Knowledgeable’s Ranking
Professionals
- High quality development
- Brilliant 90Hz display screen
- Pen included
- Many sensible options
Cons
- Restricted efficiency
- Poor color replica
- Mediocre cameras
- Sluggish 15W charging
Our Verdict
If the Tab M11 had delivered on all of the factors that Lenovo claims, it might have been an extremely good pill for a price range value. Now it’s slightly a typical pill for therefore little cash, with underperforming {hardware} that struggles to carry out all of the bonus options and doesn’t all the time succeed. Nevertheless it does look good.
Worth When Reviewed
US value TBC
Lenovo is among the few producers that persistently spits out new Android tablets. Even so, they battle to match the options and success of Samsung and Apple. One of many newest is the Tab M11, a mid-budget pill priced from £199. It was unveiled at CES in January, and is now obtainable in Lenovo’s net store and a small variety of shops.
Those stocked in shops are usually not precisely the identical product because the one I bought to check. Mine features a charger within the package deal. Those I can discover in shops don’t. For precisely the proper package deal, it’s a must to go to Lenovo and order it.
Design & Construct
One other large distinction between the tablets obtainable within the large shops and mine that got here straight from Lenovo is that mine shouldn’t be an LTE model that you may put a SIM card in. I’ve the Wi-Fi model of the pill and need to do with out cellular information.
Lenovo, however, presents extra choices, with and with no charger, and with and with no snap-on folio case that may be folded as much as change into a desk stand. I didn’t get that.
It’s a well-built, unibody-style chassis with matte steel surfaces in all places
Mattias Inghe
The pill is identical in all 4 decisions, an 11-inch unit with semi-thin display screen edges, simply sufficient to grip with out reaching the touchscreen, and never so large as to make the pill unwieldy. It’s a well-built, unibody-style chassis with matte steel surfaces in all places besides on the display screen portion, and with three distinct buttons in a single nook, for quantity and energy.
It’s simply over 7mm thick and weighs 465g. With fairly rounded edges, it’s comfy to carry. Nevertheless, after a few hours of hand-holding I began to really feel that the folio case with help may not have been so dangerous in spite of everything.
As I stated, this isn’t an costly and unique pill. That is particularly noticeable in two issues, efficiency and display screen. Neither of them are dangerous, however clearly restricted and scaled down in comparison with the most effective in the marketplace.
Specs & Efficiency
The system circuit is a Mediatek Helio G88, a circuit that was launched in 2021 and wasn’t very quick then both. It has two sooner and 6 slower processor cores and the lower than dazzling ARM graphics circuit Mali-G52.
That, together with simply 4GB of RAM and 128GB of comparatively gradual storage make this a pill primarily for easy duties.
Internet looking on it’s usually good. The pill comes with Opera pre-installed because the default browser and it’s each simple to make use of and properly optimised. Nevertheless, it’s noticeable that the RAM is scarce, in case you open too many tabs it might begin to decelerate. Surf with a way of humour and you need to be capable to keep away from issues.
Mattias Inghe
Different apps is usually a larger problem. WPS Workplace that comes pre-installed is okay to run so long as you stick with easy textual content paperwork and small spreadsheets. Too many image parts and a number of pages and there will be some noticeable slowness in dealing with.
However hey, even when it’s not all the time quick, most issues will be achieved. Besides for enjoying video games that require even the smallest quantity of 3D graphics. That is past the capabilities of the weak graphics circuit.
Taking part in even the best video games in beneath 20fps, and extra demanding ones in beneath 5fps, shouldn’t be precisely enjoyable. In case you’re simply doing a little easy pastimes with 2D graphics, it’ll do, however there are higher choices even in case you’re on a decent price range.
It’s a lot better for studying textual content, with a 90Hz body charge for clean scrolling on net pages and in lengthy paperwork
Display screen & Audio system
The display screen is an IPS panel with a 16:10 side ratio and 1920×1200 pixels. It has precisely the qualities I’d count on from a fundamental IPS in a price range construct. It appears to be like sharp from the entrance, however lacks the proper blackness in darkish areas, and has apparent white level and color steadiness points if I take a look at it from the facet.
The brightness degree of as much as 400 nits is appropriate, permitting you to make use of the pill open air so long as there’s no vibrant sunshine, and also you do your greatest to keep away from reflecting vibrant surfaces within the picture.
For streaming movies, the display screen is okay, however no extra. It doesn’t help HDR, and has a color gamut properly under sRGB requirements, so there’s by no means any actual depth within the image.
It’s a lot better for studying textual content, with a 90Hz body charge for clean scrolling on net pages and in lengthy paperwork. It has a great fundamental blue mild filter that eliminates what’s not seen, after which an efficient studying mode that produces a sepia-toned display screen and no blue mild in any respect.
Mattias Inghe
4 small audio system, two on every brief facet, present clear and detailed sound with good stereo unfold so long as the pill is horizontal. Nevertheless, they’re too shut collectively to offer any stereo impact in any respect if I exploit it in portrait mode.
The highest-end is neither very highly effective nor very wealthy. Bass tones are heard, however solely barely. If I push the amount as much as most, it corresponds to possibly 50% quantity on another slates. Not so unusual when the output energy of the 4 audio system is just 1W every.
Lenovo Pen & Cameras
The pill comes with a cushty stylus, Lenovo’s personal energetic battery-powered Lenovo Pen. To get it going, I have to unscrew the highest, peel off a small protecting movie in entrance of the pre-installed AAA battery. Then it really works, albeit not amazingly properly.
