Lenovo Pocket Yoga

May 6, 2009 Netbooks

The Lenovo Pocket Yoga is a concept introduced by Lenovo’s director of innovation center in Beijing, Johnson Li, and is a folding notebook with a detachable keyboard. The system unit was covered in leather. The Pocket Yoga is shaped like a large wallet, and allows users to conveniently put it into a back pocket.

The proportion of length and width is about the maximum size for a notebook that can fit into a pocket, making it the smallest pocket notebook. The surface of the Pocket Yoga is covered with wallet leather, facilitating comfortable placement into a pocket or a bag. The device features a 360-degree soft hinge design from the Yoga notebook.

The soft hinge supports three modes, locking into each position. Lenovo recently posted some official photos of the unit on its official Flickr.com website, and the device looks somewhat in comparison to the Sony’s Vaio P series. It features an extremely wide screen, flat edge-to-edge keys, and looks to be similar in size to and with the same footprint as a standard business envelope. The Lenovo Pocket Yoga features a tablet screen with a digitizing pen and a tiny leather belt that wraps around the entire unit for travel, which can be folded up to become a mouse. The display on this device can also be flipped over to transform it into a tablet.

The Lenovo Pocket Yoga, when opened to a normal angle, can be used as a laptop. Its full-function keyboard provides users with enough space to type, so that their hands won’t be crowded or compromised. It can also be opened at 360 degrees, allowing users to fold the top cover back to the base, transforming the device into a tablet notebook. In the tablet mode the user can read, draw with an included special pen, or surf the web. This configuration gives the user the option to use the device as a hand-held notebook, providing extra space in comparison to a mobile phone, as well as the ability to type with multi-media features.

The Pocket Yoga also comes with a belt which wraps around the whole body. Other than aesthetic reasons, the belt also functions as a mouse when removed.