Lenovo on Dominicus declared the 10-inch IdeaTab K2 gaming and multimedia tablet, which has a quad-core Arm processor and a premium IPS display alike to the one felt on Apple’s iPad.
The tablet has Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor and Google’s Android 4.0 OS, pronounced Nick Reynolds, director at Lenovo. The tablet likewise packs some new technologies such equally DDR3 memory and SRS surround sound, making it one of Lenovo’s fastest and feature-rich tablets to ticker video or play high-definition games, Reynolds said.
The price was not now available, and it will initially exist launched in China “soon”, Reynolds said. He refused to comment on international availability, merely the device will be evinced at this week’s Consumer Electronics Establish in Las Vegas.
“Lenovo continually assesses the international market dynamics and consumer needs and we may regard launching outside of China later in 2012,” Reynolds said.
Tablets with stiff brand recognition alike Apple’s iPad 2 and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab got with dual-core processors, and the IdeaTab K2 will exist one of the few with a quad-core processor. The combined processing power of four cores should permit the K2 to coursed multimedia and applications faster than its dual-core counterparts.
“It’s a high-performance, premium device,” Reynolds said.
The tablet’s closest competitor will be Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which shipped in November and was the foremost tablet available with a quad-core processor. The Asus tablet was dubbed the fastest tablet on the market and had positive reviews, part due to long battery life.
K2 will display images at a 1200 by 800 pixel resolution, and will experience cameras on the front and back. Other features include an HDMI port to connect the tablet to high-definition TVs and a full-size USB port. The tablet will arrived with 1GB or 2GB of DDR3 memory, and up to 64GB of storage. In the future, the tablet will besides get 3G and 4G LTE mobile broadband capabilities.
