Lenovo is back at CES 2025 with the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus. A premium tablet boasting the Powerhouse Snapdragon 8 gen 3 and home and Cardon speakers sounds impressive right but with a hefty £669 price tag. Is it really worth it in this review we’re diving deep to see if this tablet lives up to the hype or just burned another hole in your wallet.
IN THE BOX
I mentioned the yoga t plus costs $669 and That includes the keyboard pack and tab pin Pro. So we’ll start off by having a quick look at what we actually get in the Box this time around we have what looks like a recyclable box offered by Lenovo so that’s good to see lifting the lid here we have a box of its own which I believe is the keyboard pack then we have the yoga tab plus itself. We get a bunch of booklets quick start guides for the tablet and pen and safety and warranty guide and then we have the tab pen Pro in this gray color. We get a spare tip for the tab pen Pro and then A USBC to USB C charging cable. No charging brick with this one folk that is a separate purchase and then we’ll check out the keyboard pack first thing we have is the back kickstand attachment that has almost like kind of a leather finish to it and then we have the keyboard with trackpad and that’s everything we get included in the box.
DESIGN
We have the 12.7 in LCD display, one thing I am confused about is the fact that Lenovo stated this would be a matte display but as far as I can tell this is a normal shiny glass paneled, so I’m not entirely sure what’s happened there moving on we can see the tablet has shamed edges which kind of glimmer with the light. So, it gives it that kind of nice premium look to it up top we have the volume buttons two microphones and the Magnetic area for the tab pin Pro turning to the right we have two speaker grills and the USB C Port.
The tablet has six speakers along together which consists of four woofers and two tweeters turning to the bottom we have this Dolby Atmos and vision branding to the left side and in the middle the Pogo pin connectors for the keyboard and Then to the left we have the power button which has a built-in fingerprint reader two more speaker grills and Soundbar hormone Cordon branded in the middle things missing on this tablet are memory card expansion headphone jack and there’s no cellular connectivity options up front we have the 13 megapixel camera along with various sensors. Then turning to the back we can see this tidal teal color a little better and as usual all metal build along with a gloss section running across the whole length of the top which adds to that kind of Premium aesthetic.
That section are the cameras which consists of the main 13 mega pixel camera and the 2 mega pixel micro camera, and we have an LED flashlight the glass section doesn’t actually protrude that much means that when laying the tablet flat there is no rocking whatsoever. So that definitely is a big plus Weight Wise the tablet tops the scales at 636 G and then we’ll check out the kickstand, so simply it attaches to the back of the tablet magnetically and then the keyboard snaps on magnetically as well right into place. Then we have a nice little package with everything attached and it does turn the display off when closed and on when opened and also the keys on the keyboard are disabled when folding the keyboard around to the back and now with the keyboard pack and the Tab Pro attach the total weight comes in at 11:05 G. So nearly doubles the weight of the tablet itself and the pen attaches to the top of the tablet.
DISPLAY
Display wise the yoga tab plus has a 12.7 in LCD LTPS and what Lenovo refer to as pure sight Pro display. Resolution is at 3K refresh rate up to 144 HZ with the aspect ratio at 16x 10 and As I mentioned before I believed it would have had the anti-reflective coating but turns out that’s not the case and maybe that’s an option on a separate model itself. Quickly have a look at what we get in the settings usual stuff here light and dark mode brightness wise we have 650 NS typical or 900 nits Peak, so gets plenty bright we have a toggle for adapt color to environment and in color mode options we have standard and vibrant along with a color be for adjusting color temperature. Green refresh rate can be adjusted from intelligent extreme or standard which would lock at maximum of 60 HZ. We have eye protection mode and reading mode gives it a warmer temperature. So, YouTube supports 4K 60 FPS HDR content, although the display does support Dolby Vision the HDR on here isn’t the same as what you would get like on an older panel, but regardless picture quality is still really good with vibrant colors and 100% DCI P3 color gamut makes colors look very lifelike.
Netflix playback supports the highest L1 wide one level and Full HD but there’s no HDR compa ability here but again media consumption on the device will be a good experience and you know any streaming services will support the higher end of things, so you’ll get at least minimum 1080p full HD playback on here. Viewing angles are okay with hardly any changes to the color temperature, maybe a slight dip in brightness at more extreme angles but the high brightness of the tablet. Itself does help with that and outside in more brighter conditions the display does well with 900 nit Peak brightness and even in bright sunlight is still legible, so working outdoors shouldn’t be a problem. The tablet does support external displays via its USBC port and here we have the option to extend the display or mirror along with options to pick the apport of sound and the highest resolution is 1080p 100 HZ and you have the choice to pick where the monitor is also placed and the extended display works as it should and provides a good experience to you know multitask with different apps on different screens so really good there for productivity and multitasking. And you also have the option to use the tablet screen as a touchpad.
