Lenovo Yoga Tab Review: 2025's Best Android Tablet

Lenovo is one of the brands still making a considerable number of Android tablets each year, and we’ve been spending some time with the latest Yoga Tab model, which has quickly become one of our favorite tablets, not to mention just a genuinely good device to have if you need something bigger than your phone for all sorts of tasks.

It doesn’t surprise me how good this tablet is, given how long Lenovo has been making Android tablets and consistently doing so over the years. Several years ago, I got the chance to review a Yoga Tab that had a projector built into the hinge of the tablet’s built-in kickstand. It was one of the coolest tablets I’ve ever used, and I still talk about it all these years later. It made for a very pleasing user experience of watching TV in bed, as I could project my shows right onto the ceiling.

While this Yoga Tab lacks that super-cool projector, it’s a much better tablet as a whole, and I like to think that is in part due to Lenovo’s many years in the space. It’s even better because the tablet comes with a magnetic keyboard dock, a smart pen, and a magnetic kickstand attachment. It all makes for a very nice package. All of that comes at a pretty reasonable $549.99, and there are even some pretty good specs inside. Of course, nothing is perfect, which means that this might not be the tablet for you. Or maybe it is. Let’s take a dive into this review and see if the Lenovo Yoga Tab is worth that $549.99, or if you should look at one of the more expensive models, or just another tablet brand altogether.

Lenovo has packed in so much value with this tablet, it’s hard to understand why it doesn’t cost more than $549.99, but we’re glad it doesn’t.

Pros

• Nice, big display with excellent resolution
• The bundled keyboard actually feels quite nice to use
• Powerful performance from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
• Excellent, high-quality speakers enhanced by Dolby Atmos
• Charges up fast
• Thin and light

Cons

• Battery life is not great
• Comes with Android 15 and only three years of OS upgrades

Lenovo sent us over the Yoga Tab to review. We’ve been using it for the past couple of weeks before writing this review. Lenovo did not see this review before it was published.

Lenovo Yoga Tab Specs

Lenovo Yoga Tab Specs

Lenovo Yoga Tab Review: Design and Build Quality

Lenovo’s devices are usually pretty slick in the design department without being too over the top or trying too hard to be on the bleeding edge of style. That is to say that I think Lenovo has found a pretty good place to be when it comes to designing its tablets. They’re not adventurous, which might be a bit boring to some, but this safe strategy to design is something that you know most consumers are probably going to love. At the same time, Lenovo genuinely isn’t afraid to try new things when it feels like the design of its devices could use a shakeup.

The Yoga Tab this year is great looking, if not a tad too basic in some respects, but when looking this tablet over, as I’m holding it in my hands, I end up thinking, “This is a good-looking tablet.” I wouldn’t have minded more than one color option, but that’s a very minor nitpick when the tablet looks great regardless of the color. Some might also say they could do without the thicker bezels, but honestly, this doesn’t bother me, especially because the screen is 11.1 inches. So I really don’t pay much attention to them.

The build quality is top-tier, and the included accessories help to prove that

Aside from the design of Lenovo’s actual tablet, there’s the design of its accessories. The keyboard dock feels really high-quality, and typing on it feels pretty good. The keys have a good tactile response, and the trackpad works quite well, too.

The pen that comes with the tablet also looks pretty stylish, but I care much more about the fact that it magnetically snaps to the top of the tablet when the tablet is horizontal, which is the right side of the tablet if you’re holding it in portrait mode. Lastly, I really love the included kickstand. The kickstand is actually an entire cover for the back that snaps on magnetically, and parts of it can be bent at an angle to act as a kickstand for viewing at different angles. And if you have the keyboard dock attached as well, then the whole thing closes up nice and neat like a book.

While I don’t think every single one of Lenovo’s devices carries the same level of quality when it comes to the build or the same level of style in terms of design, this particular model of the Yoga Tab really drives home that Lenovo knows how to design a good piece of hardware.

