update: more images and specs here.
I had a good chat with LG at the World Of Mobility expo in Cologne today and have managed to pick up some information, have a play and snap some images of the C1 convertible tablet and the A1 notebook.
Here’s the specification of the model that is going through approval in Germany at the moment.
Its a Core Duo device (U2500, 1.2 Ghz) with a 10.6″ 10241280×768 FineBrite (LED backlit) convertible touchscreen. Vista lovers are going to drool over the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 GPU and mobility lovers will start to sweat at the thought of 2 SIM card slots and an HSDPA capable cellular data modem.
There’s a Gigabit LAN interface, up to 1.5GB RAM, BT2.0, 24bit SRS capable audio, VGA out and a digital audio output. Its a fantastic specification for a mobile device that only weighs 1.3kg (the A1 weighs 1Kg) and I’m wondering if this is a buil-for-Vista device.
The touchscreen feels a like something between the lightweight i7210 and the v7110. It suffers from vectoring though. A quick look at battery drain figures shows around 12W at idle with no radios on. That’s damn good for a core duo although as it only has a 3 cell battery the battery life with radio on is only going to be between 2 and 2.5 hours I guess. A 6-cell battery is available.
The A1 laptop is lighter and has no touchscreen but the specs look the same.
Price is unknown but if you look at the Flybook v33i and the P1610 price I guess is going to be in the same area.
As for launch, it sounds to me like its got to go through a fair bit of approval testing so my best guess is March (CeBit.)
I have some more photo’s and a couple of flyers that I’ll put up later.More images and specs now posted
Thanks to LG for their time today.
Steve.
