Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus is on sale right now for $549.
It's a slam dunk tablet with a brilliant display, great speakers, and comes with a keyboard, case, and stylus.
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Lenovo's Yoga Tab Plus is a well-rounded 13-inch tablet that comes with a keyboard, case, and stylus, offering all the primary use cases you can ask for from a tablet straight out of the box.
It features a 12.7-inch, 3K (2944 x 1840) LTPS glossy display that looks fantastic, with up to 900 nits of brightness and a 144Hz refresh rate for the smooth and vivid experience you'd expect from a premium tablet. For reference, that's brighter than both the 13-inch iPad Air and Samsung's Galaxy Tab S10+.
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The thin bezels make the screen seem larger than it is, and in full screen is satisfying for entertainment and media playback with support for Dolby Vision. The 11.45-inch screen size is, to me, the sweet spot: it's small enough to be portable but also large enough to be seen across the room if you're watching something in the kitchen while cooking, for example.
Even though there's no OLED option, I don't think it loses out on much because of how bright and vivid the screen is. Not everything needs to be an OLED to be considered premium, and the display on this tablet is certainly that.
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Six speakers back up the visuals: two solo tweeters and four SLS subwoofers for rich audio whether you're watching a movie or gaming. Video content that's not reliant on high-quality audio -- like TV shows or the news -- sounds especially good on this tablet, with clear dialogue and a good amount of separation.
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