Lenovo Yoga Tab Review: Display

My word, the display on this tablet is nice. To put this into perspective, part of my testing when I was testing the battery involved bringing up a 24-hour 4K video of a fireplace, and there were times where I would look over at the tablet from my desk, and I would briefly think that the fire looked real.

With that in mind, the display on the Yoga Tab provides a vibrant patchwork of colors that are all reproduced with lifelike detail. The 3.2K resolution really helps to amp up the user experience when watching movies or TV shows, which I found myself doing often as I lay down to go to bed. Games like Genshin Impact also looked amazing. As it’s a very colorful game, I think it did a good job at representing just how good the display is.

It also helps that the refresh rate is 144Hz, so games and everything else looked really smooth during use. It was also nice to have such a big display for certain tasks. I found myself using the Yoga Tab a little bit for work-related purposes. Specifically for typing things up in Google Docs, which the keyboard attachment made easy, and it was just a pleasant experience to have the larger display to read everything.

Now, this is an LTPS PureSight Pro panel, and it only has a peak brightness of 800 nits. So we’re not looking at colors that are as vibrant as the ones you’d find on a Super AMOLED display. And the brightness being lower than that of the Moto G Play 2026, which we reviewed earlier this week, doesn’t make for the best viewing experience in extremely bright settings where there’s a ton of glare. Still, it seemed bright enough to me in most scenarios. The only time I had a problem reading the screen was on an oddly sunny day this past week. And that’s mostly because of the glare and because I was looking at a webpage that was mostly styled with black backgrounds.

The display also has Dolby Vision, which gives that little extra oomph to the picture quality in movies and games. Overall, the Yoga Tab offers a really nice display for a tablet in the mid-range.

Lenovo Yoga Tab Review: Performance

When it comes to performance, Lenovo tends to do a pretty good job with its devices, from tablets to handhelds to gaming laptops. Earlier this year, I reviewed the Legion Tab Gen 3 , and it was a performance powerhouse. It was powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, so that was to be expected. The Yoga Tab uses the same chipset. It even has the same amount of RAM and storage. So, while this isn’t a gaming tablet, it could be a gaming tablet for you. It has all the necessary components to perform just as well as the Legion Tab Gen 3, just with a bigger display and some nicer accessories.

During my time with the Yoga Tab, everything was just as zippy as I expected it to be. With a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 inside and 12GB of RAM, the Yoga Tab was more than capable of handling multitasking and gaming, two of the most resource-intensive things you could do on a tablet.

The multitasking capabilities alone make this performance impressive, especially if you’re using this tablet with a keyboard to type while looking at other apps and swapping between them. I tried testing out multitasking capabilities when I had the keyboard attached. This automatically puts the tablet into a desktop mode. You can then use the trackpad like you would for a laptop. While in this mode, I opened up a few different apps and had them running at the same time to see how the tablet would handle it, and unsurprisingly, it was perfectly fine.

Of course, I also always like to test the performance with games, and the Yoga Tab was no slouch here either. In both Destiny Rising and Genshin Impact, performance was buttery smooth. These are two of the most demanding games on Android, so they’re good tests for how the tablet handles sustained performance over longer periods of time. While I did notice some warmth accumulating after an hour or two, it was never to the point where I had to put the tablet down. Even if I did, I could easily prop the tablet up with the kickstand and connect a controller to keep playing. Which I did on occasion. Basically, when it comes to performance, the Yoga Tab will not leave you wanting.

Benchmarks

In addition to testing out the performance of the tablet through everyday usage scenarios as well as mobile gaming, we also test our devices through benchmarks. Just like with every testing session we do in reviews these days, we’re putting the Lenovo Yoga Tab through a few different benchmarks. This includes the CPU test and GPU test in Geekbench 6, the Wildlife Extreme Stress Test in 3DMark, and we also run the AnTuTu benchmark, which runs a series of different tests that include both graphics and general computing.

Starting off with the Geekbench scores, the Yoga Tab actually did surprisingly well. You can view the scores below, and they’re pretty close to the scores of the Legion Tab, which houses the same chipset and has the same amount of RAM.

