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Lenovo Android 4.0 Tablet with Quad-Core Tegra 3 Launching This Year

by Rob Jackson on November 14th, 2011 No Comments

Holy smokes, Droid-o-claus, what do we have here? It looks like the ASUS Transformer Prime won’t be the only Quad-core Android Tablet to launch this holiday season. And what’s more, the Lenovo Android Tablet leaked by Engadget is said to be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has high enough specs to clear as a [...]

Lenovo Ideapad A1 – Affordable Android Tablet Now Only $200

by Chris Chavez on October 6th, 2011 No Comments

In what seems like a common occurrence these days, Lenovo has just dropped the price on their Android-powered IdeaPad A1 tablet down to $200 via their website. The tablet was originally introduced at $350 back when manufacturers were a bit more optimistic on Android tablet adoption. This new price point seems to fall more in [...]

Seton Hall University Hands Out 400 Lenovo ThinkPad Tablets to Students and Faculty

by Kevin Krause on September 15th, 2011 No Comments

As more and more institutes of higher education dabble in the tablet as a tool useful for learning, Seton Hall University has become the first to deploy Lenovo’s Android-powered ThinkPad. The university handed out over 400 tablets to students and faculty alike. The ThinkPad slates came loaded up with applications and tools such as Documents [...]

Lenovo Announces the IdeaPad A1, 7-inches of Gingerbread for $199

by Kevin Krause on September 1st, 2011 No Comments

The 7-inch Lenovo IdeaPad we first caught a glimpse of after it moved through the FCC back in July has been officially announced at IFA. Perhaps the most surprising element of the new tablet is its price, which starts at a very affordable $199 for the 8GB model. Keeping in the tradition of sub-$200 tablets, [...]

Seton Hall University Giving Lenovo ThinkPad Honeycomb Tablets to Students and Faculty

by Chris Chavez on August 23rd, 2011 No Comments

Apparently, in New Jersey, they know how to party AND how to get their study on. According to CampusTechnology Seton Hall University will be giving Android-based Lenovo ThinkPad tablets to both faculty and students this fall semester. The tablets have already begun shipping on Monday and contrary to what I initially assumed, these are not [...]

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Now On Sale from $499, Shipping Soon

by Kevin Krause on August 23rd, 2011 No Comments

Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet has gone up for sale over at the manufacturer’s website in all of its variations. Starting at $499 for a 16GB/WiFi-only version, the price rises incrementally for the 32GB/3G model ($569.99) and the 64GB/3G model ($669.99). The ThinkPad, announced last month, looks to be a true competitor in the Honeycomb tablet space [...]

Lenovo ThinkPad Does Business with the FCC

by Kevin Krause on August 8th, 2011 No Comments

En route to an August 23rd release, the business-oriented Lenovo ThinkPad has made its coming-of-age trek through the halls of the FCC. While the filing isn’t revealing anything we didn’t already know, those looking forward to the tablet can breath easy knowing that everything appears to be going as scheduled. After gaining the approval of [...]

Lenovo’s 7-Inch IdeaPad Pictured, Specs Detailed

by Kevin Krause on July 22nd, 2011 No Comments

New pictures have surfaced that seem to confirm what was inferred by an FCC filing uncovered yesterday: a 7-inch slate is on the way from Lenovo. This 7-inch IdeaPad was listed under several names in the FCC report, including SmartPad and LePad, but most shared an A1-07 model designation. The unannounced device will provide a [...]

Lenovo Passes Smartpad through FCC, Previously Announced Tablet or Something New?

by Kevin Krause on July 21st, 2011 No Comments

Lenovo just unveiled a series of new Android tablets, and among them was no mention of a device going by the name Smartpad. But that very product name has shown up at the FCC, leaving us wondering which tablet it could refer to. The same device is listed with model number IdeaPad Tablet A1-07 and [...]

Lenovo Now Allowing You to Preorder the IdeaPad K1 Starting at $500, Ships August 1st

by Quentyn Kennemer on July 21st, 2011 No Comments

While this thing isn’t on sale yet, Lenovo will let you order your IdeaPad K1 now for $500, but don’t expect it to ship until at least August 1st, fitting in with their original broad “August” window. It’s a 10.1 inch Honeycomb tablet whose specs should be quite familiar to everyone – 1GB of RAM, [...]