TAB PEN PRO
Have a quick look at the tab pen Pro specs wise it supports haptic feedback has tilt detection Palm rejection and 10,000 pressure levels it has up to 8,000 battery life and as I mentioned it charges via the connection to the tablet and on my scales it weighs in at 18 G so slightly heavier than other pens but I personally prefer a bit more weight to my pens settings wise we have different options here you can enable stylist toolbox you can choose to hand write in certain text fields you have different pen gestures so swipe up to copy and swipe down to paste by swiping on the pen itself. And then you also have the double tap function you can also use the pen as a remote control and works across different things on the tablet so during music playback during video playback you also can adjust what the stylist does when you remove it from the tablet and then you have handwriting feedback.
So various options here so you can have you can turn on the sound if you wanted to or you could have different effects like ball pen highlighter pencil or fling pen and you can also adjust the vibration intensity and then we kind of just get generic things like anti-lost alert or showing the pointer and hovering and then there’s also the firmware update options further down latency isn’t too bad at all with the pen being fairly accurate and I have to say the haptic feedback on here is a game changer for me. At least it’s a much better experience pal rejection with absolutely fine and so does the pressure recognition along with tilt detection and for me it does seem really accurate and then you can also swipe when in nodes to switch to another tool, So in this case it’s the Eraser just makes things like that a little bit more convenient the swipe to copy and paste gestures work absolutely fine and it’s a nice and convenient way to move text around and filling out forms is a breeze with good accuracy and detection so overall very good experience with this pen.
KEYBOARD PACK
The Yoga Tab Plus comes bundled with a keyboard pack which as we saw earlier consists of a kickstand attachment and the keyboard with function keys and a trackpad settings wise for the keyboard, we have various different shortcut options that you can toggle and adjust there’s options for modifier keys and then options for the touchpad. Such as tap with one finger to click touch or swipe to wake up the device reverse scrolling and others and you also have various different multifigure gestures, that you can toggle on and off you can change the point of style and also adjust the point of size. You have various different options to map the smart key and typing on here is a decent experience like it was on The Idea Tab Pro with fairly good key travel and nice click response to them the function keys are always welcome with quick access. To different settings the trackpad was okay not as good as what you may find on the laptop and at times, it can be a bit fiddly with the buttons at the bottom but perfectly usable and really transforms the tablet into a more laptop type of experience.
So, when it comes to speakers the Yoga Tab Plus doesn’t disappoint equip with six speakers in total which is made up of four woofers and two tweeters with Sound by human Cordon. As we know they’re one of the best and they’ll be at my support settings wise things are pretty straightforward here with options for three different sound profiles those being Dynamic movie and music but My experience the speakers on here are really good honestly they sound full and have very good sharp highs thanks to those tweeters they have good depth to them as well and can get really loud maybe there’s a smidge of Base obviously not going to be thumping or anything but that’s a limitation of the size of the speakers. Overall, I think it’s a very good audio exp. for media consumption and the sound.
PERFORMANCE & SOFTWARE
The Yoga Tab Plus is powered by the powerful Snapdragon 8 gen 3 chip along with adreno 750 GPU, Ram wise we have only one option here in the UK and that’s LPDDR 5x 16 GB on storage. Front we have a single option of UFS 4.0 256 GB storage. The tablet is running on Android 14 with Lenovo’s own OS and Lenovo promises 3 OS updates up to Android 17 along with 4 years of security patches. So that might not be the longest period of support but again at least it’s you know a good few years that you will be getting updates quick look in the settings, and we have different connection options such as tethering VPN private DNS projection cost printing along with Smart Connect and Quick Share. So plenty of options for connectivity personal customization has plenty of options too from different themes Dynamic wallpapers and charge animations we have abil fingerprint reader on the power button which is easy set up and works no problem and in advanced features we have PC mode which switches the OS into a more desktop like experience so those who prefer that kind of experience will find that useful and apps. I kind of shown in this more windows type of layout I personally enjoy working on here if you want to be a bit more productive and have a more familiar layout you also have Ram expansion up to 9 GB extra.
