![]() ![]() "We were very adamant about staying true to this concept of almost ridiculously thin and light, and that’s the characteristic that we wanted to deliver," he says One of his favorite ways to describe the Yoga Book is to liken it to a children’s book, specifically, Dr. And not a big beefy novel, but a thin magazine-almost type of form factor," he says. "I had this idea of a book we ended up calling it the Yoga Book, but for the longest time we just called it ‘The Book.’ We really wanted to hit a form factor that folded, and when you were carrying it, it looked like a book. ![]() "For the longest time we just called it 'The Book'" "I hesitate to even call a tablet, because we really think it’s something else," he says. So the comfort level with a touch-based keyboard and a more mobile mindset should not be perceived as not appropriate for productivity." If people are using phones more, Meredith argues, then tablets should act more like them. "We tried to flip that on its head a little bit," he says, "We find many people doing more on their phones than on their PC. #LENOVO POCKET YOGA CONCEPT ANDROID#But the company acknowledges that "productivity as it’s been defined historically is changing." So says Jeff Meredith, vice president of Lenovo’s Android Chrome Computing Business Group, who set out with the goal to think about how tablets could be more productive in the way that phones are instead of the way PCs are. ![]() Lenovo’s entire brand has been built around "productivity," anchored by workhorses like the storied ThinkPad line of business laptops. And unlike the Courier, you will actually be able to buy the Yoga Book. I wanted to use the Yoga Book from the first time I laid eyes on it, and if you’re anything like me, you will, too. Lenovo didn’t set out to build just another tablet with the Yoga Book - it wanted to make something that was better for getting work done than what is already out there.īut in the process, it made a computer that’s both futuristic and relatable at the same time, just like the original Courier concept. It even does some tricks with the pen that we’ve never seen before, like letting you write with real ink and have it all digitized. It’s about the size and shape of a hardcover children’s book, has two panels attached by a hinge, and can be used with your fingers or with its included pen. No, Lenovo didn’t make a Courier, but its new Yoga Book might inspire the same reactions. What we imagine is often better than what we get.īut now, seven years later, Lenovo is introducing a new take on the tablet computer. But the Courier never made it out of Microsoft’s labs, never got past the concept stages, and never fulfilled the dream it laid out. You could touch it, you could write on it, you could fold it, just like a book. It was the perfect vessel for our hopes: thin, light, and adaptable to whatever we needed it to do. Really, what we’ve always wanted is the thing that Microsoft never made: the Courier. ![]() But the tablets we know, the iPads and Surfaces of the world, haven’t really lived up to that dream, whether it’s because doing actual work on them is harder than it should be, or because they are barely different than the PCs we’ve used for years. A dream of computing where our devices seamlessly blend between activities and go wherever we need them to. They were supposed to get us off the desk and away from the laptop, and usher us into a touch-enabled world of productivity and entertainment. ![]()
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