Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus is a gorgeous tablet that's big enough to compete with the likes of the iPad Air and Galaxy Tab S11, but its beauty isn't much more than skin deep. With underwhelming AI features, a two-year-old chipset, and no broader mobile ecosystem features to speak of, it's tough to justify spending around $700 MSRP on an Android tablet that's behind from the start and won't get enough updates to stay current in the long term.
I’m constantly on the lookout for ways to replace my laptop. It’s not that I don’t like my 15-inch MacBook Air (I really do), I just don’t love toting it with me while I travel. Along the way, I’ve tried a rotating cast of Android tablets, foldable phones, and Chromebooks, but nothing has quite stuck. So, when Lenovo announced its first AI-powered tablet, the Yoga Tab Plus ($519 at Lenovo), I figured I had to give it a try.
After all, with a long summer of travel ahead of me, I thought that features like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, dual cameras, and a suite of included accessories would cover me for everything from a camping trip away from reliable Wi-Fi to a marathon in the most remote corner of my home state.
And, now that my long summer is winding down, it’s time to see how the Yoga Tab Plus handled its task.
Now that’s a good-looking tablet (with all the extras)
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Above all else, the Yoga Tab Plus is gorgeous. The singular finish, dubbed Seashell, is a kind of white, yet a kind of silver, and I’ve yet to find an angle from which it looks bad — either from the front or the back.
In fact, despite accompanying me through several months of travel across campsites, beaches, and hotels in the far-flung corners of Pennsylvania, I’ve yet to find a blemish on Lenovo’s metal body or glass display despite the light-colored finish. Perhaps some of that reassurance comes from the slate’s decent IP53 rating, which beats the unprotected OnePlus Pad 3 but doesn’t quite crack the lofty IP68 standards of the Galaxy Tab S11. Either way, I’m happy with the durability so far.
However, as I mentioned, the Yoga Tab Plus is designed to look good from almost every angle, and that certainly includes its display. Lenovo equipped its top-end tablet with a 12.7-inch, 3K LCD panel, and it has impressed me in almost every aspect I’ve tested. Would I have liked an OLED panel at this price point? Sure, I’d have liked to see more than 900 nits of peak brightness, too, but there’s enough sharpness here to make up for it.
Lenovo's LCD panel is big, bright, and sharp enough for all my streaming needs.
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