Lenovo Tab One 8.7" TB305FU 2025, MediaTek Helio G85, 4GB, 64GB, Luna Gray

The Lenovo Tab One HD is a budget tablet with a surprisingly decent chip but a genuinely bad screen. It's fine for casual streaming and reading if you can find it at the low end of its price range. Paying more than USD 150 or CAD 180 for this is a bad deal.

The Helio G85 lands in the 83rd percentile for CPU and 79th for GPU, so it punches above its price for basic tasks. Apps open fine, streaming is smooth, and light games run without much drama. But 4GB of RAM sits in the 31st percentile and the 64GB eMMC storage is even lower at 30th, so multitasking gets tight fast and app installs feel sluggish. The 5100mAh battery is middle of the pack at 53rd percentile, good enough for a day of casual use but nothing to brag about. The screen is the real letdown at 14th percentile, 1340x800 at 60Hz with 480 nits is dim and soft compared to almost anything else on the market.

Against the Apple iPad 11th Generation or Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE+, this thing gets smoked in every category that matters, screen, storage, build quality, software support. The Xiaomi Pad 7 also runs circles around it for not much more money in some markets. Even the UMIDIGI Active T1, which is a rugged budget tablet, offers a tougher build and better battery for similar cash. The Tab One HD only wins if your budget is rock bottom and you just need a small Android screen for reading or streaming. The Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is a completely different class of device, so that comparison is almost unfair.

Pricing is all over the place depending on where you shop. US listings run from USD 125 to USD 180, and Canadian listings span CAD 140 to CAD 231. That CAD 91 spread is wild for a tablet this basic. If you're buying in the US, the lower end of that range is tolerable for a secondary device. If you're in Canada, shop around hard because paying over CAD 200 for this thing is a mistake. At the bottom of the price range it's a decent throwaway tablet. At the top, you're getting fleeced.

The Lenovo Tab One HD is a budget Android tablet that knows exactly what it is, a cheap screen for casual media and light browsing. It runs a MediaTek Helio G85 with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of eMMC storage, which is fine for YouTube and ebooks but not much else. The 8.7 inch 1340x800 IPS panel is the weak link here, and our database puts it near the bottom of the pile for screen quality.

Skip this if you need a tablet for work, school, or anything involving a keyboard and multiple apps at once. The 4GB of RAM and slow eMMC storage will frustrate you within a week. Also skip it if you care about display quality, the 1340x800 panel is dim and low-res compared to even mid-range phones. If you want a tablet for drawing, photo editing, or serious gaming, look at the iPad or a Galaxy Tab S9 FE+ instead.

Buy this if you want a cheap, lightweight Android tablet for ebooks, YouTube, and casual web browsing. It's fine for kids or as a travel beater. Don't buy it if you care about screen quality, multitasking, or any kind of productivity. The 24.8 out of 100 productivity score tells you everything you need to know there.