Chris here with probably the best android 11 flagship tablet that you can get at the time of
this video for the price so this is called the Xiaoxin pad pro and globally it's known as the
Lenovo p11 pro the 2021 model so they've given it a spec bump and it's definitely welcomed because
the older model the p11 pro still a very good tablet only has a snapdragon 730 this now has
the 870 we have now ufs 3.1 storage 128 gigabytes worth of it still the same six gigabytes of ram
micro sd card support and the screen has changed so it's 11.5 inches still the same 2560 by 1600
resolution however it's now a fast and smooth 90 hertz so this import model here i did get from a
store called Giztop and i do have as you can see the keyboard and the stylus which i will
be covering in this in-depth review and inside the box of the xiaoshin pad pro you will find
a 20 watt charger a type c to type a cable it has a good length to it and it's a high quality cable
and the build quality of the tablet is excellent i would rate this as a premium tablet it is really
the same kind of build that you would get from the samsung galaxy tab s7 plus for example so
we have a bit of a matte finish here to the middle now this is alloy all around it now that is super
thin this is only 5.8 millimeters the thickness and it only weighs around about 480 grams too
so very light so we have a 5 megapixel ultra wide 13 megapixel main camera and here is a led flash
and this is set into the metal here the lenovo branding so you can't actually just remove that
antenna line along the top around the outside the bezels are only eight millimeters so very slim
and i think it's about 84 screen to body ratio which is not bad at all so at the top here we've
got two eight megapixel cameras now one is for 3d face unlocking for your biometrics depth of field
and then the main one is just used as the camera there face unlocking does work really well on this
and we have a fingerprint reader on the side which i will show you shortly but just to demonstrate
how it does unlock so using my thumb that i've already scanned it is quick and i haven't really
had any trouble with it at all so it does have the biometrics there fingerprint and face unlocking
and then looking at the top of it here we've got two jewelry microphones here the antenna lines
because of the alloy build that this has metal buttons at the top and again look at how thin
this is this is crazy it's only 5.8 millimeters i with the camera protrude so you can see it does
stick out by additional three millimeters there but hey it's not too bad at all and just a premium
build to this one it feels great in hand down the bottom we have the pogo port pin connector there
and the little holes there for the stays for the keyboard which i'll be showing you shortly and the
magnetic stand for this too as well that it has then our fingerprint reader power button another
two jbl speakers here on the left and our micro sd card slot so i have tested this here which
is my 128 gigabyte micro sd card it works fine in this and this is our optional accessory too which
is the keyboard and the stand now i really do like this key but i think it's better
than the samsung galaxy tab s7 plus as keyboard typical lenovo shaped keys good travel to them
and they're not loud keys at all and it feels very nice to type on this my only complaint
would be the arrow keys are a little small and the delete sorry the backspace key here i wish
was a little bit bigger as well so there's a few little compromises in this area but when you're
doing most of your typing and considering the fact that this is an 11.5 inch tablet i think
they've done really well so it's a top keyboard and the touchpad not too bad it is very very
small but the finer movements i do find using with the cursor as you can see now
it's okay all right it's not going to jump all over the place it has a nice smooth finish to it
and pressing down there is a single mouse button there so we've got our media shortcuts here at
the top brightness controls and we've got to cut their lock and your notifications too
and the stand portion of it so you get both halves is very good made out of this high quality
fabric and the plastics used to gain high quality nice stiff hinge on this too and it can go all
the way back as so and even when it's there it doesn't tend to move around and no problem now
the magnets are very strong to hold that in place so it's not going to just drop off so
it's not like the horrible solution we used to have previously or you'd have to stick it onto
the back of the tablet no strong magnets this is a rubberized finish to it nice soft finish
there so it's not going to damage the tablet and the back of the keyboard has that same fabric
finish to it which is quite resistant and it doesn't really show up and damage you can't
scratch this of course so i do actually like this so with the keyboard cover case it is going to
then be just under one kilo the total weight and the thickness now is around about 15 millimeters
and our screen so the big change is we have now moved over to 90 hertz it's the same 11.5 inches
the same 2560 by 1600 and the move to go to 90 is a lot better it's very very smooth and i'm not
doing it justice recording here and only 30 frames per second of course i would need to be recording
in 90 or 120 frames per second so you could actually see how much smoother this really is
uh the screen is showing these lines here just on camera by the way okay something to do with the
glass and the pin tile arrangement is causing this okay this analyzing effect but trust me in person
you do not see this now a lot of people were criticizing my review of the previous model saying
how can you say this screen is good because it's using pentile arrangement it's oled it is a decent
screen it's a very good screen and if you look at it really close yes it does not look as sharp as
an ips panel and some of the other panels out there now this screen's not as good as the tab s7
plus all the ipad pro's no but for the price point i still think it's a very good screen now maximum
brightness on this one does top out to be 600 nits officially i'm measuring around 588 nits which is
still very good and i've even probably just got a little bit too bright here at the moment you can
see again the lines there but this i find to be good now touch response on this particular panel
is great i'm not having any issues with it it seems to be very responsive to touch
and again the 90 hertz is just definitely helping out here with the overall fluidity triggering
