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Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro 2022 is a premium tablet that features an 11.2-inch, 2.5K OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. The tablet comes with two processor options viz. Snapdragon 870 Octa-Core Processor and  MediaTek Kompanio 1300T chipset. You can choose between 6GB/ 8GB RAM options and 128GB internal storage. 

XiaoXin Pad Pro is fueled by a powerful 8200mAh battery that gives you up to 8 hours of non-stop usage on a single charge. You can choose between a 68W or 30W fast charger as per your need. The tablet features 4 JBL-certified speakers and 8MP front and 13MP rear cameras.

You can now buy Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro 2022 for starting price of $293 at Giztop. The tablet is available in Grey, Gold, and Silver color options. Also, accessories like the stylus, smart keyboard, leather case, and screen protector are available at giztop for an additional cost. 

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The Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 is almost 3 months old as of January 2022 and Lenovo is currently providing a great software support experience overall for the users of the Lenovo Xiaoxin Pro 12.6. On January 24, Lenovo pushed out an OTA2 update for the tablet’s users in China, and the update brings some notable improvements that one would greatly appreciate.

The update is bringing over ZUI 13, Lenovo’s customized software skin for its Android tablets based on Android 11, firmware version number ZUI 13.1.535, to the Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 tablet. The update includes 6 highlights that users should take note of:

• Improvements towards the interface of split-screen multitasking, more apps are supported for multitasking on the device.
• Optimizations towards palm rejection recognition software on a large screen during gaming sessions.
• Optimizations towards software supporting the tablet’s included stylus input, and a firmware update to the stylus.
• Added button mapping for the Call Of Duty series of Android games.
• Optimization towards the animations when switching apps or switching the device’s display orientation from horizontal to vertical and vice versa.
• For users who have the Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6’s smart keyboard, you can now use add up to 10 hot app keyboard shortcuts, by holding down the Win key + number key at the same time to open your favorite apps.

For those who are interested in the Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6, the tablet was released back on November 2, 2021, with a Snapdragon 870 processor under the hood. It features a metal body design and is equipped with four JBL-branded Dolby Atmos-supported speakers spread across top and bottom with two on each side.

It flaunts a 12.6-inch Samsung E4 AMOLED display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 360Hz touch sampling rate. As for endurance, the tablet is fueled with Li-Po 10200 mAh battery + Quick Charge 3.0 + 20W fast charging.

You can check out our review Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 here.

The Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 tablet is now available on Giztop for only $699.

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In addition to being a top PC brand, Lenovo has strangely become one of the most popular tablet brands in 2021. The Xiaoxin Pad series, also known as the Lenovo Tab P series, stands out for its excellent value for money. Especially the Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021, also known as Lenovo Tab P11 Pro, comes very close to the premium tablet category. And just six months later, we now have an upgraded option. A bigger and better AMOLED 120Hz display is now featured on the latest Lenovo Tab P12 Pro. Along with the upgraded display, the new tablet also comes with a larger battery and an upgraded Memory and storage combination. Since we loved the Tab P11 Pro, now we really wonder how exactly the new tablet performs as a higher-level model. 

Enough of an introduction. Let’s find out what we got on this Tab P12 Pro!

Let’s start with its pricing. Probably some of you don’t consider it as value for money as for the Tab P11 Pro. Indeed, now you have to pay around 200 to 300 dollars more for the upgraded P12 Pro, but the performance will be more or less the same, since they are both powered by the Snapdragon 870 chipset. However, the 870 chipset is still the best chipset that you can have on an Android tablet. And if you compare it with the SAMSUNG Tab S7+, the P12 Pro is obviously an excellent cheaper option with much better value for money. The S7+ tablet uses a 120Hz 2K AMOLED display powered by a Snapdragon 865+ chipset, which can deliver a very close performance in terms of hardware capacity. With this in mind, just think about whether it’s worth paying the extra money to upgrade to a Tab S7+? 

Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 2021: Design

Let’s look at its design. These two Lenovo tablets come with exactly the same design and form factor. The P12 Pro has the same integrated metal body without any seams. It still feels pretty premium and no doubt has the best built among all the Android tablets. The P12 Pro’s bezels are as narrow as the predecessor, but it’s visually narrower because of the bigger display. As for the thickness, It’s physically 2mm thinner and feels even thinner than what the figure gives us when holding it in hand.  

And to guarantee a stable wireless signal, the antenna band is also reserved. Other details like the quad speakers tuned by JBL, fingerprint unlock, and Micro-SD card slot are also present. You may note that the camera module seems to be different from the P11 Pro, but actually, the hardware used inside doesn’t change at all. Another most significant difference is about the attached stylus. The second generation of the stylus finally supports magnetically attaching at the back with wireless charging support. But I also want to remind you that the first generation of the stylus designed for the P11 Pro also works with the P12 Pro, although it won’t charge magnetically. 

And the new tablet also comes with a new keyboard kit, which now supports Bluetooth connectivity besides a contact connection. Like its predecessor, the P12 Pro can be considered a 2-in-1 tablet with a keyboard kit. 

Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 2021: Display

The display is definitely the most important factor in making your choice between the two Xiaoxin tablets. First, the new model is bigger and smoother with better pixel detail. The new tablet’s display applies the same pixel arrangement as the SAMSUNG Tab S7+. And this new pixel arrangement significantly improves the font blurring issue that we found on the Lenovo P11 Pro during its comparison with the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro.

When compared to its predecessor, the sharper text edge on the P12 Pro brought a much better reading experience, which is pretty close to what we have on LCD panels. And it’s not only a better reading experience, the new design of pixel arrangement also brings out more vibrant colors where blue pixels are involved. Without comparison with the P12 Pro, I wouldn’t realize that the older P11 Pro’s colors were a bit dull but the new display is much more vibrant. And it continuously supports Dolby Vision and HDR content. As you can see in the video, although our camera may not exactly show the difference, I believe most of you already can pick out which one looks better.

And the better color presentation also makes it an excellent option for photo or video editing. In the latest ZUI 13 operating system, users can turn the tablet into a second screen for a PC by wireless connection. However, by far it only supports the projection at 2K 30Hz signal with perceivable latency. And under this mode, the wireless projection cannot really show the strength of this display as it should.

In addition, for professional image processing, it’s also important to note that the tablet supports 100% of the P3 gamut and no other gamut for conversion. 

In addition, the 120Hz takes the whole system to another level of fluidity, which is also the highest refresh rate that you can have on a tablet product. No matter, for a high-frame-rate video or gaming, it can provide excellent support for users. 

On the other hand, its 2k resolution is still the same as the Lenovo P11 Pro. And the peak brightness also remains at around 600nit, which is only available in partial area. And this time the new tablet supports an enhanced-brightness mode in strong sunlight, which makes it pretty convenient to use outdoors. 

As for audio performance, the P12 Pro still uses 4 x JBL speakers for stereo sound. And if you are going to use it for watching Dolby vision or listening to Dolby Atmos, the tablet will not let you down. 

Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 2021: Performance

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Like the P11 Pro, the new tablet has taken full advantage of the Snapdragon 870 chipset. So the performance tests didn’t bring us much surprise. No matter for the benchmark results or the actual gaming performance, the P12 Pro is still the most powerful beast among all the Android tablets. By the way, playing games on this 12.6-inch 120Hz display is really delightful. 

On the P12 Pro, Lenovo eventually updated the operating system to ZUI 13 for Pad, which aims to give users a better experience with tablet products and make it more suitable for tablet use scenarios. 

But the upgrade is not very effective. While we did find some optimization for the existing features, but very few new features were added in the latest version of the OS. The PC Mode is still the most successful feature for the new software, but there’s no obvious update for the PC mode. You can still open 5 app windows at the same time; there is still the same interface as what we had on the P11 Pro. Even so, it’s still the best solution for a 2-in-1 tablet that you can have in the market now. One of the few new features that we mentioned above is the wireless capacity of being a second screen for PC. But just like I said, it doesn’t really work well for the latency and poor colors. 

Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 Review: Cameras

As for its camera module, we shot a few samples for you with its 13MP main camera and 5MP wide-angle camera. The tablet is not exactly designed for photography, and of course, its performance doesn’t compare to some mid-range phones. So here, just check for yourself whether it meets your needs. 

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Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6 Review: Battery Life & Charging

Another small upgrade is the power solution. The P12 Pro features a 10200mAh battery, which is 1,600mAh larger than the P11 Pro, with up to 45W QC fast charge. But the charger included is just a 30W one. So if you want to speed up the charging, you will have to get a 45W charger that supports the Quick Charge 4 protocol. Here are the results of our charging test and battery-life test. No doubt it can last for more than an entire day as long as you don’t play games all day. 

So that’s the new Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6, also known as the Lenovo P12 Pro. Obviously, it’s a more refined version of the P11 Pro, coming with a brand-new perfect display and a higher configuration for memory and storage. And it brings a slightly better power solution too. Apart from it, all the features are retained from its predecessor.

So, if the display was the main reason that stopped you from buying the Lenovo P11 Pro, we would happily recommend the new tablet to you. But if you are not that sensitive to displays, I would rather say that the P11 Pro is already good enough, at least better than most Android tablets in the market. 

Meanwhile, if you decide to buy the P12 Pro, please note that you are also going to pay more money for the exclusive stylus and keyboard case. 

Unfortunately, we still haven’t got the exclusive stylus and keyboard case. But we will show you all about the new accessories in the next video about this tablet. Please stay tuned!

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Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro 2021 which generally retails for $500 is now available at a heavily discounted price of $369 by using the coupon code: XPAD2021 only at Giztop. This coupon expires on 30 November.

Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro is a premium tablet that features an 11.5 inch, 2.5K OLED display and is powered by the Snapdragon 870 Octa-Core Processor. The tablet comes with 6GB RAM and 128GB ROM. XiaoXin Pad Pro is fueled by a powerful 8600mAh battery that gives you 8 hours of non-stop usage on one single charge and supports 20W fast charging. The tablet features 4 JBL certified speakers and dual 8MP front and 13MP + 5MP rear cameras.

Generally retailing for around $500, Giztop is giving out the tablet for $399 only. Moreover, with an additional $30 coupon: XPAD2021, you can now buy Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro 2021 at a heavily discounted price of $369 only. Please note that this coupon expires on 30 November. So place your order asap. 

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Giztop is giving a $100 discount coupon for the latest Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 12.6”. The tablet which is retailing for $799 is now available for pre-order at a discounted price of $699 only by using the coupon code: LP126100. The coupon expires on 10 November.

Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro is a premium tablet that features a 12.6”, Samsung E4 AMOLED display and is powered by the Snapdragon 870 Octa-Core Processor. The tablet comes with 8GB RAM and 256GB ROM. XiaoXin Pad Pro is fueled by a powerful 10200mAh battery that and supports 20W fast charging and quick charge 3.0. The tablet features dual 8MP front and 13MP + 5MP rear cameras.

Launched today at a retail price of $799, you can now pre-order Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro 12.6” tablet at a discounted price of $699 only by using the coupon code:  LP126100.

Please note that this coupon expires on 10 November. So place your order asap. 

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In the past few weeks, we reviewed the Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021 (review here) as well as the Mi Pad 5 Pro (review here). And I’m sure there are some people who would be interested to see how these two tablets compare with each other.

So today, let’s look deeper into these two tablets and find out whether the Mi Pad 5 Pro is worthy of its title as the ultimate value for money tablet, or whether the Xiaoxin Pad Pro can withstand the challenge.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro: Design

Let’s start with their designs. If you just look at the pictures on your screen, you may prefer the minimal design of the Mi Pad 5 Pro rather than the splicing back design of the Xiaoxin Pad.

