The Lenovo Lepad is a 10 inch Android tablet which the company plans to offer first in its home Market of china. But now the company says the tablet will also be available globally in the first half of the year. The current plan is to launch the LePad in China in late March, and the rest of the world…
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This morning Lenovo unveiled its next-generation IdeaPad U1 Hybrid device, combining a 10 inch Android-powered tablet with a Windows-powered base station. This evening I got a chance to check out the U1 in person. The demo unit is running Android 2.2 with a custom Lenovo interface on top. This is how the LePad tablet and U1 Hybrid combo will be…
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As expected, Lenovo is re-introducing the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid that the company first showed off at CES 2010. Like last year, the Hybrid is a two-piece device, with a standalone tablet (now called the LePad) and a keyboard/docking station with a separate processor, battery, and hard drive. Docked, you can use the U1 Hybrid like a laptop. Undocked, you can…
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Lenovo is expected to launch its upcoming LePad tablet first in China, and then possibly in other parts of the globe. But there’s a chance that the company might at least show off the LePad at the CES trade show in Las Vegas next month… especially since the company appears to have at least one prototype floating around. According to…
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We’ve been hearing for a while that Lenovo would launch its upcoming Android tablet in China before deciding whether to offer the product in other countries. That makes sense, since Lenovo’s home base is in China, and the company took a similar strategy with last year’s launch of the LePhone Android handset. But I’d kind of been assuming that the…
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Lenovo says it will launch its LePad slate computer in China in December, with Engadget reporting that an optional keyboard/laptop component coming in January. As a quick refresher, Lenovo introduced a concept device earlier this year called the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. At first glance, the Hybrid looks like a Laptop — but you can actually remove the display and…
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Lenovo is the latest company to throw its hat in the Android powered tablet PC ring. Lenovo says that the tablet will be known as the LePad and will likely launch in China before the US. That’s the same approach the Chinese-based company is taking with the LePhone, Lenovo’s first smartphone, which also runs Google’s Android operating system. There aren’t…
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Two of the most interesting devices I’ve seen this year are the Lenovo Skylight smartbook and IdeaPad U1 Hybrid notebook with a detachable display that works as a standalone tablet. And while both will miss their original shipping deadlines since Lenovo decided to scrap the custom Linux distribution powering the devices and replace it with Google Android, it looks like…
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Lenovo may have put its innovative Skylight smartbook and IdeaPad U1 Hybrid notebook with a detachable screen/tablet on hold indefinitely — but it looks like the projects aren’t entirely dead. As the company hinted a few weeks ago, Lenovo is looking at Google Android as an alternative to the Skylight operating system that had been developed in-house for these devices….
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First the good news: Lenovo realized that nobody wants to use a custom Linux-based user interface with virtually no third party apps on the company’s upcoming Skylight smartbook and Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid tablet/laptop device. So Lenovo is killing the Skylight OS project and will instead use Google Android on those two devices. Now the bad news: that means Lenovo…
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I got a chance to check out Lenovo’s new products at a press event this evening. And I have to say, there’s a lot to like (plus a few nits to pick). First up, the most remarkable device Lenovo announced this week: The IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. This device actually consists of two different computers that play together very nicely. The…
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