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Lenovo Tab P11 Pro gives iPad Pro an affordable rival

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There’s a new tablet in town to take on Apple’s iPad Pro and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7+, and the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro combines some of the best features from both. Fronted with an 11.5-inch 2K OLED screen, with HDR10 and Dolby Vision support, it’s just 7.7 mm deep at its thickest point and runs Android, and will start at under $500.

The display runs at 2560 x 1600 resolution with a 16:10 aspect panel. It covers 100-percent of the NTSC color space, Lenovo says, and is TÜV Rheinland-certified with 500 nits of brightness.

As well as Dolby Vision, there’s also Dolby Atmos support, with four JBL speakers. The Tab P11 Pro will automatically adjust which it uses depending on the orientation at which the tablet is being used. There’s sufficient battery for up to 15 hours of video playback, Lenovo says.

Inside the 485 gram all-aluminum casing is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 730G chipset. That’s paired with up to 6GB of memory and up to 128GB of UFS storage. Sadly there’s no integrated 5G, though – unlike the embedded 5G option Samsung offers for the Galaxy Tab S7+, and which Apple is expected to add to the iPad Pro sooner rather than later – which Lenovo says would have made its tablet too expensive.

Optional will be a pen and keyboard pack, which helps turn the Tab P11 Pro into a laptop replacement. The Lenovo Precision Pen 2 supports up to 4,096 levels of pressure and can track nib tilt, and has a battery that lasts for up to 100 hours. As for the keyboard cover that has U-shaped keys with 18mm pitch and 1.3mm of travel.

The lack of 5G isn’t the only issue we could see holding back potential tablet buyers. There’s no display out support from the Tab P11 Pro’s USB-C 3.1 port, so you can’t plug in an external screen.

Still, you get face unlock using the tablet’s front cameras, and the option of background blurring for video calls. There’s a fingerprint reader on the side, and a microSD slot for expanding the storage by up to 1TB. Dual microphones, WiFI 802.11ac, and Bluetooth 5.0 are standard, and there’ll be embedded LTE as an option.

As for cameras, there’s a pair of 8-megapixel fixed focus sensors on the front. The back gets a 13-megapixel autofocus camera and a 5-megapixel fixed focus ultra wide. There’s also a ToF time of flight sensor.

The Lenovo Tab P11 Pro will go on sale in November, priced from $499.

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Jeep’s Wild Wrangler Magneto 3.0 Concept EV Is Going Out With A Bang

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To go with that, Jeep has added Dynatrac 60 front axles (5.38:1 ratio) and Dynatrac 80 rear axles (5.38:1 ratio), along with 20-inch off-road beadlock wheels and 40-inch mud terrain tires. The whole thing is lifted by three inches compared to a standard Wrangler. The result, the automaker says, is an EV that excels in off-road situations, not least because of how controllable the power delivery is.

“When you’re rock crawling, you need to be very neat and clean with your driving,” Mike Allen, Jeep Design Chief, says, “especially if there’s a cliff next to you, you need to be very controlled with that.”

To help, Jeep has added a power selection switch. On the one hand, you can have the maximum 650 horsepower and 900 lb-ft of torque; alternatively, the standard setting tamps it down to a more conservative 285 horsepower and 273 lb-ft. Allen says the range is around 150 miles, though that — nor charging times —was never meant to be the Magneto concept’s focus.

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The Best Mods & Upgrades That Can Give New Life To A C4 Corvette

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Replacing your restrictive and likely corroded factory exhaust with a new cat-back exhaust is one of the best power adders that you can do to your C4 Corvette. The term “cat-back” refers to the section of the system that is downstream of the catalytic converter, a device that removes harmful emissions from exhaust gases.

An aftermarket exhaust with modern muffler technology will reduce backpressure, allowing more air to flow into the engine, which increases horsepower. According to the popular aftermarket exhaust manufacturer Corsa, a cat-back system for the L98 engine (the most common C4 engine) adds 14 horsepower and 16 foot-pounds of torque to an otherwise stock powerplant — all while adding a deep, muscular exhaust note that’ll make your C4 sound like a Corvette should.

Returning to catalytic converters for a moment, they’re typically long-lasting but may eventually fail by becoming contaminated, clogged, or overheated, leading to decreased horsepower. In the process of installing a cat-back exhaust, it’s worth inspecting or proactively replacing the catalytic converter itself. High-flow performance converters are available which will boost horsepower beyond the cat-back exhaust alone, yet still keep your vehicle compliant with the emissions guidelines of the EPA and local authorities.

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6 Easy Ways To Unlock Your Android Phone Without A Password

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For years, fingerprints have been the de-facto phone unlock method because of the method’s incredible convenience and relative security. While a bad actor can, in theory, replicate your fingerprint, and while some Android phones have had fingerprint reader bugs, the majority of the time it’s secure enough to trust while allowing you to access your device in less than a second.

Many modern Android phones utilize an under-display fingerprint sensor that uses either an optical light sensor or ultrasonics to analyze registered fingerprints, while others place a trusty capacitive sensor on the back of the phone or the power button.

Importantly, optical sensors are the easiest of the three to fool in the event someone gets access to your fingerprint. Law enforcement can be especially aggressive should they invent a reason to search your device, having once tried to use a dead man’s finger to do so. However, Android stores fingerprint data in a Trusted Execution Environment, an encrypted section of the phone’s memory that cannot be accessed by the main CPU or by apps.

Setting your fingerprints up can be a bit of a hassle, as some Android phones can be finicky. It may be a good idea to register the same fingerprint twice if you find that your phone’s fingerprint sensor has a hard time recognizing your preferred digit.

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