Lenovo’s ThinkPad tablet will be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in Q2
If you own a Lenovo ThinkPad tablet and are wondering if it will ever be updated to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, then we have good news. The ThinkPad tablet will indeed be running the newest version of Google’s mobile operating system sometime in the second quarter of this year (so the update will [...]
Lenovo announces IdeaTab S2 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet to take on Asus Transformer Prime
Lenovo has officially introduced a new Android tablet at CES 2012: the IdeaTab S2. The S2 is Lenovo’s first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, and comes with a “light keyboard dock” that “can deliver an incredible 20 hours of battery life, which is great for both entertainment and productivity” – so it can be [...]
Lenovo intros LePhone S2 and 5 inch LePad S2005 Android Gingerbread tablet
Lenovo has announced two new Android products in China: a smartphone and a tablet. The smartphone is called Lenovo LePhone S2. It runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, and features a 3.8 inch WVGA display, 3G, 8MP camera with 720p video recording, and a single-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor. The handset will have two versions: one with [...]
HTC, Lenovo to announce quad-core Android tablets soon
Not long after we’ve found out that HTC is readying a quad-core Android phone – the so called HTC Edge – we’re now hearing that the Taiwanese company is also getting ready to introduce a quad-core Android tablet. According to DigiTimes, HTC will “likely” unveil the quad-core Android table at MWC 2012. The device should [...]
7-inch Lenovo IdeaPad A1 with Android Gingerbread now available to order starting at $199
Lenovo’s newest Android-powered tablet is called the IdeaPad A1 and was unveiled at the beginning of September during IFA. The IdeaPad A1 is Lenovo’s first 7-inch offering, and it comes with some decent specs and great pricing. However, the whole package is a bit let down by software. See, the Lenovo IdeaPad A1 runs Android [...]
Lenovo announces the IdeaPad A1, a 7-inch Android tablet priced from $199
If you thought that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the Toshiba AT200 were the only tablets to be announced today, well, you were wrong. Lenovo also had something to show us at IFA. The IdeaPad A1 is a 7-inch tablet that looks familiar, since we’ve already seen it once before. Now unlike the other [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad tablet now ready to order starting at $499, ships on August 29
After about a month since the official announcement, Lenovo’s second Android-powered tablet, the ThinkPad, is now available to order from the manufacturer’s website. Lenovo has previously launched the IdeaPad tablet in the US, which is aimed more at ‘consumers’, according to the company – while the ThinkPad tablet is more for ‘professionals’. The ThinkPad tablet [...]
Lenovo LePad A1-07 makes its debut in China
It appears that the Lenovo LePad A1-07 has finally made its debut in China earlier this week. Looking beyond the bizarre photograph of the slate shown submerged in some sand, you’ll find a tablet with a pretty sleek design. The LePad, struts a 7-inch 1024 x 600 display with a microSD slot. Other tab features include: 1GHz TI OMAP3622 [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad tablet will be available on August 23, starting at $479
Lenovo announced two different Android-powered tablets a few days ago. The company targets the IdeaPad K1 at ‘consumers’, and the ThinkPad more at businesses and professionals. We heard that the latter would become available in the US on August 2, however that has changed. A small delay is what’s going on here, though nothing to [...]
Lenovo officially intros the ThinkPad and IdeaPad K1 Android Honeycomb tablets
Lenovo has officially announced the launch of three new tablets, two running Android 3.1 Honeycomb (Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet and Lenovo IdeaPad K1), and one running Windows 7 (IdeaPad Tablet P1, which isn’t of interest to us). The two Android tablets will be available in the US, the UK, and Germany – and most likely in [...]
Lenovo’s IdeaPad K1 Android tablet has started shipping today
It seems like it was just yesterday when we heard conclusive information about Lenovo’s tablet plans centered around Android. And in fact it wasn’t that long ago. That was in mid-June. Lenovo sure moves fast, since apparently its first Android-powered tablet has just started shipping in the US. That’s right, the Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet, [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet will cost $499.99 at OfficeMax
It was about a week ago when we heard that Lenovo was working hard on getting its first two Android-powered tablets to market. Two, because one would be consumer-oriented and launch under the IdeaPad brand, and the other would be business-focused and sold under the well known brand ThinkPad brand. Back then we also heard [...]
Lenovo to launch IdeaPad and ThinkPad Android Honeycomb tablets this summer
Lenovo apparently has big plans in the tablet space. It, of course, is just the latest in a long list of computer makers to see the appeal of the tablet market. All three of the top three computer makers (HP, Dell, and Acer) already sell tablets. So here’s the fourth largest PC maker following suit. [...]
Lenovo S800 is a Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness wannabe
Lenovo has done what Sony Ericsson did more than a year ago with the Xperia Pureness: a phone that features a transparent display. Called Lenovo S800 (for the moment, because the name might be changed), the new transparent phone has been showcased recently during a fashion event in Beijing. The handset doesn’t look too different [...]
Lenovo’s first Android tablet made for the US may run Honeycomb
Like many other companies, China-based Lenovo plans to enter the tablet market. It won’t do it this year, though, as Lenovo waits for Android 3.0 (Hoenycomb) to be launched first. According to Lenovo USA’s CEO Rory Read (quoted by PC Mag), Android 2.2 Froyo is not “the right base to have a fully functioning pad” [...]
Lenovo rumored to buy Palm
Although WebOS was announced lat year as something new and exciting, Palm isn’t doing well at all lately – maybe because it has launched its Pre and Pixi smartphones a bit too late (and only via Sprint for the beginning). We’ve heard more than once that Nokia might be interested in buying Palm, but today [...]
#CES 2010: Lenovo LePhone with Android announced
Lenovo, one of the world’s largest PC makers, has announced its first Android phone at CES 2010. Dubbed the Lenovo LePhone (“Le” means “happiness” in Chinese), the new handset looks pretty cool and comes with many high-end features that make it almost similar to the Google Nexus One. The LePhone has a 3.7 inch WVGA [...]
China Mobile’s 3G Android-based Ophone to be launched soon
It looks like the Android-based and 5-megapixel snapping Lenovo Ophone is ready for primetime, as according to a report from Reuters, China Mobile is said to be planning the launch of the same within the first quarter of this year. Which is in the next couple of months. The Ophone is, of course, based on [...]
Android-powered Lenovo Ophone pictured in the wild
China Mobile’s Lenovo-built, Android-powered Ophone has been all but confirmed, and yet here it is today in more awesome live photos. There’s no denying that the Lenovo Ophone is indeed sexy, far more sexier than the G1, and quite possibly even sleeker than the iPhone itself. But how well it really works still remains a [...]
Android-ready Lenovo Ophone looks better than both the G1 and the iPhone
The Android fever is surely spreading quickly, and the latest manufacturer to unveil a handset that runs on Google’s open source OS is Lenovo – yes, the China-based company mainly known for its laptops and desktop PCs. Well, Lenovo also makes mobile phones (take P960, for example), and right now it’s working on an Android [...]