{"id":15711,"date":"2013-11-08T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2013-11-08T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:31:13","slug":"first-impressions-of-lenovo-yoga-tablet-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15711","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions of Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday morning, I was lying in bed in Rome, surfing the web and looking to see if Lenovo had started selling the new Yoga 2 in Ireland.&#160; I saw something that caught my attention \u2013 a new tablet with 18 hours battery life!&#160; Whoah!<\/p>\n<p>I dug a little deeper and saw that Lenovo had just launched the Yoga Tablet 10 (up to 18 hours battery) and the Yoga Tablet 8 (up to 16 hours battery).&#160; Both had low horsepower 1.2 GHz MTK quad-core ARM processors running Android Jelly Bean 4.2.&#160; There\u2019s 1 GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage with micro SD expansion.&#160; The display is a 1280 * 800 IPS \u2013 not retina but fine enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not the usual tablet.&#160; Look at my photo \u2013 this thing is standing up by itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What Lenovo appear to have done is designed a tablet for the person who is travelling a lot and is tired of hunting for that power supply that is used by the cleaners in the airport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The bulge at the bottom serves several purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a rotating hinge (with just the right amount of friction) for a mini-kickstand.<\/li>\n<li>This bulge contains the battery.&#160; Combined with just 1.2 GHz CPU, this is how the device gets long battery life.<\/li>\n<li>A low centre of gravity keeps the device stable when stood up.<\/li>\n<li>If feels like a nice grip when held in portrait mode for reading.&#160; There is an ergonomic slope to the grip for your fingers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong; this is not a productivity device.&#160; Anyone who thinks this type of device is for running Office is a muppet.&#160; This is a consumption device.&#160; It\u2019s for the sofa while watching TV, for watching video while travelling, for checking your email or posting on social networks.&#160; It does have Bluetooth 4.0 and supports a keyboard but you\u2019ll not see me doing that!&#160; There is Miracast support, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>I went for the 8 inch version because that, to me, is the perfect size of a companion tablet.&#160; I have a 16 GB Micro SD plugged into it at the moment with some videos and the picture looks very good.<\/p>\n<p>Price:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8\u201d is \u20ac229.99 or 269.99 for the 3G version.<\/li>\n<li>the 10\u201d is \u20ac289.99 or \u20ac329.99 for the 3G version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At that price, the device must feel cheap in your hands, right?&#160; WRONG!&#160; There is some textured plastic like material on the back, but it feels like a quality material rather than the \u201cSamsung plastic\u201d.&#160; But the majority of the device is aluminium, and the build feels very solid out of the box.&#160; We\u2019ll see how the hinge holds up after 6 months!<\/p>\n<p>Any negatives?&#160; Yes; the speakers are wimpy.&#160; My HTC One phone shames most devices when it comes to speakers but it stomps all over the sound coming out of the Yoga Tablet.&#160; That doesn\u2019t bother me too much; I use Bose headphones when travelling.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m travelling quite a bit in the next two weeks (Dublin &gt; Berlin &gt; San Francisco &gt; Seattle &gt; Dublin) so I\u2019ll be putting the Yoga Tablet to the test.&#160; You\u2019ll probably see a few <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joe_elway\" target=\"_blank\">tweets<\/a> about it during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I am still getting a Windows 8\u201d tablet.&#160; Microsoft would murder me if I used an Android device at one of their events :)&#160; Right now, the 64GB Dell Venue Pro 8 with stylus is my leading candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday morning, I was lying in bed in Rome, surfing the web and looking to see if Lenovo had started selling the new Yoga 2 in Ireland.&#160; I saw something that caught my attention \u2013 a new tablet with 18 hours battery life!&#160; Whoah! I dug a little deeper and saw that Lenovo had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Impressions of Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}