The Snapdragon 870, as the sub-flagship chip launched by Qualcomm last year, does appear to be somewhat "backward" in the case of being on the market for more than a year. But this does not prevent it from being favored by tablet products.
In the recent android tablet new products, OPPO Pad, Lenovo Savior Y700 (hereinafter referred to as the Savior Y700) have chosen it. The logic is also very simple, Snapdragon 870 as the tablet master controller, can avoid some deficiencies in 5G functions, and can rely on the tablet's large battery and heat dissipation advantages, there is more room for performance experience.
From this perspective, the saviors Y700 and Snapdragon 870 that position the game tablet seem to have a natural fit.
However, as we have always emphasized, compared with the iPad, the Android tablet still has a big gap in positioning and experience. This requires manufacturers to make a trade-off between comprehensive experience and user needs when making products. Starting from a small size, Lenovo will include the tablet in the rescuer ecology, what kind of ripples will be stirred up in the Android tablet market?
Sizes suitable for gaming
In the high-end tablet market, the current Android tablet almost has no products that can compete with the iPad Pro, and the current tablet products of several mainstream manufacturers are making a fuss about a relatively balanced experience, such as adding support for the stylus, as well as large-screen attributes, as far as possible to achieve entertainment and productivity.
But when it comes to small-size tablets, compared to the strength of the iPad mini 6, There does not seem to be a product that can be played against on the Android side, lenovo will classify the Y700 into the rescuer product line, the intention is obvious: to seek a breakthrough through differentiated selling points.
From the feeling point of view, the 8.8-inch screen of the Savior Y700, coupled with the narrow border effect, takes into account the large field of view and game control. However, because of this screen size, it is a circle larger than the size of the iPad mini 6, and the weight has risen to 375g (iPad mini 6 is 293g), and the first feeling of getting it is still a bit pressurous.
Considering the rescuer Y700's metal mid-frame with plastic back case, and the larger 6550mAh battery capacity, this result is also acceptable.
What should be said here is that although the game tablet is positioned, its exterior design is not as "exaggerated" as the game phone, and there is no esports element except for the LEGION Savior Logo as a whole. And the outline of the border tends to be at right angles, the appearance is smart, which also leads to some discomfort when holding, if the edge chamfer can be rounded a little better.
There is a saying that the rescuer Y700 is still worth affirming in the texture of the whole machine, and the plastic material of the back shell is also similar to the effect of AG frosting, which has a feeling of being like glass, and the metal frame is also very solid.
This high-resolution screen also adds a lot of points to its look and feel, using an LCD screen without stroboscopic, and has also passed the German Rheinland Global Eye Protection 2.0 certification, with a resolution of 2560×1600, reaching the 2K level, supporting 120Hz refresh rate and 240Hz touch sampling rate. Do you feel familiar? That's right, it's the same quality as the OPPO Pad screen, and because it's smaller, more accurate, and more pleasing to the eye.
Some people may think that the brightness of this screen 500nit is a little low, according to my actual measurements, even if the indoor use under the desk lamp is completely enough, but its automatic brightness is a little less sensitive, the change is not linear enough, I will generally manually increase the brightness of the use, when playing games, set up to disable automatic brightness adjustment.
Compared with mobile phones, even if the 6.92-inch rescuer Y90 is as large, the Y700 screen can still bring several levels of magnification to the screen display effect. Not only to watch the video is more refreshing, now the mobile game screen fineness is getting higher and higher, in this case, the game attributes of the tablet are more prominent, the impact and immersion of the picture in the game is much stronger than the mobile phone, ah, not exaggerated to say - it is difficult to use it.
Rescuer Y700 tablet and Savior Y90 mobile phone screen comparison
Balanced mode is sufficient, "Beast Mode" is not recommended
Control and graphics of this level, the savior Y700 is qualified, then what about performance?
In terms of hardware configuration, the Rescuer Y700 is equipped with a Snapdragon 870 processor and a 12GB LPDDR5+256GB UFS 3.1 storage combination. Although the Snapdragon 870 is not new, it is still a routine to run a wave of running points.
