now when it comes to smaller tablets under 10 inches with Android 13 there's barely no options
out there and if you want a bit of power too as well then there's really only this model here
from Lenovo it is the Allegiant y700 it's the 2023 model that I've got here it supports an optional
keyboard unfortunately it's not available at the time of this review for me at least but I do have
the Lenovo pencil which it does support this has 4096 pressure sensitive levels so the tablet being
a little bit more compact is just 8.8 inches very comfortable size it's only 350 grams and
it's under eight millimeters the thickness of it the screen is 16 by 10 aspect ratio so it's
1600 P by 2560 and it's 144 Hertz IPS powered by a Snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 it has 12 gigabytes of
RAM this base model that I got from giztop with 256 gigabytes of storage and this is what you'll
find in the box so we have our typesetter type c cable 68 watt charger but the tablet itself our
Legion y700 only supports 45 watt charging maximum and you can get an optional keyboard which was not
available but I do have here the Lenovo pencil now that does have 4096 pressure sensitive levels
does have Palm rejection more on that soon and I did get this Legion y700 2023 model from giztop
if you're interested in where you can get it there's a link in the description of this video
so fantastic to get a tablet with this kind of size and dimensions 8.8 inches a 1600 by 2560
screen so that does mean yes it's 16x9 aspect ratio not 16x10 so perfect for gaming HDR Dolby
Vision support with this 144 Hertz screen IPS and 500 nits is what they claim I measure 434. it's a
good screen very nice to look at fully laminated and really fast the performance of it really quick
and snappy that 144 Hertz which I have it forced to so more on that display later on I just wanted
to go over this build a little so the tablet is 350 grams 7.6 millimeters measuring here
not the camera module so it's thin it's quite light and it has this unibody metal build to it
with a nice gray color to it you can see the legion branding right there and it does pick
up sponges and fingerprints so we've got twin loud speakers they're in this portion here so
if you're holding it on the bottom which you would for gaming you don't block the speakers
so a USB 3.1 Port here that supports only Power and data but the one on the bottom here this is
for the keyboard as well I believe but you do have video out support with this so they have
like a dock I believe in China they sell for this you can slide it into it and having the
two type c ports is a blessing because you can plug and then a 3.5 millimeter type c to get your
headphones with no lag and that means it's not much of a big deal not a huge deal that we don't
have the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack not that I'm defending Lenovo with this mover would have
loved to have seen a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack but there's a work around having the two ports so
here we have Micro SD card support which is great that is up to one terabyte I believe that's the
maximum that you can run in it and you get the 12 gigabytes of RAM with the base model that I have
here in 256 gigabytes of storage so it's nice and thin here good feel to it when you're holding it
on the back we have a 13 megapixel camera that's nothing amazing but it can shoot 4K and we've got
a 2 megapixel macro and this is our LED there so the surface of it here Matt feels good will
be easy to scratch but it does have a good build quality along the top we've got two microphones
and then we have our metal power on with a bit of texture to it so you can easily find that and
then I'll volume up and down good feeling buttons overall very good build quality but note there are
no antenna lines which is a little unusual with a unibody alloy build like this the refresh rate has
been tweaked now it's no longer 120 hertz with the 2022 model that's been the 23 refresh here it's
144 Hertz so it supports Dolby Vision HDR 10 500 nits is their claim but that's typical brightness
I measure 438 when it comes to Nets there which is still fine now 144 Hertz very smooth very
fluid bezels either side are large the left and right bezels here and I don't mind this because it
makes it a little bit more comfortable to hold after all it is focus more on gaming so long
periods probably that you'll be gaming away pubg whatever titles you do play and we have a camera
right here which is 8 megapixel supports 1080p it doesn't take amazing quality photos and I'll give
you some samples later on of both of those so the top and bottom bezels here if you're looking at
it landscape again not too bad and the screen is fully laminated and the resolution is 1600
by 2560 and yes that means it's a 16 by 10 aspect ratio which is great so overall good screen very
responsive to touch and I'll just jump into the settings here there's a couple of little things I
want to show you with the display the options we do have so obviously there's a dark mode that's
all pretty standard there adaptive brightness I've got it disabled at the moment and I don't see any
flick here no banding being an IPS you're not really going to have that problem it's just the
AMOLED screens that do that or OLED so the color mode I've got it on vibrant that's by default you
can put it onto standard you can tweak the white balance if you want to so great options to have
refresh rate override option so you can keep it on auto refresh which is by default I forced it
on to 144 and you can put it on to 120 hertz and there is 60 to save on the battery now I would
have loved to have seen 90 if you're familiar with my other videos I think 90 is that perfect Sweet
Spot between fluidity and battery saving and the rest of the settings on that pretty standard there
too so we do have display video out with that bottom type c port and yes you can run either
clone display or a desktop mode with it which is very good from Lenovo just one last thing on the
display that the touch response is very good the colors for an IPS do look great but you will see
around the edges a little bit of shadowing so it's not a uniformed Pure White just at the edges they
kind of Teeter off and they have a bit of what I describe as a little bit of a shadow to them now
