Lenovo squeezed eight speakers into its chonky new tablet

Tablets aren’t known for their room-shaking bass, but Lenovo’s caller 11.5-inch Tab Plus is going each in. It features 26W of dependable produced by 4 tweeters and 4 woofers divided crossed each broadside of the tablet (when utilized successful scenery mode). To afloat instrumentality vantage of the Tab Plus’ dependable capabilities, Lenovo has included the enactment to wirelessly link different devices to the tablet and usage it arsenic a Bluetooth speaker.

Powered by a MediaTek Helio G99 octa-core processor paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB oregon 256GB of retention that’s expandable with a microSD card, the Tab Plus decidedly isn’t a powerhouse productivity tool. Lenovo is positioning it arsenic a media depletion instrumentality archetypal and foremost, which is further reflected successful a beforehand and rear camera that some lone muster 8MP. The tablet ships with Android 14, and Lenovo is promising 2 years of OS upgrades and 4 years of information patches.

The Tab Plus’ 11.5-inch 90Hz 2K LCD show is acold from champion successful class, but Lenovo claims its 8,600mAh artillery volition support it streaming for up to 12 hours (it doesn’t specify whether that’s streaming audio oregon video), portion 45W accelerated charging means a dormant artillery tin beryllium afloat revived successful 90 minutes.

An integrated pop-out kickstand connected the backmost makes it easier to usage the tablet arsenic a Bluetooth speaker, but for those preferring to perceive privately, a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack is inactive included that supports 24-bit 96kHz high-res audio with Dolby Atmos tuning.

One large tradeoff of those 4 integrated woofers is simply a precise noticeable bulge connected the backmost of the caller Tab Plus that pushes the thickness of the 7.77mm tablet to a chonky 13.58mm. Remember, Apple has managed to slim the new 13-inch iPad Pro down to conscionable 5.1mm, speech from its camera bump.

Although Lenovo hasn’t specified wherever the caller 11.5-inch Tab Plus is disposable starting contiguous speech from “select planetary markets,” its $289.99 terms tag could marque it a tempting solution for those bushed of lugging astir a tablet and a abstracted wireless talker to bolster its sound.