Lenovo Yoga Book (Android) in-depth Review By Damir Franc

Warning, this review will be very, very long, and I actually already did this review like three or four times already in its complete full length, but every time I get through it. I notice, and I find a few more things that I just wanna cover because I don't want it to be the shallow review that I've seen in the first initial reviews, because I think just you can't cover this unique and so complex and versatile device in under ten minutes, and I'm, not quite sure if I will be able to do this, but I'm definitely trying to do my best here. That's why I will just take a lot more minutes to get this done, but let's get to one thing. First, a big thanks to Overpower for letting minister rise to review and also a little of an apology towards Lenovo's German press agency. What I said my first impressions with you about them? Wasn't so nice. So sorry about that.

But I would say: let's not waste any more time and I will make a lot more mistakes during this very, very long video. But that's the way it works, so let's get into the design and build quality. It is very light, as you can see, it's also very thin and very compact and yes, I know. A lot of people are complaining about the fact that the bezels are quite huge, but believe me, that is fine, because after all, you have the keyboard here. That would be even smaller.

If not, that would be the case so get over it. You will be fine. I still think there are a few minor build quality issues because, as you can see you can see through this, this could be maybe just due to the fact of the bent wrist hinge, I'm, not quite hard percent. True, but after all, as you can see here, there are a few things that are not aligned properly, and it just doesn't look always right, but this is from someone who's very picky. I mean me and I just wanted to point that out, but in normal use it was no issue at all and device itself still feels great, and you get your money's worth in terms of ports.

You have micro, USB and would have been definitely nice to have a long, maybe as well a second USB type-c port, just to be a little more future-proof, especially on a device that is supposed to be futuristic like this. It's a little sad to see here we have sim country, since this is the LTE version. Micro, HDMI I tried it and, besides being maybe one of a few ones that did, and it works, you can mirror the screen just nicely, and you then get just a very biggest screen to enjoy your productivity attempts way more here. We have one of the two speakers with the second one being here. You also get the power button and one rocker both feel and sound.

Very nice tactile good and the headphone jack I've already showed this, and you can see this. There is a kind of cutout here to open it device, but since it is so thin, it's not quite that easy and a few people have set me the same. Trying this device, so I've said already all I wanted to about the design built quote. It's definitely very, very nice, and it makes a great appearance, no huge issues. So that's why I want to go into the keyboard and if it would turn on which it for some reason just okay, yeah.

That's because the screen turned off, because it's only on with the screen and as you can see in terms of size, it is a little cramped, but it works out fine and, as I already said in my first impressions, video, the typing experience is better than I expected, but it's not the very best one and because of a few things, some people maybe turn it off some people, maybe not so much, because one thing that I want to show. If you have something you want to write down, you can type on it as you can see here, but there is also a different kind of keyboard option, for example here, if you touch Paul where it will give you suggestions, so all you have to do is now type something and then hit, for example, the one. If you hit the next button, you will get it, for example too. So this makes typing for some people easier for some people. However, you have to decide on that.

I personally use Swift get it worked out quite nice, especially if you use two different kinds of languages, but this is just what to be pointed out. We have different backlights holding options. You have more than that, and it's actually bright and easier to see in real ad use. You of course get some extra options like, for example, turning on down the volume turning off the microphone and the brightness and so on. So here we are covered and the keyboard itself works a fine, but since you don't have any sort of haptic feedback and no real physical keys, it's a little harder to get used it after all, I would say for meat, long typing, it's ok, but what I would like to suggest? Maybe here towards Lenovo one thing: there is a Lenovo device, I think that had one big hinge in the middle, where you could rotate the screen- and this would, in my opinion, allow to have this surface for the pen rotated and then ever maybe fin, but still after all, physical keyboard to type on it.

Maybe not the nicest and most elegant solution, but it would work out. Then it would make the device, in my opinion, a lot or better or not better for productivity, but I just wanted to cover that I will get into the pen just a little later, but I want to actually go along and talk about the dis panel to cover the whole dis. The rest of the hardware in terms of the display I actually think that the white point is set really, really nice, and it is a good to maybe even very good display, because the black also very uniform, no light bleed at all and quite deep It's though the colors that I have to say are maybe not quite what I wanted to because sometimes seem a little washed out, which you most probably won't even notice, because all the content that I usually watch was fine since I, don't know how it is supposed to look like. But when I watched my own content, like my videos, I just noticed that colors were a little pale a little just off. But as I said, if you watch other people's content, you won't win the mind.

