Lenovo unveils a tablet with a projector and the thinnest Yoga laptop yet

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Pico projector can display a 50-inch picture, and the laptop has an 800-part hinge.

Lenovo is doubling down on its Yoga brand, unveiling a bunch of new tablets and laptops sporting the name today. The highlights were the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro, a 13.3-inch Android tablet with an integrated pico-projector, and the Yoga 3 Pro, a 13.3-inch Windows tablet with a 360 degree hinge that contains more than 800 parts.

Many of Lenovo's Yoga tablets have been a little unusual, as tablets go. Instead of simple cuboids, they've had a bulge along the bottom that's housed a hinged stand to prop the screen up. In the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro, this bulge is used to house a tiny projector that can cast a respectable 50 inch picture onto a nearby wall, so if the 13.3 inch, 2560×1440 LCD isn't big enough to watch a movie on, the wall may do the job.

The Yoga 2 Pro with its projector all lit up.

The Android 4.4 tablet unusually sports a 4 core Intel Atom processor running at up to 1.86GHz. It pairs this with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage (with a microSD slot for adding another 64GB). Connectivity comes from dual band 802.11/b/g/n, and in some countries, optional 3G/4G. It has dual cameras; an 8MP rear and 1.6MP front device. The whole package weighs just over 2lbs. The battery lasts up to 15 hours on a charge. It'll be available from the end of the month starting at $499.
The new Yoga 3 Pro (pictured top) is a sleek laptop with one of Intel's new Broadwell chips. Lenovo's Yoga laptops were characterized by a hinge that folds all the way back, converting the laptop into a sort of tablet. The Yoga 3 Pro continues this trend, with a new hinge that Lenovo says is hand-assembled from 800 individual parts, and modelled after a watch band. Up close it looks extraordinarily elaborate.
The 13.3-inch screen has a 3200×1800 resolution, and is coated with Gorilla Glass. The Core M-70 processor is a 2 core, 4 thread part which can run at up to 2.6GHz. It is matched with up to 8GB RAM, and up to a 512GB SSD. Connectivity comes from 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.01, and there's a 720p camera. The system weighs a svelte 2.62lbs and is half an inch thick. It runs for up to nine hours per charge. It too will be available at the end of the month, starting at $1349.
As well as these flagship devices, Lenovo announced a quartet of Yoga Tablet 2 tablets. These tablets all have the same basic specs: a 1920×1200 screen, 4 core Atom processor at up to 1.86GHz, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, dual band 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 8MP rear and 1.6MP front cameras—with two different screen sizes (8 and 10.1 inches), and two different operating system choices: Windows 8.1 or Android 4.4. The 10.1-inch systems also have optional 3G/4G. The Android versions will cost €229 and €299, available immediately; the Windows ones will cost €249 and €399 and are available later this month. The 10-inch Windows version includes a Bluetooth keyboard; this will be available as an option for the 10-inch Android version. Battery life is claimed to be up to 15 hours for the Windows versions, and up to 18 hours for the Android ones.

The 10 inch Windows version of the Yoga Tablet 2.

The company also announced a business-oriented ThinkPad Yoga 14. This doesn't have the fancy hinge of the Yoga 3 Pro, and isn't super thin either, at 0.7 inches thick. Equipped with Haswell processors, it has a 14-inch 1920×1080 display, optional Nvidia GeForce 840M discrete graphics, a 1TB disk with a 16GB SSD cache, and will weigh 4.1lbs. It will be available at the end of the month, with prices starting at $1,199.

ThinkPad Yoga 14