I want to tell you a story. Once I went to the presentation of the company's new tablets Lenovo, and there the journalists were presented with one of the presented versions of the tablet – Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8. It was in 2013, and already at that time the simplest The 'yoga' presented seemed outdated, let's face it: a weak platform, a low screen resolution and by no means the lowest cost. Then I thought that I would hardly have bought this tablet for my own money, but after a month I completely changed my mind about the device, and for more than two years now the oldest Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 is my main tablet and used very often (this is when you consider that I rarely need a tablet at all). How did it happen?
In order for you to understand how simple the first Yoga Tablet was, I will give below the most basic characteristics, here, take a look:
- Screen: IPS-matrix, 8 ', 1280 × 800 pixels
- Platform: Mediatek MT8125, 1.2GHz Quad-Core Cortex-A7
- Graphics: PowerVR SGX544
- RAM: 1 GB
- Built-in memory: 16/64 GB plus a slot for a microSD memory card
- Camera: 5 MP main and 1.6 MP front
- Battery: 6000mAh
The tablet was inferior not even to the most 'fancy' Nexus 7 in terms of speed, overall performance, and for games this device was not at all useful, especially a year after its release, when portable games continued to improve in terms of graphics and, accordingly, requirements for 'hardware '.
However, as it turns out, the Yoga Tablet 8 had several very strong points, and thanks to them this tablet proved to be so useful in my case – the runtime and the stand.
I watch movies, TV series, cartoons, in general, videos on my tablet. Mostly when traveling, that is, on a plane or in a hotel, rarely at home. And the stand very often turns out to be an incredibly useful thing: you take out your tablet during the flight, turn it on, conveniently put it on the table and watch a movie, even while eating, and next to someone is tormented with their own Apple iPad (substitute any other tablet here), trying to secure it or holding it with your hand at all times. There are covers, of course, but not everyone uses them.
The second point is the running time. When I first started using the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8, it was able to 'play videos' for about 18 hours on a single battery charge. Two years later, this figure, of course, decreased, and now the charge of the tablet is enough for me only for 15-16 hours of video watching. However, this indicator is incredibly good, as for me.
The second generation Yoga Tablet received a higher resolution screen (in my opinion, this is not exactly what is needed), a gigabyte more RAM, better cameras and a different platform. However, as a dedicated user of the 2013 Yoga Tablet 8, I would like to see exactly the same tablet in a slightly updated design (the stand lacks a hole for the hook, as in the second version) and, perhaps, with an even larger battery. Everything else: platform, screen resolution, OS version and other things – could not have been touched, because already in this form the tablet turns out to be an excellent solution for video. It is a pity that the race of technologies and constant competition between manufacturers will not allow Lenovo to make such an outdated device now, and it seems to me that this is a common problem of the portable electronics market – in pursuit of each other, for sales volumes and the popularity of the company stop paying attention to the volumetric layers of specialized devices, which could very well have success, albeit local.