Lenovo Yoga Smart Tab Review: Great Tablet With Netflix Problems By My Next Tablet

With, its integrated grip and kickstand the Lenovo yoga smart, app of us an innovative design that we don't see like this from other companies. At the same time, it features a pretty display good speakers and thanks to the Google Assistant ambient mode, you can use it as a smart display. It is a perfect tablet for many. However, it does have some downsides. I'm Angie for my next tablet, comm and in this review you will learn all the important details, a couple of words about pricing. First, in Europe, with the version with 3 gigabytes of RAM and the 32 gigabyte, storage cost 249 euros for 4 gigabytes of RAM and the 64 gigabyte storage.

You've got to pay 299 euros right now, it's not available elsewhere, but once it is, prices should be very similar in u. s. dollars. The biggest highlight of Silly nova Yoga smart app is its design. It is a 10-inch tablet that has a round grip built into its body with that one you can hold it comfortably while surfing the web or reading books on your sofa built into the grip is a kickstand with which you can place a tablet onto a table and several angles.

You can even hang it somewhere in your kitchen or bathroom or so, because the kickstand has a hole for exactly this purpose. Lenovo has released several tablets with this design. In the past, one was running Windows, another one had integrated projector and some were for the bed, so the design is not new, but it continues to be innovative and one-of-a-kind, while I like the design a lot. It also means that it is not super thin or light. It weighs 580 grams and is between 8.5 and 24 millimeters thick. That depends on where you measure it.

The kickstand and grip are metal, but most of the body is made of plastic. Yes, that's not idea, but I think it's OK in this price range. It is charged using a USB port on the right side. I, like that, we get the standard headphone jack on the left side too, because those are getting less and less common. That's where the power button and volume rockers are located too.

You can insert a micro SD card into a slot that sits below as a kickstand. The yoga Smart Tab has two separates. They were speakers that sit on the left and right side, unlike with some of its competitors, they are far enough from each other so that you can hear a real stereo separation before a tablet. The speakers are quite big, and the sound quality is very good, especially when Dolby Atmos is turned on. I noticed a surprisingly strong bass with that activated, it sounds better than the Apple iPad 7 does, which costs a bit more its main camera on the back of us, a resolution of 8, megapixels and videos on photos.

Looks fine, not perfect, of course, but certainly good enough. So 5 megapixel front camera. Disappointed me a bit, though itself is our K, but it can only record 720p videos in the nous sharpens them so much that it doesn't look good anymore using the webcam. You can use facial recognition to unlock the tablet that works well most of the time as long as the lighting is good, not always, but most of the time. However, since there's no additional sensor I'm guessing that it is not as secure as Atlas face ID or Microsoft's facial recognition errs the Lenovo yoga.

Smart app has a 10.1-inch screen with an aspect ratio of 16 by 10. It has a full HD resolution was 1920 by 1200 pixels, and it is a laminated IPS display. So the viewing angles are wide and there's no air gap below the touch screen. That's great I think a full HD resolution is high enough on 10 inches textbook sharp enough, and in this case contrast and color. Reproduction is good too.

Its brightness is alright. I used it in a room that surrounded by bright windows and I could still see everything just fine, but you should know that s is a case was many tablets. It transforms itself into a mirror and direct sunlight overall I like the display, but with that being said, I noticed one problem with Netflix on my unit I'm not able to watch Netflix in HD, and that might be the case for everybody to watch Netflix with HD resolution or higher. Certain DRM standards must be supported, and then the tablet gets a so-called white vine level of a1. Okay.

Now it gets a bit complicated. So in Lenovo yoga, smart app does have a right when level of a1, but was my unit and Netflix things. It has a level of l3, so I cannot watch movies in HD, I guess a tablet cuts. The l1 level was an update. However, Netflix checks that only once when the Epic tarted for the first time I've had this problem several times with other tablets.

Usually you just have to reinstall Netflix for it to work, but in this case Netflix is pre-installed and Lenovo does not allow you to remove it. So it's not possible to uninstall and reinstall it. A complete factory we set, it did not have either Netflix. Is this thinking that it has a s3 lever? Well, that's quite Obama Netflix runs, of course, but not an HD. Please keep an eye on the comments and see what others are saying.

Maybe Lenovo will fix it, or maybe it works with new ones. Already I would keep an eye on it for a while. If you have this tablet, please write us in the comments. Can you watch Netflix in HD or new yoga? Smart app Lena was advertising the yoga smart app as a smart tablet, so they want to compete with a Google home or Amazon Echo device for this. The Google Assistant is pre-installed.

Well, it works was pretty much every tablet, of course, but in this case you're advertising the ambient mode in particular. Once you activate it, you can use this tablet as a smart display. On the hardware front, the Google Assistant is supported by three microphones that can recognize the okay google command from the distance all around the tablet that works well, it recognizes my voice, even when I'm standing at the other end of a large room, you're, probably familiar with the Google Assistant. Already it works like Amazon's, Alexa or a PC. We're using voice commands.