You won't really notice it, and then it's actually very nicely done, and it is a good display. After all, so I wouldn't bother too much about that I just like to neck. Okay, let's try some. My initial impressions were absolutely fine, because the speaker on its own sounds really, really good, and I would say it's very good, because the maximum loudness was absolutely more than fine, and I could easily use this. In my kitchen, when I was usually watching my podcast and so on and hear everything without the Bluetooth speaker, the sound is also very rich with clear highs, so the quality is good and something that is definitely worth pointing out is that we haven't dulled the Atmos after, because if we enter that you get more options, you get an equalizer.

You can, for example, select surround virtualize, dialogue, enhancer and volume, and you can set different ones, and it definitely makes a big difference because just to quickly show it off to for you to see the difference. So, in terms of speaker really, really good. I, like it in terms of the headphone jack I, have to say it's good slightly better than average, because it's loud enough, and you still have the Dolby Atmos software. That makes different- maybe not so much as on the speaker here visit noticeable, but it makes an impact. Even though I still have to say as every other device, it could be louder, but that seems to be me even though I have good years.

I want to just louder. Maybe Allah I hear loud as anyone else. So, let's cover the performance here, and that is something that I want to start off with one thing crow, because in my first impressions, video I've said that chrome works very, very laggy, as you can see here, and it did not perform better at all. Even though the older engine browser worked are just fine, and I said, I would do an effective reset to drive. That would change and it did not.

But what I did, though, is try Chrome Beta and, as you can see here, this is no works absolutely perfect fast. Let render Rowling's times scrolling is battery smooth and the device just performs great, and not just here, because, if used, for example, a Twitter app battery smooth super great and with four gigs of RAM absolutely can handle everything. I also said: Google Plus was lagging quite a lot which improved, though, since they released an optimized version here of Google Plus and works out way better. Here, as you can see you, it works even better. So in the two column view, if you use that in portrait absolutely nice, so the performance of this device overall is absolutely spot-on.

You can do whatever you want in a really great fashion, and I'm, not quite so sure. If that performance experience will be the same on the Windows version since after all, Windows is a little more demanding than this mobile is, but the day-to-day use here is absolutely top and really, really good, and that's why I want to cover now. The gapes and games run really, really nice, and that performance overall is very good, though I have to mention that it seems to be kind of locked at 30 frames, maybe even just 25% at 25 frames, but therefore pretty much no slowdowns at all. It's its constantly at those 25 to 30 frames in all games, even fast ones, and it looks great and overall, it's playable at all times absolutely fine, and especially since we have the bigger screen and use, maybe a Bluetooth control to play your games. It's a way, nicer experience and just more immersive also, since this is 10.1 inch display with 1080p. You see a lot more grains, we'll see a lot more pixels here, but especially if you are a little further away now with the controller or whatever you want to use it with the gaming experience is really, really nice, but there are options for better things if you have just a few more frames, but this is just something minor to say so, I would say: let's go to the battery full charge takes three hours and five, and since this is an internship, and they usually don't support something like quick charge, it seems maybe long but for a device of this battery life, it's absolutely fine with the size of the battery 10% for 60 minutes of YouTube sounds perfect and looks like you could get like 9 or 10 hours of use out of this device, and everyone praises the battery life I'm.

Just personally, one that has to say I did not quite reach that, because over the course of one day it always looked like 9 or 10 hours, but on one day it would end like more at something like 8, but what I noticed in normal use over the course of one two or even three days that does then pry drain thanks to Android and the Intel chipset that isn't so efficient instead, but is not equatable. I usually got this around seven hours of screen on time with about 35% of rightness, which is still good. But if you use it in one day, it will be more than good enough, because I don't think you will need it eight or nine hours a day. But if you want to use it for multiple days like two three or maybe even four, you won't get all that great of a better life that was time. I experienced I've seen people getting a lot better things, but that's just what I want to point out.

