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Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus Review: Better than any Samsung Tablet?
The new Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus comes with a bright 12.7-inch display, great performance and top-notch speakers. But there is a downside!

With the Yoga Tab Plus, Lenovo is once again launching a new premium tablet that aims to impress in several ways: a very bright 12.7-inch IPS display at 144 Hz, a powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and many exciting features for the included stylus and its own AI system.
In our practical test, we took a close look at the device and tell you whether it is worth investing the 600 dollars and how the tablet compares to the competitors.
Design & workmanship
The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus comes with a metal casing and is only available in the color “Tidal Teal”. The case feels very high quality and is comfortable to hold.

The typical “Yoga shape” no longer exists, but the tablet stands out with a prominent bar in a gel look on the back, in which the cameras are embedded. It weighs a total of approx. 650 grams and is therefore quite portable for a 12.7-inch device. A USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 port is built into the side, which can also be used to connect an external monitor. This way, the display can be expanded and also mirrored.
The included folding stand fits well with the design of the tablet and we never took it off again once it was on. It is made of plastic and covered with imitation leather, as is the included keyboard.
The build quality of the tablet is completely solid. The transitions are clean and the keys are firm.
We particularly like the fact that Lenovo has integrated a fingerprint scanner into the power button. It is fast and easily accessible. Furthermore, such a scanner is considerably more secure than a face scanner, and Lenovo will be able to keep up in terms of security.
Display
One highlight of the Yoga Tab Plus is the 12.7-inch IPS display with 3K resolution (2944 x 1840 pixels). With a maximum brightness of up to 900 nits, it is significantly brighter than the iPad Air 13′ and the Galaxy Tab S10+. Outdoors, this is a clear advantage even over OLED competitors, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+, whose panel may have a high-contrast display, but it cannot match the brightness of the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus.

Another strength of the S10+ is the anti-reflective coating, which is why it reflects much less, but also loses some brightness. When we compared the Yoga Tab Plus directly with the S10+, it turned out that both tablets really reflect very little. The S10+ reflects a little less, but the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus is also brighter.
With a 144 Hz refresh rate, everything scrolls very smoothly, which is particularly noticeable when reading long articles, surfing or playing games. Although it is not OLED, the display impresses with a very high contrast, a P3 color space coverage and a very balanced contrast.
This is impressive for an IPS panel and makes series and movies a real highlight. The maximum streaming rate in the test was Full HD with Widevine L1 classification via Netflix.
Speakers
The tablet comes with 6 large speakers that are built into the top and bottom of the frame and deliver a very loud and comparatively powerful and clear sound. This is particularly noticeable in films and series, and the sound is really impressive for a tablet of this size.

Our practical comparison also shows that the Yoga Tab Plus is significantly louder than the Galaxy Tab S10+ and the Magic Pad 2 and also stands out with very strong bass. It comes with Dolby Atmos certification and the speakers are designed by Harman/Kardon. Overall, the Yoga Tab Plus performs very well here and the sound system is among the best in the tablet world.
Gaming
We played Fortnite on the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus in our practical test on the highest graphics settings with almost 90 FPS throughout. Gaming is definitely fun on the bright screen and with the good speakers, and the device does not reach its limits in the Android gaming world.

The gaming benchmark tests confirm this great performance. Here, the Yoga Tab Plus achieves an excellent result, performs better than the OnePlus Pad 2 and also competes with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+.

Performance & Hardware
Inside is a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a good chip of the upper class, which is comparable to the MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ of the Galaxy Tab S10+. In practical tests, the Yoga Tab Plus’s chip performs very smoothly. Apps launch quickly, multitasking runs without stutters, and the tablet always performs confidently, even in graphically demanding games.
In addition, a Qualcomm Hexagon NPU (Neural Processing Unit) with 20 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) provides support and helps with all local AI processes, such as the local model of Lenovo AI Now. This means that Lenovo is also keeping pace with the competition in this sector, because Samsung and Apple in particular have been relying on NPUs in modern chips for quite some time.
The device’s good performance is also reflected in our Geekbench 6 benchmark test comparison. Here it can be seen that the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus is neck and neck with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+. In terms of GPU, it is even a bit further ahead, while the S10+ scores more points in the multi-core test.

The impressive 16GB of RAM ensures that even a large number of apps continue to run smoothly in the background and support the chip during demanding tasks such as exporting videos.
Up to 9 GB of the system memory can be activated as additional RAM here, although this does reserve system memory. Compared to similarly priced Android tablets, the Yoga Tab Plus is undoubtedly one of the top-performing tablets in this regard.

Stylus
The stylus offers extensive gestures and shortcuts to quickly copy, paste or move text. For example, swiping up with the stylus copies selected text, and swiping down pastes the text. This makes editing longer texts much easier and is an innovative addition to the classic “long tap + copy & paste” routine.
In the practical test, we liked how precisely the Pencil implemented handwriting. The stylus recognizes curves cleanly and actively embellishes the handwriting. The writing feel is similar to the Apple Pencil and adds slight scribbling noises and a gentle vibration when writing, which seems a bit unusual at first but provides very good live feedback from the stylus when you write.

