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Lenovo plans 2nd-gen, slimmer LePad just months after first
Mar 29th
Lenovo’s chief Yang Yuanqing in a presentation at the Chinese IT Leadership Summit revealed that the company already has a sequel to the LePad in development. He claimed that the new Android tablet had been developed almost side-by-side with the original in a distinct group and was due to ship in September or October, as little as three months after the original’s world debut. While CCIDnet and others at the summit didn’t get most hardware details, the CEO promised a thinner tablet to compete with the iPad, not unlike Samsung’s reactionary approach with the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
It wasn’t explained how More >
Lenovo kicks out ThinkPad X220 with 24-hour battery
Mar 8th
Lenovo gave its ThinkPad X series a major refresh on Tuesday with a generational leap. The X220 notebook and X220t tablet both use a newer 12.5-inch, IPS-based rich color display but thrive with a new external ThinkPad battery pack. They can last up to nine and eight hours respectively on extended internal batteries, but the battery pack pushes them up to 15 hours on the X220t and a full 24 hours on the X220.
The swap to a new screen gave Lenovo a new opportunity for a redesign. A self-closing hinge makes for more room for a larger, multi-touch trackpad More >
Lenovo confirms IdeaPad U1 Hybrid with LePad specs, prices
Jan 5th
The Lenovo LePad tablet and its accompanying IdeaPad U1 Hybrid dock have been confirmed to arrive on the market in 2011, and the specs are now finalized. Introduced at last year’s CES, this year’s CES was host to the announcement. The slate-like, 10.1-inch LePad portion of the device runs on Android 2.2 and uses a 1.3GHz Snapdragon processor, while plugging in the tablet to the dock endows it with Windows 7 OS capabilities and processing power from an Intel CULV processor.
A front-facing camera is integrated. The initial shipments will not support Flash Player 10.1, but the functionality will eventually More >
Dual-core Atom-powered Gigabyte and Lenovo netbooks up for sale in Australia
Aug 26th
As promised, we’ve been keeping an ear to the ground on Intel’s new mobile, dual-core Atom processor, and as luck would have it a number of netbooks are popping up with the new CPU baked in…well, at least in the land down under. Australian e-tailer Pena.au has 10.1-inch netbooks from both Gigabyte and Lenovo listed on its site with the fresh 1.5GHz Atom N550 processor. The Gigabyte T1005M convertible — or netvertible, as we like to call it — is much like the T1000, and still has a 1,366×768 pixel capacitive touch display, USB 3.0 ports, and an eSATA jack. More >
Lenovo: Apple is wasting its presence in China
Jul 5th
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Apple’s hesitance to fully commit to China is a big help to Lenovo, the latter’s chairman Liu Chuanzhi said on Monday. He accused Apple’s Steve Jobs of being fickle and willfully ignoring the mainland Chinese market in terms of reaching out to customers. The American company has strong demand for Macs and iPhones, but with just two Chinese retail stores, one iPhone carrier and a small number of third-party dealers, its much smaller footprint gives China-native Lenovo free rein.
“We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China,” Chuanzhi told the FT. “If More >