Lenovo Heats up Price War With $199 IdeaPad Tablet
01.09.11
Lenovo announced a new $199 IdeaPad tablet with a 7-inch screen and Google's Android OS in response to the surge in demand for inexpensive tablets, the company said on Thursday.
The IdeaPad A1 tablet weighs around 400 grams (0.88 pounds) and is under 0.5 inches (1.27 centimeters) thick, and will become available in specific starting around the end of September, said Nick Reynolds, executive director of global marketing at Lenovo. The tablet provides seven hours of battery life.
The tablet will be among the cheapest 7-inch Android tablets available from a top device maker. Many competitive products cost more than $250. Acer last month started shipping its 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 tablet for US$329, and Samsung's 7-inch Galaxy Tab screen sells for $279 through Amazon.com and Fry's Electronics .
Source: PCWorld
Android 'Ice Cream Sandwich' coming October/November
18.05.28
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Source: ZDNet (blog)
Microsoft And Samsung Try To Make Bill Gates's Tablet Dreams Come True
18.05.15

Fresh rumors from a source in Korea say that a new tablet computer, built by Samsung and sporting Microsoft's upcoming tablet-centric OS Windows 8, will be revealed at MS's BUILD developer conference next week. Bill Gates championed the idea a decade ago, but it never took off. With Samsung embroiled in a patent war with Apple over its Android tablets, perhaps this time MS's persistant innovation may pay off.
It's been almost exactly a decade since Bill Gates, as CEO and founder of Microsoft, took to the stage at the Comdex show for his keynote address, "wowing" the crowd by unveiling a prototype for a new kind of computer--portable, flat, with a touchscreen and coming with a number of useful new applications that let users interact with software in new ways. He called it a tablet PC, and predicted "next year a lot of people in the audience will be taking notes" with them.
Source: Fast Company