Sunday 13 March 2011

Lenovo IdeaPad U1

There has been a lot of pondering about exactly which niche the tablet PC will fit into in today's tech-centric mobile world. At this year's CES trade show in Las Vegas, Lenovo hopes to answer many of those questions by merging the familiarity of a laptop and the convenience and portability of a tablet PC into one package.

The demo unit is running Android 2.2 with a custom Lenovo interface on top. This is how the LePad tablet and U1 Hybrid combo will be sold in China, but when the devices launch in the US later this year, the tablet will run Android Honeycomb with full support for Android tablets.

The complete U1 Hybrid weighs about 4 pounds, while the tablet weighs less than 2 pounds.