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hey everyone this is Jimmy with Jin's review room welcome to another review now it's not often you get a breath of fresh air something really original that comes our way and that's the case with lenovo's yoga tablet 10 HD plus the 10 HD plus is priced at three hundred and sixty nine dollars at the time this review and with its unique design and claimed 18 hour battery life will see if these features and some others included are worth the price so without further adieu we'll get started this year's model physically stays practically identical it's the same size at ten point three inches wide 7.1 inches tall and only 0.4 inches thick at its thickest part this model also weighs in nearly the same at just one point three eight pounds which is light weight as the more premium tablets like these Samsung Galaxy Pro models and the Apple iPad air and they both weigh in about a pound now overall the physical construction is a slightly textured plastic backing with a premium feeling metal base and a physical design and materials worked well the large lithium ion battery is located here and doing so creates that bulge where majority of the weight is located so every time you pick this up it nearly becomes a natural instinct to grab it here and doing so you're grabbing that metal base again feeling that solid yet cool and temperature piece of metal and what's truly unique about the 10 HD plus is it built in stand the novo markets it's three modes that you can place this in you've seen the tablet on the table so far where it's angled and elevated on one side you see me hold this as well in one hand resembling holding a book or magazine and the last is swiveling the stand itself out and propping this on the table and it actually works pretty well and it's clearly not a gimmick placing this on my desk in front of my main computer I can see news feeds come in or Facebook statuses update right in front of me watching movies is also convenient considering it's up right now and a stand is very sturdy you can adjust the angle to your desire and continue to type on the screen without the screen bending further back now the last few physical aspects are its power button on the left side here the other side has your microphone vine rocket buttons and a 3.5 millimeter input for your headphones and the unit all charges with a supplied micro USB charger now on the back of the tablet does feature a 8 megapixel camera which takes mid-range quality photos in my opinion and if you do buy this make sure to increase the resolution as it's set to one megapixel from the factory resulting in not-so-great photos but once adjusted the clarity is good but the colors on the other hand are slightly washed out and whites are slightly overblown you can see in some photos very dark areas of shadows while areas of sunlight is overexposed low-light performance was okay with some noise but keeping a steady hand was even more challenging the photos on the screen are not edited and right from the 10 HD plus and the last feature here that I want to talk about on the back of the tablet is a micro SD card slot which I almost didn't see it's hidden behind this cover here and I always find manufacturers who provides SD card slots to be very beneficial to increase the amount of memory that you have and transferring files and folders onto the tablet now moving on to the screen this is where a huge improvement is made from the previous generation the resolution gets bumped up to a more reasonable level at 1920 by 1200 giving this display a 224 pixel per inch density the more density of pixels the more clarity you'll have in text and images and although in today's tablets most are hitting closer to that 300 pixels per inch range but to the average consumer sharpness on the screen looks fine in my opinion and keep in mind the 10 HD plus is not a premium pro or high-end tablet but it's aimed to get mainstream folks who value some of the more unique features the 10 HD plus has now at first turning on the tablet the colors of the user interface appeared really good my eyes were enlightened by all the colors but further testing after several days I started to pick up on over saturation watching the movie with Ted in high definition Marky Mark here has almost an orange skin tone on his face colors are blown out and colors and clearly do not look accurate only when playing games or watching Disney or Pixar movies does it look somewhat fine it's not a bad screen but if you take a minute man in person to notice colors of people's faces are either a warm tone or too warm giving it Browns orange like color in the last physical aspect before talking about performance are these front-facing speakers these speakers are one of the better ones out there thanks to Lenovo having Dolby Digital audio enhancements sound in general when Dolby Digital is on does give any movie or song a bit more depth and loudness for a tablet speaker and they're really good now moving on internally the ten HD plus runs currently on Android 4.3 jelly bean with the latest Android 4.4 KitKat coming soon / Lenovo's website the unit runs on a 1.6 gigahertz Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor with 2 gigs of RAM on board there's 32 gigs of storage and as stated earlier you can add another 64 gigs of memory with a microSD card now with that being said web browsing including social sites like Facebook and Google+ - just reading up on the news and random other entertainment sites ran perfectly fine what's unique about the 10 HD plus similar to LG and Samsung tablets you can multitask several windows at the same time but lenovo does this a little bit better though impressing on the recent apps button and dragging an open app up and then doing this again for another app will eventually split your screen you can press the middle circle here to resize the window to your choosing now with samsung galaxy tablets only the biggest 12 inch model can you split four screens at the same time while the smaller tablets you can only do two at a time with the 10 HD plus you can do four all at the same time and it's pretty fluid all together the only exception you can't do this with games and several other apps as well and just like the other tablets but for the most part you can do quite a bit of multitasking for your needs now in regards to gaming it's capable of playing games some ran flawless while some ran with slight slower frame rates plants vs. zombies candy crush fruit ninja all are flawless however intense games seem more graphically intense games that is like real racing 3 soft frame rates drop it wasn't hiccups but just not a smooth frame rate in general it's still playable but not as enjoyable now going back to lenovo's homepage I want to say there isn't a apps button to view all of your apps you've downloaded instead all of your downloaded apps are on your home pages similar to Apple iOS devices where everything is on your screen and of course you can drag and drop them on other homepage screens of your choosing but it's something that you'll need to do to stay organized and stay clutter free as much as you can it's not a big issue but consumers may have their own preference now in regards to other Lenovo features swiping from the right or left inwards reviews the smart sidebar which includes the most recent movie you're currently watching your photos and your books and a pre-selected amount of apps on the bottom here for quick selecting and a last main feature I'll discuss is the battery the 10 HD plus is known for an industry-leading unheard-of up to 18 hours of battery life per Lenovo now I left brightness out at about 50% to obtain a middle-of-the-road base you can say I played a movie leaving this on Pandora the entire time and use this for a typical web surfing I left everything on normal settings with Wi-Fi continuously on and the screen never timed out in general the test is a little bit more demanding possibly compared to the average consumer so in total I achieved 9 hours and 51 minutes of news with 3% battery remaining which would have possibly given me about 10 hours of total news now it's somewhat far from the 18 hours however it's still a class-leading result and considering you're not using the tablet for 10 hours straight and I wouldn't think you're leaving this with Pinder on all day the tablet should last you a little bit longer than what my results are and should last you pretty much throughout the week so I hope you enjoyed my review of the latest yoga tablet 10 HD plus from Lenovo let me know your thoughts below and this much improved tablet over last year's model despite some minor setbacks on this year's rendition find me on Facebook or Google+ and as always I appreciate the support this is Jimmy from Jim's review room take everyone but