It can be seen that AnTutu runs 71W+; Geekbench 5.1, single-core 967 points, multi-core 3015 points, CPU performance is the regular level of Snapdragon 870. The 3DMark stress test reflects its stability well, reaching 99.5%, surpassing the Savior Y90 esports phone, which is a pretty good result for an Android game tablet.
In addition, because of the stronger AV entertainment attributes of tablets, large file copy transfers may also be used more than mobile phones, and I also joined the AndroBench storage test, 1696 MB/s sequential read, 777 MB/s sequential write, proper UFS3.1.
As for the actual game experience, common games such as Peace Elite and Glory of Kings have stable performances. In equalization mode, Glory of Kings has an average frame rate of 119.4, and Peace Elite also has an average frame rate of 89.8.
Glory of Kings
The Elite of Peace
Compared with mobile phones, tablets also have a larger volume of passive heat dissipation, the total heat dissipation area of the rescuer Y700 is 45357.7mm2, of which the VC vapor plate area is as high as 8500 + mm2, when playing games such as "Glory of the King", it has been in a warm state, and the actual measurement is about 38 ° C after half an hour.
But "Original God" in the extremely high quality +60fps, the temperature is a little high. What I didn't expect was to turn on the beast mode, the performance output was stronger, because the temperature was also higher, coupled with too many special effects overlay in a moment, resulting in a sudden frame drop, the average frame rate was not as high as in the equalization mode.
Original God balanced mode
Original God Beast mode
It is also worth noting that due to the combination of back plastic and metal frame, coupled with the position of the motherboard is relatively edged, the heat is quickly conducted in the top metal frame, just in the palm contact position, like the beast mode playing "Original God", the maximum temperature reaches 45 ° C, which is a bit hot.
Overall, if you like to play games, even if it is a game like "Original God", the Savior Y700 is completely able to hold, and it has a better experience in terms of vision and control. It can also be seen from the frame rate and temperature changes that the Rescuer Y700 has done a good job of performance squeezing the Snapdragon 870, the equalization mode is completely sufficient, and the Beast mode is not recommended.
The idea of differentiated competition for Android tablets
Beast mode is actually the Y700 after joining the savior ecology, the new similar game space function, that is, Lenovo collectively referred to as the "savior field", in the game pull-down status bar can also be directly set, which also includes the sense of presence vibration, GPU settings and so on.
GPU settings can help advanced players further hollow out GPU performance, but for most users, selecting "Standard" is enough. In addition, the side keys also have a slide switch, which can be turned on to monitor the CPU and GPU frequency, frame number and temperature in real time, and setting a physical switch specifically for this function seems a bit redundant.
After all, it is the first tablet with a dual X-axis linear motor, and only some game phones have this configuration. In the case of "Peace Elite", when driving, it is like really walking on a bumpy road, when there is a gunshot, the vibration amplitude will also change with the distance, and the dual speakers can also achieve the effect of "listening to the sound".
As a game tablet, in terms of game performance and function optimization, the Savior Y700 is still in place overall, and because the system has been upgraded to the latest ZUI13, the actual experience is compared to the previous ZUI 12. 5's Lenovo YOGA Pad Pro animation is much smoother, and the function is consistent.
For example, learning assistant, computer mode, it is a lot. And after the upgrade, there is finally a small window function, which has been achieved on many Android phones, and the tablet experience must keep up with it.
In addition, the small window can also be quickly and split screen linkage, coupled with the parallel window, you can let some applications without horizontal screen display normally under the horizontal screen, and display the upper and lower screens left and right, which improve the horizontal screen experience.
However, in general, the Savior Y700 is still an entertainment tool, the main game, so choose 8.8 inches to cut in, in the premise of a good game experience, but also take into account the needs of audio and video entertainment, is a very clear positioning of the product.
Although the portability and performance are not as good as the iPad mini 6, the starting price of 2199 yuan alone is enough to attract a large number of voters, especially players who are in the Android game ecosystem themselves.
Of course, in addition to the price, I think the savior Y700 does provide a good competitive idea for android tablets, and in the absence of obvious shortcomings, it can also make a long board long enough, which is also a good way to achieve a single point breakthrough.