HIGHLIGHTS
- The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro has a 2560x1600 pixel screen.
- It has a 480p projector built into its swivelling base.
- It runs Android 5.1 with Lenovo's UI customisations.
Tablets are confronting an unfaltering decay, with the tablet market enlisting negative development figures in 2015. Indeed, even inside this declining market, Apple keeps on decision as the main tablet producer, with Android and Windows-based tablet creators trailing behind. Chinese maker Lenovo sits in fourth place, with a piece of the overall industry of a little more than 5 percent.
This conveys us to the inquiry: are Android tablets even pertinent any longer? Lenovo beyond any doubt thinks along these lines, in view of the way that it just dispatched the Yoga Tab 3 Pro in India. Initially uncovered in September a year ago, the Yoga Tab 3 Pro doesn't resemble some other Android tablet. It has its own particular in-assembled projector, alongside Dolby Atmos tuned speakers and a one of a kind stand that gives it the capacity to be utilized as a part of different positions. We run inside and out with the Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro in our audit.
Look and feel
Lenovo's Yoga tablet range has dependably taken after a predictable outline dialect. The Tab 3 Pro adheres to this, with a round and hollow base and stand that gives the tablet a chance to be situated upright or marginally calculated when level. When you needn't bother with the stand, it can essentially be collapsed once again into the right spot and clicked close. A physical catch at the back can be squeezed to open the stand when required. A little fold under the stand shrouds the microSD opening. Some worldwide variations of this tablet likewise bolster cell information availability, and those variations have a SIM opening under this fold also.
The Yoga Tab 3 Pro's mark highlight, the coordinated projector, is incorporated with the stand. This basically permits you to modify the point of the projector's toss and still utilize the tablet effectively while it's anticipating, which could be especially valuable amid presentations. The camera is on the base, yet to the other side of the swiveling stand, and in this way can't be calculated the same way. That shouldn't be quite a bit of an issue since you likely won't take numerous photos utilizing the Yoga Tab 3 Pro.
The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro isn't a little gadget by any methods. It has a substantial 10.1-inch screen and measures a weighty 665g. It's actually somewhat heavier at the base, so it isn't exactly as simple to handle the same number of other more adjusted tablets. The left side has the force catch, Micro-USB port and volume rocker, while the left has the projector catch and 3.5mm sound attachment.
The front of the gadget has the optional camera and Dolby Atmos-tuned JBL speaker exhibit, contained four individual speakers, sitting directly underneath the screen. The screen itself is a significant great one, with a 2560x1600-pixel determination and thickness of 299ppi. It's awesome with regards to splendor and hues, and is inconceivably sharp at regular survey separations for tablets. This makes the Yoga Tab 3 Pro a magnificent choice in the event that you expect to utilize it for watching a great deal of motion pictures and TV appears.
Specifications and Software
The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro is controlled by a quad-center Intel Atom x5-Z8500 SoC, timed at 2.24GHz. There's likewise 2GB of RAM, 32GB of inside capacity (expandable by up to 128GB with a microSD card) and two batteries: a bigger 6200mAh unit and a littler 4000mAh one, totalling an enormous 10,200mAh of battery limit. The rendition of the Yoga Tab 3 Pro that has been propelled in India is the Rs. 39,990 YT-3X90F variation which does not have cell network, in spite of the fact that the cell variations have been recorded on Lenovo's India site.
Aside from this, there is additionally Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/air conditioning and GPS network. Incorporated into the bundle is a USB link and a 24W charger, which charges the tablet decently fast in spite of the vast batteries.
The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro runs Android 5.1 with an altered client interface on top. It's a two-layered UI that has visual likenesses to Lenovo's Vibe UI for cell phones, albeit some little changes have been made to enhance the interface for the bigger screen. Aside from Lenovo's own particular applications, you additionally get Netflix pre-introduced, connoting the tablet's planned use as a media gadget. Overall, the interface is basically a vast screened rendition of what we're accustomed to seeing on Lenovo cell phones.
Key applications worth broadly expounding about are the projector application, the Dolby Atmos tuning application, and Lenovo Sketchpad. The projector application gives you a chance to control the projector and pick recordings, pictures and reports to see, yet we thought that it was simpler to just switch on the projector utilizing the equipment catch as an afterthought or the flip in the snappy settings board, and after that explore through the interface to discover media. However there are a few settings which you will require the application for, including center tuning, shine, and cornerstone redress. The Dolby application gives you a chance to enact the virtual encompass sound mode, and additionally change the equalizer as you see fit. The Sketchpad application gives you a chance to draw on screen, which will prove to be useful when utilizing the projector for showings and presentations.
