Lenovo is preparing to launch an 8 inch tablet aimed at the business and enterprise markets. An unannounced device called the Lenovo ThinkPad 8 showed up this week at the FCC, and the name suggests we’re looking at a tablet with an 8 inch display.
Unfortunately, we don’t know much more at the moment.
FCC
The FCC documents tell us that the ThinkPad 8 supports WiFi networks and the ThinkPad name tells us that this device will be sold by Lenovo’s business division.
What we don’t know is whether it will have an ARM or x86 processor or even if it’ll run Android or Windows software. Lenovo has released tablets with both types of chips and both architectures.
The company did launch its first consumer-oriented 8 inch Windows tablet this summer, so it’s certainly possible that the ThinkPad 8 could be a business-focused alternative to the Intel Bay Trail-powered Lenovo Miix 2. But it could also be a smaller version of last year’s ThinkPad Tablet 2.
What would you like to see in an 8 inch ThinkPad tablet?
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These are my musts
I’d like to see a Thinkpad tablet 3 with a wacom digitizer for $500 or less If the Asus T100 could be made for >$400 with the dock then I think this it definitely doable without the dock.
This is my wish list:
I’d also like to see Insyde bios technology in all Thinkpad tablets. Seamless switching between android and windows for a tablet of this size would be a solid win. Replaceable battery would be nice too. Other than that my needs are few.
I’ve had enough batteries that lose capacity to always want replaceable ones. You never know when the capacity of your battery will drop. It could be due to device usage styles, time since the battery was manufactured and/or just plain defective.
The battery doesn’t have to be super easy to change, just easy enough for the average technophile to be able to do without buggering up the tablet (ie NO GLUE).
Wouldn’t that likely void your warranty if the battery isn’t supposed to be replaced by the user. I bet the battery isn’t likely to be easily purchased either unless you don’t mind buying from eBay where you have no idea if it’s fake or not even when it works. Otherwise, you’d have to get an official tech to replace which means downtime.
I wouldn’t care since it’s likely that I’d be swapping the battery after at least two years.
I’d agree with you for that kind of replaceable. I was thinking of the pop-out, pop-in replaceable batteries that some tablets and laptops had.
it does not happen with apple products for some reason
it isn’t a wacom digitizer in the Thinkpad Tablet 2 it is an Atmel.
Actually, it IS a Wacom digitizer in the ThinkPad 2 – for the pen. The Atmel digitizer is for the touch screen capability.
True. I was only concerned with the stylus. I can use my old, full sized, Penabled stylus on my TPT2 without any issues.
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/lenovo-ibm/54226-thinkpad-tablet-2-digitizer-neither-n-trig-nor-wacom.html
not according to this… Atmel has their own pen technology
The information is incorrect. It is Wacom. I have used it.
If this had a core i5 and 4GB of ram that would be awesome. And a full hd screen and optional keyboard dock with full sized usb 3.0 port would be good.
The dell venue pro has no hdmi out, if this won’t either it will be laughing stock.
On 8″ tablet the desktop is near useless, unless you have HDMI out or mircast and can output to external screen.
I WOULD BE HAPPY IF IT HAD RT, ESPECIALLY AT 8 INCHES
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