Various reports have pointed out that Lenovo is now accepting pre-orders for its 7-inch Gingerbread tablet, the IdeaPad A1. The base "web" price for the 2 GB model is $199 USD, seemingly making it a prime contender against Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet although Lenovo's offering provides a smaller storage capacity.

As seen on the site, the tablet will sport a 1 GHz TI OMAP 3622 Cortex A8 single-core SoC, 512 MB of LPDDR2 memory at 600 MHz, a 7-inch LED Glare Multi-touch screen (1024 x 600), a front-facing 2MP camera, a rear-facing 5MP camera, and Android 2.3 "Gingerbread." Other features will include a 1-cell Li-Polymer battery, 802.11 b/g/n connectivity and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.

For consumers hunting for a similarly-priced tablet, Amazon's Gingerbread-based Kindle Fire lacks in some areas but propels in others when up against Lenovo's IdeaPad A1. Amazon's tablet will feature a dual-core TI OMAP SoC clocked at 1 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, a 7-inch screen, an 8-hour battery and 8 GB of storage. The tablet won't offer cameras or Bluetooth, but it will have 802.11 b/g/n connectivity.

In addition to the 2 GB model, Lenovo is also offering the 16 GB model for $249 online, and will arrive in four separate colors: white, black, pink and blue -- the 2 GB will come only in black. Both models will be built using a magnesium alloy roll-cage internal frame design, and measure just 0.46-inches thick.

Lenovo expects to ship both tablets on October 28.

Source: Tom's Guide

Lenovo IdeaPad A1 Pictures

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