Lenovo A10 announced as the company’s first Android powered laptop

Lenovo announced its first Android powered laptop today – Lenovo A10. Lenovo A10 is targeted at being an affordable and ultra-portable laptop that runs on Android OS. The dual-mode laptop from Lenovo weighs less than a kilo-gram and is no more than 17.3mm thick.

Lenovo A10 comes with dual-mode – stand mode and laptop mode. In the laptop mode, users will be provided with a new unique and customized launcher that comes with a task bar, app launcher and status bar. Also laptop mode will provide a more convenient way of multi-tasking and switching between the apps. File-manager has been modified to make searching files and file operations easy. One of the key features in the laptop mode is its full-size AccuType keyboard.

The Lenovo A10 has a 10.1 inch HD display sporting a resolution of 1366×768 pixels(155ppi) and the screen can be flipped around 300 degrees. When the screen is flipped, the tablet is in stand mode and provides a rich touch experience for touch-enabled apps(all apps). There is a 0.3MP camera at the front and stereo speakers that give a great video chat experience.

In terms of specifications, Lenovo A10 is powered by a RK3188 processor which is a quad-core A9 processor clocked at 1.6GHz and it has 1GB RAM. There is 16GB SSD internal storage which can be expanded. The battery on the Lenovo A10 gives it a battery life of about nine hours of continuous video playback.