Ashton Kutcher, the Hollywood actor who donned the role of iconic Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the movie ‘Jobs’, will be the brand ambassador for Lenovo’s latest line of Yoga Android tablets.
The 35 year old actor, also famous for his role in the movie ‘The Butterfly Effect’, will be taking up the position with Lenovo as a product engineer.
Kutcher, himself a tech enthusiast, has invested in start-up companies such as Airbnb, Path and Uber.
Kutcher also slightly slammed Apple for their proprietory platforms. “Lenovo isn’t sitting here going ‘the software that we create is the software that needs to be the software that everybody uses because that is the software that is going to be the best software’ because that is not how great software gets created,” said Kutcher, almost certainly talking about Apple’s popular iOS mobile OS.
The Yoga tablet that Kutcher was flaunting is available in eight and ten inch variants at US$249 and US$299 respectively. The most notable feature of the tablet is its handle, it features a cylindrical end that can be used as a grip when reading on the tablet, along with a stand that pops out of the cylinder which allows the tablet to rest nearly vertically or on a slight incline.
The Android 4.2 device runs on a 1.2 GHz MT8389 processor with 1GB of RAM on-board. It has 3G and Wi-Fi capability and also features Bluetooth 4.0. Much like the Microsoft Surface and others, the new Yoga tablet features a micro-USB slot that can be used for charging or to attach other external devices.
However, to charge the second device, the Yoga requires a special cable which surprisingly doesn’t come bundled with the device.
Both models have 16GB of internal memory, which is expandable up-to 64GB via an SD expansion slot.
Kutcher calling it “not another ‘Me Too’ tablet, “the Yoga meets consumer’s needs by understanding how consumers want to use the device”.