The folks behind the upcoming Eve V tablet seem to have taken a page out of the OnePlus playbook for publicizing new products: they’ve been announcing a few specs at a time ahead of the actual launch of the device. And I keep taking the bait and writing new articles, because honestly, some of the newly announced features are pretty interesting.
Last week we learned that the tablet would have a 12.3 inch, 2736 x 1824 IGZO display, much like Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 tablet.
This week, Eve-Tech is spelling out some of the things that make the Eve V different from a Surface Pro 4, including a bigger battery, twice as many speakers, and a detachable keyboard that can either be used as a wireless keyboard or while connected to the tablet via Pogo pins.
That keyboard may be one of the most interesting new features of the tablet. Connect it to the pins on the bottom of the tablet and it will allow you to type right away. Disconnect it, and the keyboard should automatically pair with the tablet within a few seconds, allowing you to keep typing even if the tablet is further away.
Eve-Tech says the tablet uses Bluetooth 4.2 and supports connections to up to three devices at a time: you can hit a key combination to switch from using the keyboard with an Eve V tablet to using it with your phone or another device, for example.
The keyboard features backlit keys with support for multiple color options.
Below the keyboard is a 3.4″ x 2.2″ touchpad with a glass surface.
Eve-Tech says the keyboard should get up to 15 hours of battery life, and it automatically charges when connected to the tablet’s Pogo pins.
Other newly revealed specs include a 48 Wh battery that the company says should be good for up to 12 hours of battery life, a quad speaker system featuring four 1 watt speakers, a dedicated amplifier for the headphone jack, and dual noise cancelling microphones.
While the Eve V is designed to feature a lot of high-end specs, the tablet was developed with feedback from members of the Eve Community. Apparently they wanted long battery life, a high quality keyboard, and good audio… but didn’t care as much about camera quality in a tablet. So this is one area where Eve went cheap: the tablet will have a 5MP rear camera and a 2MP front camera.
Starting prices for the tablet are expected to be under $900 when the crowdfunding campaign begins later this month, while a top-of-the-line version is expected to cost $1800 or less.
Each model should have a Fingerprint sensor, GPS, an N-Trig digital pen with 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity, 2 USB 3.1 ports, a USB 3.1 Type_C port, a Thunderbolt port, a headset jack, and a microSD card reader.
The Eve V will be available with Intel Core M3, Core i5, and Core i7 Kaby Lake CPU options, 8GB or 16GB of RAM, and 128GB to 512GB of solid state storage.
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Rear facing cameras are pointless on tablets
Nope… If you are in a meeting taking notes and want to capture a physical whiteboard session, it’s very useful. We have over 70 Surface Pro 3 tablets and people use the cameras for that and other things all the time.
Smartphones, you know, those things every civilized human carries 24/7
Does the term “blinkered belligerence” mean anything to you?
Does the phrase “spouting terms which you think make you sound smart does nothing to address the facts” mean anything to you?
Nope, use the rear camera daily for photos on our tablets. Tablets are used on construction sites for daily logs and budgeting and blueprints and the need to use it like a camera literally every single day they are on a job site.We use a lot of tablets too.
That said, the front facing camera is never used, could remove the front facing camera and we’d never care.
Yeah because I was talking about one specific and extremely minor area like construction drawings…
Well it does not seem all that minor of an area as we deal with contractors of all types and sizes and I see camera usage on tablets by tons of them, literally hundreds of tablets being used. I have extensive locations over a 5 state area and see this from the big guys to the small one truck operations. They all need/want the tablet form over a phone for reading contracts, close looks at photos, and blueprints not counting the speical software out there for the industry. How about retail uses, I see shoppers and auditors using tablets rear facing cameras all the time. A lot of companies will provide a tablet for someones use with an aircard built in. These same companies will not provide a phone, so the tablet is the camera, computer, and data provided. If my job requires uploading 50-100 photos a day then I… Read more »
It’s really annoying to be talking to someone on a pc, and having to get a phone out to send them a picture.
I’m not looking for quality photos here, just convenience.
I use the rear facing camera on my tablet as a document scanner. I wouldn’t buy a tablet for work unless it had one
So you don’t care a smartphone around with you 24/7 like normal humans?
I sure do. But if you work from your tablet, you probably need these ON your tablet.
Aside from that, many workplaces have strict policies about documents being stored on your phone (company owned, or not).
My employer would be having an HR-mediated meeting with me right now if I was scanning documents with my phone.
Oh come on, are you going to pretend you have no data now to justify not being able to get them onto the tablet effort free and in seconds?
Convenience has nothing to do with it. **I can’t take pictures with my phone in the workplace**
That something is possible does not mean it is permissible.
These questions remain: – The glare display with anti-reflection coating, according to an informal Eve representative, “should be far better than the Surface Pro 4”, which has 5.6% reflectance. This is highly ambiguous. We need to see if “far better” means greater, equal or smaller reflectance than the 1.5 ~ 2% of recent iPads, which are barely acceptable outdoors in the not-directly-mirrored sunlight for reading but not for productive work. – What actual battery life do tablet versus tablet + keyboard together have at 50% versus 100% brightness for surfing via WLAN? – How many years of warranty do we get for a) the tablet and b) the battery? – For how many years, if any, will there be a battery replacement service at which price? – What are range and quality of WLAN? – When will we see proper support including driver downloads and contacts for repair and reimbursement?… Read more »
Probably the most tempting tablet ever, but it is FAR beyond the amount of money I would ever consider spending on a crowdfunding.
I would have a hard time buying something this expensive from an unknown company, even from a retail store.
I’m going to treat this the same I treat Chinese brand tablets. Anything more than $400, and I would feel safer buying from a known brand that is still going to exist in a years time to honor my warranty
The company isn’t a complete unknown — they did launch a crowdfunded Eve T1 tablet a while back, but this project is clearly much more ambitious.
http://eve-tech.com/t1/
While that’s true, that raises it’s own concerns. Why don’t they have the capital to launch this product on their own?
Was the T1 not successful enough? Did they burn their profits on warranty claims?
The same question could be asked to Pebble.
Keyboard features are really nice! Both the option to use it on more than one device, which means it will still be useful when the tablet dies, and to be able to use it wirelessly. Especially when drawing, it’s a lot better to have it on the left side (at least for me), than in front of the tablet, something impossible with a Surface Pro.
Up to 15 hours of battery life for a keyboard sounds atrocious though…