You don't need the loudest or the biggest display out there.
You need a 7" smart display with a camera.Ī bit of jank and the color temperature issues won't bother you. Although I love the unified design language Lenovo is presenting between this and the smaller Smart Clock (which I love), I think the company still has a few kinks to work out before I can recommend the Smart Display 7. The Smart Display 7 is especially disappointing given how much I enjoyed the company's bigger smart displays last year. But while the performance issues and the overactive ambient white point adjustments could be fixed with future updates, I wouldn't buy one hoping for that to happen. If you absolutely need a 7" display with a camera, Lenovo's latest fits the bill. Whatever setting controls this in the Home app, I can't find it, but it's pretty annoying. Sometimes it will keep controls on the screen for up to a minute or so other times they're gone in mere seconds. By themselves, these issues might be enough to push many to Google's first-party Nest Hub - though keep in mind that doesn't have a camera, if you want one.ĭisplay timeout is also inconsistent.
Paired with the RGB sensor's wild results, I find the screen on the Smart Display 7 pretty disappointing. Jank and dropped frames in isolation might seem like a minor issue, but the whole point of a smart display is the display, it's the value-add you get on top of the base smart speaker functionality.
That's not a problem that is exclusive to this display, my older 10" Lenovo smart display developed similar issues not too long after launch, but it's worse here. Sometimes it's pretty smooth, but most of the time it drops frames and stutters as you scroll or swipe between stuff. But swiping around the various menus, lists, and instructional content on the display itself was pretty frustrating. Performance watching actual video - like on YouTube, Twitch, or Hulu - was fine, though the ongoing Netflix omission on smart displays makes less sense with every passing day. Color calibration (outside the RGB sensor's adaptive issues) is good, and it gets both bright and dim enough for most indoor environments. The screen's quality is good enough to serve duty as a digital photo frame, feeding content from Google Photos to the display at idle. Music and streaming work fine, outside Netflix - this could be a tiny, cord-cutting kitchen TV, if you needed it to be. Sadly, it doesn't quite live up to the high standards set by Lenovo's previous models, either.Ĭamera shutter switch, microphone mute switch, RGB light sensor w/ dynamic color temperature adjustment Lenovo's newest Smart Display 7 might have an attractive design, but it's got piles of little problems that might make the identically-priced (and often discounted) Nest Hub a better choice.
But you might want to be careful about which smart display you buy.
#Lenovo smart display 10 plus#
They're a lot more than just a "digital photo frame," providing all the same utility as a smart speaker, plus piles of extra interaction from a touchscreen. If you haven't already bought a smart display and you aren't skipping out over privacy concerns, you really should pick one up.
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