BENCHMARKS
It comes to benchmarks we can expect High numbers here as the Gen 3 is a beast of a chip on a 2 It scores a very high 1, 950,000 score with 4.6 de temperature rise and 5% battery loss. For read and right speed testing we get 3.9 GB on read and 2.3 GB on right so pretty high bandwidth their 3D Mark WI life extreme stress test best Loop score was 4,460 with a stability of 88.5%. So again, quite good and the performance range shows us the battery went from 74 to 65% temperature increased from 26 to 32° and frame rate ranges from 15 fps to 31 FPS so again good FPS range but we’ll be putting that to the test in the gaming section geek bench 6 the high scores continue as expected with 2,234 single core score and 6,920 on multi-core score. so, plenty of computing power packed in this tablet and general use of the OS itself is nice and snappy with apps loading super-fast hardly any J are lagged anyway it all runs super smooth quick RAM management test.
And I’ll open Cod mobile here a heavier app and going back to the previously opened apps we can see that they are still running in the background so multitasking on here will be fine we’ll have a quick look at connecting an external drive and again worked. As I expected with 4K video files loading instantly and scrubbing through them with problems copying this file which is nearly 6 GB in size over to the tablet took, I would say around 25 seconds or so again four speeds there and then we’ll have a quick look at some video editing here on cap cop and I have a 4K video loaded which is around 4 minutes and 38 seconds. In length scrubbing through is nice and snappy with no load times and exporting the video at 4K resolution 30 FPS medium bit rate took only 56 seconds, so super-fast day indeed in comparison, The Idea Tab Pro with the exact same export took 2 minutes and 41 seconds.
PRODUCTIVITY & AI
It comes to productivity the yoga t plus handles nearly everything you can throw at it floating windows lets you have multiple apps open at the same time with no problem and we also get Lenovo AI built into this tablet which is Lenovo’s own AI assistant powered by Meta’s Lama 3 large language model and advanced multicore processing core is a pertinent knowledge base which safeguards organizes and stores users data’s directly onto the device so it’s enabling intuitive search retrieval and interaction with documents and images and other data and you will have to log into your Lenovo account in order to use the AI assistant and in this quick example you can provide the assist documents to summarize and also add it to the knowledge base and we can see it does a good job of summarizing this document on agriculture over the years in the USA and you also have ai writing tools in the form of continue writing rewrite and summary so in this example I’ll hit AI continue writing on this piece of text.
It does a good job of extending the text further and it has different options of tones so things like normal formal professional casual funny things like that, so you have plenty of different options. And for AI summary it will summarize large pieces of text into something more concise and it will present information in bullet points and such. So again useful AI tools if you are one of those people that take advantage of things like this we also have Circle to search built in and can be activated by holding the gesture Bar for a few seconds and you can Circle to your heart’s content and Google Gemini is accessible by holding the power button for a few seconds and you can perform various tasks here.
GAMING
How the tablet handles graphically intense games, We’re starting off with a device temperature of 21° brightness is set to around 75% and speakers around 25% and the battery is on 73% at the moment first game will be Cold war zone and in the settings we have Peak for visual quality which is the highest available and I’ll set fps to UNCA and everything else to high and in multiplayer on these settings the FPS is jumping around all over the shop at some point it’s hitting 112 and then dipping down to 69 so that is some ratio FPS. I guess the peak Graphics are wreaking heavy but at least the game looks visually really good 10 minutes in and in a war zone SL Battle Royale game. It’s a similar situation with erratic FPS count and we can see the temperature has creeped up to 32° so things are kind of warming up but that’s no surprise as the Gen 3 is known to be a toasty chip we’ll switch the visual quality to very low FPS Target to uncap again and everything else is set to low and see if that helps with the FPS and for some reason. Now the FPS is at a low range with the highest being around 50 60 so not entirely sure why that is the case temperature is hitting 34° now so maybe there’s some throttling going on or it could just be the game’s optimization 20 minutes in and we’ll now jump straight into Cod mobile and here setting the frame rate to ultra default the graphic quality to medium and I’ve enabled frame rate adjustment to Target 120 FPS and here we have no problem V taking the 120 FPS cap might get some dips down to 119 but generally running a smooth 120 and at this frame rate is as smooth as B although the graphic quality is limited it still looks decent.
