Lenovo’s Skylight Becomes is the ‘Smartbook’ of the Hour
Jan 05, 2010 - By Chris Weiss
The electronics world clearly isn’t afraid of offering devices in every shape, dimension and angle imaginable. While consumers still grapple with selections like laptops, netbooks and tablets, manufacturers keep busy filling in those mail-slit-sized product gaps with new devices.
Lenovo has introduced its Skylight Smartbook–not quite as large as that burdensome netbook, but chock full of comfort above and beyond that of the smartphone. The Skylight, which has a rather toy-like appearance, features a 10.1-inch screen and full keyboard. The ultra-slim device is based on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM II and runs on a custom Linux system that features Web gadgets for accessing your favorites like Gmail and Facebook–18 of those gadgets come pre-installed.
The Skylight offers a claimed 10 hours of battery life, 20 gigs of flash memory and 2 GB of Lenovo cloud-based storage. Connections include 2 USBs, micro-SDHC and SD slots, mini-HDMI and SIM card slot.
The Skylight includes Wi-Fi and 3G, with AT&T as the carrier. The latter will need to slash a significant piece of the $499 retail (say $300 or so) off the top to make this one a blip on buyers’ radars.
Prepare to see more of these crossover devices as CES gets underway. [via VentureBeat and CNET]