Lenovo A1 Hands On: Both a Brand-Name and Budget Android Tablet
02.09.11
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Lenovo this week gave glimpses of its upcoming IdeaPad Tablet A1 tablet, a budget-friendly consumer device -- priced starting at $199 and outfitted with a feature called "offline GPS" -- aimed at giving the company a competitive boost against other makers of Android tablets, and maybe even Apple.
Lenovo's future seven-inch tablet is geared to consumers who might not bother to buy a tablet at a higher price point, and also at those who won't mind spending a couple of hundred bucks for a "companion device" to complement their existing notebook and desktop PCs, Lenovo officials said, during a series of sneak peeks to the media.

Source: Tablet PC Review
Android 3.0 lacks mass adoption: LACS
23.08.11
In January 2010, an unknown company entered the communication market with the launch of a touch media device, which in common parlance is known as a tablet, and its focus was the enterprise segment.
But this year, Lakshmi Access Communication Systems (LACS) has changed its focus to target end consumers and is credited with launching the most affordable Android 2.2 based tablet for Indian consumers starting from Rs 6,999.
Interestingly, LAC does not plan to have tablets running on Android 3.0 in the next few months. Mahendraa Kumar D Jain, managing director, LACS said to The Mobile Indian, "We have purposely not used Android 3.0 for our tablets as it has been launched recently and has not seen mass adoption. Also, we do not want to provide Google with market research and consumer feedback for Android's latest OS on our expense and also Android 3.0 lacks a sufficient number of apps."
Source: The Mobile Indian
Who Killed HP's PCs, Phones and Tablet?
19.08.11
HP: Where Great Mobile Technology Goes to Die
The total failure of HP’s latest product, the HP TouchPad tablet, was really just the last straw.
A few weeks after Apple launched the iPad last year, HP responded by buying Palm for $1.2 billion.
The iPad revealed that touch tablets were the future of mobile devices — or at least the most profitable part of that future.
Unlike PCs, laptops and especially netbooks, the iPad was a highly lucrative platform that would earn Apple billions in more profits from apps, content, peripherals and more.
HP, which prided itself on leadership in mobile devices, was caught flat-footed, and without a response to the iPad challenge. The iPad exposed HP as a dinosaur, So the company bought struggling Palm, which had developed the WebOS to run its phone and tablet devices.
Source: Cult of Mac