Lenovo Announces New Ideatabs :
Lenovo Announces New Ideatabs :
It has been a busy week for product announcements, with all the major OEMs at IFA announcing and launching new tablets, smartphones, laptops, etc. For Lenovo, that means Ideatabs and IdeaPads today (with more to follow). There are three new Ideatab offerings to discuss, the S2110, A2107, and A2109; on the IdeaPad front, Lenovo has added the S300, S400, and S405.
Starting with the Ideatab offerings, at launch the three new tablets will come with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with the two A-series products targeting more affordable price points. Both the A2107 and A2109 come with metal alloy enclosures and similar design language, but that’s about the extent of their similarities. The A2109 is a 9-inch 1280x800 TN (uh oh!) tablet using the ubiquitous NVIDIA Tegra 3 SoC (T30SL clocked at 1.2GHz), with four-point capacitive input, 1080p output via the tablet’s Micro-HDMI port, and two speakers with SRS TruMedia audio enhancement. (Note that there’s apparently an older A2109 model that comes with an OMAP 4430 1GHz SoC.) It measures 236x164x11.65mm and tips the scales at 570g. Other features include 1.3 megapixel (Mp) front and 3Mp rear-facing cameras, dual microphones, GPS, a Micro USB port, and 8GB or 16GB of storage with MicroSD card support for up to an additional 32GB. That makes it slightly lighter than typical 10.1” tablets, but not dramatically so. Availability should be September for the new Tegra 3 models, with a suggested price of $299.
The A2107 won’t be available until “later in 2012”, and it will be a 7” tablet designed for reading, web browsing, and email. How it will stack up against the Nexus 7 in terms of pricing remains to be seen, but Lenovo will have a standard version as well as a model with 3G support. The core hardware in the A2107 is also different from the A2109, with a MediaTek MTK6575 SoC running a Cortex-A9 core clocked at 1GHz with a PowerVR SGX531 graphics chip and either 512MB (WiFi) or 1GB (3G) LPDDR2 RAM. The display is a TN 1024x600 4-point multitouch offering, and at least the TN part of that equation is quite underwhelming. Lenovo does tout “Professional Level GPS” however, with the ability to get a location lock in 10 seconds as a reference point. The A2107 will also have front- and rear-facing cameras, with 0.3Mp and 2Mp respectively. Rounding out the feature list, you get 4GB/16GB of eMMC storage standard (it’s not clear if the 4GB is for the WiFi or if there’s 16GB storage with an extra 4GB from somewhere else), Micro USB, MicroSD (up to 32GB support), built-in FM radio, and a targeted eight hours of battery life. Some of the specs could still change before the actual launch, but the dimensions are 192x122x11.5mm with a 400g weight.
Where the A-series Ideatabs target the value sector (and make some sacrifices to hit lower price points), the Ideatab S2110 is more of a premium offering with a textured back cover that provides a more comfortable grip. There’s an optional detachable keyboard dock that includes an additional battery, putting the S2110 squarely into the same hybrid tablet/laptop category as the ASUS Transformer Prime. Measuring just 8.69mm thick (260x178x8.69mm), it’s one of the thinnest 10.1” tablets around and weighs just 580g. The S2110 also includes an impressive 10-point multi-touch 1280x800 IPS display;
inputs. Powering the tablet is a Qualcomm APQ8060A dual-core 1.5GHz SoC, which has Krait cores and an Adreno 225 GPU. Like the A2109, it includes a Micro-HDMI port with full 1080p output support as well as an SD card reader a micro-USB port, along with a 5Mp rear-facing camera with an LED flash and a 1.3Mp front-facing camera, 1GB RAM, and 16GB or 32GB of internal storage.
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