Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 8" Review By MobileTechReview

This is a super mobile tech review, and here we have the Lenovo yoga tablet.2 now number that's the way. You know Lenovo tames things, but anyway, this is the yoga tablet not to be confused with the yoga laptop. Obviously, no laptop here tablet design. It has. This neat swiveling barrel hinge now the original yoga tablet had that too, but the specs were kind of and didn't match up to the really lovely design. Happily, things are much improved here in terms of the specs, but the price is still very reasonable.

We're going to look at it now so here it is the Lenovo yoga tablet.2 we looked at the pro version, which is a 13.3 inch running android, and we've looked at the Windows version, also the bigger version. This is the 8-inch Android version, android version, 7, silver casing: the Windows versions have a black casing. Otherwise, you know they're pretty much the same hardware. So if you're looking at this and saying hey I would like this in Windows, you can do that. No problem Lenovo has that again also available in the 10 inch.

If you want something a bit bigger, but they all share in common, is the swiveling stand and design which looks pretty cool, I have to say for a tablet: that's not terribly expensive. This has a really lovely industrial design. I mean you put it on your coffee table. It's going to look like well, a nice high-tech conversation face can look pretty anyway. Part of that interestingness is the cylindrical battery area.

Right here allows Lenovo to put a bigger battery, and then they could otherwise unless they made the tablet really chunky. Obviously this is a very skinny tablet right here, and it's a place to incorporate the swiveling hinge right here. So what's that for that's for standing it up, that's the yoga apart now this is an infinite design. There's no like one particular position you have to use you know: I can put it anywhere I want, as you can see, tilting it back like that. You can do that with it, and you can hear the metal sound right here.

This is metal. The rest of the body, though it might not look. It is plastic, helps keep the price down. Hey helps keep the white weight light and there's what the backside looks like so, unlike the bigger ones that have a JBL subwoofer over here, not on little guy. This little door here is for your micro SD card right there for storage expansion.

You can fold a completely flat like, so there is no release. Button like there is on the big models and little diagram right here. Tells you just grab it by the cylinder, and then you can pull it out pretty easily, and it goes all the way to flat now. Why would it go flat because they put this hole here because Lenovo's new thing is, you can hang them on the wall? Don't know why you want to hang it on the wall. It would be a very expensive photo frame it you can, if you want to I suppose our presentations and stuff, particularly probably morning, windows land, where people will use PowerPoint day in and day out to get presentations.

It makes perhaps more sense near than within. An Android tablet anyway gets rid of that whole problem, but I got a tablet and I don't want to hold it all the time, not that this is very heavy. It weighs 0.92 pounds so just under a pound feels pretty light, feels balanced. There's one thing about the tubular battery right here is: it sets a good center of gravity, so it doesn't feel too heavy. It also gives you a handhold, so you want to read an e-book or something like that.

It's pretty comfortable to hold, even if you're, going up to the 10-inch model, it's fairly comfortable to hold it like this, and the good thing here is that well, the first generation yoga tablets had kind of black specks in just okay screens. This one goes to a 1920 by 1200 IPS display sup glossy, obviously we're going to see some glare there, but it's sharp enough and nice enough. Looking that, if you're into reading e-books and magazines, it's going to look pretty darn good on there- and here is a Google play book. So you can see what it looks like very nice and sharp evenly line, art rendering, certainly plenty enough speed here for this sort of thing, so 229 bucks not bad 1920 by 1200. That's a full HD display, plus a little there in measurement and the CPU is certainly up to handling everyday test.

This is an Intel Atom, CPU 1.33 gigahertz base clock rate. That is a quad-core CPU and androids, come a long way as I've noted, and now it does a good job supporting atom. Now this runs Android, 4.4, KitKat, sorry, no lollipop here and typically with and Lenovo's low-priced tablets. You don't get major OS upgrade. So that's probably all that you're going to see on this.

We don't know that for sure, but there are no promises here that you're going to be getting Android, 5, lollipop I think the market segment that Google, or rather Lenovo targets here, is kind of the more casual buyer who is not so into what version of the OS I have but well what can I get that looks good, runs nice for a decent price magazines. Likewise, look pretty sharp and fairly readable, though I still think 10 inches is a better size, an 8 inch for reading tiny print when you're looking at magazine layout, so Lenovo likes to customize android. So what we've got here is what looks like a normal desktop at first with a weather, widget and the usual Google search bar shortcuts down here that you can customize a limited, multitasking bar right here, not that many apps that support it, but you can get to window multitasking, going obviously with the file browser the Chrome web browser gallery, email, calculator, the video player and so on, but anyway there notice there are no shortcuts to the app drawer. You just slide sideways, that's what they do with this here. So every time you install an app it's going to increase the number of screens as needed to add that now, if you really do test that you can put something like now the launcher on here, one of third party launchers.

It makes it more Android like again personally, that's what I would do I'm, not so thrilled with this UI and I think it makes the icons and the text look a little bigger than they honestly need to be. Do have shortcuts to all the Google Play stuff. Here it's a fully Google sanctioned device, and we have notifications up top here, and you can customize the notifications as you see fit. Now. If you want to get to settings, you can swipe up from down here and here's a bunch of quick settings, and then you can go to full settings as well.

You can see we've got ambient light sensor, GPS control. This has dual-band Wi-Fi at 11 n, so we have a switch for that Bluetooth 4.0 as well. No 3G 4G LTE option on this so far, not in the U. S. anyway, and while we're looking at the front notice, the two front facing speakers, which is just a brilliant place.

