Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 8" Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review, and it's yoga time this time it's a yoga Android tablet from Lenovo, specifically the Lenovo yoga Tab 3 8 inch model, as you might guess, therefore, but with small tablet it's 8 inches. It has the usual yoga design with the barrel hinge and on the back here. This kind of pop-out metal stand press the release button and there it is popping out. You can even use it as a wall hanging device, I. Suppose if you want to use it as a photo frame or something like that, it's 169 dollars, which is pretty reasonable for an Android tablet. Now don't expect high-end specs, but at least you get pretty nice build quality, an interesting design and a very bright colorful.

Despite we're going to look at it now so here it is the latest generation Lenovo yoga tablet. This is the yoga Tab 3 8 inch size, and it's running android 5.1.1 lollipop, which is currently the latest version. Ok marshmallows, starting to ship on the new Nexus devices, but note no other device has marshmallow. Just yet will this ever get it I know now with Lenovo's budget tablets. They don't put a lot of time and money into giving you android OS upgrades there, because you're not paying very much.

This is 169 dollars. What you do get for. That is obviously a very colorful display here. They have a really neat guitar desktop pattern here that shows up how colorful it is and how good the contrast is- and it's also very bright too. So you know there's the old adage of user interface.

That says that the screen is one of the most important parts of the experience, because you're looking at all the time and if it looks dingy black you're not going to like the device, a good selling point right there, it has the usual yoga design for Android tablets, and they make Windows tablets like this ? push button release here and takes a little there. We go push to get it going, and it comes out now. This is not an infinite position, stand, there's the closed position, and you can feel it locking, and you can hear it locking in -. So it holds it up at this angle, so we won't be using our usual stump stand that we do with tablets to hold up, because it's got a stand built-in, and it has the hanging mode. That Lenovo is so proud of.

So in theory you know you could you as a photo frame hanging on the wall now these days since photo frames and space are just crappy, crappy I know a lot of people do actually buy Android tablets and use them for that purpose. This is metal, it's nice, and it's sturdy, and the back is plastic, but it's kind of a neat finish. It actually looks pretty good. They did a good job of making this not look cheesy, given the price right here. It almost looks like I, don't know like black asphalt or something like that.

It's a neat kind of textured pattern, so it's not slippery either and hidden behind here, there's a little door, not a convenient flappy door comes off completely, but that reveals the micro SD card slot that's inside there. This is a Wi-Fi, only model that we have in the United States overseas. You may have a version that does have LTE this one doesn't from the side. It cuts a modern figure, that's so different from previous Lenovo tablets. You've got your volume controls over there, your micro USB port as well.

This is the power button, kind of looks kind of classy and not bad in, and what we have here is the camera rotating 180 degrees swiveling. You can probably hear a clicking. It has a nice kind of high-quality instrument, sort of click which is not bad for the price, so it's both your front and your back camera so that, obviously, that reduces the cost of making the thing and also there's no more divide between well the front. Camera quality is not so great and got a lot of resolution and the back one always gets the better camera. So in this case, in the era of selfies, I suppose and video chat to accounts to have a good camera, eight megapixel camera, it's 169 bucks.

It's not that great a camera, though folks, let me tell you it shoots kind of blocky grainy video 720p is the highest. You can go with that in good lighting. It's passable and that's about all I can say favorably for the camera when it comes to video shooting now follows it's actually pretty good. Even in low-light, it's not bad at all and good lighting. It's a good camera, but really it excels or comes closer to excelling it stills rather than video.

We have stereo fun facing speakers here with Dolby Atmos software enhancements, and it's fairly loud for an 8-inch tablet. It's not going to shake your dentures loose or something like that, but the sound quality is pretty good, and they are far enough apart your drivers here that you will hear stereo SEP separation if you're launching something like the asphalt 8 game where the cargo is racing by, and you can hear it when you have stereo speakers like this you'll really notice it. This big barrel affords a sixty-two hundred million battery, that's a very large capacity battery. So that would be when the selling points versus other budget oriented, Android tablets say like the Samsung Galaxy, Tab A or the old tab for or even the Galaxy nook. You just can't kill this.

It really takes days to kill this thing, even with moderate use, even with playing some asphalt, eight, which is a pretty battery killing game. The drawback is its a heavy tablet. This weighs one point: zero four pounds, so it's as heavy as an iPad Air 2, which is a 10-inch class tablet. You get the idea there is it unwieldy? Is it difficult to hold? No, but you notice it sure. Are you going to use that stand as often as you can I bet you will? And yes in case you don't want to use those built-in speakers, there is the usual combo mic, headphone jack they're good for video, chats good for not arranging everybody else around you when you're listening to Twisted Sister or the latest Transformers' movie with all those explosions.

