After various teasers, Lenovo had finally unveiled the Legion Y700 (2024) gaming tablet in its home market of China. This new tablet packed some high end hardware for the best gaming experience on a large screen. With its global debut nearing, here are 5 reasons you should be excited about this Legion gaming tablet.
1. Lenovo Legion Y700 (2024): Gaming is More Fun on a Bigger Display
While the Legion Y700 isn’t the largest tablet out there, the 8.8-inch screen here is bigger than any smartphone. Furthermore, you can’t have a massive screen as it might make touch controls harder for gamers. In any competitive title, the size of your screen and refresh rate can have an impact on your performance. A bigger screen allows for better visibility while a higher refresh rate directly improves latency with your inputs.
Lenovo packs the Legion Y700 with a tall 8.8-inch LCD screen that offers a 2.5K resolution (2560x1600p) along with a 165Hz refresh rate, 500 nits of peak brightness, and TÜV Rheinland certified for low blue light and flicker-free performance. So the tablet ensures the least amount of strain on users’ eyes during long gaming sessions as well.
Thanks to the new Super Control Dynamic screen, the smoothness of the screen can be raised by 4.1x, while reducing flare by 96.5%. Lenovo’s proprietary Lingjing Engine also reduced touch latency by 32.2% and helps lower network latency by 45.8% for a competitive edge in online multiplayer games.
2. Top Notch Gaming Performance
Lenovo equips the Legion Y700 (2024) gaming tablet with Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. This is the same processor that powers many flagship Android smartphones. It is paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage. All of this combines to offer an impressive gaming performance. Lenovo showcased the gaming performance in various titles across different genres like turn based and RPG games.
While the exact title wasn’t revealed, the Legion Y700 (2024) managed to run a 3D turn based mobile games at 59.8 FPS at 2560×1600 resolution. Meanwhile, the RPG title managed to run an open world game with an average of 59.9 FPS with a render resolution of 1728 x 1080 resolution. Genshin Impact is a notorious title that can be played on the smartphones and tablets, but is usually enjoyed on PCs for a better experience overall. However, the game was seen running without any hitches on the new Legion gaming tablet.
3. Cooling & Complete Package
As hardware gets more powerful, there is more heat being generated inside mobile devices. The Legion Y700 is no exception, especially considering it houses the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chipset. However, Lenovo packs the gaming tablet with a robust cooling mechanism. The Legion Y700 (2024) houses a massive 10,004mm² vapor chamber for optimal thermal dissipation, which is quite useful during gaming.
Despite being a gaming tablet, the Legion Y700 is a complete package. Take away the gaming features and it is still a great high-end tablet. A large 6,550mAh battery pack powers this device, which promises to offer 14.6 hours of video playback and up to 8.9 hours of gaming. You also get 68W wired fast charging. The tablet runs on the Android 14 OS based ZUI 16.1 custom skin out of the box. The rear features a 13-megapixel camera, while the front houses an 8-megapixel shooter for selfies and video calls. Other notable features include dual stereo speakers from JBL with Dolby Atmos support, Bluetooth 5.1, expandable storage video microSD card, and DC dimming.