However, if you look closer and, in fact, use them for a while, you would come to the opposite conclusion. The Xiaoxin Pad Pro uses a metal unibody design which not just looks premium but significantly improves the holding experience. And strangely, although the Mi Pad 5 Pro features an 11-inch display which is slightly smaller than the size of the 11.5-inch Xiaoxin Pad Pro, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro is still thinner and lighter. And the Xiaoxin Pad Pro is also one of the thinnest tablets that you can have on the market.

As for the Mi Pad Pro, its back cover is made of plastic with matte finish, which is slightly inferior to the Xiaoxin Pad in terms of the built quality. And its edges of the side frame are really sharp, which also causes slight discomfort when holding it.

So in terms of the body design and build quality, we think the Xiaoxin Pad Pro is the better option.

Displays

Let’s now look at their large displays, which is probably the most important part of this comparison. The Xiaoxin Pad Pro features an OLED screen with a 2.5K resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate, while the Mi Pad 5 Pro comes with an LCD panel featuring the same resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. One of the most intuitive differences is that the OLED display of the Xiaoxin Pad supports Always on Display while the Mi Pad doesn’t. By far, Xiaoxin Pad Pro is still the only Android tablet at its price point that comes with an OLED screen.

In terms of color performance, the Mi Pad Pro supports Dolby vision and HDR with a peak brightness of 485nits. But looking back to the OLED panel of the Xiaoxin Pad, it brings a much better color presentation with higher contrast, and the brightness can reach at 589 nits. And it also has the wide support of Dolby Vision and HDR contents, with a slightly higher peak brightness. Even in our video, here, you can see the gap between the two displays. The Xiaoxin Pad Pro did look a little better during video playback.

However, when it comes to text display, the OLED panel of the Xiaoxin Pad loses out due to its pixel arrangement. When we zoom into the display, it’s not difficult to find that the text edges are not as clear as the LCD display of the Mi Pad Pro. But in actual use, I believe most users would not perceive this difference. Still, if you are going to enjoy a lot of reading on a tablet, the Mi Pad will be a slightly better option for you.

After two weeks of using these two tablets, I must admit that I spent more time on the Xiaoxin Pad’s OLED display. In addition to its excellent display quality, the screen experience is pretty assuring as I didn’t feel discomfort like I do on using some OLED screens when using for a long time.

On the other hand, the Mi Pad 5 Pro has a better audio department, thanks to the presence of 8 speakers tuned by Harman Kardon, while the Xiaoxin Pad Pro has 4 speakers tuned by JBL Audio. About their audio performance, you can check it here.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro: Performance, Gaming

Both of them are powered by the same chipset: the Snapdragon 870, which is also the best processor that you can get in the market for Android tablets. And the Mi Pad Pro offers three optional memory configurations with up to 8GB RAM and up to 256GB ROM, while the Xiaoxin Pad Pro only has one version with 6GB RAM and 128GB ROM. But the good news is that the Xiaoxin Pad Pro supports MicroSD-card extension of up to 512GB.

We’ve actually used the Xiaoxin Pad Pro for over a month. In the past one month, due to the limit of 6GB RAM, the tablet experienced a few minor lags when we opened too many apps. But fortunately, it was only for a few seconds. On the other hand, we have only used the Mi Pad Pro for over a week. There’s no such issue that we experienced with the Mi Pad during this time.

Apart from that, the tablets both could perform well in daily use, including light office work. And honestly, I can’t really pick which one has smoother performance. Even in benchmarks, their results are almost the same.

In actual gaming test, it seems that the Xiaoxin Pad’s metal unibody brings a better thermal performance. In games like Genshin Impact and Nimian Legends, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro could maintain a higher framerate stably without much fluctuation or any performance throttling. The Mi Pad Pro’s gaming performance was not bad though, but it’s more likely to meet the threshold in long-time gaming.

