New Gadget 2011

At long last, the Lenovo U1 hybrid tablet device has arrived at the FCC, which is a long, long time (in the world of gadgets and consumer electronics anyways) ever since it was first unveiled at CES 2010 � yup, a full one and a half years ago. Nice to know that Lenovo subscribes to the adage of being better late than never, hence pushing the Lenovo U1 over to the FCC so that it can receive an approval before making tis way to the masses.

The filing was done by Lenovo's OEM partner Compal Electronics, and from it we do know that the U1 comprises of a tablet and a netbook-like keyboard dock. Originally, the U1 was powered by Windows when it was docked, alongside a custom Skylight Linux OS in tablet mode. Over the course of the past 500 days, Lenovo decided to ditch Skylight and replace it with Android 2.2 Froyo, which isn't such a bad idea after all since Android is clearly taking over the world by storm.

There is no concrete release date for the Lenovo U1 as at press time, but �soon� would be a pretty good indication for anything that has received FCC approval.
source: Ubergizmo