Yoga Tab 13 2021 Review (Yoga Pad Pro Review) By TechTablets

If you're in the market for a large android 11 tablets with a lot of power. Then there is really only this option right here, which is Lenovo's Yoga Pad Pro, a 13 inch, android 11 tablets powered by the snapdragon 870. It has 8 gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of UFS, 3.0 storage, and this little stand on the back of it here. So you can see you can use that to prop it up at all sorts of different angles. You can also use it to sit it up like this, and this also does support the precision, 2, stylus and so far in my time, using it. This is definitely the best large tablet that you can get.

If, of course, you want an android tablet. So, along with the tablet, you'll find a type c to type c cable, our charger. This is a 30 watt charger, and it does take approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes to fully charge the 10200 William hour. Battery and bang good does include here an EU adapter for any EU customers. Now the build quality.

So an unusual design here with this one- we've got plastic backing material here there is this round part which does have two speakers which are five watts inside it, I'll give you a sample of them later on in this in-depth review, and then we have our handle stand really for this, so you can use it to prop it up the other way. You can lift it and push it right up and around, and that way you can use it then, as a handle, you could hook it over something. If you wanted to do so now, this hinge is very, very stiff. It's made out of metal. This part here is rubber, and we've got plastic and then a felt type material.

Well, it's like a suede material, they've gone with on the back. Now I don't mind this too much. You can see the yoga branding. However, I notice it does pick up a lot of particles of dust and things that will show up because of the black color. Now this is just painted on the Lenovo here, it's not a metal tab on the left here.

We've got something fascinating and that is HDMI input. So, yes, you can use this as a secondary, monitor, which is perfect to see which more manufacturers would do this. So you can connect up a Nintendo Switch. Your PC laptop PS5 Xbox. You get the idea, so we've got a microphone here.

So this is plastic. The frame around the outside thickness right here is 2.5 centimeters. The tablet is pretty hefty. It does weigh 900 grams well, just under it's about 897 grams. According to my scales, it's a little heavy there and then on the right side.

We've got our type c for charging. Now this supports USB 3.1. So quick transfer speeds to the 256 gigabytes of storage within this model here, and it does support video out so power on volume up and down, and these buttons are made out of. I think they could be metal but probably actually plastic their other microphone, so thickness wise here isn't too bad, but it is a little chunky, but we do have those two speakers inside there and, of course that handle stand. So that's why it has this unique design to it and along the bottom here, which kind of fires out a little to the front, but more bounces off the table.

When you do stand it up, is the speaker grill here so putting my ear up toward. I can hear sound coming out from here and here with those five watt speakers, but nothing in the middle here. I just think that's a chamber to help get a little of bass out of those speakers and finally, along the top. The two watt speakers I'll give you a sample of all four of those speakers now what they sound like and just before I do those there are just some microphones on the top. Now, with the front of the tablet.

Here, we've got up the top here, eight megapixel front facing camera. There is a time of flight there, and it does support face, unlocking which I do find works well. So what is missing is a side fingerprint reader which I would have liked. They could have put it maybe up here. I just think it would have been a little faster than putting in a password, and they do not have micro, SD card support or LTE support, so no sim card support on there's no 5g, so those are really the two things that are missing for me: the expandable storage but great having the display input and also great having, of course, the type c out with video out from it and the screen here.

So this one's 13 inches very large for a tablet, and normally I'm reviewing the largest it's normally about 12.6, and this one has a resolution of 2160 by 1350, so 16 by 10 aspect ratio. The screen looks sharp now. The maximum brightness that I'm able to achieve and get out of this display is just over 400 nets. Officially they say 400 nits, but I'm getting around 418 nits, which is okay indoors. It's fully laminated covered with glass.

Now I don't know if it is gorilla glass that they are using with this one now, overall, the brightness indoor use is perfectly fine, but outdoors you will struggle a little here now. This is what the gamma you can see. It should actually be about 2.2, and it's pretty close to that and that's the brightness down there at the lower setting, which I accidentally triggered right there. Now the touch response from the screen is good. It's a little sensitive and overall, I don't think it's a bad panel, now the bezels top and bottom.

Let's get out of this. If I can trigger the gesture back there, we go bezels top and bottom okay. They are a little thick now for 2021, but the left and right ones aren't too bad at all up. I think it is a good screen and most people should be very pleased with it for definitely for looking at media content. I find that this is a great screen for that like something like Netflix Amazon, prime video, which it does support, and it does support having them in HD as well.

