If you're in the market for a large android 11 tablet with a lot of power then there is really
only this option right here which is Lenovo's Yoga Pad Pro a 13 inch android 11 tablet powered by
the snapdragon 870 it has 8 gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.0 storage and this little stand
on the back of it here so you can see you can use that to prop it up at all sorts of different
angles you can also use it to sit it up like this and this also does support the precision 2 stylus
and so far in my time using it this is definitely the best large tablet that you can get if
of course you want an android tablet so along with the tablet you'll find a type c to type c
cable our charger this is a 30 watt charger and it does take approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes to
fully charge the 10200 milliamp hour battery and banggood does include here an eu adapter for any
eu customers now the build quality so an unusual design here with this one we've got plastic
backing material here there is this round part which does have two speakers which are five watts
inside it i'll give you a sample of them later on in this in-depth review and then we have our
handle stand really for this so you can use it to prop it up the other way you can lift it and push
it right up and around and that way you can use it then as a handle you could hook it over something
if you wanted to do so now this hinge is very very stiff it's made out of metal this part here is
rubber and we've got plastic and then a felt type material well it's like a suede material they've
gone with on the back now i don't mind this too much you can see the yoga branding however i
notice it does pick up a lot of particles of dust and things that will show up because of the black
color now this is just painted on the lenovo here it's not a metal tab on the left here we've got
something really interesting and that is hdmi input so yes you can use this as a secondary
monitor which is really good to see which more manufacturers would do this so you can connect up
a nintendo switch your pc laptop ps5 xbox you get the idea so we've got a microphone here so this is
plastic the frame around the outside thickness right here is 2.5 centimeters the tablet is pretty
hefty it does weigh 900 grams well just under it's about 897 grams according to my scales it's
a little bit heavy there and then on the right side we've got our type c for charging now this
supports usb 3.1 so quick transfer speeds to the 256 gigabytes of storage within this model here
and it does support video out so power on volume up and down and these buttons are made out of i
think they could be metal but probably actually plastic their other microphone so thickness wise
here isn't too bad but it is a little bit chunky but we do have those two speakers inside there and
of course that handle stand so that's why it has this unique design to it and along the bottom here
which kind of fires out a little bit to the front but more bounces off the table when you do stand
it up is the speaker grill here so putting my ear up toward i can hear sound coming out from here
and here with those five watt speakers but nothing in the middle here i just think that's a chamber
to help get a little bit of bass out of those speakers and finally along the top the two
two watt speakers i'll give you a sample of all four of those speakers now what they sound like
and just before i do those there are just some microphones on the top
now with the front of the tablet here we've got up the top here eight megapixel front facing
camera there is a time of flight there and it does support face unlocking which i do find works well
so what is missing is a side fingerprint reader which i would have liked they could have put it
maybe up here i just think it would have been a little bit faster than putting in a password
and they do not have micro sd card support or lte support so no sim card support on there's no 5g
so those are really the two things that are missing for me the expandable storage but great
having the display input and also great having of course the type c out with video out from it
and the screen here so this one's 13 inches very large for a tablet and normally i'm reviewing the
largest it's normally about 12.6 and this one has a resolution of 2160 by 1350 so 16 by 10 aspect
ratio the screen looks sharp now the maximum brightness that i'm able to achieve and get out
of this display is just over 400 nets officially they say 400 nits but i'm getting around 418 nits
which is okay indoors it's fully laminated covered with glass now i don't know if it is
gorilla glass that they are using with this one now overall the brightness indoor use is perfectly
fine but outdoors you will struggle a little bit here now this is what the gamma you can see it
should actually be about 2.2 and it's pretty close to that and that's the brightness down there at
the lower setting which i accidentally triggered right there now the touch response from the screen
is good it's a little bit sensitive and overall i don't think it's a bad panel now the bezels top
and bottom let's get out of this if i can trigger the gesture back there we go bezels top and bottom
okay they are a little thick now for 2021 but the left and right ones aren't too bad at all
all up i think it is a good screen and most people should be very pleased with it for
definitely definitely for looking at media content i find that this is a great screen
for that like something like netflix amazon prime video which it does support and it does support
having them in hd as well so we've got wide vine level one cert which i'll get on to soon
