Running on Windows 7, Android operating systems, the new Lenovo tablets are hitting the market strong.
The Chinese based, performance computer company, Lenovo Group Ltd. unveiled three tablet devices in a plan to sell globally, expanding its tablet push past China and finally compete in a device category led by Apple Inc.’s iPad.
You will be able to choose either Microsoft’s Windows 7 OS, or Google’s Android operating system, and they are looking around the same price as iPad.
Lenovo, now joining Samsung and Blacberry (Research In Motion) in offering tablets, started selling the new products in China back in March. Newest updates that Lenovo is looking to get into more of the mobile market, including smartphones.
Two of the three tablets are currently for sale and all of the tablets will offer a 10.1 inch touchscreen. The first is the IdeaPad Tablet K1 (Consumer Tablet), the ThinkPad Tablet for business users, and the IdeaPad Tablet P1 for home and office users. The unreleased tablet, the IdeaPad P1 will use Windows 7 and will launch in the fourth quarter of 20121. The other two tablets are using the latest “Honeycomb” version of Android OS. They will be available in the United States next month and world wide in the third quarter.
A 32-gigabyte version of the K1 consumer tablet is said to sell for $499 and can be ordered starting Wednesday July 20.
A 16-gigabyte version of the business tablet with Wi-Fi wireless capability will sell for $479. Lenovo will release versions compatible with third-generation cellular networks “shortly,” it said. Apple sells its iPad 2 starting at $499.
Lenovo will enter a “regular release cycle” for tablets devices that will include new product announcements next year, Lenovo Chief Operating Officer Rory Read said in an interview.
Lenovo early next year is also likely to reveal the next generation of its IdeaPad U1 hybrid device, Read said. That device, which Lenovo says it launched in China along with the LePad tablet, includes a keyboard base into which the tablet can slide to operate like a laptop.
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