so I think I've found it probably the best affordable mid-range tablet that you can get right
now is this right here it is the Lenovo Xiaoxin pad Pro 2022 model Otherwise Known globally as
the Pad Pro 2022 so what is on offer here is really fantastic for the price point we do have
a 11.2 inch OLED screen now this old age screen is 120 hertz HDR 10 plus supports Dolby vision and
we've got four JBL tuned speakers Dolby Atmos on board here and 8 200 milliamp hour battery 30 watt
charging it runs Android 12 and it's all powered by the new companion 1300 T from mediatek it's an
excellent chipset it's got six gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage with micro SD card
support so pretty much everything you'd want in an affordable tablet including an optional keyboard
and stylus which unfortunately I don't have here is our box so obviously this is the import version
I got it from a company called giztop and it's called the Xiao Shin pad Pro or the pad Pro 2022
Edition now just quickly I'll show you the rear of the box you can see that it's got HDR 10 plus
Wi-Fi 6 certified JBL sound Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos here and of course powered by that midi
mediatek 1300 T chipset my version here has six gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage so
included Inside the Box we've got our power supply which is 30 Watts now we'll charge it in just over
an hour I'll give the exact time in this video we have a micro SD card slot tool there so there's
no sim support with it just a few little bits of paperwork here that of course all is in Chinese
and they do give us a 3.5 to type c adapter now why is that well obviously say because there is
no sadly 3.5 millimeter headphone jack with this particular model and a type c to type c cable
so let's take a look at the build we've got an 11.2 inch OLED screen 120 hertz a maximum of 600
nits brightness it does look very good the bezels are okay they're not super slim we've seen tablets
now of course with Slimmer bezels but for this price point I think it's perfectly acceptable
so it is about uh 480 grams and 6.8 millimeters is the thickness of it so it's thin enough now
it's a plastic frame all around the outside and I think this here also feels like plastic now
I've intentionally not cleaned it you can see it's an absolute smudge magnet here I think the
design compared to the previous year's version actually looks a lot cheaper and the way they've
done this camera too so it's a 13 megapixel camera we do have an LED flash the good news about this
camera is it does have auto focus and here's just a few quick samples so these two samples now are
of the rear 13 megapixel camera and then the front facing camera this one is eight megapixels later
on I'll give you a video sample two from it so it can shoot in 1080P so I've got the Lenovo
branding here this is for I think the area for the stylus to charge that unfortunately I don't
have the keyboard all that stylus this time around just the tablet itself and on the top we have two
microphones volume up and down buttons they feel like they are made out of plastic when you take
a look at the bottom right here of it you'll see the Pogo pop pink connectors and then the
little holes there for the stays for that optional keyboard now I've used the previous gen keyboard
and I think it's basically the same with this model here so it will be a good keyboard from
Lenovo highly recommend getting it if you are going to type a lot on your tablet we have two
of the JBL tuned loudspeakers our power button and then the micro SD card slot right here so
there's no sim support with this model so great we have the expandability with the storage we can add
more but we do not have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack as mentioned which is unfortunate though this
here is a full spec type c Port which is great so video out high speed data transfers and with the
video out we get their desktop mode or you can just use clone display we've got the other two
then side firing JBL speakers lenovo's gone with an excellent basically Flagship grade panel here
for a tablet so 11.2 inches it is of course a screen that is an OLED so blacks do look very
deep nice colors here I do have it set to their vibrant mode but you can put it to standard which
does tone down those colors now touch response and gestures have been very good with this screen
I really haven't had any issues you can see there again look how good those blacks look now there's
no light leakage there's no bleeding too as well with this screen that you don't see what you see
with the IPS panels as you see the leakage coming in around the edges not going to happen with a
screen like this and of course 120 hertz so we do have adaptive brightness we've got double tap to
wake you've got lift to wake as well and you'll see here under color we do have your standard
options there so they have by default vibrant but I would probably run it on standard but I just
kept it on vibrant here because that's how you get it out of the box you can adjust the white balance
there or even just tweak a little bit more if you wanted to do so so great set of options in here
now this OLED does not have a DC dimming option anywhere however you see that there's no banding
I don't see any flicker with this screen so it does look to me like most people if you're very
sensitive to OLED or AMOLED screens with flicker I don't think you're going to have an issue with
this particular panel here because it is very good screen that they've gone with here Lenovo
it is really basically a flagship grade screen in what is really like a mid-range tablet now the UI
here that it runs is their ohm Z UI 14 based off Android 12. now you see that we've got of course
here the companion it's the 1300 T very good chipset for mediatek here you'll see later on it
doesn't get hot it's very good the performance we get out of it six gigabytes of RAM and the
security patch level is July now I know a lot of people will probably be asking me this so just
going to point it out that yes updates are working I know with the previous models firmware updates
did not work they are taking they are working here yeah they flash over so that's really good bucks
bug fixes are coming through from Lenovo so the zui I have not been a big fan of in the past this
one is actually a little bit better performance is very good the whole interface the UI the tablet
feels are more like a flagship tablet than it does really a mid-range one and of course it's
selling for a very good price point around about 300 US dollars or so for the spec I think is good
