ThinkPad Tablet
It’s dessert time for Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet. The Android 4.0 operating system—commonly known by its more delicious codename of Ice Cream Sandwich—will be available on our ThinkPad Tablet in May. It will be delivered as an over-the-air update There’s been a lot of fuss about Ice Cream Sandwich in the marketplace, and for good reason. Here are three things we love about it, things you’ll be able to take advantage of on your ThinkPad Tablet when the update comes: A new and improved browser with a significant speed boost that allows you to jump to your favorite content faster and even save it for later in case there's no network available. Voice input that allows you to dictate text. As the voice input engine enters text, it underlines possible dictation errors in gray. After dictating, you tap underlined words to quickly replace them from a list of suggestions. Face Unlock, a new screen-lock option that lets you unlock your device with your face. (Love that.) It takes advantage of the devices’ front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then recognize it again when it’s time to unlock. While this announcement strictly refers to the ThinkPad Tablet, it’s worth noting that we are committed to making other Lenovo tablets “future-proof” by supporting newer releases of the Android OS. We are always assessing and...
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Happy Valentine's Day
Nothing says romance like a new laptop or tablet, and don’t we all just want a sleek, responsive, stylish computing device to call our own? And, of course, to tote with us everywhere and anywhere. Tech gifts are the go-to items for the holidays, so Valentine’s Day shouldn’t be excluded, especially with the array of colorful, fun and fashionable laptops and tablets available from Lenovo. Here are our favorite tech gifts for Valentine’s Day: IdeaPad U260 For the unconventional Valentine’s Day color offerings, Lenovo’s IdeaPad U260 comes in fashion-forward Mocha Brown. It’s lightweight with great design aesthetics and details, not to mention powerful processing. This is perfect for the sweetheart that desires looks and brains. IdeaPad A1 Tablet The IdeaPad A1 tablet is still a hot item, and a coveted V-Day gift available in festive Pink and chic bear-skin rug White (also in Black and Blue). It’s just 7 inches and has everything you could want in an Android tablet, plus our innovative and unique offline GPS navigation technology gives the user a direct satellite link , eliminating the worry to connect to a network. You’ll literally never get lost again! IdeaPad Z470 Affordability has never been so fun! The IdeaPad Z470 in Pink comes brimming with multimedia features. It’s the perfect everyday laptop that’s built to last and provides the right balance of value...
Lenovo Opens Up The Cloud
Cloud computing, if you forgive the pun, is a rather nebulous concept; difficult to explain to the uninitiated, but in reality, disarmingly simple. What is unquestionably true though is that there is not the same excitement about it among consumers as there is in the technology industry itself. Thus the media reception for Lenovo Cloud at the recent CES in Las Vegas was muted, perhaps due to some understandable cloud fatigue on the part of technology reporters more inclined to write about the latest whiz bang hardware like the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga. The apparent uniformity of cloud offerings, which are mostly focused on storage, delivering content and sharing within a private or hybrid network, is also a factor explaining the relative indifference. The truth is, as some journalists grasped, Lenovo Cloud, already launched in China, is a more ambitious platform than the market has seen so far. Firstly, access to the Lenovo Cloud is open to internet capable devices running any major operating system. This may on the face of it seem too good to be true, but given the Cloud is in essence web based, the closed solution alternative seems shortsighted. In particular Lenovo Cloud is designed with the social aspect of the relationship between families, friends and co-workers in mind, making the same cloud infrastructure relevant to both consumer and business use. A Cloud solution that depends on download of proprietary software...
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Luis Hernandez is the vice president, ThinkPad Edge Business Unit, for Lenovo. The annual Mecca of gadgets, computers and more – the International Consumer Electronics Show will commence on Tuesday, January 10, but Ultrabooks and Hybrid computing devices are already at the forefront of tech trend conversations. Twitter is all a-Twitter with predictions and leaked announcements of a number of products in these categories. Kicking off a smorgasbord of major product announcements during CES 2012, we officially released our first business Ultrabook, the ThinkPad T430u and the ThinkPad X1 Hybrid laptop, fulfilling a burning desire by business professionals for sleek, stylish PCs that kick power performance butt. Who says all work can’t include some play – especially when it comes to aesthetics and multimedia capabilities. It’s been said so many times already in the latest headlines of CNN, Forbes, Scientific American and more, 2012 will be the year of the Ultrabook. This new product niche represents what we think of as 'Laptop 2.0' - the laptop computer re-conceptualized in nearly every facet of design. Lighter and thinner than a traditional laptop, with super fast boot up times and instant on functionality – the Ultrabook lets users do what tablets don’t, consume and create content, albeit not to the same degree as traditional laptops – but in the most impressive and mobile possible form factor. Ultrabook for...
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Ken Timmons works in ThinkServer marketing at Lenovo, but 30 years ago, he was one of the engineers on the original IBM PC. Thirty years ago today that PC made its way onto the world computing stage. Since then, it's made a large impact on the industry and influenced modern computing. A once in a lifetime experience! That’s how I’d sum up the opportunity I had 30 years ago to join the team that created the first IBM Personal Computer – the 5150. I was a young engineer with IBM less than a year out of college, when I was offered the job. At this stage in most people’s life, your vision of the future is somewhat vague. Who could have foreseen an opportunity to participate in the birth of an industry! The early days of the personal computer were a heady time. We felt there wasn’t anything we couldn’t accomplish. I remember a camaraderie that was somewhat unique in my 30+ years of work experience, and I still count many of those colleagues as my closest friends. My role on the team was to help design the functional test equipment that would be used to guarantee the computer worked before we shipped it to the customer. This test equipment was built with a lot of the same technology as the PC, and we were learning as we went just like the rest of the team. Sure, there were difficulties but they were solved by a lot of really talented and dedicated people. As surprising as it may seem, many of the development...
