Few tablets were released at the IFA in Berlin, but some very interesting, a few ran hand in hand with Lenovo. Among the Android tablets, without a doubt the most interesting was the Yoga Tab 3 Pro, of which we are dealing today, the latest model of a quite peculiar range but that for Technical specifications has little to envy the best of the high-end, as we will be able to verify today with this comparative in which we measure it with the very iPad Air 2. Can the Lenovo tablet be a good alternative to the iconic Apple tablet? Could it be precisely its unusual characteristics that actually make it better suited to our needs? Let's try to find out.
Integrated
In the design section all the attention is inevitably focused on the peculiar Yoga Tab 3 Pro, which is an aesthetically very different tablet from what we are used to seeing, simply by adding a cylinder at the base that helps us to grip it but also makes it possible for us to enjoy an extra battery and a projector .
Dimensions
The size of the Yoga Tab 3 Pro is somewhat greater than that of iPad Air 2, as you can see, (24,7x17,9 inch against 24x16,95 inch), but keep in mind that your screen is too. In what we are going to notice a considerable difference is in weight (667 grams against 437 grams), which in this case is due to the battery. Regarding the thickness, to finish, the comparison is complicated because although if we take the area of the screen as a reference, the victory is clear for the tablet of Lenovo (4,81 mm against 6,1 mm), we cannot lose sight of the fact that the cylindrical base completely changes the situation.
Screen
This is one of the strengths of the Yoga Tab 3 Pro, which has a screen, as we said before, a little bigger (10.1 inches against 9.7 inches) and with higher resolution (2560 x 1600 against 2048 x 1536), enough so that its pixel density is also higher (PPI 299 against PPI 264). In any case, it must be taken into account that they have different formats, which are better adapted to one or another activity (16:10, optimized for video playback, versus 4: 3, optimized for reading.
Performance
The only point where the Yoga Tab 3 Pro is somewhat less strong is the RAM memory, but as it is not a section in which the iDevices stand out too much, we find that they are actually tied (2 GB). Regarding the processor, however, the scale does lean more clearly on the side of the tablet from Lenovo (four cores to 2,2 GHz versus three nuclei a 1,5 GHz), although it is true that we already know that the fluidity of the tablets of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it is always higher than these figures might seem to indicate.
Storage capacity
Another advantage of the Yoga Tab 3 Pro With respect to iPad Air 2 We find it in the storage capacity section, since we have more internal memory for the basic model (32 GB against 16 GB) and above we have the advantage of being able to expand it externally thanks to the fact that it offers us a card slot micro-SD.
Cameras
The victory is also made Yoga Tab 3 Pro in the cameras section, since its characteristics are in this section much higher than those normally found in a tablet, with a main camera of 13 MP and another front of 5 MP, more typical of a smartphone. The cameras of the iPad Air 2, for their part, are from 8 MP y 1,2 MPrespectively.
Autonomy
This is the great virtue of the tablet Lenovo: Your design may not be as elegant as that of the iPad Air 2 but it has the great advantage of making it possible for it to house a battery of nothing more and nothing less than 10200 mAh, light years from the 7340 mAh tablet battery Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),. Of course, you also have to see how much is the consumption of each one, but it seems complicated that the Yoga Tab 3 Pro not be the one that fares best in independent autonomy tests.
Price
The point against the Yoga Tab 3 Pro It could be perhaps being something more expensive than the iPad Air 2, although the truth is that in the price range that these two tablets move, it seems more reasonable to consider the situation of technical tie