As always, Lenovo is likely to unveil many different things at IFA Berlin this year, including tablets, convertibles, phones and modular accessories.
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The Yoga Book is already available in the market with Windows 10 or Android, but Lenovo stated that it wanted one in Chrome OS as well.
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A bill in South Carolina would force consumers to pay a fee to access pornography from any computer purchased in the state. HTC is prepping a big announcement for January, but will Samsung launch the Galaxy S8 later in the year?
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This is the home stretch, people: the final days of the Christmas shopping season. And you’ll be using all of them with extreme prejudice. Amazon Prime two-day shipping won’t save you at this point, so you’ll either have to search the store shelves or be okay with yourself shipping a late gift.
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16:28 | iPhone 8 to join a 7S and 7S Plus?
29:45 | Samsung to Confirm Note 7 cause of death in January. Galaxy S8 launch in April?
38:56 | HTC dropping something big in January?
49:31 | Lenovo prepping Chrome OS variant of Yoga Book.
56:22 | Sony Xperia XZ highest selling flagship for second half of 2016?
1:05:53 | T-Mobile sales goals led to insurance fraud?
1:14:08 | AT&T and Verizon respond to FCC over zero-rating, we rant on the diminishment of Pat Kiernan
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Don’t call it a tax, call it a fee for pornography. And if you buy a computer of any sort that connects to the internet, — hello, smartphones, tablets and maybe even wearables — then you might have to pay up soon.
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Say what you will about Lenovo, its lack of “pull” in the smartwatch market, inability to turn a smartphone profit or many branding hesitations, but when it comes to convertible tablets and hybrid laptops, this is a company that’s not afraid to experiment.
Of course, there are good and bad experiments, risks worth taking and pointless gambles, with that funky new Yoga Book unveiled at IFA Berlin definitely falling under clever concepts capable of developing a cult following.
Apparently warmly received across important markets like China, Japan or Germany, as well as so far scoring “average” US sales, the Android and Windows 2-in-1 computers are now confirmed as merely road openers for a whole family of “Real Pen”-wielding gadgets.
Next up, Lenovo plans to also launch a crazy versatile Yoga Book model with Chrome OS running the software show, aimed primarily at the education segment. By the sound of things, the Yoga Chromebook could break cover very soon, maybe as early as January 2017, during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The goal is then to “probably maintain the three distinctive products throughout this year at least”, after which the Android and Chrome versions might ultimately “meld together.” Wait, is that Andromeda gossip corroboration? Not exactly, but we’re still happy to hear the Real Pen stylus and “Halo” keyboard are slowly gaining traction.
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We had a chance to play with the Yoga Book this year at IFA during a Lenovo press event. It certainly gave off a geeky-cool first impression, all wrapped up in a retro-futuristic shell.Coming in both Android and Windows flavors, we’ve spent some time with the Android variant of this hardware. On paper it’s a well specced slate, but of course the exciting aspect of this build is the large touch sensor where a keyboard should be. This surface pulls double duty for both text entry and it can be used to capture handwriting ...
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We have walked 500 miles and we would walk 500 more to be the men that walked a thousand miles to podcast off the floor of apartment rental. That’s all out of necessity for us to not only cover days and days of devices launched before and at the International Funkausstellung Berlin 2016, but in order for us to podcast. And this late audio file is the result of our fruits.Juan Carlos Bagnell and Jaime Rivera team up to talk about the pop and burn of the Galaxy Note 7, Google dropping Project Ara, the Star VR from Acer, Huawei’s Nova before it, Sony’s now-usual ...
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It’s like something straight out of Tron.Lenovo’s take on a multi-mode tablet is a fresh way to add keyboard functionality while still catering to touchscreen apps and stylus input. We of course also have that sexy hinge which delivers tent and tablet modes.The Yoga Book sports a 10.1” 1080p LCD powered by an Intel ATOM quad core, 4GB of RAM, and includes 64GB of built in storage. An 8500mAh battery should deliver plenty of run time, Lenovo estimates around 15 hours, for multimedia and content creation, and like previous yoga tablets, there will be both Android and Windows ...
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A 2-in-1 tablet usually means that we’re talking about laptop form factor, too. But with Lenovo’s Yoga Book announced at its IFA pre-game show today, “2-in-1” can also refer to the software — you can choose to get an Android version or one with Windows 10.Here’s the twist with this convertible, though: it has no physical buttons.There’s a 10.1-inch 1920 x 1200 display on one side and a capacitive pad on the other that can house the virtual Halo Keyboard or the Create ...
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