Lenovo’s IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad Get Unboxed [Video]

by Quentyn Kennemer on July 20th, 2011 No Comments

Look at you, hungry for more Lenovo tablet news and multimedia. We’ve got a plate full of stuff to help you with that problem, though. Both the Ideapad K1 and the ThinkPad have been unboxed on video. They give a bit of background on each tablet before unboxing and show us a bit of it [...]

Lenovo Announces ThinkPad Tablet, Details IdeaPad K1

by Kevin Krause on July 20th, 2011 No Comments

Lenovo has finalized plans for their IdeaPad K1 and along with it detailed a new Android slate with the business user in mind. The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is an Android Honeycomb device with a 1GHz dual0core Tegra 2. Shocker, I know. The tablet also features a 10.1-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, and storage options ranging [...]

Office Depot Begins Shipping Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Orders

by Kevin Krause on July 13th, 2011 No Comments

The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 had a long and bumpy road to travel in order to make its US release. The dual-core Honeycomb tablet has been making the rounds for the better portion of the year, finally scoring a pre-order at the beginning of the month. If you count yourself among those that put your money [...]

Android-Based Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Hits Amazon For $500 [PRE-ORDER]

by Rob Jackson on July 1st, 2011 No Comments

Lenovo makes some pretty high-quality and durable computing products, so when their Android-based Lenovo Lephone and Lenovo Lepad failed to reach American soil, I was more than slightly disappointed. With promises to make a push into the US Market, we’ve been teased by the Lenovo IdeaPad K1, a tablet which we’ve seen appear at Buy.com [...]

Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Spied at OfficeMax for $499

by Kevin Krause on June 22nd, 2011 No Comments

The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 has been taking its sweet time on its trip to American shores. You may remember it was the Lenovo LePad, though the tablet has been slightly updated since we first saw it. A display placard from OfficeMac has surfaced, and its details echo those of a recent Buy.com listing for the [...]

Lenovo’s Summer Plans Include Two 10-inch Honeycomb Tablets, No US Smartphones

by Kevin Krause on June 14th, 2011 No Comments

Lenovo has yet to crack the US market, but that may finally change as the company plans to launch two new Honeycomb tablets later this summer (we’ve heard previous rumors of at least one). We may never see the Lenovo LePad here in the States, but the two new 10-inch slates will offer options for [...]

Buy.com Listing Lenovo’s New IdeaPadK1 Honeycomb Tablet

by Chris Chavez on May 27th, 2011 No Comments

Apparently Lenovo is scheduled to launch their new IdeaPadK1 (LePad) Honeycomb tablet next month and from the looks of it, Buy.com is one of the retailers ready to sell with a listing of the device already in place. In case the IdeaPadK1 is news to you (I never heard of it until now) this is [...]

A Look Inside the Lenovo LePad [TEARDOWN]

by Kevin Krause on May 2nd, 2011 No Comments

We’ve heard the Lenovo LePad talked about for so long without a release, it might be helpful to have a reminder that is indeed available in some parts of the world. The tablet went on sale in China in March, and has since been torn apart and stripped down to its skivvies for all to [...]

Rumor: Lenovo to Introduce Android 3.0 Tablet This Summer

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 24th, 2011 No Comments

We’ve long been fans of Lenovo’s Android-based offerings, but couldn’t do more than gape at the few products they’ve brought out because they only launched them in limited regions (the United States not being one of them, of course). It seems that’s because they wanted to bring a more fresh product to store shelves. This [...]

Lenovo’s Second Generation LePad Slated for Fall, According to CEO

by Kevin Krause on March 29th, 2011 7 Comments

The Lenovo LePad isn’t due for its global launch until June, but already CEO Yang Yuanqing is talking up the tablet’s successor. Without revealing much, Yuanqing said to expect the next LePad to land in September or October of this year, less than 5 months after the original. The second-generation LePad — said to be [...]