However, we noticed a strikingly loud typing noise between the tip and the screen, similar to the Apple Pencil. You either have to like it or get used to it. Incidentally, the stylus from Samsung is quiet.
If you can live with a loud typing noise like the Apple Pencil, you should be very satisfied with the stylus, because it has many features that Samsung does not offer and a gesture control that also rivals Apple’s Pencil.
Keyboard
The keyboard cover fits the folding stand very well and not only gives the tablet a protective display cover, but also a coordinated design.
The keyboard is very fast, large enough to type comfortably on and feels well-made. The touchpad works surprisingly well and shortcuts have been built in to simplify multitasking. It is truly a successful implementation of a tablet keyboard.

However, there are still some fundamental bugs: For example, you can’t always reliably navigate in suggestions or search results using the arrow keys. Here we noticed that Lenovo is on the right track, but still needs to fine-tune it. A fancy desktop mode is also available and works very well.
Software & Updates
Lenovo equips the tablet with Android 14 as standard. There is an update promise up to Android 17 plus a further 4 years of security updates. Less than the 7 years of version updates from the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+, but still comparatively solid for this price range.

Lenovo AI Now
A particularly exciting feature is the “Lenovo AI Now”, a proprietary AI system that is currently still in the beta phase. It allows you to upload documents (up to 5 GB) to a personal knowledge base to then generate summaries or to ask for content via chat. Larger documents have to be split into parts.
The feature is currently only available in English, which makes it only partially useful for German users. Nevertheless, it has enormous potential for quickly capturing scripts or PDFs, for example.
Apart from the knowledge database, Lenovo also provides some AI functions that are available, for example, in the really good Notepad notes app. There, for example, you can expand and summarize texts at a very good level.

In addition, you can set certain parameters for generation, so you don’t get the freedom of a ChatGPT command, but at least a few options for customizing the generation. Other features such as creating transcripts with AI, AI photo editing or integrating Google Gemini are also available and work well with the respective apps.
The potential of the NPU is also evident here, because Lenovo AI Now’s AI processes run locally and offline and mostly smoothly, which is very practical.
Battery life & charging
The maximum charging capacity of the 10200 mAh battery is 45 watts, which is not bad, but seems a bit outdated in view of the popular 65W or even 100W power adapters.
Nevertheless, the tablet charges relatively quickly. As with Samsung or Apple, you have to buy a power plug separately, because only a USB-C cable is included.
In our battery test, the Yoga Tab Plus lasted a full 6 hours and 20 minutes when set to maximum brightness and playing an HD YouTube video. Compared to the Galaxy Tab S10+, which managed a full 11 hours, this is quite a bit and a real shame.

This makes it less suitable as a premium entertainment tablet for on the go, which would have actually been a sensible use case given the good speakers and the really nice display. With 6 hours, the battery performance is very reminiscent of that of the iPad Air, which also has a bright IPS panel and a similar battery life.
However, the Yoga Tab Plus is even brighter than the iPad Air 13′ and has the same battery life. OLED displays, by the way, are generally much more energy efficient.
Cameras
On the front, a 13-megapixel fixed-focus wide-angle camera is centered on the long side, and on the back there is also a dual 13+2-megapixel autofocus camera.
The front camera with 13 megapixels is particularly suitable for video conferencing and is also equipped with a face tracking mode. The dual rear camera is a zoomable wide-angle camera and a separately selectable macro camera that you have to select in the camera app.
Both take a good picture straight away. The macro camera is very interesting because you can use it to take sharp pictures of objects that are just 3 cm from the lens. This can be very practical. Both the front and rear cameras can also record videos in 4K at up to 30 FPS.
Lenovo also delivers in this respect and, with this camera equipment, offers no points of criticism in this price range. The cameras are quite comparable to those of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+.
Conclusion
With the Yoga Tab Plus, Lenovo offers us a pretty good overall package. For around 700 dollars, we get a very bright IPS display, a current and very powerful processor, a good stylus and also a good keyboard cover.
Both accessories are even included in the scope of delivery. The speakers are particularly impressive, being a good deal better than those of all our comparison devices.
The price-performance ratio is really good and we recommend the Yoga Tab Plus especially if you don’t want to spend over 1000 dollars and are still looking for a great gaming tablet that can also be used wonderfully for handwritten notes and for work.
However, you have also seen that it is not perfect. Above all, the battery life is quite short and it is a shame that it does not have an OLED. If you want that, we recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+.
Depending on whether you calculate the price with or without a keyboard, you will have to pay between 100 and 200 dollars more for it. We think that for many people this will not be worth it.

- Bright 12.7-inch display
- Powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip
- Accessories included (stylus, keyboard)
- Top-quality speaker system
- Good AI functions
- Poor battery life
- No OLED display
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