Like we said in the review of the Mi Pad Pro, the USB-C port is only compatible with USB-2 standard, which neither supports video output, nor high-speed data transfer. On the other hand, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro has a much more user-friendly USB port with support for USB3.1 and video output. So it’s unsurprising that the Xiaoxin Pad Pro completes our file transfer test much faster than the Mi Pad.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro: Keyboard, Stylus

Now let’s talk about their official accessories – the keyboard and the stylus. The leather-like keyboard case of Mi Pad feels more premium than the woven case of the Xiaoxin Pad. And it’s also a bit lighter. If you are going to carry the tablet with the keyboard case, the compact size of Mi Pad would be a bit more convenient.

Both of them only support contact connection and has no Bluetooth wireless connection.

There’s only one way to use the Mi Pad’s keyboard, which is to put them together under a fixed angle. And the back attachment of the keyboard case is so weak that the back cover often came off the tablet when packing up.

But for the Xiaoxin Pad Pro, things were better. The back protection can be used as a stand for the tablet, and it can achieve almost any placement angle that you want on the table. By the way, the back protection is removable, so if you don’t like to work with the keyboard, it still a great Tablet Stand for you.

In addition, when compared to the Mi Pad’s keyboard, the Xiaoxin Pad’s has 12 more shortcut keys and a touchpad. With the Keyboard, the Xiaoxin Pad can work much more like a laptop under the PC Mode. On the other hand, the Mi Pad Pro doesn’t yet support the PC mode as they claimed at the launch event.

Although in terms of drawing latency, almost all the Android tablets’ styluses we experienced don’t compare to the Apple Pencil for iPad, we still could see the improvement on the Xiaoxin Pad Pro and the Mi Pad Pro. The gap has been reduced greatly. However, it’s strange that the Mi Pad Pro’s stylus has slightly lower latency in third-party apps than its performance in the official note app. Emmm… does it have something to do with MIUI? During our limited experience, we only found the WPS Office app and the official note app supporting a 120Hz refresh rate on the Mi Pad Pro.

On the other hand, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro actually has a very close performance overdrawing latency to the Mi Pad’s stylus under most scenarios. And when it comes to writing experience, both feel good and are very close to each other. But thanks to the higher refresh rate, it was a close win for the Mi Pad Pro in this round.

What’s a bit disappointing is that the Xiaoxin Pad’s stylus doesn’t support magnetic charging and is not able to attach on the side of the tablet like the Mi Pad’s stylus. As a result, to charge the stylus, you have to open the flap at the end of the pen, and connect to a USB-C cable, which is really inconvenient.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro: Software

Now let’s talk about their software. Well, as we mentioned in the review video of the Mi Pad Pro, MIUI is still the main issue that confuses us. Until now, Xiaomi hasn’t pushed any significant updates to fix the issues we mentioned, such as no PC Mode and unoptimized multi-app experience. There were also some other details that often annoyed me, such as the gesture of going back to home-screen. You need to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to achieve the gesture. But when we horizontally hold the tablet with single hand, it’s almost impossible to do it without the help of the other hand.

On Android tablets, the optimization of horizontal display for some apps is still a problem. These apps didn’t originally support landscape mode, and the tablet would still display the apps vertically even when you use it horizontally. But the PC Mode somehow can reduce this discomfort with its window mode for apps, and this is also the most significant advantage when compared with the Mi Pad Pro, even though it’s not perfect. More importantly, the touchpad of the keyboard is really a big plus, no matter for the Pad mode or the PC mode. We also found that there were a few complaints on the internet about crashes on the Xiaoxin Pad Pro. But so far it only happened once on our model.

For software experience, we want to mention another competitor, the HUAWEI MatePad 11 (review here). By far it has the best software performance that we’ve experienced, no matter for its powerful multi-device collaboration or Multi-tasking capability. But if we are to bring in all the three tablets for a comparison, I will still choose the Xiaoxin Pad Pro.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro: Battery & Charging

After a few software updates, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro’s battery performance has got improved. So we re-tested its battery performance in this comparison. The new result shows that they both took great advantage of the 8600mAh big battery. But pay attention that the Mi Pad Pro comes with 67W fast charge. It only took 1 hour to fully charge the big battery, while we spent over 2 hours to finish the test on the Xiaoxin Pad Pro with its 20W charging efficiency.

