The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is a ThinkPad owner’s dream

One of the things that has always appealed to me about the Apple system is the interconnectedness. There are a lot of easy ways to transfer content between a Mac and an Apple device. I never thought I would be writing this phrase, but I enjoyed testing out the ThinkPhone by Moto, which is supposed to be a phone.

A bunch of fancy enterprise security features, a 5000mAh battery, and two rear cameras are included in the Thinkphone. It has been tested for dust and water resistance. It ships with the newest version of the mobile operating system. The differentiating feature is that it is fun to use with a ThinkPad.

Unified clipboard is one of my favorite software features. Any photo you take, text you copy, documents you scans, or video you take with the ThinkPhone is automatically copied to a clipboard when you have this enabled. You can use your connected ThinkPad to quickly paste that media onto your presentations and documents. It worked perfectly every time I tried it. I tried many times.

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The Unified Clipboard feature is part of a whole suite of features called the Think 2 Think connections. You can drag and drop files and the two devices can connect over the internet.

The ThinkPhone can be used to take conference calls on the ThinkPad. The latter works with any video conferencing software, so it's not like some other fancyWebcam features companies have come out with this year where your company's conferencing software of choice needs to decide to support them.

I was able to set the ThinkPhone as the ThinkPad's conferencingWebcam directly from the software settings, but I was told that you can do it from individual applications.

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There are other touches that make the phone look like it's from the ThinkPad brand. There is a similarity between the black textured back and the one you see here. There is a red button on the side of the Thinkphone that is close to a keyboard nub. Some ThinkPad users will appreciate the ability to map both a single and double tap of this button to their preferred shortcut.

This phone seems to be a good idea. Lots of people love the ThinkPad. They should be given a phone to match.