You can get information about the weather here. What's on your calendar or start a timer, the display is used to show further information regarding what you're looking for, and it gets even more useful if you're using smart home devices that are compatible with Google I. Don't know why I want to turn on the Google Assistant a mute mode. The display is turn on the whole time, and you can see some information on the screen. Again.

It's only useful if you use the services from Google and/or are using smart home devices in the settings. You can configure the M bit more to be turned on automatically when you charge the tablet or when it is just and standby, but remember that the battery will be empty much faster. If you do that, let's get to the rest of its software out of the box, an In nova yoga, smart, Ibis, running android, 9 pi, I don't know if we'll ever get an update to Android 10 in the past, Lenovo sometimes did release updates for their tablets and sometimes I. Didn't Samson is usually warning out to pick up dates for most of the tablets, but sadly with a known oval. The update history is not as stable in the past I always liked a lot that Lenovo use pretty much vanilla Android.

However, that is changing a bit now. At first glance it still looks like normal and what 9pi. However, there are some additional features and some are totally useless with that' mostly means a so-called Lenovo entertainment center there's a button, that's always visible on the home screen and if you swipe it to the right, you get to the Lenovo entertainment center I'm, not sure why that's there, because it's basically just YouTube was a bit different, your eye, and you can log in with a Lenovo ID. I, really don't know why that say it seems to be a complete waste of resources. The normal YouTube app is pre-installed, of course, and works much better.

Another new feature is the display assistant. You can access it by swiping from the right with the display assistant, you can activate a blue light, filter change, the color mode take screenshots and record the screen. You can also use it to annotate the screen or draw on it. For some, this future might be useful for some, the productivity mode might be useful to Lenovo has been including that one in a couple of tablets in the past, it's kind of a desktop mode, but it's not as complex as the ones from Samsung away. Once you turn it on, you get a task, but the bottom, so 3 Android buttons get relocated to the left side and on the right side, you can see icons of currently opened apps.

Here's that kind of looks like Windows or other desktop operating systems. I think the productivity mode can be useful if you're using it was a real mouse, but otherwise you probably won't use it. Lenovo pre-installed, the kids' mode to since I. Don't have kids, it's always hard for me to evaluate how useful they really are, but it seems to be fine for every (young), kids, I'm sure, but other ones will be fine. Was normal Android.

Let's check out the internal hardware, the Lenovo yoga smart, app I shipped was like Qualcomm Snapdragon, 439 outscore processor. You can choose between 3 gigabytes of RAM and 32, gigabyte of storage or 4 gigabytes of RAM and a 64 gigabyte storage. Bettie is an opportunist way. I've got someone was talking about of RAM and 64 gigabyte storage. Out of those ten point, seven gigabytes are used by the system.

My benchmark comparison shows that what the performance of the yoga's Maxtor is fine. It's certainly not its strongest feature in an tutu and Geek bench. It is faster than the one-year-old, Lenovo tech p10. However, especially its graphics performance, is much weaker than the cheaper Samsung Galaxy Tab, a 10.1 2019 I would get that one. If you're looking for an affordable gaming tablet, so I can't recommend to yoga smart AB as a gaming tablet.

Games like pop zoomable do run, but with the slowest graphics, only simpler games were quite, of course, and the ones that have a great soundtrack sound great with these speakers on the positive side, I like that we're getting three to four gigabytes of friend, because of that apps are not closed. That fast in the background, is the case with some tablets that have less RAM. I also noticed that the multitasking performance is pretty good. You can open and use two apps at the same time, without any issues in my bed, we test an In nova yoga. Smart app got a run time of 16 hours for this I'm, always looping an HD video at a medium brightness.

You can see in my comparison that 16 hours are very good, especially for a 10-inch device of this price range. Regarding this Lenovo Co got habits. I've always been very good. Let's get to the end of my Lenovo yoga, smart AB review can I recommend this tablet. That depends on what you're looking for, if you're, mainly looking for a gaming tablet and a good ratio of value and performance.

This is not the one for you, it's too price for that. The yoga smart app gets fascinating though, if you like the design with its integrated grip and kickstand, because of that it is a great tablet use in the living room or even in the kitchen. It's great if you want to use the Google Assistant or are looking for an entertainment tablet for that, I think it's almost perfect thanks to its good speakers and long battery life, while we're viewing it I watched tons of YouTube with it and it's really great for that, it's good for Amazon, Prime, video and Netflix too, of course. But again you can't watch Netflix in HD right now, let's check out some alternatives. A cheap alternative is Galaxy Tab, a 10, 4 and 1 2019.

It's cheaper and has a better graphics performance. So it's better suited for gamers Samsung will probably push out updates longer to the display is very similar, but the same someone has weaker speakers and shorter battery life. You should also check out the Apple iPad 7. While it is a bit pricier, its performance is much better. These speakers are not as strong, but instead you get excellent multitasking with iPad 2s, and it offers a much larger selection of tablet.

Optimized apps, if you want, you, can also get a business. Stylus and keyboard, however, were so successful. Is its much pricier? Alright, that's the end of my Lenovo yoga, smart app review. If you have any questions, please feel free to write me down in the comments and check out my next table comm there. You will find all of my tablet reviews and all of my current recommendations.

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