Verdict

To be honest, we’re pretty surprised by this comparison. The Mi Pad 5 Pro didn’t crush its rival in this competition. On the contrary, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro showed a more balanced performance. It’s also worth mentioning that the Xiaoxin Pad Pro has been in the market for over 2 months.

But anyway, both of them are still the top options in the Android tablet market. Although we mentioned a few differences between them, honestly we think that the experience gap is not that obvious. After all, most issues that we experienced in these two tablets stems from the nature of the Android platform.

So that’s all for today’s comparison. How do you like these two tablets?

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The Xiaoxin Pad Pro was one of two tablets Lenovo announced in its home country last year. The tablet which is sold as the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro outside China is now receiving a new update that brings Android 11 along with new features.

Lenovo is rolling out the ZUI 12.5 update and it comes with Android 11 for the Xiaoxin Pad. Below are some of the new features the update brings:

• Android 11
• Added universal horizontal app function that allows vertical apps to work in horizontal mode
• Added a recycle bin to the Gallery app
• Optimized Lenovo One and reduced latency
• Added support for online wallpapers and online themes

The Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro has a 2K 11.5-inch OLED display with a 2560 x 1600 resolution. The bezels are slim and the display supports Dolby Vision, DC Dimming, and works with the Xiaoxin Stylus.

There is a Snapdragon 730G processor under the hood along with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable storage. The Xiaoxin Pad Pro has a 13MP main camera on the back and it is paired with a 5MP ultrawide angle camera. Up in front are two 8MP sensors of which one is an RGB camera and the other is an IR TOF 3D camera for face unlock. There is also a side-mounted fingerprint scanner.

The tablet packs JBL quad speakers, a 3.5mm audio jack, and has support for Dolby Atmos. The battery capacity is 8600mAh and there is support for 20W fast charging via a USB-C port. The Xiaoxin Pad Pro also has pogo pins for connecting to a keyboard.

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Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro, Global firmware which generally retails for $450 is now available at a massively discounted price of $368.17 only at AliExpress.

Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pr, Global firmware is a premium tablet that features an 11.5 inch, Full HD OLED display and is powered by the Snapdragon 730G Octa-Core Processor. The tablet comes with 6GB RAM and 128GB ROM and supports Dual Band 2.4GHz/5.0GHz WiFi. With dual-band support, you can either choose the 2.4GHz band for obstacle penetration or a 5.0GHz band for faster connection over long distances. 

XiaoXin Pad Pro is fueled by a powerful 8600mAh battery that gives you 8 hours of non-stop usage on one single charge and supports 20W fast charging. The tablet features 4 JBL certified speakers and dual 8MP front and 13MP + 5MP rear cameras.

For more information check out this review from Gizmochina.

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Speaking of tablets, the Apple iPad is probably the first thing that comes to your mind. But if the market is dominated by one player, isn’t it too boring?

The fact is that the iPad is getting better, and more professional for productivity, but at the same time, it’s also getting more expensive. So no doubt the market is calling for more alternatives. And today we have a powerful candidate that is very likely to spice up the Android tablet market — the Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021. By far it’s also the best budget tablet product that we’ve seen on the Android platform.  

It features a 11.5-inch 90Hz OLED display with 2K+ resolution, while for performance, it’s powered by the Snapdragon 870 chipset, which is the latest powerful SoC that’s often seen on gaming phones. And more than that, the software is based on Android, which used to be considered a drawback before. However, on the Xiaoxin Pad Pro, this same software turns out to be a big surprise. 

In this review, we’re going to follow its usage and divide it into three parts: First, we’ll talk about how it works as an audio-visual tablet, and then how it can be an educational or working pad. In the last part, we will show you how it works as a gaming pad or gaming PC. 