So, let's get into the software, and the first thing that I want to show off is actually here before I'm going to some of the things that we have. This kind of launcher is a little weird, and we have the actual app tray here, which is definitely nice to see. Of course, we have customizable quick settings, and you can see actually more than usually. If we go into the settings you see. This looks a lot like stock Android, which is definitely nice to see, and I definitely had low depreciated.

I've already talked about the halo keyboard. What else do we get? We get Intel smart video which enhances the video, even though I don't really see the big difference here we have any pen, so you could use this display with something else as well, so you could actually use it with this tip as well, just anything that is conductive as it's already saying it, and it works out quite nice, quite nice. What else in terms of display not too much to say here looks everything very standard. Of course, you can show the battery, and so you have HDMI options you can see, you can have it disconnected, adjust the modes and over scan, and so on, so I've tried it, and it works. It is good, but other than that, it's pretty much standard constant.

That is okay. In my opinion, what I like to see, though, is that the recent apps or recent tests look a little different. You have more visible now you can end all of those as well, but what is the one highlight that I really know to appreciate a few of the tablet? Enhancement like, for example, having the option to just like in Windows select every app through this, which makes it way easier to jump between the apps. So now it's think I think it's time to get to the pen and I want to show off a few of the apps. If you hit the button and are in a different tab, not you could make your notes, as you can see really nicely, and this of course will get, as you can see here now to full screen once yet.

But as I already pointed out in my review in my first impressions video, there is one issue here, and that is just the fact that if you now go back to, for example, as I was in Chrome, you don't have this box anymore, and if you open it once again, it will be a different document, and that is just something that is a little set to see and let me quickly just go a little down with the brightness, because the Oriya fact of the camera seems to be even more so visible now. So the standard app is not something that I would recommend, because it works just to limited. You don't really have any organizing options and there is not so much you can do. It works out really nice, and if you go quickly into that, you have of course few different pen sizes. You can change the thickness and the font, and we have 2048 pressure levels, even though I personally just see like ? I, see a thin line and I see a thick line.

Of course, not only this pen since I have to show it now here and, as you can see here, you have a thin line, and you have a thicker line. I, don't really see all those pressure points, maybe it's a little more visible on Windows, but that's just what I see, and I just wanted to point that out. So this app is not that great, it's nice that it works on, keep actually something that I did not expect, and I did not think about actually tried AdSense, someone actually management, because you can see here it works. You have here as well different tips, thicknesses, of course the eraser, and it works on answer. If you can see a phenol and the fickle man, so it works out still okay, but also a little limiting.

Since you don't have any text recognition, which is the issue for me on one note, because if you try to draw something, it works out really nice, as you can see you, and you have the pressure points, and it does recognize it, but I don't have any text recognition from my handwriting, which is something that I personally would like to see and would make it a lot more versatile. So everyone who has the Windows version should get this, and I've not I was not able to get this done on the windows on the Android version for some reason, but it's definitely nice, and you can make your drawings. Of course. Here you can move around, and here you can use it. So all is good here in this one, but I would like to show you two apps.

The first one is smart note, because if you go into that, what it supports is text recognition, and it works out really, really great, because let me just try to type something and if I type, something all wrong. As you can see, this now takes everything and writes it down, but you also get. If you get to write the option to typeset, we have three different ones available: I think if you pay for the app you can actually get more and what it does now is, though, recognize what you wrote, and it types it out- and this is really handy, especially if you want that functionality to just write down and have it in a digital form, because this and my opinion is very smart and even though I don't have a nice handwriting, it recognizes everything really, really well you, and even in this F get a nice few options, because if you swipe down it gets you to a different line. Usually you can delete those words. You can even separate words if you stripe through, you can bind them back together.

You can separate them if you different line and get away. So this is quite definitely the nice step that I've found to work with this pen and I think it works really nicely. But there is a second option that I would like to show off actually and keep once again, because if you maybe want to write something but don't want to use the pen there is this option to use stylus beta, which is an app that is really, really handy, because what it does is it opens here for you to write here again, and this is from the same maker that made the smart note app and, as you can see here, it translates all your written words really nicely, and this works really fluid. You have a lot more options for different languages, but I think this works so handy, and this could be used, for example, now in OneNote or in Docs and I think this is a quite nice input method. So definitely really nice to see.