I would say and with those same settings when we jump into battle royale we can see here the FPS is capped at 90 but again no problem hitting that 90 FPS Target and maintaining it uh we’ll switch the graphic quality to Max which brings the frame rate to Max also and now we have a much better looking game but the FPS is capped at 60 which is smooth and a lot of people are more than happy to play at this FPS range but when you come down from 120 to 60 you can see the difference massively but Graphics wise the game looks really nice so 30 minutes 30 minutes into gaming device temperature is reading 31.3 de so still quite warm and the battery is down to 60% so we’ve lost 133% battery. So far next we’ll check out watering waves and again I will start off with the highest possible settings and here highest FPS is 60 and with those settings the FPS was a bit erratic again especially here with this Combat gameplay dipping down to low 50s but then hitting 60 at times so maybe this is due to the high visual quality and also the fact the temperature is at 32° but generally the FPS was kind of okay so after 41 minutes. So far, the temperature is now hitting 36° so getting quite High and the battery is down to 52% so we lost 8% battery in those 10 minutes of playing watering waves, so I don’t know if that’s quite a dramatic battery loss.
There is next, we’ll check out PUBG and setting the graphics to ultra HDR and the frame rate to ultra and with those settings the game looks really good visually, but the frame rate caps around 40 FPS here and to unlock that super higher 120 FPS we need to switch the graphics to smooth and then we can select Ultra extreme frame rate. And on these settings. The visual quality obviously has taken a hit, but we are getting the 120 FPS Target although, we are getting some fluctuation down to 100 or so. So still smooth enough but obviously not holding as steady. As I would have liked, it too, so after nearly an hour back to back intense gaming we finish off with the temperature reading 30° and the battery down to 47% so we lost total of 26% battery life although That’s not the worst that is still quite a bit of a battery drain and regarding the Game play. Itself the gen3 is a very capable chip but we do have limitations when it comes to Graphics versus FPS so if you have to pick one or the other and as we saw super high graphic quality will give you erratic FPS on certain games but generally for people who aren’t looking into all that information with that much detail rest assured you will have a very good gaming experience on this tablet.
BATTERY
The yoga t plus has a 10,200 mAh battery and supports up to 45 W charging and it also supports reverse charging no wireless charging on here and the battery setup is basically identical as The Idea Tab Pro in the settings, We have usual such as battery saver with various options such as enabling dark mode reducing screen refresh rate and turning off the tablet after reaching a certain power level charge up optimization, Lets you limit the battery power between 40 and 60% with charge protection and also allows you to set a maximum charge limit of 80% so various options to protect the battery. And then we have the usual graphs and data for on screen time for me I would say the battery is good for a day worth of more kind of heavy use and maybe 2 days’ worth of light use and the charging time from 0 to 100% will take just over about 2 hours on. So, although not the best battery life you’re getting from a tablet it is I would say average.
CAMERA
It comes to the cameras we have the 13 mega pixel rear camera with a 2 mega pixel macro camera and a 13 mega pixel Ultra wide front facing camera modes available are back roll documents photo video and face tracking. For video we have quite basic options with flashlight control and different resolutions but jumping into the settings we have further basic options like camera sounds watermarks and the ray camera can capture at a maximum of 4K 30 FPS and the same goes for the font camera. Then you have your two time zoom option and in photo, you can add things like filters AI photography and then the face tracking is a welcome addition. I have to say, As I demonstrate here with this Tool. It does a pretty good job keeping a visible face and focus and tracking it as it moves around so quite a useful feature to have there.
CONCLUSION
So, wrapping up our review of the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus. We summarize its key strength and also areas for improvement so pros of the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus, I would say have to be the display the 12.7 in 3K display with 144 Hz refresh rate and up to 900 nits’ brightness offers. You know vibrant visuals and smooth performance so that kind of enhances productivity and entertainment performance on here which is powered by the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 and equipped with 16 GB of RAM the tablet handles multitasking and Mining applications with these although, We did see limitations in the gaming section audio quality featuring the six speakers and hormone card and sound with Dolby ATO support the tablet delivers immersive and High Fidelity sound making. It ideal for media consumption the included Tab Pen Pro kickstand and keyboard provides a versatile complete package that transforms the tablet into a productive Powerhouse. I came to a laptop and the Tab Pen pro. Itself is really good with a superb writing experience especially with the hitch feedback.
Finally the design and build of the tablet is more premium aesthetic with the shamer edges and glass section along the back for cons I would have to say the limited connectivity with the absence of cellular connectivity options might be a drawback for users who require internet access on the goal and obviously having no memory card expansion is another drawback and then the price point itself as it’s positioned as a premium tablet the yoga t plus may be considered quite a bit expensive compared to other tablets in the market. I think at this price point it would have been nice to even have seen like an oled screen on this tablet but in conclusion, The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus stands out as a powerful and versatile tablet. Excelling display quality, performance and audio experience while It comes at a higher price point.