So let’s start with its audio-visual performance. It’s rare to see a 90Hz 2K+ display on a tablet priced under 500 US dollars. By far, the other premium tablets that come with a high-refresh-rate display generally cost over 850 US dollars, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ and Apple’s iPad Pro. This makes the Xiaoxin Pad Pro an extremely competitive option for those who don’t want to pay too much money for an entertainment tablet. The 11.5-inch full-screen tab comes with four edges of equal narrow width, which no doubt boosts the immersive enjoyment of watching videos on the tablet. And this OLED display supports wide range of colors with around 100% DCI-P3 gamut.

So in terms of displaying vivid colors, it looks much better than most LCD displays. But at the same time, the color accuracy would be affected if you apply the default color setup. After testing, under the P3 color gamut, its delta E came to 4.6. But the Pad also offers a standard color mode with better color accuracy. Under the standard mode, the average delta E drops to around 1.3. But if shift to the standard color mode, users have to take the narrower color coverage with around 99% coverage of sRGB and 73% of P3. 

And its peak brightness reaches 600 nits and supports a brightness-enhanced mode for use under strong sunlight for a short time. 

If you only use it for watching films or TV shows, the issue of color accuracy doesn’t matter a lot. What really matters is that in addition to wide color gamut supports, the Pad surprisingly supports both HDR10 and Dolby Vision. So if you are looking for a mobile device with a bigger display than a smartphone for watching HDR or Dolby-vision content, basically it won’t disappoint you. Just note that though the actual effect of the display doesn’t really compare to those expensive tablets like Apple’s iPad Pro, it still looks much better than those that don’t support HDR or Dolby Vision. For audio, the tablet features 4 JBL speakers with 1.5W output with Dolby Atmos certification. As for its actual performance, just put on your headphones and listen to it here. 

As a mobile device with an 11.5-inch display, it has excellent size control with a weight of 485g and a thickness of 5.8 mm. And the one-piece Aluminum body achieves a good cooling effect while enhancing the premium metallic feel. But the antenna design looks a bit strange and affects the neatness of the back.   

So what features of this Pad can aid users in study or work? Let’s start with your kids’ education. I know some of you have been struggling with kids’ online classes in the past year. And a working device with a good selfie camera is really important for that. The new Lenovo tablet sports dual selfie cameras with a TOF sensor to achieve safe facial unlock. And the cameras are placed at the top middle position of the edge, which makes for a pretty good angle for online video calls, classes, or meetings when you place it horizontally. 

However, a tablet could also be over entertaining. To help users or kids develop healthy digital habits and focus on study or certain usage efficiently, Lenovo has developed a feature collection called study assistant, including physical and mental health for children’s eye health care and risky website restriction, hardware-level anti-addiction, course management, and family guardian. But for the feature of family guardian, it’s only available for China’s social app, WeChat. 

In study assistant, you can check the usage time of certain apps and set daily time limits for tablets and certain apps or categories. And it’s also available for parents or users to add course schedules with certain education apps. Even more, you can restrict the installation of non-education apps on this Pad, and restrict access to unsafe websites and also add permitted websites as well.  

Or if you are looking for a convenient mobile device for basic work, this tablet could be a real surprise. In addition to providing great adaptability for wireless keyboard and mouse, Lenovo officially released a productivity case with an exclusive keyboard and a touchpad. What’s more interesting is that Lenovo has designed a well-functioning PC mode for all their devices, including the Legion game phones and the tab products. When entering the PC mode with the keyboard, the user interface and interaction is really no different from a laptop. 

And thanks to its light and compact body, it’s even more convenient than carrying a compact laptop. And the 90Hz display powered by the Snapdragon 870 also brings a smooth experience when using all the apps shared with the Pad mode. Most apps are allowed to resize the window or use full-screen mode. For official work, there is a Microsoft Office collection available. And for basic creative work, I think you can still find your options on the Google Play Store, and most of them adapt the tablet or PC mode very well. But I have to remind you that the PC mode allows you to simultaneously open only up to 5 apps, probably due to the limits of 6 GB ram. 

