A few days back, Lenovo held a conference in Beijing, the capital of China. At this conference, the company officially launched the Lenovo YOGA T500 Play, a smart projector. The YOGA T500 Play has a hundred-inch projection area, cinema-grade immersive sound, a large built-in battery, and other key features which will be discussed in this article. Without further ado, let’s get right into it.
Lenovo YOGA T500 Price
The Lenovo YOGA T500 is priced at CNY 2,999 which is equivalent to about $470. As for now, you can grab this smart projector for just CNY 2,699 (≈$424) as Lenovo is giving a discounted price for its launch. Lenovo is also selling other accessories you would need including a stand and a screen.
Lenovo YOGA T500 Play Specs and Features
The design of the Lenovo YOGA T500 Play is very simple yet astonishing, it has a champagne gold top with a light gray textured mesh and a cherry white body. It has a 3D fabric panel section which allows for easy cleaning and a more penetrating sound.
Despite being small in size, the YOGA T500 Play has an excellent sound quality with a pair of 2 inches 10-watt neodymium-iron-boron internal magnetic speakers. It is also accompanied by dual passive radiators and a large sound cavity. As a plus, you can use this smart projector as a standalone Bluetooth speaker for up to 10 hours.
Under the hood, the Lenovo YOGA T500 Play is powered by the quad-core Amlogic T972 high-end chipset that offers up to 55% less power consumption. It is paired with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. There are lots of smart temperature control features including a fan so overheating should not be a concern. The smart projector had a USB-C graphic interface so you can connect your PlayStation, Switch, or smartphone using a cable.
As for image presentation, the Lenovo YOGA T500 Play has up to 100 inches of projection area with a resolution of 1080p HD and 85%+ NTSC color gamut coverage. It can decode 4K cinema-grade videos, HDR10+ videos, and HLG videos. The smart projector supports the Lenovo EEP Intelligent Picture Enhancement Engine, which adds brilliant color effects to the image with clarity.
Every projector has a light source and the YOGA T500 Play uses a DLP projection technology with RGB+B four-way high brightness LED. The T500 Play can adjust its brightness to match the ambient lighting in its surroundings thanks to the new Cat’s Eye intelligent light-sensing technology. The smart projector has 3 seconds of fast focus and a 4-point keystone correction function, to ensure that the image projected is square and perfect.
Like I said in the title, the Lenovo YOGA T500 Play has a built-in Li-Ion battery with a capacity of 22,500 mAh. As for battery life, it can last for up to up 5 hours of watch time equivalent to 3 movies in a row.
