Leaked shots of the Lenovo ultra portable last week had us intrigued, but now shots of the leather clad computer have appeared on the Lenovo Flickr photostream, and the Lenovo ultra portable has now been named the Pocket Yoga.

It gets better though: also posted were shots that show the Lenovo ultra portable Pocket Yoga being used as a touchscreen with a stylus, tablet style, and a belt clip which Lenovo claims can double up as a mouse. Yup, seriously.

Suddenly, the £800 plus you were planning to spend on the Sony VAIO P doesn’t seem like such a good investment does it? Lenovo has yet to release any other info on the Lenovo ultra portable Pocket Yoga, but as soon as it does we’ll be sure to let you know.

Practice director Kevin Burden describes this evolution: "PDA’s began our reliance on instant accessible data while traveling. When PDA functionality converged with cellular voice, smartphones became the new darling of mobile professional technology that many expected to evolve into the hub for all data and communication needs for travelling professionals. Today, with a better understanding for what a smartphone is, is not, and may never be, along with a reality check on the usefulness of UMPCs, the market remains open for new device types."

Smartphones did a lot to raise our comfort level with mobile technology as well our expectations for how connected we could be and how accessible information and data should be while on the road. Enter the netbook with its light-weight, medium-sized form factor and low-cost processors leading to moderate overall price points may finally have “right-sized” mobile technology for productive travels.

While the advent of low-cost, power stingy x86 and ARM processors were the technical keys to netbooks, Burden argues that industry and consumer expectations also needed to evolve before netbooks would meet market acceptance. "In recent years, the industry still expected the smartphones to be more than they turned out to be, and most recently, MIDs were thought to be the next big mobile devices segment, but an unclear usage model continues to confuse the market. So today, netbooks’ time has come, and ABI research expects them to enjoy very strong market growth."

ABI Research’s “Mobile Devices Annual Market Overview” delivers an integrated view of the mobile devices market and examines the unique market aspects of individual device form factors, including mobile handsets, ultra mobile devices, broadband-enabled consumer electronics and cellular modems. It includes detailed shipment and revenue forecasts, and is a component of the firm’s Mobile Devices Research Service.

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What is NetBook ?

A netbook is a light-weight, economical, energy-efficient laptop that is designed for wireless communication and Internet access^[1][2].

Suitable for web browsing, email, and general purpose applications, netbooks are targeted increasingly at cloud computing users who rely on servers and require a less powerful client computer.^[3]. Driven by cloud computing and 3G adoption as well as the economic downturn, netbooks are evolving into "super-portable laptops for professionals"^[4], ranging in size from below 5 inches^[5] to over 12^[6].

As these devices have less processing power, they tend to run Linux and Windows XP rather than more resource-intensive operating systems like Windows Vista^[7], though Microsoft is testing^[8] and has demonstrated^[9] a version of Windows 7 for this class of devices^[10].

It also houses an internal color calibrator, a palm rest digitizer and could have 8GB internal memory. The notebook looks ordinary unless the additional screen, which also flaps forward or backwards, is slipped out. True, the entire thing looks so impressive, but as we have no word on the battery installed, given the multi-chores the user can perform on this notebook, we are more than apprehensive of the battery life and backup time. Otherwise, we are all good for this creative make that would cost you about $3,600, when it is made available in the 1st quarter of the coming year.

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All seems good, but a demerit follows the system – for the feature to function the notebook needs to be in the mobile phones coverage area and moreover the notebook should have an active broadband to receive and send signal. Alternative security measures are required in this ever increasing mayhem of spam and infringement, so we are all praise for this added feature, but is it an add-on or an pre-installed trait, we aren’t actually sure.


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