This is the Lenovo Tab4 8+.
A premium 8-inch tablet with a lot of nice features
Stick around to find out
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Hey guys, hope you having a great week
My name is Jonathan, and this is TechWizTime where I do technology tutorial and review videos
And in this video I'm going to be looking at the lenovo Tab4 8+
Now this premium tablet was sent out to me by Gearbest I'd like to thank them for that and as always thoughts and opinions are my own and no money has exchanged hands
So let's get into the unboxing and let's have a look at what's inside
The box is really nice
We'll put the actual meat up there to the side
So we've got a little sticker there and instruction book
Inside it's all compartmentalized, which is really nice, this is a common feature these days with tablets and TV boxes and so forth out of China
In the middle we've got warranty information and so forth in an another language
Over to the side we've got the Lenovo USB charger there, it's 5 volt 2 amp
And across the other side we've got a USB C charge cable
Awesome
And next up is the tablet itself
And the first thing I've seen is that it is a little bit of a fingerprint magnet
So
That's not too bad though
Overall though really nice
And one thing I really like is that IPS panel that's really really crisp and clear and the colors are awesome
Let's talk specs
When it comes to ports on the lenovo Tab4 8+ you've got USB C up the top here and a three and a half mil headphone jack
Over on this side here is where underneath the lenovo tab is the SD card slot
It's a nice feature where it's not actually exposed to the world and it's not a sim card tray, so, just something a little bit different, but works pretty well with this tablet
Then across on this side you've got the volume rocker switch up and down, and this is interesting, this is the power switch here
So one of the unique features of this tablet is that it's got a fingerprint sensor
And that's built into the power switch
So all you need to do is just put your finger over it and boom you're into your tablet
How awesome is that?
And one of the other features that I'll show you here is this has stereo speakers inbuilt
So you've got one up the top here and one down the bottom here
That's another good feature that isn't in a lot of tablets out there, so good job Lenovo
So inside the Lenovo Tab4 8+ is the Snapdragon 625
Now that's an 8 core processor running at about 2 gigahertz
This particular one has 64 gigabytes of on-board storage as well as 4 gigabytes of ram ddr3 though
Bluetooth comes in at version 4.2 which is interesting
And Wi-Fi comes in at 5 gigahertz so you've got your AC there
It's running Android 7.1.1
And unfortunately it is not rooted
The internal battery sizes 4850 miliamp hours
Which is rated to last around 10 hours
The front camera is 5 megapixels whereas the rear camera is 8 Megapixels
In the display is an 8 inch IPS 1920 by 1200 display
So really nice crisp and clear
With specs out of the way, let's look at some benchmarks
So I'll use the program A1SDBench to figure out how fast the internal and the SD storage goes, so
In this instance
The internal read speed is 208 megabytes per second whereas the internal write speed is a 149 megabytes per second
When it comes to the SD Card Slot however it is using the older USB 2.0 chipset by the looks of it because we're getting a 30 megabyte per second read rate
And a 7 megabyte per second write rate
And the RAM speed comes in at 5408 megabytes per second, so, not too bad
Next up is the Wi-Fi speed test and this is just using the speed test app
And here you'll see using the AC Wi-Fi that we're getting 151 megabits per second download
And
69 megabits per second upload
So not too bad
Next up is some N22
So N22 jUst gives us some scores based on the CPU and GPU and so forth, so
Looking at the scores here we can see that the overall score is 60923 with a 3d score of 12718
UX score of 23339 a CPU score of 20372 and RAM score of 4494
Next up we've got Geekbench
And here you can see that the single core score is 780
Whereas the multi-core score is 3284
Now an extra score that I've done with this one because it has a battery is the battery life score
And doing the partial discharge which is a three hour test
We get a score of three thousand four hundred and ninety three
And based on that sort of usage it does work out to be about ten hours of usage, so
Not too bad on their claims
Next up in the benchmarks is 3d mark
And I've tested a few ones here, so we've got Slingshot normal
And that one comes out at 819
Then we move on to Slingshot extreme
And that gives us a score of 460
Next up we've got the Ice storm benchmark and that one comes in
At 12190
And lastly Ice storm extreme and that one comes in at 8151
Some pretty good scores
Ok so now onto some real-life
Tests and streaming wise this thing can stream Netflix very comfortably at the 1080p resolution and the YouTube app itself does stream at 1080p, however
When playing a 4k file it won't actually go above this
So 1080p is the limit here
Next up I did a bunch of media tests
Now this is just to see what sort of codecs it will playback and at what speed and so forth
So all these files were tested using Kodi
And I did test it on the SD card as well as through the Wi-Fi
And it made no difference in this circumstance
So Big Buck Bunny was played back at 4k resolution 30 frames per second using the h.264 codec and that was coming back at the 30 frames per second
But when I tried to play back to 60 frames per second file
Unfortunately it stuttered and really didn't get far, so
This won't be able to play 60 frames per second 4k files
Next up is the jellyfish test and this is where we test out different bit rates
For different 4k files
Now the first one up is 55 megabits per second and that one played back fine
But when it came to the 140 megabit per second 200 megabits per second or the 400 megabits per second files
These just really didn't work at all, so
If you're playing back low bitrate files, then you should be fine here
All right, so that's media out of the way. Let's have a look at gaming
So when it comes to the PSP emulator PPSSPP
We can see that Powestone plays back at about 40 to 50 frames per second depending on the level and depending on how much is going on on-screen
So not too bad and pretty playable
But when it comes to God of War of course this is always the one that just craps out, so
When you're looking at god of war we're only getting between 10 and 20 frames per second which is better than a lot of devices that I've tested so far, but
It's still not what I would call a 100% playable, so
Unfortunately it will play a lot of PSP games, but God of War is unfortunately out
As something a little bit different I've chosen to test out some Dreamcast games as well just to see how they run and in Raycast
We can see the Sonic Adventure plays back at about the 60 frames per second limit
Which is fantastic for all those sonic fans out there the classic Dreamcast game Shenmue it runs at 30 frames per second which is the limit
And then when we come to Soulcalibur we are getting the 60 frames per second there roughly
It does dip a little bit, but that's all caliber for you
Next up there's some PSX games or Playstation one whichever way you want to say it
And we're using the emulator FPS I here
We can see the Final Fantasy 7 gets its full 60 frames per second which is great for those fans
Metal Gear Solid comes in at the 60 frames per second as well so that's fantastic
Specially to those stealthy sessions
And lastly Tekken 3, that one comes in between 50 and 60 frames per second so still really playable, but
Just keep in mind that you're gonna have some drop frames there every now and then
So what do I think of this Lenovo Tab4 8+ tablet, well
For its price
Which is around $269
There will be a coupon code down in the description to get a little bit cheaper
It's not bad for a premium tablet like you're gonna pay more for an iPad, yes
And this is only an 8-inch one so it's like an iPad Mini you might as well say
And with the features that it's got and the power behind it
It is not bad for a 249 dollar tablet
If I had to be picky, the fingerprint sensor, I don't actually know why they've included it with it for some people it will be you know it's in a good position
When you're holding the tablet to unlock it really quickly
for other people they're probably not gonna find a lot of use for the fingerprint sensor, so
If you are one of those people that are looking for it then yeah, that's great if you're not too interested then it's probably a feature that you're not gonna be really looking at
So with that said have you ever used any of the lenovo Tab tablets before?
Let me know down in the comments and let me know your experiences because this is my first one and i'd like to know what you think
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