Ninis Samuel is the global director of mobile product marketing for Lenovo, and is responsible for helping bring Lenovo’s new Android tablets to the market. His love for movies makes him particularly proud of the IdeaPad K1 Tablet – here’s why. My day job is leading the product marketing of our Android tablets around the world, so you could say it’s part of my job to talk up our new family of tablets, including the IdeaPad K1 Tablet and our ThinkPad Tablet, both running Android Honeycomb 3.1. Honestly though, the movie buff inside me is even more excited and proud that Lenovo’s tablets are the first Android tablets certified for Netflix! The IdeaPad K1 is the first in our tablet family out of the gate. It is available now in the U.S and will be more widely sold in various retailers and online starting in August. Netflix comes with the first system update. When you turn on the K1 tablet, shortly after connecting it to WiFi, you should receive notifications to download a system update and install Netflix either immediately or within a day. Even better, you can go into your settings and proactively download and install the system update right away. It’s something I highly recommend everyone do when they first buy a unit because in addition to Netflix, it also makes a few other cool updates. After it’s been updated, you’ll notice Netflix is now on the main menu of apps . When I say I’m a movie buff I mean...
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Michael Littler leads Idea Product Group Marketing at Lenovo and has been marketing technology products for the past eight years. Tablet Talk With all the recent talk about tablets, mobile internet devices and the cloud, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the humble laptop was on its way out. But those who have been around the IT industry for a long time have heard such noises before. Speculators predicted desktop PCs would be obsolete years ago, but those old desktop boxes, and even those all-in-one models, are still with us today. Indeed, the latest market surveys show laptop growth continuing, although more slowly than years past. For example, market-research firm IDC predicts the global PC market to grow by 5.5 percent this year. Additionally, the firm set a 12.5 percent growth rate for PC sales between now and 2014. The simple fact is that tablets don’t cut it when it comes to content creation. You still need a computing tool that can “do things”—not just browse the web and play Angry Birds, but manage multiple applications, edit photos, cut and paste snippets of information, etc.; you get the idea. IdeaPad Y570 So forgive us—perhaps unfashionably—for launching some new laptops. Yawn, yawn. Our new generation IdeaPad Y570 and Y470 are “performance multimedia” laptops with speedy new 2nd Gen Intel processors, brilliant High-Def screens and all the stuff you need for doing. These products then,...
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Here's some welcome news for our many tech-savvy IdeaPad and IdeaCentre owners who want to do their own repairs outside of warranty: IdeaPad and IdeaCentre spare parts are now available for purchase. People need only visit a new Lenovo website -- www.lenovospareparts.comThis will also come as good news to a number of independent local computer repair businesses who need a reputable and reliable source for these parts. Through my role managing the Lenovo Forums, I often come across unique situations where customers need Idea spare parts outside of their normal warranty. Sounds like this one might need a few parts... "I'm looking for parts to replace the screen. Know someone with one of these and they rolled a pickup truck over the briefcase with the S10-3T in it. No Thinkpad protection on it. I still have to see if the other parts still work, haven't laid eyes on it but if it's just the screen and some plastics, may be worth fixing." Of course, an upgraded Lenovo service warranty with accidental damage protection coverage could have easily resolved this person's situation. But tech-savvy customers with no such coverage who find themselves in these type of situations now have an easy way of obtaining reliable parts. What would these customers have done before? Their alternatives would have been to send the system in for billable repair work,...
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Today, while looking through the world of Lenovo in the blogosphere, I ran across Jesse Anderson's Lenovo S10-3T blog. His most recent post - an impromptu effort to collect improvement feedback from his audience really caught my eye because he seems truly passionate about the S10-3T and gathering ideas for future improvements from other customers. He also wondered if we were paying attention. I'd like to think we are! After reading over his blog for a few minutes, I was really impressed by both the breadth and depth of content, his effective use of YouTube to demonstrate what he's talking about, and the fact that he's been going strong on this subject for five months! Disclaimer : Lenovo is not affiliated with this blogger and is not responsible for any offers or representations made in the video, or on the blog. The Video is shared here for reference only.
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Mark Hopkins I'd like to introduce David Churbuck, our VP of Digital Marketing, who thoughtfully shares some of his personal experiences loading Google's Chrome OS on a Lenovo S10-2 netbook. David, a quintessential leader in the Social Media space has guided the launch and evolution of Lenovoblogs, spurred the launch of our community, and as an early adopter, advocated our presence in relevant social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. I think his post below epitomizes his adventurous spirit to embrace new technology and challenges us to answer "why not?". David Churbuck, VP Digital Marketing In late November a few of us at Lenovo with an interest in netbooks and stripped down operating systems loaded Google’s Chrome OS – known as the Chromium OS – onto our S10-2 netbooks. I thought I’d share the instructions in case you want to experience the novelty of a browser-centric operating system and some thoughts on the future of the platform for netbooks and smartbooks. Chromium is an open source project and is in the earliest stages of development. I can’t vouch for its stability and need to stress it is recommended only for adventurous users who are comfortable with modifying their systems at the BIOs level. The processes for loading the operating system are a little complicated, so bear with me. Before you start you will need: A Lenovo...
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