about that and i just also wanted to point out that here we're running zui which is based on
android 11 for the ui with this one and again i mean the performance has been good multitasking
and the gesture support with the touch good not a problem eight gigabytes of ram with the snapdragon
870 and it has been bug free but a couple of times i have i wouldn't say 100 bug free i have been in
the settings menu and just changed something and it's completely crashed the settings and i bounced
back out of there so we've got a lot of different things you can tweak in here we can schedule it to
power on and off we have for the display to some other options i wanted to point out so
you can change the color mode this is great your white balance i really love to see this and most
manufacturers do do this but there are a few that are a little bit slack and don't actually include
those options eye protection dark mode can be scheduled adaptive brightness i've got it turned
off at the moment because while i'm recording the screen and trying to show it as best as possible
that i can here but the ambient sensor is right up here it's next to the time of flight and that
8 megapixel camera with this one so various different things can be tweaked and it is the
global rom that banggood flash onto this one so that's another reason why i ended up buying
it from them so there are updates that come through they have a system update and their own
over there update system and this is the latest version so i did get one update which is minor
bug fixes i don't know actually what it fixed but i haven't had any problems with that one
other thing to point out too though however is this that when i try to get onto my wi-fi
six network it's only picking up wi-fi five not the six which is the latest the fastest wi-fi
uh ax so wireless ax it doesn't seem to wanna connect up to my router or detect it for some
weird reason even though that yes this model does support wi-fi ax wi-fi 6. android bench now this
is just to show the internal storage speed so we have 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.0 storage very good
speed so getting almost 1400 megabytes per second sequential reads sequential rights almost 700
randoms well over 200 so very quick storage and this is not going to bottleneck it so we do have
the eight gigabytes of ram as i've mentioned and that really does help to aid in the performance of
this particular tablet it's very very quick one of the fastest that i have reviewed so when you first
get this yoga pad here you will have basically no bloatware and not really to me is any of this
stuff kind of blow most of it is useful now there are microsoft apps on there that some may consider
as bloatware like office and whatnot but they're still useful so no real junk apps no games or
anything is installed now free available space you are looking at approximately here 244 or so
gigabytes frequency 242 sorry that you're gonna have with this okay remember no expandable storage
unfortunately with this particular model here now battery life is excellent it is really really good
i was able to achieve almost 13 hours this is at the display calibrated to 200 minutes okay and it
just runs and runs until it gets to 20 so i could have gone on for at least about 13 and a half
maybe even 14 hours of runtime just watching video with this which is really really good thanks to
the 10 000 200 milliamp hour battery as mentioned charge time is about 2 hours and 40 minutes with
this wide vine level 1 cert and it does support amazon prime video at full hd resolution which
i'll get onto soon and here is our antutu score now i apologize for some of the video quality
of this particular video here because the screens at an angle it's very hard for me to get the whole
screen in focus and sharp here with my lenses but there we go almost 700 thousand points here and
two two this thing's an absolute monster and it's just as good as the snapdragon triple eight it
really is it's getting similar scores and similar gaming performance as you'll see later on
ebooks and pdf files so this is a large pdf file that i do always test out uh it's i think
it's around about 50 megabytes or so a lot of detail a lot of pages and it's very quick on
this no problems and looks great on the large screen now the bezels here are looking a little
bit worse than what they really are so if i zoom in you can see now that's the normal bezel size
there so the text looks sharp it looks great and the performance when just scrolling ahead there
very very quick but it still won't beat an ipad and ipad pro and even the older generation ipads
still seem to be the champions at just raw pdf file performance now once i get out of this i'll
just show you an ebook too as well absolutely no problems with them it looks great and of course
you can flip the screen around and hold it and use it then in portrait mode but i would use the
stand for this because it is a heavy tablet it's about 900 grams as i mentioned it's not exactly
light and they look great you can zoom in you can invert the colors here so you can make the
text white the background black you can put on the blue light filter dark mode and all of that too of
course now onto the gaming performance here so this is pub g and we do get up to ultra hd but
we take a hit in the frame rate then drops down to ultra which is 45 frames per second i believe
and if you stick it on there and just do hd which is what i will be testing out we get extreme which
is the 60 frames per second i think it is and that matches the 60 hertz that this panel has