I just wanted to point that out, because this keyboard in combination, also maybe with smart mode, is so far the best method that I found on Android. If you can use it with OneNote. You have to tell me, because I think it's a little limited, but it's great that we have, of course, the cloud options. No, let's talk about it. The last thing here not to make this unnecessary long.

You can of course take out the pen tip with you to the Box are quite nice. You can take this one out and now take the ink tip and I would maybe not recommend using this on the display itself, because after all, it's an ink pen. Of course, we have to turn off typeset. So we can write something down low, and you can see I could write with this on, but I don't want to because it's, after all, an ink tip, but you can use any type of paper, and people have asking me that, and you can see it sees all the lines, and this is definitely great to see, and it works on us if you want it in both ways. I personally, don't really have such a big need for that option.

But what you also get is this you get. This note pimp, note pet, and now you have it in both terms, and it is pretty much exactly the size as the display, and it can be used in that way. Let me zoom out a little, so we can maybe see this a little better, but this is definitely quite handy if you have a use and wanted in both ways. Personally, I don't really have a need for my notes to be analog and digital as well, but if you want it, and one thing that I wanted to point out is, for example, you can see me making this line now, which is not on the display for some reason. Okay now here it is here, is the line and if I get this away and maybe want to make a note at some point again.

Let me get to this point, and we'll see that it did not 100% hit that spot. It's very close actually this time, but if you just align it a little wrong like, for example, now, and you want to spot the middle, you will be far to off so keep in mind that you will have to align it properly for it to I. Think it's a nice solution. A few people have been panicking about because this you have to buy this, but it's I think it's not that expensive. It costs like 10 bucks, and you get like 80 sheets of paper, but it works.

You could use any sort of paper, but after all, it is kind of thick thought about to be made with the kind of proprietary version with this pen. I personally, don't need it, and I would personally just stick with the normal pen, but I definitely like the option, and maybe, if you are someone who can take advantage of that feature as well, it's there, so I think I have covered it and mostly in terms of software, like I said, I wanted to make a specific video just for the software, since there is so much to talk about and it's so versatile and just before I'm going to quit this. Actually, let me show up right because of a lot of people are not just making like notes and so on. They also maybe want to make some drawings and, as you can see, your I am not talented at all. So let me try to get this done in a second one.

Oh, it's fine! Okay, as you can see here, you can draw. You have different kinds of pens here. Some apps that you can buy have acted different as you can see here on the screen. This is actually wrong. Let's try this.

Of course, you don't get the pressure points which you will get okay. This seems to be something different: okay, okay, as you can see here, it does something it's some kind of watery effect. So let's get back to what I know well right and no, it does not for some reason, but it does with this one: okay, yeah, okay, my bad I had it too white. That was my mistake. So now you can see it does all that, of course, if you do this on the screen, it's a lot more delayed, and it's not more response.

You don't get the pressure point and I personally, like I, said I, don't see all of them, I see like fin, and I see like Kicker, but if you want to draw this is one of the better apps that I've found for out. But you can, let me know I guess, on the Windows version, there are a lot more versatile ones and the Windows version I have to get to that is a lot more I would say capable, but it will be a lot of a slower experience and I will get into that before I'm, going to go into the pros and cons. I think this device from what I've heard on first impressions, videos on hands-on videos, is that it works better with the Android version, since it seems a little more we're integrated, which kind of is the same, but from what I get from first color to my first impressions, video people think to seem see things a little different because they say it's just too limited in terms of the software together. Windows allows you so much more, but I'm not quite sure. If those people have actually used this one, because I personally think that the Intel Atom version on Windows 10 will perform quite badly I'm, not quite a hundred percent sure.

So if Lenovo maybe want to send me, the windows were to tried it out and compare it. It would be definitely nice I'm open for that, because I want to know it, because personally, what I use this device for was usually mostly the casual stuff that I do on most tablets. So I did my media on it. I did my light productivity with it. I use the pen I tried to use it for the first week.