it's not that off-putting you only really see it at an angle see how it's doing it just a little
bit on these corners and of course it does have the or automatic flip there with the accelerometer
that is built into it so it is a good looking display the blacks don't look too bad at all
for an IPS and now here in direct sunlight it's just visible it's not the best and direct sunlight
super reflective of course being covered with glass it is running Z UI and this is version 15
now there have been no updates yet for it and you will find that their update policy is generally
pretty poor in my experience Lenovo They Don't Really pump out updates bug fixes maybe major
version updates if this is going to get Android 13 it's currently on sorry 14 it's on 13. don't
know whether that's going to happen and honestly I think it probably wouldn't they would just release
a new version or a refresh then with Android 14 once that is available now you can override the
default Home Launcher if you didn't like the Z UI you thought ah you know that's not what I want
you want say Nova launchy then you can run that okay so you just need to set it up in the default
options in fact I think I have that screen already set up here so just go to recent apps and I do so
you jump into that default home app and you can set then Nova 7 override that if you don't like
the zui launch here now performance is good in general so that's just the toggles at the bottom
while they like to call that the dock don't day and I do have the app drawer enabled and I find
the performance has been very good very fast very smooth very fluid and I don't see any bugs at all
now if you want play store which of course I do have installed you just need to get the APK file
and go ahead and install that and it should all be working because it's got part of the framework
in there and you will not have any problems so so far for me it's not an amazing launcher but it's
functional it's fast fluid rapid and that's what I want really with a small 8.8 inch gaming tablet
the y700 does support multitasking as you'd expect and you have floating windows you can either do
split screen you can have various floating windows on the screen too and work that way and you can
just go along and maximize and make things full screen for example which I've done right here so
there's a couple of things I wanted to go through with my screenshots I've taken so there have been
no firmware updates as I pointed out which is either a good thing or a bad thing now my
experience with Lenovo net updates whether Android tablets is not good at all okay bear that in mind
I don't think we're ever going to get Android 14 on this not a major version so there is really no
bloat where once you remove all the Chinese stuff there is one little thing here and you might see
pop-up and notifications a couple of things in Chinese but you can go along and mute those and
block them you shouldn't really have any problems now it does have a wide Vine level one cert and I
did test out Netflix this is from within Netflix the playback spec and you can see it's full HD but
it's not listing Dolby Vision there or HDR support which is a little disappointing that may be coming
later on but I'm not holding my breath on that one it's up to Netflix really so performance
with the Snapdragon 8 plus Gen 2 very good the 12 gigabytes of RAM you can see that it gets a very
decent score here super powerful for such a small size tablet this is the most powerful that you can
get when it comes to Android and the stress test that I did to check out the throttling excellent
result so it throttled only 0.5 and 20 minutes of looping a very demanding Benchmark got a really
good score and you can see yes it did heat up a little bit it got to 38 degrees Celsius and
I felt the frame around this area gets a little warm to the touch but it's nothing alarming it's
not like getting up to 50 degrees or 45 which does feel a little bit uncomfortable almost like you're
starting to burn yourself there but no that's not really happening with this unit at all so
battery run time I managed to get six hours and two minutes now this was me sitting at 244 Hertz
mind you and the brightness was hit very high too to get a more realistic result I used to calibrate
it to 200 nits but I now push around about 75 brightness of whatever device I'm reviewing that
gives more realistic results here so you can get up to around seven hours out of the battery but
um I think it's okay but when your game you're only looking at about three and a half four
hours depending on how the mining that game is for that 6550 milliamp hour battery now charge
time just 50 minutes here from 15 so it charges pretty quick and you can of course be playing
and charging at the same time if you wanted to do so it does have charging protection so what this
does if you are going to be gaming and charging at the same time do enable this because it will
stop charging at 50 percent to extend that battery life and just to stop it getting super hot which
you don't want you don't want it to be constantly charging and draining at the same time it's going
to generate a lot of heat and then it might run into some throttling even though it was only 0.5
percent but enable that if you're going to game a lot and charge at the same time for this those
extended long gaming sessions there is a battery maintenance mode and you can enable this here too
which is the over discharge protection the stylus does not have a way to magnetically dock it onto
this tablet I don't know if the Lenovo pencil does work with some other tablets I believe
so and with those ones it will sit on with a magnet then anywhere you place this bottom top
or anything it's not going to magnetically just sit on the side and to be honest the tablet's a
little bit too small for that anyway so it's not something that I think would have been possible it
would just get in the way you would easily knock it off and there's nowhere to Stow it of course
so you need a case that you could slot it into as a way of keeping it I think so the pressure
sensitive levels let's just test those out now so it's a 400 and sorry for 1096 so pressing
lightly here you can see that's very light how do I start to press it's coming out thicker so that
is working well and it does have Palm rejection and it seems to have a very good latency so it's
