure it's been solved.

Fantastic tablet for the price and in this class. Who it's for: My 10-year old daughter has been using an old ipad 2 to watch youtube and play games (minecraft, temple run games, etc.). The ipad 2 has been slowing down, and because it is only 16gb of memory she has filled it up with apps and pictures multiple times, it slows down even more and has required me to go in multiple times to do mass deletions of stuff. So, with her birthday coming up she asked for an ipad mini as a replacement for the ipad. Problem is the 16gb ($400) current ipad mini doesn't have enough memory, and jumping up the next size to 64GB ($500) is just too much money to spend on a youtube/gaming consumption device for a 10 year old who will beat the hell out of this thing. So, after looking at the current crop of 8" android tablets, this was the cheapest one with decent specs that got good reviews. We ordered the 32GB version along with a 32GB micro SD card. Experience: I'm an android guy and am somewhat of a gadget nerd, so I can intelligently critique android devices. Phone wise, I've gone from a Samsung Galaxy S3 to Nexus 5 to my new Nexus 6p. I also have a Samsung galaxy Note 8 and a work-supplied ipad air 2 that I use for mostly personal stuff. I can say the Asus skin (software overlay) on top of the Lollipop android operating system is pretty light. The tablet is very responsive; there is no lag like I have always experienced on Samsung devices where there are slight (or sometimes long) delays in opening menus, swiping between home screens, etc. The screen is bright and graphics are sharp. The device is light and thin, and even wrapped in a thin tpu case it is easy to hold for long periods of time. Obviously my daughter has plenty of room on the device for her apps, music, pictures, videos, etc. The battery life is fantastic; my daughter has used this thing for hours of watching videos and playing apps. I will say that there was one quirk where the security settings would not allow the Amazon app store to run properly after the app was side loaded onto the device. I had of course changed the permissions to allow installing apps from other sources than the google play store, but the app wouldn't run. I finally chatted with Amazon customer service and they walked me though the setting that needed to be changed to allow the app to run. It is a specific Asus software (security related) thing that stock Android doesn't have, and once I changed it the Amazon app store app worked fine. Oh, and having spent $220 on this tablet + memory card, it leaves us another $230-ish in the budget to get her the new Moto G for Christmas (+ micro sd card), to replace her first-gen Moto G. Same as I would have spent on the ipad mini by itself. Happy parents, happy kid.

Excelente tablet delgada la más delgada que he conocido, ligera diseño elegante. El tamaño y calidad de la pantalla espectacular. Muy potente

A menos de 6 meses se descompuso la pantalla, la lleve a garantía y la reparación solo duró un mes

Es un buen medio de consumo multimedia, lo unico malo es que los altavoces no son lo suficientemente altos, por lo que una bocina externa o unos audifonos son casi siempre necesarios el aspecto 4:3 es bueno para navegación web o lectura, al ver videos no se aprovcha al maximo la pantalla, pero es algo que por la naturaleza de los videos en 16:9 es algo normal en general es buena tablet a un buen precio, la velocidad es la necesaria y teniendo Android 5.1 la compatibilidad sera buena por uno cuantos años mas

Excelente! Lo recomiendo ampliamente, colores extraordinarios. con sus dos bocinas sonido excelente, rápida, pantalla irrayable, excelente precio, pila durable. Hermosa!

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