Lenovo Yoga Tab 13 Can Also Be an External Monitor By TWiT Tech Podcast Network

This is twit. I know. Tablets are often a malign topic around these parts. Uh, we, you know we wish there were more tablets and there were. You know, we've a lot of you've written in saying that you enjoy your tablets and wish there's more to choose from, and we're kind of in a period of stagnancy with tablets. You know, there's pretty much there.

They're all is either Amazon fire tablets or Samsung tabs and there's not a lot of interesting stuff coming out market. Well. Luckily, Lenovo is here to hopefully change that Lenovo announced the new yoga tab, 13, which you can pick up for 679, and this is actually the uh global version of the yoga pad pro that was released in China earlier this year and what's interesting about this tablet is the tablet also can work as a functional tablet or as an external display for a laptop or a Nintendo Switch or other devices out there via a micro, HDMI, port um, and then, with this specific tablet, it's got an attached, stainless steel kickstand that can actually rotate 180 degrees from the back of the device. So not only could you stand it up on a desk, but you could also hang it on the wall if you wanted to. If you wanted to mount this, this uh and have a very slim external monitor for whatever uh application you might be using, which is pretty neat um, and this was just one of the many uh tablets that was announced by Lenovo.

They also announced a smaller yoga tab, 11, a tab p11 plus with a 2000 by 1200 display, um and a little cheaper uh model, the tab, m7 and tab m8 uh, but note the tab. M8 won't be available in the US. So there you go um, but going back to the tab, 13 it's going to work with Lenovo's precision, pen, 2 uh. So if you, if you're an artist, you want to draw you like writing with pens or that sort of thing they have the Lenovo precision. Pen too, it's also got an eight pixel, eight megapixel front-facing camera for smarter logins um, as well as uh, with background noise reduction for video calls and lenovo actually says: you'll get up to 12 hours of bat of battery life and that the 180p screen sorry 1080p screen can reach 400 nits of brightness, so Lenovo is really going pretty hard on this 680 13-inch tablet as like the top of the line kind of prime tablet, um flow.

What do you think is this? Is this worth the money? Is it worth the 679 for a 13-inch tablet, which seems huge, although compared to the iPad Pro, not that big, but can also function as an external monitor, yeah bro? I want this, you want it yeah think about it. Listen Lenovo already! Do you we're asking ourselves who's still making android tablets well, Lenovo's, making them, and in this case they got a lot of? They got a lot of hype over the first leak that came out of the overseas variant of the tablet, with the HDMI port, and I'm feeling just as excited about it, because I, like the idea of this added utility, an external monitor I can use with Nintendo's switch granted. It is micro, HDMI, so it'll come with whatever issues that has, but just the idea and also Lenovo is one of the first manufacturers. That's going to push that Google entertainment space that they announced, and so it's a great way to get this like family utility tablet, that's affordable in I don't know. I want to get my hands on it and really see if it's as exciting as my brain is making it out to be it's, it seems pretty cool.

I mean 679, isn't cheap by any. By any degree I mean, like my the last time I bought the last tablet I bought that ASUS was about 300 bucks or so and that's stung um. But you do. I mean it is big, and you get a lot for it, and it's got a nice long, lasting battery life and that external monitor function allows you to have more application than just what you do with the tablet, which is pretty cool. I think so.

Is this looking at those first tablet: no, no! No! No one's been doing tablets for a while yeah yeah, yeah yeah, it's worth noting by the way, the m8 that they announced. It's not getting uh updated here, it's the one that I brought on the show like last year. I still have its upstairs and god it's really slow, yeah well, the m8 is the m8 has always been the affordable one right like that's yeah. Those are like the Walmart equivalent tablets. So well, hey it's now on and no no no correct.

It is now on, and no no, no, no, no, no yeah. Let's not! Let's not get too ahead of ourselves.

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