First Look at Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet (Video)

Had a chance to take a good look at Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet during its launch yesterday. Basically, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is targeted at people who desire more functions and also targeted at companies which might use it as a corporate device.

In the above picture, the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet is docked to a keyboard Folio case with an optical TrackPoint. On first glance, you might mistaken the tablet as a ThinkPad laptop.

The ThinkPad Tablet has a 10.1-inch Gorilla Screen from Corning (means scratch resistance) with IPS (In Plane Switching) which means wider angle view. It is running on Android Honeycomb 3.1 and capable to upgrade to 3.2.

It has a 1 GB RAM and storage capacity varies from 16GB to 64 GB. At this moment, Singapore will have ONLY up to 32GB. It has a 2 MPX front facing camera and a 5 MPX rear camera. Good to know that it has integrated Bluetooth 4.0 and the standard 802.11b/g/n WiFi connectivity. There is option for with or without SIM card.

Here is the front view (pardon those cups)

A closer look at the tablet on the dock.

Basically, the keyboard folio is an accessories for the tablet. They are connected via an USB port.

What is good about this USB port is that it can read your thumbdrive. It is like Nokia OTG port. On the tablet itself, there is an icon to access the content when you input a thumbdrive to the USB port.

From my understanding, it should not be able to work with card reader and etc. I should think that all tablet should come with such port.

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Here is a look at the keyboard.

I like the quality of this keyboard. It feels solid when you type. The keyboard folio itself does not have any battery. That means it is using the juice of the tablet to power it. I could not find out any stats on how much it will drain the battery.

On the tablet itself, it has a number of ports. It has USB 2.0 port, MicroUSB port, mini HDMI port, SD Card slot, SIM card slot, a dock connector and of course a mic/headphone port.

I think Lenovo has made a good decision to incorporate a full SD card slot (SD, SDHC, MMC). Now, you can take the SD card from your camera and input into this port immediately.

Another thing is the location of the SD card slot and SIM card slot. They are conveniently located by the side. You just need to open up the latch.

Seriously, what I don’t like about this tablet is the 4 physical buttons. In my opinion, it is very old school.

I love this glowing red light on the back when the device is powered on.

Another thing to mention about this tablet is the optional digitalizer pen that has 256 degrees of sensitivity.

There is a ready slot on the tablet for you to slot in this pen. If you notice, the dock also has an opening for this pen.

BTW, you will need battery for this pen.

I tried writing with it on a notepad style app. It is quite fluid. There is also handwriting recognition. So, the words that you written can easily be converted to text.

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Some nonsense that I had written.

BTW, this tablet is clever enough to differentiate the writing with your palm resting on the screen. It will recognize the pen input. Here is a short video to demonstrate it. According to Lenovo, the tablet that I used in the video might not be updated with its latest software. That might be the reason why it has some lag.

And here is another short video to show you the physical look of the tablet and a demo on Docs to Go (reading a PDF file).

That is it for a short preview of this tablet. There is no pricing yet but the availability of this ThinkPad tabelt will be End-September. On a final note, I did mention that this tablet is targeted at corporate. It has a Lenovo App Shop with premium ecosystem of apps and content services. It will support enterprise applications and a private corporate application store to help businesses to integrate the tablets into their businesses.

For security wise, it has virtual application support with Citrix, simple zero-touch deployment with LanDesk and etc (you will realize that I am copying blindly from the press release 🙂 ).
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