so let's take a look just how pubg performs here now as expected stating the others here that
no problems at all this is 60 frames per second constantly runs well and looking down the sides
there's gonna be no lag at all with this game so very light title really this is not demanding at
least not on this setting so i'll move over now to android's most demanding game and probably ios
as well which is gen shan impact and let's see how it handles it now i have the title here set on the
highest possible visual settings at 60 frames per second and in the performance is very very
good it's running really about the same as what i would get out of a snapdragon triple eight here
or demensity 1200 even has similar performance to this from what i've seen so very very good
now does it get warm does it run in to any thermal throttling or problem so just around this
area on the other side let's get a little warm but because it's a very large tablet it doesn't suffer
from those throttling issues that you would get with a small phone with the same chipset or the
snapdragon triple eights are actually worse when it comes to thermals this one's not bad at all
so just got a couple of enemies here let's jump into a quick fight with him being so large it's
a little uncomfortable i would actually prefer to game on a slightly smaller size but still
performance really really good here from the yoga pad pro now here's a sample from the front eight
megapixel camera there's in fact no rear cameras on this and i don't think anyone's going to be
really missing that with the tablet the quality for an 8 megapixel one you can shoot 1080p video
max here you do have portrait mode with it i don't think it's bad i think this is a good front-facing
camera that they've used in here lenovo and excellent audio quality out of those microphones
by far my favorite feature of this particular tablet is the fact that it supports display input
which we don't see with any other tablets really at all and i wish more manufacturers would do this
so here you can see with my windows 10 mini pc i've got hooked up to maximum resolution
is the 2160x1350 16 by 10 aspect ratio and with the maximum 410 nits of brightness
it does actually look pretty good indoors i've got the screen brightness turned right down
so tapping on the screen now i can set and control the brightness levels you can see how much i've
turned that right down it's a very bright screen here and tapping again i'm able to adjust the
aspect ratio from 16 by 10 to 16 by nine i put it back on 16 by 10 and then the audio two we get the
on-screen display for our audio controls when i'm adjusting that now it remembers the setting that
i had before when i previously use that so that is great and as soon as you plug in an external
device for the input here for the display it then swaps over to it it's a very handy feature to have
okay so we really do have another winner here from lenovo i really like the large screen
the experience of using it especially for media consumption watching netflix amazon prime video
disney plus youtube and just other movies and whatnot is really good on this with those speakers
and we do have the wide vine level one suit it's a global rom and amazon prime video is in full
hd which is really good to see because a lot of devices even though they have that widevine level
1 cert are still stuck in standard definition which well it kind of looks terrible especially
at 13 inches it would so that's great there performance excellent very fast chip snapdragon
870 makes this so far the fastest tablet with the eight gigabytes of ram that i've reviewed
here in the channel we've also got the lenovo p11 pro or the xiaoshin pad pro 2021 model that
i've reviewed which has the same chipset but just six gigabytes of ram now the display input input
on this is a very handy feature to have that if you intend to have this as a tablet but you'd
also like to connect it up to say a nintendo switch or your laptop on the go you can do that
and it's useful it's got a sharp resolution it is still a good looking screen to be able to
use like that and then you've got the type c usb 3.1 with display out support as well so it clones
the display you can connect it up then to a larger tv if you wanted to do so so battery time and run
time on this very good 12 to 13 and even possibly maybe 13 and a half hours you can get out of this
which is really good because it's got a large battery so all up the build is good even though
it's got a plastic the middle frame is great the difference things you can do with it you can even
you know use it to hook it up like this the screen of course flips around then you can stand it up
like so if you wanted to do like that or have it sitting up so it is used useful it's versatile
and really it comes down to only a few things i don't like about this particular tablet i'm sad
to see no micro sd card support that would have been brilliant on this no 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack and then no lte or gps support which would have been great again or even 5g support if they
could have added this to it i think then with those things that would have been really the
perfect large android 11 tablet now with lenovo there's another thing too to point out they're not
known really for major android updates i've just had a patch come through
but i really doubt this is going to see android 12 ever you'd probably have to get a newer model
to get android 12 because the previous gen model is still on android 10 the same goes with the p11
pro series so thank you so much for watching my review here of the lenovo yoga pad pro 2021 model