Lenovo’s new 13-inch Android tablet also works as a portable Switch display

Lenovo’s Yoga Pad Professional is a brand new 13-inch Android pill that may simply double as an exterior monitor, Gizmochina experiences. It will likely be available for purchase in China for 3,299 yuan (round $517) on Could thirty first.

It’s not tough to get most tablets available on the market to work as a second monitor, however for essentially the most half you’re restricted to utilizing them with particular gadgets. Apple’s iPads can be utilized as exterior screens because of their built-in Sidecar characteristic, for instance, however this solely works if you happen to’re utilizing them with a Mac. However the Yoga Pad Professional has a full-on Micro HDMI port constructed into its grip, that means you’ll be able to plug principally any HDMI machine into it and use the Yoga Pad Professional as a 13-inch monitor. And sure, that completely features a Nintendo Change.

Picture: Lenovo

Picture: Lenovo

To be used as a pill, the Yoga Pad Professional is powered by a Snapdragon 870 paired with 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a ten,200mAh battery. It’s bought 4 Dolby Atmos-compatible audio system organized round its 2K, 16:10 LCD show, and it additionally features a kickstand that may rotate a full 180-degrees out from behind the again of the machine. Why would you need a 180-degree kickstand on a pill? For hanging it on a wall, clearly.

Certain, there are many different moveable screens on the market, usually out there with larger display screen sizes and cheaper price tags. Take Lenovo’s personal 14-inch ThinkVision M14 for example, which is half the worth at $249. However the Yoga Pad Professional has the benefit of being a succesful standalone machine in its personal proper, full with stylus compatibility and an 8-megapixel selfie digicam (although there’s no rear digicam).

It’s unclear if the Yoga Pad Professional will ever see a launch outdoors of China. But when it does, we’ll be prepared.