I didn’t assume Lenovo branding can be the factor to re-interest me in Motorola, which Lenovo purchased in 2014, however right here we’re. The Lenovo AssumePhone by Motorola is exactly what it seems like: it’s an amalgamation of all the explanations you’d select a Lenovo Thinkpad over different Windows laptops, however made by Motorola. It even has the signature purple button. The AssumePhone is especially geared towards enterprise customers, as enterprise is what ThinkPad is about, however the premise appears thrilling for Motorola, which has been struggling to show heads within the Android world.

The AssumePhone seems just like the ThinkPad had a child with a latest Motorola smartphone. It’s a easy design with the same look to Lenovo’s ThinkPad laptops, proper all the way down to the signature purple button, a tribute to the trackpoint mouse nub. The purple button may be programmed to do easy issues like deliver up an oft-used app or begin a display recording. You may even program it to immediately pair the AssumePhone with a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop computer utilizing Motorola’s ReadyFor app.

The AssumePhone has a 6.6-inch FullHD pOLED show and a 5000 mAh battery, which is kind of hefty for a telephone this dimension. It runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, the identical chip inside Samsung’s newest foldables. It’s obtainable with 8 or 12GB of RAM and as much as 512GB of cupboard space. The telephone ships with Android 13 out of the field. When I requested, a Motorola spokesperson stated the Lenovo AssumePhone would get 4 years of safety updates and three years of software program updates.

Motorola’s key promoting level for this business-centric telephone is that it has extra security measures than many different Android smartphones. The safety platform on the AssumePhone known as ThinkSheild, which works equally to Samsung Knox in that it will probably encrypt information on the {hardware} stage. There’s additionally Moto KeySafe, which is described as a separate processor that isolates PINs, passwords, and cryptographic keys, “storing them in a tamper-resistant environment, protecting the data from the inside out.”

The AssumePhone is MIL STD 810H licensed, which implies it’s sturdy sufficient to outlive a greater than 5 foot fall (although I didn’t need to take a look at it by throwing it on the wall). Though it’s product of aramid fiber, which is meant to be stronger than metal, the AssumePhone doesn’t really feel hefty. The show is strengthened with Gorilla Glass Victus, which you’ll discover on most Android units out in the marketplace. There’s additionally IP68 certification for splashes and the occasional drop in a vat of water.

Like Motorola’s flagship units, I fear in regards to the Lenovo AssumePhone’s digicam capabilities. The rear-facing 50-MP digicam and the 13-MP ultrawide digicam will likely be effective for what these telephones will probably be used for: scanning barcodes and archiving stock. But even with a couple of take a look at pictures, I may see the digicam struggling in methods different Android cameras don’t. In specific, Motorola’s telephones can zoom in fairly a methods, however the consequence tends to be just a little sharp for my liking. The entrance digicam is a 32-MP sensor, which will likely be effective for video calls—it’s higher than what’s on the Pixel 7.

Lastly, the AssumePhone will ship with a 68-watt charger within the field. That means the telephone won’t solely cost up quick, however you’ll additionally have the ability to cost up a ThinkPad laptop computer with the identical charger. Lenovo and Motorola promise the AssumePhone can cost as much as 50% in quarter-hour.

There’s no pricing on the Lenovo AssumePhone by Motorola but. The telephone will likely be obtainable within the “coming months” within the U.S., Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Australia, and choose nations in Asia. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how this sells amongst Lenovo and Motorola’s enterprise clients and if it helps with Motorola’s market share in numerous pockets of the world.

Lenovo Tab Extreme: An enormous ass Android pill

Lenovo made many bulletins as a part of its maelstrom of CES 2023 information. This additionally consists of the Lenovo Tab Extreme, a 14.5-inch Android pill with a killer display. The show is a 3K OLED with a DCI-P3 colour gamut and a 120Hz refresh price—cloud gaming will look clutch on this. The pill will also be utilized in portrait mode, so when you like to look at TikTok like me, you might by no means go away the matrix when you get your fingers on this ginormous display. There are eight audio system to accompany this transportable leisure system: 4 woofers and 4 tweeters supplied by JBL and enhanced with Dolby Atmos. I listened to a little bit of a reside set of Tiesto via YouTube to shortly try it out—within the spirit of EDM-obsessed Las Vegas—and it sounded bassy and crisp.

Inside, the pill is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 octa-core processor, the chip maker’s newest flagship processor, and 12GB of RAM. Lenovo guarantees as much as 12 hours of battery life with its 12,300 mAh battery, which can also be suitable with that 68-watt charger talked about earlier. And there’s assist for the Lenovo Precision Pen 3, which feels comparatively easy even when I’m out of form with a stylus.

The Lenovo Tab Extreme begins at $1200 and will likely be obtainable later this yr.