After all, I. Don't really have a need for it, otherwise I would already have otherwise. With this I posted just have finished. Seen don't have the nice handwriting and the apps are a little missing if that would be different on Windows I'm, not quite so sure, because even though I had used on Windows surface I did not use the pen either. So that's something that you have to say you have to know if this device does what you want it to do, because it's a really, really good.

We Android tablet for consumption, media and everything else. This is great. You can type on it, so we can get some light productivity done. You can write some documents and all that works, maybe better with a Bluetooth keyboard, then with this Hall keyboard, but it is there, and I like that. It's just always kind of stampers, and it's very versatile, and I would go through that a little later.

But if Android allows you to do what you want with that, maybe you have to. Let me know that or maybe find the proper apps, because I tried, like 10 notes, apps and for like art apps, but in the end nothing felt really right to me, which is not a problem of this device, but of Android, and that's why I would like to get to the pros and cons cover the hardware and software the pros and cons every to maybe see if I missed something, and then I will maybe get to the value and something on ok fin and light. I've already said that it is absolutely and the build quality is great, even though it's not maybe perfect. A good display, maybe not quite accurate and I, have usually just noticed that on my content, but otherwise I was absolutely pleased very good speakers very loud, sound, good, very good performance. There's only the chrome issue that I'm not quite sure why no one has mentioned that I had it and I did the factory reset and due to that, I was actually forced to this directory said because this device today got an update, and there was a blank screen for like five minutes and I did not think something was happening.

I thought the device was kind of stuck, but what it actually did was encrypt. The device I broke that off, and then I had to affect the reset. That's why I don't really have all the apps instead anymore, that I had so just to keep that in mind, but the performance did not change. It is very good. Just the normal chrome work of the little odd, very good, better, if not quite great, in my use, because I've got better life on other devices.

Already I mostly blame the Intel for this, because when its turboboosts it just takes out a little more too much battery, but seven eight. Sometimes you can get on one day. Nine hours is still very good stock. A software with a few tablet- enhancement I, definitely appreciate it because on a kind of laptop device or two-in-one on Android, with the enhancement that they did in the taskbar, it definitely makes a difference. Pen feature.

After all, it is nice to have something like that, and something that I did not even appreciate well enough or did not point out, is that this glass here, the matte one feels so nice if you type on it, because it feels like actual paper, and they got the texture. In my opinion, just right, it feels so much more natural than typing on any sort of glass display, and this is something that a lot of people will appreciate once they have felt this, because it really makes a big difference. Of course, we have the ink tip feature if you want to use it on paper, not quite so sure it's definitely very innovative. If it's really useful, though I don't know, you have to tell me that and versatile since I've already said that you can use it in the laptop mode, you can use it flat if you want to make your notes and so on. Of course, you have the tent mode, which works actually nice in the kitchen or something that you have the media mode, and you have two standard tablet modes that I actually didn't use.

So much I actually used it more like a left of intended, my stuff. So this is nice. Now we are at already like for 23 minutes. Let's get to the possible view breakers or maybe minor imperfections. First of all minor, build issues, something you should not really bother about me being very picky.

I just wanted to point it out, but in normal use it felt just fine- and this is the first batch I think in the future. It will be even better so these should be out of the way slightly worse off, Carlos, not a huge problem, but if you want or impressive or pleasing screeners, maybe not quite it screens response is actually something that I still had on my con list, but I wanted to show this of it. I think the update from today changes because usually I had a very hard time getting these switches done, because I had to press very hard, or I had to double up even sometimes three times press this, and this with the newest update, seems fixed, and this is something absolutely great. I still had this as a back and the software quark, but it seems to be gone. That's great! Absolutely! The next thing keyboard experience, it's not the best one.

After all, if you use a keyboard with maybe Bluetooth connection, it will just be better for a long time typing, but it's good to have it. If you want to type out something quickly. It's still great software croaks, not really actually that much, because what is really, really nice to see that they do try to put out updates for this, because I had the OneNote back. That I've already talked about it. Where I did not move on the world, wasn't able to write something at a specific point of the display, which was definitely an issue of OneNote because didn't happen on any other app.