gestures another thing that is absolutely flawless and i have not had any issues with it
so the tablet runs android 11 zui 12.5 because this is the chinese import model now google play
store is not there originally and you'd expect there's been a chinese version and it's exactly
the same as the p11 pro this model hardware-wise exactly the same it's just the software difference
now google play is here it works fine i just installed the apk file the latest one
and away we go working everything is fine it has the google framework the google play
store framework was all part of the rom built into it and performance of this has been very
good so just multitasking has been very very smooth fluid excellent no noticeable
lag starters the 90 hertz is definitely helping and of course with the six gigabytes of ram
it's actually enough all right eight would have been yeah better but eight i think six is still
okay with this one considering it's a little bit cheaper so save yourself a lot of money
get this model instead of getting the p11 pro locally which would probably cost
a lot more anyway that's what i would do so here you can see toggle slightly different with the zui
and you can adjust the audio there the brightness and we've got pc mode so pc mode is something that
i really do like and i use this a lot so i'll just bring that up now it's very quick to load so it
just does this little animation there pc mode and there we go allows us to run then our applications
in windows depending on our free available amount of ram that restricts on how many applications we
can actually load and app support too as well for this so you can see that i'll just bring whatever
up here now gps wanted to point that out that it does not have gps support this model anymore which
is a slight annoyance but i don't think it's gonna be too much of an issue for most people so you can
see that everything's gonna be up and running here you can minimize these various different
applications as well i'll run them in full screen if you wanted to do so for example in an app like
uh where are we sketch autodesk sketchbook so that doesn't want to be run in a little window
so to be full screen you can minimize that and so this is great for multitasking to exit it
you simply just tap here and out of it pc mode and watch how quick this is it's running in the
background so very very fast there when you first power on this tablet you will be greeted with the
following bloatware applications which are just chinese junk applications that aren't relevant to
us of course there's about seven of them uninstall them and then you don't see any chinese whatsoever
with the tablet oh apart from the app store notifications which i've blocked so they don't
show up to me anymore and i am on the latest firmware so it does run android 11 as mentioned
a security patch level is april this year and this is now the antutu score so i'll just run
through a few benchmarks with this tablet now so antutu very very strong performance here as you'd
expect for the snapdragon 870 that is excellent and the internal storage speeds ufs 3.1 spec
so no slouch at all when it comes to performance this is a huge step up both the chipset and the
storage speeds compared to the previous model and that's one reason to go for it and why it feels
so quick now wide vine security level one cert is present okay this is good however i'll get on
to later on it looks like amazon and it doesn't seem to actually run like in full hd it seems
to be more like a standard definition or just hd or low bit rate camera 2 api level 3 support
no gps is mentioned that does have a hardware compass on board though and here we have good
wireless speeds well okay wireless speeds for this chipset i did actually expect this to be
a little faster it's not really going to bottleneck or hold the system up
it's just that with this chipset i have been able to see well double this speed for maximum speeds
which tend to top out at 400 megabits per second it's still okay and this right here is a wildlife
score which is not bad at all it's the snapdragon triple eight now that gets about 35 frames per
second on average with this one and the best thing too is that i ran it for the stress test
the stress test showed me that it did not throttle stability okay it dropped point five percent which
is nothing and i've noticed this in games that the thermal seem to be excellent because it's using
the whole tablet back as a heat sink and it just maintains that performance without any throttling
whatsoever so our battery life nine hours and this is running a looping benchmark here and
for 90 hertz that's actually okay not too bad now i'm able to achieve around 10 hours or so screen
on time out of this depending on what you're doing of course if you drop it to 60 hertz then
you'll be able to get around 11 12 hours with your brightness of course not being super bright charge
time here for the 8 600 milliamp hour battery was 122 minutes and that was charging at 20 watts
now youtube runs just fine now like any 16 by nine aspect ratio content you're going to
have these borders okay top and bottom now the maximum play quality matching the screen almost
because it is 16 by nine is 1440p and i find it is fine it keeps up case is fine looks good
but i'll give you a sample now of the audio two from these four
jbl six watt speakers they're quite good impressive really for a thin tablet like
this
video files and ebooks they look good on this tablet with this screen and yes when you zoom
in very closely you will see that it's not as sharp as say the samsung galaxy tab s7 plus
or an ipad now the pdf performance this is a very large file here is good but it will not
better an ipad okay an ipad is going to be faster than this ebooks also look great on the screen
and for this kind of use i think the tablet is ideal because it is lightweight so easy
just to hold in one hand while you are reading now a lot of people have asked before with the
previous model netflix amazon prime video disney plus so we've got wide one level one suit you can
see that it's there and it's listing hdr this is adobe vision screen as well but when you actually
run things like for example or go into netflix when you start to play well anything really
you'll notice in the beginning it's definitely standard definition and then it builds up and the
quality does improve so i believe that netflix at least to my eyes it looks like after i'm
watching for about a minute or so it's hd or it's 1080p but what i've noticed that the data rates
