If you like loud music, you will love the Lenovo Tab Plus

Lenovo’s latest Android tablet may seem over the top for its price, but it also sounds like something I’d want to travel with this summer. The Lenovo Tab Plus has eight booming speakers that will let you listen to music and movies anywhere. The speakers are specifically tuned to Dolby Atmos, which is a good compromise for the rest of the mid-range specs that make up the device.

The Lenovo Tab Plus is an Android tablet with an 11.5-inch LCD. It offers a 90Hz refresh rate, smoother than your average computer monitor. It runs on a mid-range MediaTek Helio G99 processor with 8GB of RAM, enough for watching movies, streaming music, and playing the occasional mobile game. The Tab Plus also has an expandable micro SD card slot, which has become increasingly difficult to find on Android devices lately. It is available with up to 256GB of built-in storage.

The main reason you’d choose this Android tablet over any other is the number of speakers Lenovo packs into its less than two-pound chassis. As mentioned, the Lenovo Tab Plus has eight JBL-branded speakers tuned for Dolby Atmos: four matrix tweeters and four force-balanced woofers. There’s also a 175-degree swivel stand on the back so you can find your position whether you want to listen to a podcast from a distance or quietly listen to music.

The Lenovo Tab Plus has an 8,600mAh battery, which is standard for a tablet of this class. Lenovo says the battery can be fully charged in 90 minutes, which bodes well for travelers who rely on the device during a long flight. It also has an IP52 water and dust resistance rating, so you can take it into a humid environment – like the bathroom – without worrying about it warping.

I was able to try out the Lenovo Tab Plus at a meeting with the company a few months ago. I was impressed by the range of the tablet’s external speakers and the color saturation of the LCD.

If you want additional features, Lenovo sells the Tab Pen Plus and a wireless keyboard for the Tab Plus tablet. At $280, the Lenovo Tab Plus doesn’t have the specs to get your work done on the go. But it does have the storage for a library of your own ripped DVDs to watch on the go.