the screen we are getting now I wanted to point out that there's a lot of little extra things
in here you do get from Lenovo but one of the ones I really do like is this in battery here
you will find that there is a of course battery saver mode but we've got optimized charging now
if you intend to hang on to this particular tablet for many years you want to get the maximum battery
performance out of it do enable these so battery maintenance mode or the battery protection mode as
well you can turn that on and it's going to really increase the longevity of this particular tablet's
battery by the way it's 8 200 milliamp hours which we do have with this model so the UI overall I
like the performance it seems to be stable there's no bugs firmware updates are working
and yes Google Play and Google Play apps all of that is working another thing with that UI is I
do like if you wanted to multitask for example you select one of the apps that it's going to
support So Prime video hold it down and then you can just pull down you can go between having free
form you'll see split screen or lock the app and I find that's actually quite an easy way to do it
so freeform now I can have it windowed you can do this now we've only got six gigabytes of RAM but
you can see the performance of that app seems to be just like having basically like a little phone
screen right here which is good so you can do that with the other apps if you simply just swipe up
okay you bring them up again for an app that is going to support it so let's take a look at maybe
3dmark is maybe not you can even split screen that too as well and you can adjust the size you want
that to be for the apps that are going to support it properly I can see that one isn't oh it's
because it wants me to run another here so you can have a course like Chrome open now for some reason
chrome doesn't want to install on this because of the Chinese ROM it didn't originally come
with Google but install Google Chrome Beta that's working and the performance is really good you can
see here I've still got that app they're running in the background which is great and then you can
do the floating apps too so it is quite a good tablet for multitasking and just to mention that
the wrong performance does seem to be very smooth and fast and snappy occasionally if I'm doing a
bit of heavy multitasking I've noticed that some of the animations can be you can see a little bit
juttery a little bit jerky but normally most of the time it is quite quick when you're swapping
over between different apps task manager doesn't seem to kill things off too quick which is good
now what about bloatware applications there are a few to start with but you can thin them right
down you can remove pretty much all of them but occasionally you may see a few notifications and
some things until you block it in Chinese so it'll take a day or so of using it to clean it
all up once you do that you're really not going to see any Chinese which is good so these are the
stock apps that you do get once you remove all the other garbage on there there's just a few of them
there's not it's not overly bloated so it's not bad there and as mentioned you just need a little
bit of time to clean that up so the battery life the runtime here this is at 120 hertz for a 8 200
milliamp hour battery isn't bad so eight hours is a fixed test that I compare with all the other of
course tablets I do review 200 nits of brightness it's not a bad result if you want of course over
10 hours of run time around about 11 then do run it at 60 hertz if you don't mind 60 hertz now the
charge time with that included 30 watt charger is not bad at all to go from 16 to 100 to only 68
minutes now you can see here with antutu that it's stating after this is after about four charges
that my battery capacity is more like seven just over 7 000 milliamp hours and not the 8 000 was
supposed to be 8 200 it's in this but this can be sometimes a little bit off so don't take that as
being an absolute exact figure for our battery capacity so running n22 this is uh version 9.4
you can see that it's a very good performance we do have with it so almost just shy of 600
000 points gpus particularly powerful there too with it which is is great it's got the Mali g77
it's the mc9 version so it's very potent It games really well this tablet as you see later on but
does it throttle well this test here that you can run on your own say Samsung s22 Ultra you'll see
that those phones will Throttle Down 30 percent but here this particular chipset which of course
is completely different to what is in those Flagship phones doesn't throttle really at
all it's only well it's under two percent that it loses you can see from the top score to the
last this is after 20 minutes of pushing it the GPU really hard fantastic performance here so no
throttling it maintains that performance when you game you don't see it start out really fluid and
then just drop right off no not at all so for the price point this tablet really does offer a lot
it also does have this GPS with a hardware Compass so if you wanted to use this for navigation Google
Maps or other nav programs maybe you're a booty you can use this tablet because it's got a bright
screen you can see outside accuracy down to one meter I'm indoors and it still has some of these
in the green when it comes to signal strength but when I go out this is right up into the 30s which
is very good it did take around about a minute and well just under a minute to get this lock here but
great it does have this which is another bonus so really what it's missing is just a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack sadly but it's got everything else including that display out with the type C port
now if you plan to use this for an ebook reader this is Google Play books that I'm using it looks
great the screen is sharp the text doesn't look blurry and I have been using it for a couple of
hours reading on it and I didn't have any problems with my eyes any strain of course with the Google
Play books you can invert the text you can have a black background white text if you wanted to do so
you got blue light filter all of that good stuff is there and holding it especially in portrait
like this I find is comfortable and remember it's only 480 grams so the weight of it is
not too bad I'll just quickly show you PDF files here they also look very good and the performance
is good you can see it won't be the fastest you occasionally see a little bit of page loading so
it's not iPad quick but again very good and thanks to the OLED screen it just looks really stunning
whatever PDF files you are reading on this shell Shin pad Pro or the Lenovo pad Pro 2022.