are with amazon prime video for example they seem to be quite low and that is a little annoying
there so just bring that up and you can see that the data rate very low here only 0.46 gigabytes
per hour with streaming now the ui runs really fast and smooth and fluid and no problems with it
and when you first start it the same thing happens okay you start it up and you look at it
and it's standard definition gaming performance no surprise here with the snapdragon 870 that it
is very very good so this is genshen impact it's a super demanding android game and i do test it out
on mostly the phones because it's very very taxing on resources it pushes the chipsets really hard
and i'm shocked to see that on the maximum settings genshen impact just runs so good
no problems no major lags occasionally a little stutter or two but that even happens
on the snapdragon triple eight really immersive with the speakers the nice large screen is great
and then other titles like pub g so with pubg you can run the ultra hd texture pack
okay and then you get the extreme frame rate or the ultra frame rate sorry
and if you run just say smooth hd or hdr you get the extreme frame rate option which is 60 frames
per second and the gameplay is great it's very smooth it's fluid as expected now the best part
of this tablet when gaming thermals thermals are excellent as i showed with 3dmark this doesn't
seem to throttle at all it gets warm on the rear but nothing alarming because the whole
unibody of this tablet is basically one huge passive heatsink for this tablet
no review would be complete of course without the active stylus that this model supports it's
an optional extra it's not included so it does have the two buttons right here rubber tip that
you can change and replace they include a spare and it's called this here the precision pin okay
the precision pin two it works for various other lenovo tech from them so there's a rubber gasket
right here type c port to charge it palm rejection works about a centimeter away from this screen
and i will just jot something down right now to check on the handwriting performance here so hello
world messy writing yes i know not too bad now the latency here with this app which is
autodesk sketch i think it's called very good it's not bad but it's no apple pencil it's no s
pen i've noticed that so drawing straight lines not a problem you can sketch right up to the
edges of the screen right there and the pressure sensitivity you can see just a little pressing
harder harder and harder does come through clearly pressure levels are working it's not a bad stylus
at all but it will not beat ns pen or the apple pencil and this is a sample of what the cameras
can do front-facing camera eight megapixels here 1080p maximum yes i'm outside so the lighting
is ideal here it's very bright and indoors it's okay it has a little bit of grain to it
good quality microphones and overall i think for a tablet that the quality you can get out of this
it's not bad at all but it doesn't have electronic image stabilization but you'd normally be sitting
this on a table anyway so i don't think that's a problem at all i'll swap over now to the rear
camera that 13 megapixel one so we can see how the video quality is for that so again no electronic
image stabilization and only 1080p and really they could use better quality i mean they could
give us 4k they could even apply electronic image stabilization and for 1080p quality it's yeah
i don't think it's that good it's not amazing your phone will probably do better than this
so this tablet really does offer fantastic value for money i think if you're after a flagship
grade android 11 tablet so snapdragon 870 great performance the ui is very fluid super fast and
yes if you get the input model you are saving a lot of money but you do have to install google
play store and you've got like seven apps in chinese to remove and that's basically it it
is not an issue i thought i would have had more problems apart from there is that lee voice thing
that's the only thing that's there okay but there will be a global firmware coming out soon from
lenovo and like the previous model we can just flash it over the top of this without any problems
so keyboard's great to type on a very good screen now i know a lot of people were saying that the
screen's poor uh without even seeing it just saying that oh yeah when you look at it it looks
blurry now the thing is normal viewing distances which would be like for example like that okay
i think it looks absolutely fine this is a good screen deep blacks the brightness is there now
if you're of course looking at it like that which is just crazy then you notice yeah okay it's not
as sharp as an ips panel now the kickstand on this one just to show you that it goes
all the way back like so and pressing on it and you press really hard then the kickstand may drop
down a little bit but hey that's quite good so what about the cons i mean it can't all just be
amazing right there has to be something for me it's well it's nitpicking really uh it could have
a magnet or a storage place to put the stylus if you were going to be getting that there's no
way to put it okay so that's just one very minor little thing a lot of people won't be buying that
the other one is there is no lte support or 5g support with this which would have been nice
and there's no gps support but i don't think those two things most people won't even care about apart
from that i mean you've got a thin slim build amazing jbl speakers decent battery life the
90 hertz screen it really is an all-rounded great package and this one does come highly recommended
from me this i think is the best so far for the price definitely what you're getting on
offer here from lenovo so they have pretty much done it there's nothing i could really think of
to improve that just those minor things that i mentioned there i wanted a thing to point out
it seems that there is the widevine level one cert but netflix more amazon prime video doesn't seem
to use a higher bit rate when you're watching the content it looks to me like it's definitely not
standard definition because when it starts out streaming it looks all blocky and then it goes
to hd and it looks like it goes to 1080p but it's just not quite as good as it could be say
on the samsung galaxy s7 plus so it's another tablet i've also reviewed in the channel so make
sure you check that out and thank you so much for watching this review here of the lenovo p11 pro