Performance
The Yoga Tab 3 Pro is one of a little number of cutting edge tablets fueled by the Intel Atom x5-Z8500 SoC, and we enlisted 79,372 in AnTuTu. Design benchmarks likewise created not too bad scores, with 25fps in the T-Rex test in GFXBench and 24,773 in 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited.
Be that as it may, execution in real practice is problematic relying upon the undertaking you're putting the tablet through. Amusements, for instance, endured on account of stammer and slack. This was the situation with an assortment of diversions, whether light or graphically exceptional. Rebooting the tablet tackled the issue for some time, however it sprung up again every time. Then again, recordings weren't an issue by any stretch of the imagination, stacking and running splendidly whether put away on the gadget or gushed. This included incredible execution with Netflix, which was a charming background on account of the screen.
Battery life is nice too, and the tablet kept running for barely 13 hours in our video circle test. In common use, you could utilize it for up to three days at a stretch contingent upon how regularly you control up the force hungry projector.
Another key angle that makes the Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro a fabulous media tablet is its inherent speaker cluster. The four front-terminating JBL speakers and Dolby Atmos tuning make for a fascinating sonic affair that is uproarious, open, wide and clean. The configuration is to some degree like a smaller than normal soundbar, due to the length of the speaker exhibit and its position directly underneath the screen. Atmos mode slightly affects the sound, by augmenting the toss, however it doesn't make any kind of encompass impact as you would anticipate from the Atmos name. In any case, the sound is great for a convenient gadget. You could without much of a stretch get rid of earphones in the right environment, on account of the boisterous, clear solid.
The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro has a 13-megapixel essential camera and 8-megapixel front camera. You aren't required to take a considerable measure of pictures on a tablet, and you'll likely look somewhat senseless in the event that you hold a monster section up to take pictures when you're out on the town. In spite of that, the camera is shockingly useful for a tablet, taking pictures that are sharp and point by point in appropriate light. The front camera is likewise not too sufficiently bad for video-conferencing and the incidental selfie.
At last, proceeding onward to the enormous component of the Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro, we gave the projector a trial. Setting off the projector is genuinely simple, and should be possible either utilizing the devoted projector catch, the snappy settings switch in the notices shade, or through the projector application. The projection is genuinely brilliant with a greatest shine of 50 lumens, yet it will require a dull space to be seen legitimately. It anticipates to a greatest size of 70 inches, however perceivability and quality is best at around 25-30 inches. Projection size must be balanced by physically moving the tablet towards or far from the screen or divider you're utilizing.
Notwithstanding, splendor and cornerstone adjustment can be controlled, and additionally concentrate (all of which are on-screen and programming based). The projector determination is very low at 480p, and pictures are actually ailing in sharpness. In the event that your proposed use for the projector is the intermittent presentation or occasional gathering video viewing, the Yoga Tab 3 Pro ought to be fine. In any case, you ought to adhere to the tablet's fantastic screen for the vast majority of your own survey needs.
Verdict
The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro is principally a media utilization gadget. It has a major, sharp screen, fabulous speakers, better than average sound even with earphones, and an implicit projector that will prove to be useful for presentations and so forth. It looks great and has nice battery life. The flexible stand implies that you can position the tablet anyway you like, and there's even a better than average arrangement of cameras. For the particular purposes that utilization these characteristics, this is a great gadget. Be that as it may, it is not an all-rounder of a gadget, and it will baffle you in different ways.
Poor execution is its most prominent shortcoming. It essentially does not satisfy desires for Android gadgets, with drowsy execution and slack all through the framework, especially when playing recreations. In the event that you expect to utilize this gadget basically for presentations and media utilization, or in the event that you have different devices for alternate purposes, then the Yoga Tab 3 Pro ought to suit you fine and dandy.
Pros and Cons
Good
- Good design
- Excellent screen
- Built-in projector
- Decent cameras
- Superb speakers
Bad
- Performance is poor
- Expensive
Ratings
- Design ----- 8
- Display ----- 9
- Software ----- 7
- Performance ----- 5
- Battery life ----- 8
- Camera ----- 8
- Value for money ----- 6
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