as for 4K demanding videos that you might want to be playing on this you can play them okay but I
just ran into a problem with the codec for sound so jellyfish 10 bit file this is a 140 megabits
per second so it's very demanding but look at how it plays this bag this is even better than
Windows 11 Pro core i7 laptops that I'm testing out there's no gutters there's no stutters at the
beginning it looks really good but there is uh no audio coming through because of the codec problem
so we need to do is install VLC player then you'll get sound you can play 4K files really
without any problem this is another 4K clip here now this one does have the sound and it is going
to work properly so it really does seem to handle everything I throw at it when it comes to video
files it's just some of those audio codecs it won't like so use via VLC to get around that
as for audio well we've got those JBL speakers there's two of them either side
you can sometimes block them when you're holding it but we have the speakers at the
top so it's a bit hard to block all four at the same time they do sound excellent they're rich
they've got a bit of bass to them really good volume and they are definitely above average
speakers so here is a sample just so you get an idea what they're like at 100 volume
foreign those are really good speakers I don't think anyone's going to be disappointed by them
at all and by the way YouTube playback performance yes you can run this at 1080p no problems so if
you do intend to game on this or you're going to be buying this for someone that would like to game
perhaps a child or you want a son or daughter or something don't worry about the performance
because it is excellent it's very good I'm really not noticing any lags and the performance here
is close to that of what I would call Flagship performance really even though this is a mid-range
chipset so this is Gen chin impact if you're not aware of this game it's got console level Graphics
it's super demanding yet this tablet handles it quite well no real problems I've got it on the
highest possible setting 60 frames per second and it's looking very good and as I pointed out with
3dmark when I did that extreme Wildlife stress test that it will not run into really any thermal
throttling so the performance you get when you start playing is the performance you're going to
have the whole time and it really barely gets warm at oh just a little bit here on the back of notice
so pubg uh Call of Duty all of those games are going to run really well here on this shell Shin
pad Pro or the pad Pro okay so this tablet just cannot be beat for the price point around 300 US
Dollars 330 US Dollars you've got 128 gigabytes of storage micro SD card support 120 hert OLED
screen that's bright up to 600 nits it's got HDR 10 plus support with it Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos
JBL speakers large battery capacity decent battery life with it video out it's got a compass it's got
a GPS it pretty much has everything that you would want in a tablet especially for the price now why
would you even look at some of the other Chinese brands that I Do cover like teclast or Chewie you
just wouldn't some of those models sell for 280 260 250 US Dollars you're better off spending
that little bit extra getting a quality machine like this now sadly I don't have the keyboard I
don't have the stylus but I can tell you now from my experience using lenovo's keyboards and their
statuses they're M pencil their Precision pen sorry in the past that it will be good so there'll
be good optional accessories if you wanted to get those you've got that option which is really good
so what are the cons it can't be all positive right otherwise this must be a sponsored paid
review I can just see some of the comments already well it's got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
that's one con the build quality has kind of gone backwards uh with the plastic frame around it now
instead of metal the backing on it being plastic but it's high quality it does not feel cheap
there's no creaks or flicks in it it is a quality Tablet so there really is for me no cons apart
from you could say another one would maybe be the UI Z UI there from Lenovo this time around I don't
actually find it to be too bad it seems to be well optimized and the firmware updates are working
too which is very important so if you're after an affordable tablet you don't have a huge amount to
spend but you don't want something that's under 200 or 200 US dollars they're normally garbage
get this it comes highly recommended from me I give this a huge thumbs up from Lenovo they've
really done it at this price point just so much on offer so thanks a lot for watching my review
here of the Lenovo pad Pro 2022 model it's known as globally or the xiaoxen pad Pro 2022.