For the AnTuTu scores, the Legion Tab is quite a bit lower, with the Yoga Tab being more closely matched with the REDMAGIC Astra, OnePlus Pad 3, and Honor MagicPad 3. You can see those scores in the table below.

As for 3DMark, you’re looking at a best loop score of 4,408, a lowest loop score of 3,633, and a stability of 82.4%. So, overall, not bad.

• Best Loop: 4,408
• Lowest Loop: 3,633
• Stability: 82.4%

Lenovo Yoga Tab Review: Battery Life and Charging

Just like I mentioned in the pros and cons section, battery life on the Yoga Tab isn’t great, but it’s also worth remembering that battery life will vary from user to user. It will also vary from day to day for the same user, most likely. It really all depends on how you use a tablet and whether or not you use one more often than not.

During my testing with the Yoga Tab, I tried to simulate using it on a mostly daily basis for general browsing, some videos, mobile gaming, and occasional work stuff since the keyboard dock came with it. Most days, I was getting about 5-6 hours of screen-on time. This is not good to say the least. In fact, it’s probably the worst battery life of any tablet I’ve personally tested recently. That being said, it charges up quicker than I thought.

This doesn’t negate the bad battery life, but it does help to offset it a little bit. Unfortunately, for some, this might be a deal-breaker. I personally don’t think it would be enough to sway me away from this tablet, given how I tend to use tablets, and being that I normally don’t use them every single day. If you use a tablet daily, you might need to think about bringing a power bank with you places just in case. If you’re at home, you can simply plug it in.

We also test battery life by pulling up a 24-hour YouTube video and letting the video stream until the battery gets to 1%, then we charge it back up to 100% so we can see how long before the battery dies, and how long before it’s fully charged. In my testing, the Yoga Tab lasted for 5 hours and 35 minutes before getting to 1%. Charging, on the other hand, was way faster than I thought, getting back to 100% in just 1 hour and 9 minutes. While the battery life doesn’t bother me, it’s definitely something to consider if you’re a consumer looking at tablets and you want something that lasts longer between charges.

Lenovo Yoga Tab Review: Software

The Lenovo Yoga Tab comes with Android 15 out of the box, and Lenovo is committed to 3 years of OS updates, which means it’ll get to Android 18, and then no more official OS updates will be pushed out. This is a drawback if you want to use the tablet for the long haul with the newest software available. Unfortunately, this tablet doesn’t match the longevity when it comes to software updates that other tablets do, and it’s Lenovo’s weak point when it comes to mobile devices.

If software longevity is your main concern, there are better options out there. The OnePlus Pad Go 2 , for example, gets 5 years of OS updates and comes with Android 16. So, you’re set up for longer. While this fact of the Lenovo Yoga Tab is unfortunate, just because it won’t get more than 3 years of OS updates, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to continue using it. Lenovo will still patch it with security updates for considerably longer, and that’s the important thing.

With all of that said, the software experience on the Yoga Tab has been great so far. It looks like a blend of stock Android with Lenovo’s flavor of the user interface. Which I quite like. What’s nice is that Lenovo’s UI doesn’t look that different from stock Android, yet it does include some pretty neat, unique features. For example, the desktop mode that the tablet automatically goes into when you attach the keyboard dock. You can disable the desktop mode after the keyboard is attached if you like, but this is a cool feature that was useful when using the keyboard. It made the tablet feel more like a laptop.

With desktop mode enabled, you can use the tablet similarly to how you would use the Samsung Dex docked mode. This will let you multitask a lot better and even use the tablet as a second screen for a Windows device if you want to. You can also use the desktop mode to open multiple app windows at a time, and using the included tylus lets you more easily resize those windows. While I didn’t have much use for opening multiple windows at a time beyond two, it was nice to have the split-screen feature. I would use this more often than I thought I would when using the tabletin its normal tablet mode. Usually to have a YouTube window up while I am doing something else. The overall software experience really is excellent.

