At first glance, the ZenPad 3S 10 may seem more expensive than it really is. The all-metal design of this tablet, its ultra-thin 5.8-millimeter profile, and the 78-percent screen-to-body ratio all contribute to to a premium look that you'd expect to come with a higher price tag. The 9.7” IPS display boasts a 2K resolution of 2048 x 1536, which, coupled with the high-quality dual five-magnet speakers on board, makes watching videos and movies a treat on this tablet.

The ZenPad 3S 10 comes equipped with a healthy 4GB of RAM, but the hexa-core Mediatek 8176 at the heart of it is nothing to write home about. Heavier games will make the device stutter, but at least normal tasks, such as browsing social media, checking email, streaming HD video, and running multiple apps at once run fine on the Asus tablet. The ZenPad 3S 10 is powered by a 5,900 mAh battery and comes in two versions – with either 32 GB or 64 GB of expandable storage.

Our main gripes with this slate pertain to its cameras and software. It's not like anyone would buy this device for the camera, but image and video quality is bad even for tablet standards. Asus' custom interface, however, is something you should keep in mind. It is cluttered, gimmicky, and bloated, to say the least, and it can bog the user experience quite a bit. Fortunately, most all of these issues can be alleviated by using a custom launcher and can't be dubbed a real deal-breaker, considering how well-rounded the device is.


The Lenovo Yoga Book is an interesting beast, to say the least. It features a striking, foldable design that allows the two thin slates that make up the tablet to rotate a full 360 degrees. That's done thanks to an impressively designed, and eye-catching hinge, that allows the screen and keyboard to rotate freely and keep their position when no pressure is applied. Ah yes, we said keyboard, and the Lenovo Yoga Book does, indeed, come with a keyboard, just not a traditional one. It's non-detachable and consists of capacitive keys that are located on the tablet's second “screen”, which also doubles as a digitizer. You can lay a sheet of paper on top of the keyboard, and using the included Real Pen stylus, you can create digital copies of your notes or drawings.

Unfortunately, for its unique and ambitious design, the Yoga Book falls flat in one key area. That's the 10.1” display, which has a resolution of 1920 x 1200, putting it well below the competition on this list. It's not terrible by any means, but this particular device could have benefited from a more pixel dense display.

Other than that, the Yoga Book runs on Intel silicon: a quad-core 2.4GHz Atom x5-Z8550 processor, paired with 4GB of RAM and a healthy 64GB of expandable storage. Although that sounds sweet on paper, it's not the best performer out there, but it's not that bad either. The seemingly massive 8500 mAh battery also sounds like a better deal than it actually is, delivering just over a 7 hours of screen-on time in our custom endurance test.

Having said all that, the Lenovo Yoga Book is an interesting and adequately priced device, that, unlike the Galaxy Tab S3 and the iPad Pro, comes with both a pen and a keyboard out of the box. It may be a capacitive keyboard, but it also doubles as a digitizer. If you are an artistic type and are looking for the complete package at a decent price, then the Yoga Book might just be the Android tablet to buy.