But it did happen here so that one is also already gone, which was fixed by OneNote, though, and then not entirely fought through concept, because I'm still not quite sure for whom this exactly is because I tried to use it to its full potential, did not quite get it and what is now here the case and a lot of students have been asking me. This can I use this for note-taking at school, and I can already tell you this. If you have ever used any Android device with a pen, and it works out for you. You definitely can because, due to this surface- and this typing experience, it felts very natural and like on paper- it definitely is, but maybe you should also consider maybe the Windows version that just has the more capable apps not quite so sure about the performance. Yet though, but if you want to mostly use it as a just normal Android tablet, it works out really, really good.

Absolutely pleasing and I, like that experience with some nice options to have just more and first, I if or when I have seen this device for the very first time seen hands-on, because I thought it's just a stupid idea, because it doesn't have a proper keyboard which I still think would have been a nicer solution, but they wanted to keep it as fin and futuristic and just unique as possible, and I thought it's a complete useless device, but the more and more I used it I found some nice useful for it, especially I. Do a lot of notes for my reviews and then, if I get the proper app with it to work along with the pen, it actually would make sense and for some reason therefore, I want this device, even though I just don't need it at the moment. But if you want it for student use, you should just note or maybe try it somewhere if it works out for you, if you can use it at everything else, because you can take notes on it. If you have the proper app if windows works are better just go for the Windows app or the Windows version. This is pretty much all I have to say it so now, I want to get to the value priced at around $500 for the basic Wi-Fi version.

I. Think that's absolutely! Ok, because you, after all get a very good hardware, and you get the keyboard. You get the kind of stand functionality which is nice, because not every tablet is so nice to use. If you don't have it in hand- and this is great- you have the pen- you have the note pad here and overall, it's I think definitely worth what you get in terms of quality, built and design. Along with the features here.500, no problem, you pay like 100 more for the Windows version and additional 50. If you want to even I think in Germany, it's like additional 100, but I think the value is there.

Of course, I would have liked to have seen something more powerful, especially on the Windows version. But maybe this is since this is just the first concept, something that will come in the future because if they decide to make this again, I've already said what I want to see in the next one. So let's get to that a little if they can make this rotate and give me a physical keyboard, maybe pump the screen up to maybe 11 12 inches and maybe put in call em in this, then I would be highly interested because then, with the physical keyboard, even though it's just maybe a thin one. On the other side, I would have a really productive device on Windows with a bigger surface and if I want to draw something I, just flip that over can ride on it. But this is just wishful thinking.

Let's talk about what this is now and as I already said, it's a great Android tablet. It's good concept of a Productivity device on Android I'm, not quite so sure, if it works out that well, but that's not because of the device, but just because Android on its own, isn't all that productive, and I would definitely have an appreciated something that I have not even shown. That is a proper multitasking option because, for example, if we take Google Chrome, you can double tap and then the app will get into a smaller form factor which I'm not quite sure what just happened. Now, let me actually try this okay kinda got stuck here with something. Okay looks like this system head to reset: okay, now double tap, and you will see the app in a smaller form factor and if you now hit it with this icon, you can use any other app, and it will stay above.

But this app will always be this size, and it does no of course, work with all the apps. It's just maybe the standard apps that work out quite okay, but this is not kind of the multitasking that I would have liked to have seen so with nougat in a split screen view. This will definitely work out way better because the small kind of smartphone view is not all that productive for me. But I just wanted to point that out. The multitasking, especially once this get nougat, could actually get along better a lot better and then the whole versatility could become an even completely different thing and that's all I have to say the video got 30 minutes like I expected it to be, but I covered it a little nicer than in my previous attempts.

So, once again, big shout out to Southport for lending me this device for review so check out the links. If you are made from Germany, Austria or Switzerland, I always get that wrong once again. Sorry to what I said to Lenovo or the press agency, therefore, and all I can say, I hope this video was helpful. I tried to cover it as good as possible, and maybe they'll forget alike. If you want to maybe a subscription, and if you have any questions, I have used this device I think a little longer than most, and maybe I know, therefore a little more.

But there is a lot of things that I would like to know from you. How do you use it in what way? What would you like to have seen improved and all that? Let me know that in the comments and otherwise all I can tell you is had a nice day until next time, bye.

Source : Damir Franc