To put it, isn't it now facing into your hand not facing behind you so sound is actually pretty good, and they're fairly loud, given the size of the tablet.1.6 megapixel front facing camera there that they soon we are going to hold it portrait, Than station, obviously, because that would be top center. If you're holding a portrait, though it's okay actually on the side, although you'll be featuring the one side of your face more than the other on the backside, we have an 8 megapixel camera with it f/2 lens, which is our opted out there right. So you kind of funny place for it, but if you're holding with the cylinder up when you're taking pictures rather than down kind of the office of the way you would normally hold it, I'll bet it's probably not so bad microUSB port here 2.0. This is for charging for copying files back and forth to your PC, and also it supports USB host volume controls right there. Nice metal ridged feels good, not too easy to press accidentally and on this side here we have the headphone jack.

Interestingly, integrated into the barrel. Hinge microphones are built-in there's one of them right there and where's the power button. It is this button right here which will light up if you're charging too. So that's kind of neat: it's a nice again metal button with a good feel to it so overall for 229 bucks. It feels pretty darn good.

If you watch the Dell Venue 8 7000 review, we did recently and really pined for that, but that was way too much money for you to spend at 399. Well, this one just might be more to your liking. The tablet is available with 16 gigs of internal storage. Obviously you can augment that with the micros card slot, if you like to install lots of big fat heavyweight games. Well, it might be an issue since some of those games can clock in at well G one two three and a half gigs apiece, but this is a mid-range performer, a little better than mid-range called the upper 2/3 I.

Think if you're a hardcore, gamer you're, probably going to be looking at something more like the Nvidia shield tablet, maybe that 1.3 3 gigahertz Intel Atom CPU is the Z 3745. That's a Bay Trail CPU has 2 gigs of RAM inside, so that's pretty much par for the course decent enough. The battery is 6,400 Williams, which is pretty large for an 8-inch tablet. A 2 cell battery and again this design allows them to put a bigger battery in their in terms of benchmark scores. You can see what our 3d mark score is right here for the ice storm unlimited test, that's fifteen thousand six hundred six quadrant scored 14,000 689.

Usually we see 22 21,000 on the highest and fastest Android tablet. So you know that's actually not bad at all again you're, looking at the top two-thirds here, not the very top of the line, but four to 29. It's good on two to thirty-four thousand 275, where 40,000 will be the very best that you see 20,000 would be same mid-range e smartphone or lower and tablets. So I, not bad performance, Consider, JavaScript, test 740, that's where lower numbers are better, and we see typically arranged from around 500 to 1200 these days, so not too bad. So, overall, it's fast.

It's fluid! No problems with program launch time with the responsiveness of the user interface, a couple of bundled programs that we have a file manager on board, not too many other junk web programs on here, which is nice Lenovo, is not overloading it too much. We get Route 66 for navigation and mapping over here, I put Nova Launcher on there myself, they put Amazon Kindle on there I think a lot of people might actually find that useful, so not to junked up at all. Speaking of using this as an expensive photo frame, Lenovo does have their 'iframe application, which can indeed act as a photo frame, showing all the pictures that were preloaded on the device, and it will do exactly that. So maybe when you're not using, you can hang on the wall and make life a little prettier I, don't know you might worry about battery life. But the good thing about that big cylinder battery is Lenovo claims, 15 hours of battery life, which is okay, just kind of like crazy awful lot for an 8-inch tablet, real-world I'm, finding it does do about 10 hours, which is better than average.

It might not really encourage you to use it as a photo frame unless you plug it in, but not so bad for those who want to be a little productive. It does come with King soft office which handles Word Excel PowerPoint compatible documents. As you can see, you can create a new document right there, and we've got pretty simple menus here that bring down very touch friend. It is a fairly full-featured office suite, so that's included for free. You don't have to go ahead and buy your own office.

Suite also go because so far, MS Office for Android is not Intel Atom compatible just yet, but this one does a job pretty well too, and now for video playback and speaker quality. Here's our channel, and we'll test Allen's of the Lenovo yoga tablet, 2 with Windows and volume, is set. That's 68 percent prettier black levels from LCD there. This is Lisa from mobile tech review. Here's an interesting piece right here: we've seen the Lenovo yoga tablets before they come in android windows, flavors and yeah.

Well, pronate inch tablet, not too bad I, wouldn't say it's exactly the most rich and full thing I've ever heard in my life among all electronic devices, where for an 8-inch tablet, that's not not that at all, so web browsing speeds are just fine on this using the Chrome web browser, that's included, nice contrast, really sharp colors. It's you know it's not I use AMOLED Super-duper best of the best display, but it's very, very nice and about half the price of the best of the best tablets really can't complain. If you want to do a little multitasking I just tapped on the multitasking area right there and brought up album, so you can see that's how it works. You get little floating now, applets right there for the multitasking, and it has enough horsepower to handle those just fine too, and you like to make it bigger and make it full screen. You can do that so again, mid may not be Samsung's level of multitasking, but it's not bad at all.

So that's the Lenovo yoga tablet 2. So that's the Lenovo yoga tablet 2 the one that you can hang up. I'm not sure why you would want to do that would be very expensive photo frame. Maybe if you did anyway available at 8 inches and 10 inch size is running Android also available, running Windows. In fact, we looked at the 13.3 inch model of this. We also looked at the 13.3 inch pro model of the Android tablet, so check out that review, also, if you're interested in any way for the price. It's really nice, it's very good-looking and has it pleasing enough I PS, full HD display reasonable performance and nothing yoga's like the yoga built-in stand, I'm Lisa from mobile tech move.

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