The Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid Notebook appears to be a regular laptop, until the screen pops out of its shell like a snake shedding its skin and it becomes a slender, glossy touch-screen tablet.
You’ve heard of Amazon.com’s Kindle. Soon you may also be hearing about the Alex, the Que proReader and the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. Those products are part of a new wave of slender touch-screen tablets and electronic reading devices (e-Book).
Many companies are aiming their products at the more focused market for reading devices, where Amazon commands a 60 percent share. They believe dedicated e-readers, with their black-and-white screens that mimic paper, will survive an onslaught of versatile color tablets from Apple and others.
Plastic Logic, a 10-year-old British company, unveiled its Que proReader, an impossibly thin 10.7-inch display with a rather high starting price of $649.
EnTourage Systems, based in McLean, Va., demonstrated a 9.7-inch touch-screen color display, married with a rotating hinge to a similarly sized black-and-white screen. The device, called the eDGe, will cost $490.
Spring Design, a Taiwanese start-up, showed off a dual-screen e-book device, the Alex, that has a 3.5-inch iPhone-like color display and a 6-inch Kindle-like black-and-white display. The device, which is expected to be out in February and cost $349, could display book-video hybrids and “open up a whole new sector for publishing.
Those products are part of a new wave of slender touch-screen tablets and electronic reading devices in year 2010.
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