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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Lenovo 12.1 Tablet

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  The Best ! Love the size and the sound. Battery last a long time with a full charge and does not take no time to charge. The pitcher is fantastic!

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  This review is from Lenovo - Idea Tab Plus - 12.1" 2.5K Tablet - 8GB RAM - 128GB UFS - Luna Grey

  Posted 1 month ago by JeffL

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Another hit by Lenovo

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  This is my 2nd Android tablet by Lenovo and I am loving them more and more. The other one I own and use daily is the Yoga Tab Plus and this one I have been using for mainly streaming/content consumption and light gaming (Tower Defense). The price to performance ration is great when comparing to the other competitors and the build quality is excellent. In the box ------------------------- Super lightweight and thing 12.1 Tablet Pin extractor tool USB C charging cable (you need to supply your own power brick Standard paperwork. Setup ------------------------- Being an Android tablet, setup was super quick and easy. I just logged into my Google Account and everything was being set up in the background quickly. The only thing that took a while was all the updates required. Apps took the longest to update, then there was not 1 but 2 Lenovo OS updates back to back. But once everything was done, it was just me signing into my apps I used the most and on to my daily tasks. Performance ------------------------- The Idea Tab Plus is a 2.5k resolution screen that can do a max of 90hz refresh. This was more than satisfactory for my as watching most streams were 1440 @ 60 or FHD (1080) @ 60 and looked great. Putting in a couple hours in gaming never got the tablet warm and even after 4+ hours of binge watching shows yielded the same results. Battery life claims 13+ hours on a full charge and I can safely say those claims are true as I watched my YouTube channels in the span of a few days. Brightness was around 50-60%. Sound is adequate from the built in speakers and will do the job just fine, but I prefer using my over the ear headphones. Another great thing Lenovo does is expansion! Granted you get 128gb of storage on the tablet, but you get a Micro SD slot that can do up to an extra 2TB of storage! I am so happy some companies still allow this while the others did away with it. So huge thumbs up to Lenovo. Final thoughts ------------------------- If you are looking for a tablet for mainly content consumption and light gaming with a little bit of productivity sprinkled in, then I would look no further. Lenovo created an excellent tablet that (sold separately) can use a KB/Cover attachment to do a multitude of tasks. Personally I recommend putting the Tablet in a protective case asap as a safety precaution. The clear one I got was perfect for my needs.

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  This review is from Lenovo - Idea Tab Plus - 12.1" 2.5K Tablet - 8GB RAM - 128GB UFS - Luna Grey

  Posted 3 months ago by Woo151

• Rated 3 out of 5 stars

  A good value tablet.

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  _____ *Pros: -Bright and crisp display (up to 800 nits). -90Hz refresh rate. -Nicely balanced weight distribution. -Clean, simple design. -Can expand storage via microSD card. -The four speakers sound great. -Four years of security updates. _____ *Neutral: -Only supported up to Android 17. Comes with Android 15. -Wish it came with a built-in kickstand. _____ *Cons: -The camera’s shutter speed is bad. -Camera quality is so-so, especially in low light environments. -GPU is mediocre and can’t smoothly play high-end mobile games. The Lenovo Idea Tab Plus is mostly a satisfactory and good Android tablet, especially at its current price level. The design and build quality are excellent, with the in-hand feeling smooth and well-weighted and balanced. The corners are rounded and smooth, and they don’t dig into the palms causing discomfort and pain. At a weight of about one pound, it won’t easily cause fatigue when a child is handling it, such as my 10yo daughter. The power and volume buttons are located in predictable and convenient locations, and the buttons are tactile and responsive. The 12.1” 2560 x 1600 LCD screen is a treat. It’s sharp and crisp, colorful, and can get very bright. The quality of the screen was a pleasant surprise, and streaming movies and TV shows was a quality and satisfactory experience. The screen supports the Lenovo pen, but the pen is not in the box unfortunately. The screen is very responsive to finger tips and swipes, and writing and drawing apps performed just fine even without a pen. The four-speaker sound system was another pleasant surprise, and the audio quality was better than I anticipated. Despite its thinness, the audio quality was almost as good as the speakers on my 18” laptop, with warm sound, decent soundstage, and passable bass. Volume at 100% is nice and loud but some soundtracks experienced distortion and crackling, such as heavy metal tracks. The tablet arrived with Android 15, which is one version away from the most recent Android build right now, and it comes with a four-year security update promise from Lenovo and guarantee update up to Android 17. I know the Idea Tab Plus is an entry-level, value tablet, but it’s disappointing that the support period is so short. The Lenovo Android launcher is snappy, responsive, and easy to navigate around. The tablet comes preconfigured for a swipe-based gesture navigation, but I changed it to the 3-button method because that’s what I’m used to. Having used many tablets from each major software camp (iOS, Android, Fire, etc.), I still find Android to be the most convenient, intuitive, and well-suited option for a power user type such as myself. Android is exponentially better than the competition when it comes to handling notifications. When it comes to performance, everything was good except for when trying to run high-end games such as Cookie Run Kingdom. On my Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra, the game runs smoothly and perfectly, but on the Idea Tab Plus with its middling MediaTek Dimensity 6400 SoC, the game was an absolute stutterfest. Based on some benchmark numbers I ran, I wasn’t surprised – the Idea Tab Plus only scored 753 single-core and 1971 multi-core on Geekbench 6 CPU, and a 1252 on Geekbench 6 Compute, which are very low scores. Less demanding games, such as Dandy’s World on Roblox and Cat and Soup, ran just fine, and gameplay using a Bluetooth-connected gamepad was enjoyable and fun. Playing AV1 compressed media files was also good. Another noticeable weakness of the tablet is its camera performance. Both the 13MP rear shooter and the 5MP front shooter are, at best, just average in quality in ideal lighting conditions, and in low light and dark settings, fare very badly, with lots of ghosting, smearing, and loss of fine detail. The cameras can be used in a pinch but for important shots, it’s better to stick to the cameras on modern smartphones. The tablet comes with 128GB of storage that can be further expanded via a microSD card, which is very nice and useful. Other aspects of the Idea Tab Plus were good and reliable as well, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections. I often plugged in a USB-C thumb drive to transfer large media files, and the experience was seamless and transfer speeds satisfactory. The 10,200 mAh battery provides stellar runtime, and the Idea Tab Plus barely lost any charge the next day when the screen was turned off and left not charging overnight. All in all, the Idea Tab Plus is a decent Android tablet that seems fairly and correctly priced. The display is great, the audio sounds good, and the formfactor is easy to handle and carry. It’s perfect for streaming movies and audio, as well as drawing and note-taking if you purchase the optional pen. Its only big and glaring weakness is the anemic GPU; so if you’re into playing heavy graphic games with lots of eye candy, then I wouldn’t recommend the Idea Tab Plus. Otherwise, it’s a good and decent value buy, and earns a solid 3.5 Stars from me.

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  This review is from Lenovo - Idea Tab Plus - 12.1" 2.5K Tablet - 8GB RAM - 128GB UFS - Luna Grey

  Posted 3 months ago by optimummind