If you are an artist who’s looking to draw your artwork on a tablet, this pad could be a reasonable budget option. Lenovo has also released an official stylus for this pad, the Xiaoxin Pen. It features 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity and tilt detection. 

Speaking of the PC mode, inevitably, a question arises. Can it work as a PC for gaming? 

Of course! But note that it means you can play Android games but not the PC games launched on the Windows platform. About gaming on PC mode, we will talk about it later. First, let’s look at its general game performance. 

We all know that the Snapdragon 870 is one of the top chipsets for Android smartphones so far. And compared to the Snapdragon 888, it’s even more efficient on power consumption and heating. The benchmarks results show that the Xiaoxin Pad can release the power of the chipset very well. And that’s also the reason why it’s really smooth on software response and animation without being laggy in our experience. As we mentioned earlier, the 6GB RAM probably is the only limit that may cause lag issues. 

The actual gaming performance is also great. The large display no doubt gave us a different experience on gaming. In Genshin Impact, it achieved an average framerate of 56.8fps. But due to the in-game graphic settings for android devices, it’s only allowed to play at 720P resolution, which doesn’t look sharp enough on this 11.5-inch display. Well in another game, Nimian legend, we could apply the 1080P resolution with highest graphic settings, where it can run 55.2fps on average. Still not bad at all.   

In PUBG Mobile, it stably runs at the highest frame rate allowed with the best graphics. Even when we unlocked the framerate limits in the China version, it still ran stably without any lags. A great thing about playing the game on a tablet is that you can enjoy the clear vision on a larger display, easily find the targets at a longer distance and better operate the game with multi-fingers as you want.

In addition to the PC mode and better adaption of Keyboard and mouse, the peripheral mode on the Legion phone can also be found on the Xiaoxin Pad. It allows gamers to use a keyboard, mouse or game controller to operate applications or games with button mapping. For example, you can customize the gaming of PUBG mobile to the keyboard-mouse operation, just like playing the PC version of PUBG. 

In addition, the tablet also has a wide application of projection. You can project the Pad’s screen to another PC via WiFi, or to a monitor or TV via cable. So you can also choose to play games on a larger screen. And in this case, we suggest you use cable connection to reduce latency. 

The Pad features an 8600mAh battery with support of Quick Charge 3 fast charge. In our battery test, it performs pretty well. Even for continuous heavy use, it’s estimated to last for over 5 hours. 

To fully charge the pad, it took us over 3 hours with the included 20W charger, which isn’t really fast enough.

To conclude, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro really surprised us. This is the first time that we really felt the affordable Android tablet market had potential. And the Xiaoxin Pad Pro probably is the start of the trend. 

In addition to what we mentioned, some other small details like the support of TF-card extension and the power button with fingerprint reader, also make this tablet more attractive. As for two rear cameras, most of us don’t bother much about a tablet’s image quality, so we just skipped the camera part.

So these were the things that we thought were interesting about the Xiaoxin Pad Pro. What do you think about this new Lenovo tablet?

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Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro which generally retails for $450 is now available for a discounted price of $419.99 only at Banggood.

Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro is a premium tablet that features an 11.5 inch, Full HD OLED display and is powered by the Snapdragon 730G Octa-Core Processor. The tablet comes with 6GB RAM and 128GB ROM and supports Dual Band 2.4GHz/5.0GHz WiFi. With dual-band support, you can either choose the 2.4GHz band for obstacle penetration or a 5.0GHz band for faster connection over long distances. 

XiaoXin Pad Pro is fueled by a powerful 8600mAh battery that gives you 8 hours of non-stop usage on one single charge and supports 20W fast charging. The tablet features 4 JBL certified speakers and an 8MP front and 2MP rear camera.

Generally retailing for around $450, Banggood under its  Promotion Sale is giving out Lenovo XiaoXin Pad Pro for $419.99 only. Please note that this offer is valid only till 10 May 2021. So place your order asap. 

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