Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 Review

Vemuda Techno - Tablets can do a lot of things that you would want from a laptop these days, but it’s not easy to find something that can easily transition between different styles of use.

Today we have Lenovo’s Tab P11 Pro Gen2, which can do a lot of things for a good price, and we’ll also compare it to some iPads to get a broader context of who should go for this.

1. Design and Accessories

If you get the tablet without any accessories, you’ll get a very slim slab with narrow bezels around it’s gorgeous OLED display, and at 480 grams, this is quite manageable to use in your hands.

But Lenovo has also designed some really nice accessories for it that really make this much more versatile and usable.

The tablet itself comes bundled with the Precision Pen 3 for 40,000 Rs., but you can also get the ‘Keyboard Pack’ for an extra 5500 Rs., and for that price.

Source: Digital Trends

It is a really nice add-on which also includes a magnetically attaching back cover that will allow you to place this at different angles, in addition to adding a secure place to keep the stylus.

The keyboard also magnetically snaps to the side of the tablet with pogo pins, and it’s a very strong and reassuring magnetic lock that won’t disconnect unless you really want it to.

This can make it double up as a laptop, which you can even use on your lap if you learn how to balance it.

2. Keyboard and Touchpad

I have to say that I really wasn’t expecting the keyboard on this cover to be good, but it is quite comfortable to type on, and the keys remind me a lot about the keys on their legion laptop.

The keys offer great travel for a tablet cover keyboard, they do not feel cramped, and yo can really get some serious work done using this keyboard. The touchpad on this cover is also good, and while it is not very big, it does track well.

If you are used to 2 and 3 finger gestures on a laptop, you will also be happy to hear that they also work on this touchpad.

And you can scroll and right click using two fingers, switch between apps using 3 finger gestures, open the recents menu, and even show the home screen with a 3 finger swipe down.

So I really couldn’t demand more from this keyboard and touchpad combo.

3. Display

The display is probably the best thing about this tablet, the 11.5 inch OLED panel comes with a resolution of 2560x1536, which looks very sharp, and it runs at 120 Hz, which makes motion so smooth and satisfying on a large display like this.

Being an OLED panel, the colors, contrast, and viewing angles on this are of course really amazing, and its 600 nits panel is also capable of DolbyVision & HDR10+.

Now the much more expensive iPad Pro does have a Mini LED Display, but most of the iPads like this iPad Air come with an LCD display, and this OLED dislplay just looks so much better, especially with its 120Hz refresh rate, which you also don’t get on the iPad Air.

This is also a 15:9 aspect ratio display, which makes watching videos and movies on this a much better experience than the iPads with their more squarish display that give you bigger black bars, and even when you get black bars on this tablet, they’re completely black, because this is again a effing OLED panel.

Browsing websites and reading text in general on this display is also a really great experience, and I really like its 11.5 inch size, which sits nicely between the size of an iPad Mini, and an iPad Air.

The Dolby Atmos supporting on board speakers on this are also loud and clear, and you can definitely consume content without needing earphones.

Whenever you don’t want to use the keyboard, you can just detach it instantly, and browse the web, and even write text using the stylus, so you can really quickly transform this into different things.

4. Stylus

The fancily named precision pen 3 works very nicely, and its pressure sensitivity also functions well.

It is not quite as responsive as an Apple Pencil Gen2, but in isolation, you will find it to keep up very well with your movements on the screen, and you can definitely use it for doing artwork.

5. Cameras

The tablet does have both an 8 megapixel front camera, and a 13 Megapixel rear camera, and it also supports face unlock from the front camera which works fine in landscape mode.

But if you want to face unlock it in portrait mode, the camera is on the side of the tablet, so you kind of have to centre your face towards the side of the tablet to unlock, but then it does work well.

I am hoping that you won’t use the rear camera for photography, but if you do, then this is what the images look like, and they are adequately good for a tablet camera.

6. Software

This tablet runs on Android 12, and there’s a new Android 12L version that’s specifically designed for tablets, but I don’t think that we have it available on this yet, so we have the regular Android version, which still works pretty well.

Lenovo does offer a productivity mode toggle with this, that will add a taskbar, and allow you to resize different apps and make it operate like Windows.

But Android apps don’t seem to like resizable behavior a lot, so I personally found just using the regular mode to be better, and you can still multi task with the regular Android way with split screen, which also works nicely.

Now I won’t get into an iOS vs. Android discussion, but even if Android may not be perfect, I find it good enough to get everything done.

And I also don’t find iOS on tablets to be perfect, so as long as you don’t expect it to operate like a laptop, you will be fine.

If this does get Android 12L, I think this will get even better, and this is going to get two major Android updates with 3 years of security updates.

Lenovo has also added some extra features for the stylus, which includes an ability to quickly take notes even when the screen is off, along with some other stuff.

And you can also configure things like keyboard attachment behavior, so all of it is decently well thought out.

There are some bugs that I encountered, like the Face unlock, constantly trying to unlock the tab, even while the keyboard cover has covered the screen, and it even tried to unlock the tab while I was making a quick note while the screen is off, the virtual keyboard keeps appearing when you re attach the keyboard. 

Even after you’ve disabled it, the Youtube app seems to have some issue with HDR, and there were some other bugs too that were not as annoying, so I hope that these things get fixed in the future

7. Performance and Storage

The P11 Pro Tab comes with a Mediatek Kompanio 1300T processor, which offers a good level of performance for the tasks that it needs to handle.

It does keep up well with the 120Hz screen, so everything feels fast and snappy. There are some areas in the software which make it feel a bit rough, but these feel more like software issues instead of an issue with the processor.

Comparing its score in Geekbench, this seems like a CPU with Snapdragon 865 Level of performance, and this will definitely not be as powerful as what you will find in the iPad Air. 

But again, for the price, this is really good, and the CPU doesn’t feel like it's lacking power when you’re operating this.

On the GPU side, this seems to have a relatively more powerful unit with the Mali G77 MC9, and gaming on a large screen like this is a real joy.

This is the 8 GB RAM version of this with 256GB of UFS 3.1 Storage, and there's also a microSD card slot that you can use for adding more storage.

8. Battery Life

The P11 Pro comes with an 8000 mAh battery, and it lasted for 13 hours in my youtube video playback test in which I had the screen on 30% brightness at 120Hz.

And I think that is quite good of a result as you should be able to get more duration from it when you’re just doing regular things.

It does come with a 20W fast charger in the box, and it charges the tablet in 2 hours, so that should be adequately fast for most people.

9. Conclusion

So overall, I have to say that the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro is a really well designed and well thought out product that really gives Android tablets a solid entry for a versatile tablet that can be used in many ways.

The keyboard accessory works really well, the stylus is great too, and you’re getting a really amazing and smooth OLED display on this.

The software on this is not perfect, but the issues with it are minor, and while you could get better processors on Apple devices, they are also more expensive, and in isolation, the Mediatek processor on this is fast enough to let you do anything on the tablet.

But the real benefit of this tablet is that you are getting a screen that is much superior to that on the iPad Air, and the aspect ratio is also much better for media consumption.

So combined with the fact that this also works well in the laptop mode, I think that as an overall device, the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro is tough to beat for the price, because at around 45000 Rs.

This is a very complete package, while an Apple Keyboard with touchpad with Apple pencil will cost you 38000 Rs. by themselves.

Let me know what you think about this in the comments, thanks for reading, and I’ll see you, in the next one.

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