So we've got wide vine level, one cert which I'll get on to soon about that, and I just also wanted to point out that here we're running zoo, which is based on android 11 for the UI. With this one and again I mean the performance has been good multitasking and the gesture support with the touch good, not a problem, eight gigabytes of ram with the snapdragon 870, and it has been bug free, but a couple of times I have, I wouldn't say, 100 bug free. I have been in the settings menu and just changed something, and it's completely crashed the settings and I bounced back out of there. So we've got a lot of different things you can tweak in here. We can schedule it to power on and off.

We have for the display to some other options. I wanted to point out, so you can change the color mode. This is great your white balance. I really love to see this, and most manufacturers do this, but there are a few that are a little slack and don't actually include those options. Eye protection, dark mode can be scheduled.

Adaptive brightness I've got it turned off at the moment because, while I'm recording the screen and trying to show it as good as possible that I can here, but the ambient sensor is right up here, it's next to the time of flight and that 8 megapixel camera with this one. So various different things can be tweaked, and it is the global ROM that bang good flash onto this one. So that's another reason why I ended up buying it from them. So there are updates that come through. They have a system update and their own over there update system- and this is the latest version, so I did get one update, which is minor bug fixes, I don't know actually what it fixed, but I haven't had any problems with that.

One other thing to point out too, though, however, is this that when I try to get onto my Wi-Fi six networks, it's only picking up Wi-Fi five, not the six, which is the latest the fastest Wi-Fi uh ax, so wireless ax, it doesn't seem to want to connect up to my router or detect it for some weird reason, even though that yes, this model does support Wi-Fi ax, Wi-Fi 6. , android bench now. This is just to show the internal storage speed, so we have 256 gigabytes of UFS, 3.0 storage, very good speed, so getting almost 1400 megabytes per second sequential reads: sequential rights, almost 700 randoms well over 200, so very quick storage, and this is not going to bottleneck it. So we do have the eight gigabytes of ram as I've mentioned, and that really does help to aid in the performance of this particular tablet. It's very, very quick one of the fastest that I have reviewed.

So when you first get this yoga pad here, you will have basically no bloatware and not really to me is any of this stuff kind of blow. Most of it is useful. Now there are Microsoft apps on there that some may consider as bloatware like office and whatnot, but they're still useful, so no real junk, apps, no games or anything is installed now free available space. You are looking at approximately here, 244 or so gigabytes' frequency 242, sorry that you're going to have with this okay. Remember no expandable storage.

Unfortunately, with this particular model here now, battery life is excellent. It is really, really good. I was able to achieve almost 13 hours. This is at the display calibrated to 200 minutes, okay, and it just runs and runs until it gets to 20. So I could have gone on for at least about 13 and a half, maybe even 14 hours of runtime, just watching video with this, which is really, really good.

Thanks to the 10 000 200 William hour battery, as mentioned charge, time is about 2 hours and 40 minutes with this wide vine level.1 cert and it does support Amazon Prime video at full HD resolution, which I'll get onto soon, and here is our an tutu score. Now I apologize for some video quality of this particular video here, because the screens at an angle, it's very hard for me to get the whole screen in focus and sharp here with my lenses. But there we go almost 700 thousand points here and two, this thing's an absolute monster, and it's just as good as the snapdragon triple eight. It really is it's getting similar scores and similar gaming performance as you'll see later one books and PDF files. So this is a large PDF file that I do always test out uh, it's, I think it's around about 50 megabytes or so a lot of detail, a lot of pages, and it's very quick on this no problems and looks great on the large screen.

Now the bezels here are looking a little worse than what they really are. So if I zoom in you can see now, that's the normal bezel size there. So the text looks sharp. It looks great and the performance when just scrolling ahead there very, very quick, but it still won't beat an iPad and iPad Pro and even the older generation iPads still seem to be the champions at just raw PDF file performance. Now, once I get out of this I'll, just show you an e-book too, as well, absolutely no problems with them.

It looks great and of course you can flip the screen around and hold it and use it then in portrait mode, but I would use the stand for this because it is a heavy tablet. It's about 900 grams. As I mentioned, it's not exactly light, and they look great. You can zoom in you can invert the colors here, so you can make the text white the background black you can put on the blue light, filter, dark mode, and all of that too, of course, now onto the gaming performance here. So this is pub g, and we do get up to ultra HD, but we take a hit in the frame rate then drops to ultra, which is 45 frames per.