very fast too I've noticed the response of this does it feel like I'm riding on paper no because
the nibbit is like a hard almost like plastic and it feels okay second right right up to the edges
it doesn't limit me and that there's not like a millimeter whether it's not detected at all
and a very quick little handwriting sample here too for you so I'll just get rid of some of this
hang on you can see how fast this is it's a very very quick stylus I do like that
okay very quick messy hello world but it is good to write on I find it's handy so be good
for a little note taking it is a limited sized screen but you can still sketch quite well on
it and overall I do find this to be a very good stylus another great use for a tablet such as this
would be PDF files and ebooks we've got a lot of power in here with that Snapdragon 8 plus gen one
so it can handle PDF files with absolute ease you see how quick it is here and this is quite
a large demanding heavy file now I'm using Google Play books here I uploaded this PDF file manually
and it's looking very good and of course we have the auto rotation with the accelerometer and you
can just double tap zoom in and see everything very clearly it's a sharp screen we've got a
great resolution on here with that 1600 P the 10 by 16 by 10 aspect ratio sorry I did say
16 by nine before but it now it is 16 by 10 and the 343 PPI makes it look super sharp that text
no problems at all and while it might not have an e-ink display it still is very good for ebooks I
mean it's a very comfortable size 350 grams again won't be as light as a dedicated eBook reader but
still this is a multi-purpose high-powered tablet focused really on gaming still ebooks look great
on this very very good really nice and comfortable and It just fits the page perfectly the 8.8 inches
so the speakers on this model are absolutely fantastic for the size of it we've got left and
right when you're holding it so you'll be gaming like this you're not going to block those speakers
and I can because it's got the second type c Port plug in here a 3.5 millimeter to type c
adapter and use these my headphones and then again no problems with latency I don't want to
use Bluetooth when I'm gaming no no no you don't want to be doing that and there's the other type c
Port that is free of course on the right side so you can plug that in be charging and use
headphones at the same time or alternatively if you're using just the speakers plug in the
charger here so when you're gaming you don't have the annoying plug sticking out of one side which
is a bit uncomfortable so give you a sample of these powerful speakers now at 100 volume and
they sound really good good mids bass even a bit of treble there just powerful for the size of it
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and what I think most people are going to be using it for is gaming performance and
it does not disappoint at all so this is Genji and impact on the maximum settings and set to
60 frames per second you don't notice any real lag or stutter apart from when you load in say
a new area of the map and that's pretty normal on anything I test out very smooth and just like
what I saw with 3D Mark with the wildlife test that it does not throttle only about well five
percent not even that 0.5 percent just a tiny bit the frame rate is consistent performance is
excellent here yes it gets a little hot to the touch and I'll show you too that if you swipe
from the left or the right you bring up this gaming performance menu so it's in Balance mode
at the moment but I can turn that on to the highest performance setting there but really
it's not needed but maybe in some games if you want just that extra little boost you're going
to get it now the Wi-Fi performance despite not having any antenna lines that I can see it seems
to be good I haven't really had too many issues I just noticed the range isn't quite as good as
some of the other tablets I do have out there but I don't find it to be an issue as long as
your router is not really far away or say three or four rooms away you might need to
get a little bit closer but I haven't noticed any problems overall the gaming performance
the performance out of this for the size of it is absolutely fantastic with the legion y700
camera can shoot 1080p 30 frames per second quality seems to be all right it's nothing
special built-in microphone seem to be okay as well they're not brilliant but not too bad I
mean at least we can shoot 30 frames per second 1080p with the front camera and 4K 30 with the
rear which will take a look at now rear camera footage this is 4K 30 that it can manage I've
noticed it seems to drop a few frames it's not exactly brilliant footage I don't think it is
your phone will probably take much better video 4K than this so there we are for a smaller under
10 inch tablet this is really the only option you have for Android 13 something with a bit of power
too great for gaming great screen 144 Hertz yes it's just an IPS panel but it's fully laminated
it's reasonably bright and at 144 Hertz it's very fast and quick the UI zui not bad it's not
the greatest UI that I have used I will admit that and what concerns me is the update frequency we're
probably not going to get ever Android 14 so bear that in mind that you'll probably just get minor
bug fixes that will be it so it does support an option optional keyboard don't have it the stylus
is very good considering this is a small little screen here it's got the pressure sensitive levels
Palm rejection it's very accurate it's nice for handwriting it's about the best option you have
and for gaming with the small 8.8 inch screen but the 16 by 10 aspect ratio very comfortable to be
gaming away like this fantastic loudspeakers and because it has the Jewel type c ports on there USB
3.1 I'm not going to give it a strike for not having a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack because
you plug in an adapter then your 3.5 millimeter headphones you've got zero latency issues which
of course you still get with Bluetooth even Bluetooth 5.3 and it can charge at the same
time so I see it is a bit of a non-issue yes I would have still love to have a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack but with the two type c ports it's really not necessary there at all it's all up
this is a great smaller yet powerful tablet here from Lenovo the legion y 700 2023 model refresh