{"id":16841,"date":"2014-07-23T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16841"},"modified":"2014-07-23T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:36:48","slug":"lenovo-yoga-tablet-8-8-months-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16841","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 – 8 Months Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 8 months ago<\/a> when I purchased my Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8, an 8\u201d Android tablet. I raved about the form factor, price ($206.99 on Amazon.com<\/a>, \u00a3150.99 on Amazon UK<\/a>, \u20ac153.06 on Amazon Germany<\/a>), and all that jazz.<\/p>\n

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So how has the tablet worked out?<\/p>\n

I mentioned in my previous post that I was going to test the battery life in my upcoming travels. I did:<\/p>\n

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  1. I charged up the tablet overnight in Berlin<\/li>\n
  2. Watched video flying from Berlin to London<\/li>\n
  3. Watched video flying from London to San Francisco<\/li>\n
  4. The battery was at 54% when I checked into the hotel in the west coast of the USA<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And that was before<\/em> a firmware update that increase published battery life from 16 hours to 18 hours. I suspect that this device pulls power from dark matter in the universe. It is incredible, with only Kindle readers beating it.<\/p>\n

    The screen is not the best for viewing photos \u2026 but let\u2019s be clear. The machine is CHEAP and works great for video.<\/p>\n

    I probably use this device more than any machine other than my PC at work. I travel with it, using it to keep myself entertained in hotels, airports, planes, etc. I keep it at my bedside locker, so I can check up on things when I hit the snooze button in the mornings. It has replaced my Kindle reader as my way of consuming books – the extra large battery doubles as a comfortable handle.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019ve used a Micro-SD to expand the paltry 16 GB of inbuilt storage. Using a SD converter, I can quicky copy content from a PC\/laptop onto the machine. Combined with the hotspot on my phone, I have easy Internet access. Throw in ProXPN and I am accessing Netflix USA while in Europe, and UK\/Irish services while abroad. My Bose headphones give me perfect sound in a noisy environment.<\/p>\n

    The lightweight CPU has not been an issue for me. I don\u2019t play many games – but Robocop, Plants VS Zombies 2, and the Angry Birds carting thing play fine.<\/p>\n

    I have a lot of good things to say about this device. I wish it was a Windows machine – I do have a Toshiba Encore tablet but the Yoga wins on battery life (against almost everything) and apps (quantity & quality VS Windows).<\/p>\n

    I strongly recommend this tablet to anyone needing an affordable mobile device, and who would like to complete their journey with some battery life left \u2026. which is actually a big deal with airport security now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It was 8 months ago when I purchased my Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8, an 8\u201d Android tablet. I raved about the form factor, price ($206.99 on Amazon.com, \u00a3150.99 on Amazon UK, \u20ac153.06 on Amazon Germany), and all that jazz. So how has the tablet worked out? I mentioned in my previous post that I was … Continue reading “Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 – 8 Months Later”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-16841","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\/16841","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=16841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16848,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16841\/revisions\/16848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}