Second, I believe- and if you stick it on there and just do HD, which is what I will be testing out, we get extreme, which is the 60 frames per second. I think it is and that matches the 60 hertz that this panel has. So, let's take a look just how PUBG performs here now, as expected, stating the others here that no problems at all this is 60 frames per second constantly runs well and looking down the sides. There's going to be no lag at all with this game, so very light title really. This is not demanding at least not on this setting, so I'll move over now to android's most demanding game and probably iOS as well, which is gen shan't impact and, let's see how it handles it.

Now I have the title here: set on the highest possible visual settings at 60 frames per second and in the performance is very, very good. It's running really about the same as what I would get out of a snapdragon triple eight here or density.1200 even has similar performance to this from what I've seen so very, very good now. Does it get warm? Does it run in to any thermal throttling or problem so just around this area? On the other side, let's get a little warm, but because it's a very large tablet, it doesn't suffer from those throttling issues that you would get with a small phone with the same chipset or the snapdragon triple eights are actually worse when it comes to thermals this one's, not bad at all, so just got a couple of enemies. Here, let's jump into a quick fight with him being so large, it's a little uncomfortable. I would actually prefer to game on a slightly smaller size, but still performance really, really good.

Here from the yoga pad pro now. Here's a sample from the front eight megapixel camera, there's in fact no rear cameras on this, and I don't think anyone's going to be really missing that with the tablet, the quality for an 8 megapixel one, you can shoot 1080p video max here, you do have portrait mode with it. I don't think it's bad. I think this is a good front-facing camera that they've used in here Lenovo and excellent audio quality out of those microphones. By far my favorite feature of this particular tablet is the fact that it supports display input, which we don't see with any other tablets really at all, and I wish more manufacturers would do this.

So here you can see with my windows: 10 mini PC. I've got hooked up to maximum resolution, is the 2160x1350 16 by 10 aspect ratio and with the maximum 410 nits of brightness. It does actually look pretty good indoors. I've got the screen. Brightness turned right down so tapping on the screen.

Now I can set and control the brightness levels. You can see how much I've turned that right down. It's a very bright screen here and tapping again, I'm able to adjust the aspect ratio from 16 by 10 to 16 by nine. I put it back on 16 by 10 and then the audio two we get the on-screen display for our audio controls. When I'm adjusting that now it remembers the setting that I had before when I previously use that.

So that is great, and as soon as you plug in an external device for the input here for the display, it then swaps over to it. It's a very handy feature to have okay, so we really do have another winner here from Lenovo. I really like the large screen the experience of using it, especially for media consumption, watching Netflix, Amazon, prime video, Disney, plus YouTube and just other movies and whatnot is perfect on this with those speakers, and we do have the wide vine level one suit. It's a global, ROM and Amazon Prime video is in full HD, which is perfect to see because a lot of devices, even though they have that wide vine level, 1 cert, are still stuck in standard definition, which well it kind of looks terrible, especially at 13 inches. It would so that's great there performance excellent, very fast chip.

Snapdragon 870 makes this so far the fastest tablet, with the eight gigabytes of ram that I've reviewed here in the channel. We've also got the Lenovo p11 pro or the Xiaoping pad pro 2021 model that I've reviewed, which has the same chipset, but just six gigabytes of ram. Now the display input on this is a very handy feature to have that. If you intend to have this as a tablet, but you'd also like to connect it up to say a Nintendo Switch or your laptop on the go, you can do that, and it's useful. It's got a sharp resolution.

It is still a good-looking screen to be able to use like that, and then you've got the type c USB 3.1, with display out support as well, so it clones the display you can connect it up then, to a larger TV. If you wanted to do so battery time and run time on this very good 12 to 13 and even possibly maybe 13 and a half hours you can get out of this, which is perfect because it's got a large battery. So all up the build is good, even though it's got a plastic. The middle frame is great. The difference things you can do with it.

You can, even you know, use it to hook it up like this, the screen of course flips around. Then you can stand it up like so, if you wanted to do like that or have it sitting up, so it is used useful, it's versatile, and really it comes down to only a few things. I don't like about this particular tablet, I'm sad to see no micro SD card support that would have been brilliant on this no 3.5, millimeter, headphone jack and then no LTE or GPS support, which would have been great again or even 5g support if they could have added this to it. I think, then, with those things that would have been really the perfect large android 11 tablets now with Lenovo there's another thing too to point out: they're, not known really for major android updates. Furthermore, I've just had a patch come through, but I really doubt this is going to see.

Android 12 ever you'd probably have to get a newer model to get android 12, because the previous gen model is still on android 10. The same goes with the p11 pro series. So, thank you so much for watching my review here of the Lenovo yoga pad pro 2021 model.

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