There is no such thing as a fast response with pixels on the display screen the place I draw, however the replace takes a couple of milliseconds. Sometimes, I get pauses within the pen enter with both clean registration or a line the place I drew a curve.
The pen is alleged to help each tilt and 4096 ranges of strain sensitivity, however within the apps that Lenovo mentions and which are pre-installed, I’ve to accept one degree. Once I obtain a greater app, like the wonderful Sketchbook, each strain sensitivity and pen tilt work properly.
The choppiness that happens in pen dealing with could need to do with the pill’s total average efficiency. I’ve skilled higher in different dearer Lenovo tablets with extra energy within the processor.
Mattias Inghe
Even textual content enter is annoying. Lenovo says that it must be potential to kind manually in all search bins and comparable fields, however with no bigger devoted typing area, it doesn’t work and I’ve to delete extra misinterpreted characters than the system will get proper.
On each the back and front, the Tab M11 is supplied with 8Mp cameras, they usually ship about pretty much as good, or slightly as half-assed, as you’d count on from a price range pill. If you’d like one thing helpful for working video conferences, positive, however you gained’t be a grasp movie maker or photographer.
In Pc Mode, you get a Home windows-like interface with floating and scalable home windows, designed for keyboard and mouse management
Software program & Options
The working system is Android 13, with a customized interface that’s not visually very totally different from inventory Android, and also you get two years of promised Android variations, in addition to 4 years of safety updates. Lenovo spices up the system with a small set of bonus apps and additional options.
In Pc Mode, you get a Home windows-like interface with floating and scalable home windows, designed for keyboard and mouse management.
In case you don’t need to try this, you may multitask in split-screen mode as an alternative, with an interface and dealing with that’s just a little smoother than Google’s personal. This lets you deliver up a most of three apps on the display screen. Two on the break up display screen and a floating vertical window in entrance.
The Freestyle characteristic means that you can pair the pill with a pc, after which simply share information between them, or use the pill as an exterior show for the pc. You want an software on the pc and a shared login, and all of it occurs robotically.
I’m not solely thrilled, which is especially to do with the connection. Right here I solely get Wi-Fi 5, and likewise Wi-Fi 5 with out superb reception. So I’ve to be in the proper room for the picture replace to be acceptable.
Mattias Inghe
A 3rd characteristic referred to as App Streaming means that you can launch sure apps that run on the pill however seem in a window on the pc. “It really works very poorly. I ought to be capable to see and launch shareable apps within the Freestyle programme on my pc, however they don’t present up there. I can launch them from the pill, and stream them to the pc, however with much more lag than desktop sharing.
Different options of the system are the kid-friendly Youngsters House with secure and user-friendly profiles for youths, and the media centre display screen which is one swipe to the left of the house display screen. There you may join your streaming providers like HBO and Disney Plus and get a typical interface for them however not all main providers are supported.
Battery Life & Charging
The battery is 7,040mAh, and with that you need to be capable to stand up to 10 hours of video playback based on Lenovo. I can’t fairly handle that, however seven and a half hours is actually not dangerous for a video stream at excessive brightness. For different combined work, it lasts just a little longer.
Sadly, battery charging is disappointingly gradual. Regardless that I get a 20W USB PDA charger, the pill solely accepts 15W of energy. After half an hour, I’m at 26% and it takes over three hours to totally cost the battery. Ensure you’re by no means removed from a wall socket.
Worth & Availability
You will get the Lenovo Tab M11 from simply £199.99 (US availability is TBC on the time of writing) and this value will get you the pill itself and the Lenovo Pen.
Different bundles can be found from the Lenovo retailer with totally different combos of the folio case and charger included. The lot is yours for £269.97 RRP.
You too can purchase it from Amazon with the pill and pen or bundled folio case for simply £209. It’s additionally obtainable from Argos, Currys, Very and John Lewis.
Try our chart of the most effective price range tablets for extra choices.
Do you have to purchase the Lenovo Tab M11?
For under £199 for the most cost effective possibility, the Lenovo Tab M11 is a optimistic expertise in some ways.
It’s genuinely well-built and feels extra luxurious to carry than the worth tag signifies, and it has a fantastic set of options for each household and productiveness.
Nevertheless, weak efficiency and a few mediocre {hardware} maintain the Tab M11 again, and it fails to fulfil all of its personal lofty ambitions.
This evaluate initially appeared on M3.
Specs
- Processor: Mediatek Helio G88
- CPU: 2x Cortex-A75 2GHz, 6x Cortex-A555 1.8GHz
- Graphics: ARM Mali-G52 MC2
- Reminiscence: 4GB
- Storage: 128GB, microSD slot
- Show: 11-inch IPS, 1920 x 1200 pixels, 90 Hz
- Cameras: 8Mp rear, 8Mp entrance
- Connections: USB-C 2.0, 3.5mm headset
- Communications: WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.1
- Working system: Android 13, 2 years updates
- Different: Lenovo Tab Pen, splash resistant (IP52)
- Battery: 7,040mAh, 7 hours 40 min video streaming (wifi, excessive brightness, 60 Hz), 8 hours 30 min combined use (wifi, Pcmark Work 3.0 200 cd/m2, 90 Hz)
- Battery charging: 15W USB charging (USB PD). 14% in 15 min, 26% in 30 min.
- Dimension: 25.53 x 166 x 7.2mm
- Weight: 465g