Obviously, the barrel hinge not only makes it kind of comfortable to hold like a magazine or a book or something like that when you're reading, but it also provides a little of an angle if you want to put it on the desk, interact with it, of course, as usual four-wheel four-way accelerometer to rotate it in the proper direction there. So what aren't you getting given the back? This is a budget tablet. It has you know and Lenovo even tries to avoid mentioning this. They just referred to it by its Qualcomm MSM number. Instead of the usual retail lingo for snapdragons, did you know there was the Snapdragon 200 series? I bet a lot of you? Don't because mostly we see the 400s, the 600 s on the top of line 800.

This is a Snapdragon 212 CPU, that's as low as you can go in squall comp, Snapdragon CPUs. It is clocked at 1.3. Gigahertz idea is a quad-core CPU, so you know life could be worse than Arena 304 graphics. This is not for your boy racer to want to play all sorts of killer games on it, but you know what just like in the land of laptops and desktop PCs. If you want a game you're going to have to pay it's going to cost, but for everyday content use for playing YouTube all that sort of thing it's fine.

This is a 1280 by 800, pixel, display I, know some of you are going to be elitist and say: oh my gosh, it's not like Q HD or Full HD or something, but it is an 8-inch panel and Samsung for their affordable range of tablets goes with a similar resolution all at some times in a four by three aspects: ratio. No, it's fine, you're, just not really going to say my goodness. Those pixels are jumping out on me. It's sharp! It's good! Looking! Furthermore, it's fine for reading e-books! Furthermore, it's certainly fine for browsing the web as well, and here's what it looks like in fact in Google, Play, Books, perfectly nice perfectly sharp and doesn't make much horsepower to drive an e-book to be nice and fluid when you're spinning pages and, of course, given the spine, you might be tempted to read full pages on it. Instead.

In this view, I know I would give it a fact. It's 8 inches we're not looking at huge pages here. That's like an ideal size for reading books, and it's pretty nice. It's pretty sharp, and we've got asphalt, 8 running right there, so you've got something to look at while I read the benchmarks off to you and the benchmark numbers will not be impressive, but, as you can see, it's capable playing this game. Gameplay is not stuttering at all you're not going to get all the visual effects, and it can be a little hard to control the card times faster.

CPUs do have an advantage here so for quadrant, 10150 7, that's about 1/4 of the fastest devices that you're going to see. Geek bench 3, 334 single core 1090 for multi-core. He about 1/3 to 1/4 of the fastest devices out there, 3dmark ice storm, unlimited 5350, 2 you're sensing. Something here. Aren't you a pattern again, it's going to be about 1/4 of the fastest device possible? Of course, it costs a lot less than those tablets to at 400 bucks on 2 to 19,000 166, that's about a third or so of the fastest devices.

But obviously, if it can do this heck, it can do just about anything and these days. CPUs are so fast that it's ok. It has only a gig of ram, though so I'll warn you about that heavy-duty multitasking. You want to manage your apps and close things out if they are starting to bog down 16 gigs of internal storage, not superfast storage. It took a while for this game to load.

For example, viewing angles on the IPS display are actually pretty good. Studio lighting makes it a little hard to show buzz. We have a lot of glare here, but it's its not bad at all. Finally, this has single band Wi-Fi, eight on two 11n: alright, no dual-band Wi-Fi, no AC Wi-Fi, not in this price range, and you have Bluetooth 4.0, there's no NFC, but they're very rarely it's on tablets, so it holds it pretty well against the competition which these days largely means Samsung, sometimes you'll see in a sews tablet, but for the lower range Samsung tablets. This one comes in a bit a little less expensive and not as thin and light.

So it depends on what you value. If you like the fin and light, then the Samsung would be the one for you if you like the sturdier build. If you like the built-in stand kind of feel that we have going here then well, the Lenovo could be the tablet for you. So that's the Lenovo yoga Tab a 3/8 inch it's available now $169, which is honestly a pretty great price for a name-brand tablet with decent enough specs. If you're looking for something low budget, you don't really want to invest in $400, Samsung, Galaxy, Tab, s2, or something like that or an iPad Mini.

Well, here it is it's nicely designed, and the speed is actually adequate. The display is very nice. The cameras are OK and the design. Well, it's always that kind of useful really hard not to like it yoga design with the big battery in the hinge. I'm Lisa for mobile tech review be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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