The Lenovo A10 is a portable and affordable 10-inch budget tablet with the rare perk of good audio quality. Bargain tablets usually cut too many corners to justify their price; however, the A10 skips the trendy aesthetics and pixel-packed screens to emerge as a simple slate with a rocking set of speakers.
It's cheaper than most 10-inch tablets, starting at $250, but its Dolby Audio stereo speakers sound like they belong on the most expensive tablet out there. With rich and full sound, paired with the Dolby app for fine-tuning, the Lenovo A10 is an audiophile-geared category of its own.
Tablets that come close to the A10's audio quality, like the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 or Microsoft Surface Pro 2, lack its affordable appeal.
The A10's downside is its averageness -- its screen and design are basic at best, and without the speakers, it would be another faceless release -- but if you don't mind passing up high-end specs in favor of a solid list of basics, the Lenovo A10 is an affordable option with unparalleled audio quality.
Design
Lenovo offers the A10 in a dark blue shade. The smooth back panel wraps around to the front of the rounded corners, making the tablet comfortable to hold in either landscape or portrait mode. The smooth matte finish shows fingerprints a bit, but its tactile appeal makes the inevitable smudge forgivable.
| Lenovo A10 | Asus Memo Pad FHD 10 | Google Nexus 10 | |
| Weight in pounds | 1.2 | 1.24 | 1.24 |
| Width in inches (landscape) |
10.4
| 10.1 | 10.4 |
| Height in inches | 6.9 | 7.2 | 6.9 |
| Depth in inches |
0.35
| 0.37 | 0.35 |
| Side bezel width in inches (landscape) |
0.9
| 0.9 | 0.9 |