The included stylus is kind of a game-changer

Lenovo is hardly the only brand to offer a companion stylus. Samsung’s S Pen is perhaps the most famous comparison. While I haven’t used the S Pen in a while or extensively for that matter, I have seen it used a lot, and it’s capable of enabling tons of additional features. With Lenovo’s stylus, I’m not sure if you’re getting as much functionality, but it does do quite a bit, and it made using certain features on the Yoga Tab much more convenient.

Drawing and taking notes are two very obvious enhancements. Both of these get pinpoint accuracy when using the stylus. It can also be used to move around app windows and resize them, which was one of my favorite things about it. There’s also a really neat haptic feature you can enable by connecting the stylus to the tablet through Bluetooth. In doing so, you can do things like change the haptic pressure of brush strokes.

Charging the stylus is easy, too. You simply snap it onto the magnetic part of the tablet with the volume buttons, and that charges the stylus wirelessly. It’s very slick. The magnet isn’t weak either, so I really had no issues with the stylus detaching while placed in my bag.

The stylus also mimics the feel of writing on a piece of paper. This isn’t really something that’s necessary to have, but I can see how it would be useful. If you’re used to writing or drawing on paper, then having the “feel” of it on a digital screen might trick your brain into having that same experience. For example, if you’re used to drawing on paper, you might find it more difficult to produce the same quality of artwork when using a digital pen and screen. However, by mimicking what it feels like to write or draw on paper, your brain might tell you, “you’re writing on paper,” and thus things feel more natural. The stylus uses haptics to simulate things, and it changes based on the type of utensil you’re using. There’s even a change in the sound. For instance, a highlighter sounds and feels different than when selecting the regular pencil. I found all this to be pretty neat, and it definitely makes writing on the tablet more enjoyable.

Lenovo Yoga Tab Review: Camera

While the Yoga Tab does come with a camera, I don’t recommend using this thing for taking pictures or videos. The reality is, if you have a tablet, you probably have a smartphone. Your smartphone will almost undoubtedly take better pictures and videos than the Yoga Tab. So, if you need to use the camera, you should use your phone instead. However, the cameras on the Yoga Tab are suitable for times when you need something in a pinch. Such as when your phone’s battery is dead.

With a 13MP sensor for both the front and back cameras, you’ll get decent enough images. Though I think the camera experience on this tablet is better served as a video call device than recording video or snapping a whole bunch of photos.

What’s nice about the rear camera is that the camera bump is relatively small. It doesn’t have much height to it, so you shouldn’t have to worry about any wobbling if the tablet is lying flat and you’re writing with the stylus. You 100% won’t have to worry about it if you have the back cover attached, as this will flatten things out. As for the front camera, it sits in the center of the display’s top bezel when the tablet is in landscape mode.

Should you buy the Lenovo Yoga Tab?

The Lenovo Yoga Tab, despite having some lower scores in some of the benchmarks and not having very good battery life, I still think this is the best Android tablet of 2025. There are a few main reasons. For starters, the display is incredible. The 3.2K resolution really makes things look sharp, and I love watching TV shows and playing games on this thing. It’s a powerful tablet as well, thanks to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. This might be an older chipset by a couple of years, but it’s still powerful enough to pump out performance.

In addition to that, you get the bundled keyboard, kickstand cover, and stylus. All of which enhances the user experience of this tablet tenfold. Lastly, it retails for $549.99. I think with the experience you get, tossing in these three extra accessories, plus the 45W charger and USB-C cable, the Lenovo Yoga Tab has unmatched value for an Android tablet in 2025. There are several tablets with better battery life. Some with bigger screens and slightly better performance. Even the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra has stylus support with the S Pen. However, the Yoga Tab provides what is arguably a very close experience and costs hundreds less. I think that makes this tablet a no-brainer if you’re in the market for a tablet.

You should buy the Lenovo Yoga Tab if:

• You’re looking for a premium tablet experience
• You don’t want to spend as much money
• You want to use accessories like the stylus and keyboard

You shouldn’t buy the Lenovo Yoga Tab if:

• Long-lasting battery life is your number one concern
• You want something with a larger display
• You want better software update support