First Impressions Lenovo Yoga Yoga 2 and 2 Pro – Hardware.no

Tek.no / London: This week struck Lenovo really do it properly. On a huge event in London launched the fact the sequel to the very popular hybrid Yoga 2 Pro. Although this in itself was interesting enough to justify the journey for the hundreds of journalists and technology enthusiasts who had made the trip, this was still only warming.

Through a probably very expensive satellite link from LA filled with one Ashton Kutcher, the guy we primarily pulling recognize from the TV route, the saddle. Despite the fact that he was in the TV series Two and a Half Men seem to have a penchant for Apple’s aluminum-clad machines, he could tell that he has worked closely with Lenovo in Beijing to design several new products in the company’s excellent Yoga series.

Kutch baby

One of Kutch babies, Yoga Tablet 2 which he has been developing. Photo: Anders Brattensborg Smedsrud, Tek.no

Just how this has gone to is uncertain, but Kutcher had at least exciting to present. First of all he would like to show us her new baby. All based on how well each one has followed the celebrity world in the past, there was a moment of confusion whether he was referring to boy toddler he has just become a dad or not.

The hall was not, however, filled with baby crying, but rather four new tablet in Yoga Tablet 2 series. Kutcher held one of the models, with 8 inch display proudly in his arms and told me that he had been putting his stamp on both this and the 10-inch variant.

Site trays were showcased with both Windows and Android installed, and while the first wait is getting in silver finish, the black that is for Windows people.

The biggest design change with Yoga Tablet 2 compared to the current model is that now you can also hang it in a hook, such as the refrigerator, the seat back on the train or as a picture frame on the wall. Otherwise, the former stand in three other modes: stand mode for movie and slideshow, toggle mode or tablet mode. Also new is that the hinge has several fixed positions, so you can angle the screen in exactly the position you want.

Now Yoga Tablet 2 also hang. Photo: Anders Brattensborg Smedsrud, Tek.no

The new models in Yoga Tablet 2 series provides all the opportunity to benefit from lightning fast 4G mobile networks and to have very good battery life. Up to 18 hours provide Lenovo will be possible on Android versions, while Windows editions are measured at 15 hours.

If you want to be diggers productive 10-Tommernes you can connect a separate keyboard that attaches magnetically to the screen. This gives the feeling that the tablet is a small portable computer and keyboard protects the screen when you tilt it up. The keyboard shall comply with the Windows version, and be available as an option on the Android tablet.

When we tried Yoga Tablet 2 we noticed that the screens were extensively upgraded on all models. They had now got 1920 x 1200 pixels and colors as both vibrant and sharp print.

As its predecessor was also both 8 and 10-inch very good in the hand, especially in tablet mode, when you have a little more to grip the edge of the Lenovo tablet than they otherwise totally flat toad competitors. The cylindrical battery grip in the bottom of the board also gives the company the opportunity to do a little extra out of the sound. We did not do any own listening test, but two “big” speakers from JBL with Wolfson HiFi pieces should have been here.

The Intel Atom processor is the boss, and all tablet in Yoga Tablet 2- series provides a camera of 8 mega pixels with aperture of f / 2,2.

Thinking brand new

Kutcher highlighted on how Lenovo Yoga through their products to conform the user and display forward its innovation. These values ​​are then also hand in hand with the next product we saw, which was Yoga Tablet 2 Pro. This is not only a sharper and bigger little brother, because even though it rightly comes with a screen of 13 inches, it is actually bigger than this.

Lenovo engineers have actually built a projector into the circular battery grip at the bottom of your screen and Kutcher grinned all the way from LA:

– our competitors brag about how movies and photos come to life on their 10-inch screens. Now we have 50 – we have a home theater system, he boasts.

The projector also makes better sense the darker the is in the room. Photo: Anders Brattensborg Smedsrud, Tek.no

The projector will give an image up to 50 inches big in just two feet away from the wall. At a demonstration in a completely darkened room we could after the presentation see with our own eyes how the film gets projected on the big screen. First impressions were good, and we can certainly see many applications such as Skype calls, PowerPoint presentations and images. When it comes to seeing an entire film, we believe that we would rather put them on a TV if we had the opportunity, the image was not quite bright enough and did not have as good colors that we are used to from the edge.

projector on Yoga Tablet 2 Pro could be even brighter, but we think many will get great pleasure from it even if it does not correct any adequate TV replaces. Photo: Anders Brattensborg Smedsrud, Tek.no

If you want to watch a TV show or a YouTube clip in really large format is now whatever opportunity there, and not enough of it. Lenovo also plan on listening experience. Baked into Yoga Tablet 2 Pro we find namely 1:05 watt subwoofer. It is the first in a tablet, and, according to Kutcher, along with the projector and two 8-watt JBL speakers, do Yoga Tablet 2 Pro to the best tablet for home made.

– No other invests in real good sound, now we do it, told a clearly enthusiastic Kutcher.

Some might remark that both a projector, a bass speaker and a 13 inch big screen is hardly particularly portable. We think the tablet was surprisingly easy, but Lenovo says it was never their intention to make the Pro version for a tablet that people take with them everywhere. They have in fact been carried out a survey which showed that 80 percent of tablet owners only use it when they are at home anyway.

The screen of 13 inches has resolution of 2560 x 1440 and also incredibly leaking. The size despite we felt the tablet was easy to hold, thanks to the same battery grip as the Tablet 2 and the terrific sense light weight.

We are looking forward to test the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro even further. The technology that really exciting and can be a first step to erase the need for dedicated projectors and audio equipment in meeting rooms and schools. According to Lenovo’s their Yoga Tablet 2 Pro an evolution of the first game and a product that they ever going to develop – both for new products, but also through software updates.

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