Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet - Mobile Workhorse
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Multimedia and Battery Performance
Not All About Work
Despite being a business-centric tablet, Lenovo has thrown in some nifty multimedia features to ensure that you can have some fun on your ThinkPad Tablet outside working hours.
No matter where you are or what you do with the ThinkPad Tablet, Lenovo has its 10.1-inch display covered. Reinforced with the scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass, you can be assured that the ThinkPad Tablet is more than capable to go through the daily abuses of working life with you. In addition, the display uses the In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel to provide wide viewing angles (up to 178 degrees), crisper and more accurate colors. This makes the viewing experience on the ThinkPad Tablet an enjoyable one although it is tainted by fingerprints and smudges on its display.
The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is equipped with two cameras - a 2-megapixel front facing camera for video conferencing (business users will find this useful) and a 5-megapixel rear camera for taking casual photographs. As usual, we put the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet through our camera test to assess its performance: -
Priding itself as the first true business-class tablet, the next part of our test will determine if the ThinkPad Tablet can live up to the company's claims. For the battery assessment, we pit the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Sony Tablet S and the reigning champion in battery performance, the Apple iPad 2. Our standard battery test includes looping a 720p video with screen brightness and volume set at 100%. We also turned on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity to ensure constant streaming of data through email and Twitter.
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Judging from the results above, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet did a fairly good job in terms of battery performance. It clocked a battery mileage of close to five hours, a respectable figure when you take into consideration the display sizes and battery capacities of the tablets.
Despite having a smaller 9.4-inch display and a larger battery capacity of 5000mAh, the Sony Tablet S powered off at least 40 minutes earlier than the ThinkPad Tablet, which has a smaller battery capacity (3250mAh) to support a slightly larger and more power hungry 10.1-inch display. Similarly, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 outlasted the ThinkPad Tablet by about 40 minutes thanks to its 7000 mAh battery. Taking all these into perspective, it is hard not to give credits to Lenovo for its somewhat efficient power management on the ThinkPad Tablet.
Due to its overall dimensions, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet did not do that well in the Portability Index. The wide range of connectivity ports (which contributed to its 14mm thickness) and hefty weight of 730.5g placed the ThinkPad Tablet as the least portable tablet in this comparison.
Using the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet under normal conditions, we were able to get through the day with occasional web surfing, checking social feeds and replying emails. You may be able to get a slightly higher battery mileage as compared to our battery test since the test stimulates fairly stressful usage conditions. However, it is important to take note that actual battery mileage will vary under different usage conditions.
