Lenovo is having another go at the premium Android tablet market

[Shawn Knight]

In context: Lenovo on Monday introduced a handful of new products for the upcoming holiday season including a surprising entry in the Android tablet space. The Lenovo Tab P11 Pro is described as the company’s most powerful consumer Android tablet to date. While that may be true, won't quite stand up to offerings like Samsung's new Galaxy Tab S lineup (but you won't pay nearly as much, either).

It features an 11.5-inch 2K resolution OLED display (2,560 x 1,600 pixels, 500 nits brightness) with HDR10 and Dolby Vision support.

Powering the portable is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G, a mid-range 64-bit octa-core ARM chip built on Samsung’s 8nm LPP process. It packs an Adreno 618 GPU and is reportedly good for up to 15 hours of usage on a single charge.

Lenovo also focused extensively on the slate’s audio platform, packing in four JBL speakers with 2.5cc chambers that are optimized by Dolby Atmos technology.

The tablet is quite the looker, too, sporting 6.9mm bezels on all four sides of the screen (87 percent screen-to-display ratio). At its thickest point, the aluminum-alloy unibody slate with dual tone finish measures just 7.7mm thick and weighs only 1.07 pounds.

Other noteworthy features including fingerprint or face unlock, a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with autofocus alongside a 5-megapixel fixed shooter with 120-degree field of view, two 8-megapixel front-facing cameras, dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity. It ships with Android 10 pre-installed out of the box.

Lenovo said the Tab P11 Pro will start at €699 including VAT when it arrives in November, or closer $500 according to other reports.

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[TomSEA]

I have a Lenovo A10 Tablet I purchased about 4-5 years ago and pretty happy with it. It is a budget tablet, but manages to do reasonably well everything I'd like it to. My only real complaint is the battery drains fairly fast. Even for something like playing simple card games, it'll drain 10% about every 30 minutes.

Definitely interested in this P11 Pro as an upgrade.

 

[Beerfloat]

That doesn’t look half bad. Now try use the magic words Lenovo. ‘Stock Android with 3 years of monthly updates’. It might just fly.

 

[TomSEA]

That doesn’t look half bad. Now try use the magic words Lenovo. ‘Stock Android with 3 years of monthly updates’. It might just fly.

Yeah, agreed on that. Their updates are minimal at best.

 

[FriendOrFoe]

I have a Lenovo A10 Tablet I purchased about 4-5 years ago and pretty happy with it. It is a budget tablet, but manages to do reasonably well everything I'd like it to. My only real complaint is the battery drains fairly fast. Even for something like playing simple card games, it'll drain 10% about every 30 minutes.

Definitely interested in this P11 Pro as an upgrade.

If runtime is the only issue why not replace the battery? Same simple procedure as with phones.

 

[tacobravo]

Yeah, agreed on that. Their updates are minimal at best.

I have an A7 and it never had an update.

 

[SirDigby]

Not that much cheaper than a Galaxy Tab S then, my Tab S6 Lite was £350 and came with free bluetooth AKG headphones (£130), was a hard deal to beat.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

That doesn’t look half bad. Now try use the magic words Lenovo. ‘Stock Android with 3 years of monthly updates’. It might just fly.

That'll never happen, outside of lenovo liking their own skins, only google has managed the 3 years of updates. Not that its really necessary on android, since you control what apps get installed, apps recieve their own updates via google play for security issues, and compatibility with older android versions stretches back yonks.

If runtime is the only issue why not replace the battery? Same simple procedure as with phones.

Because using a heat gun to melt the tar on a sealed device and prying it open without damaging it isnt a simple procedure. Pretty obvious why nobody does that.

 

[Uncle Al]

The price and the value look pretty impressive and certainly causes me to re-look at my old Tab-A that I have been nursing along for awhile ......