Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Lenovo Launches Three New Tablets

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – 7/20/2011: Lenovo nowadays announced its 1st family of tablets – the IdeaPad* pill K1 for customers, the ThinkPad* pill for business customers, and therefore the IdeaPad pill P1 for home and workplace use. The new Lenovo IdeaPad pill K1 and ThinkPad Tablets are the Company’s 1st mobile web devices that includes the Android^ three.1 platform, and therefore the IdeaPad pill K1 is that the industry’s 1st Android-powered pill certified to deliver Netflix* video streaming. The Android-powered Lenovo tablets conjointly give access to quite 250,000 apps in Android Market^ still as apps tested for the Lenovo device within the Lenovo App look.*

Tablets are very personal technology devices. That’s why we’ve created a family of tablets that has one thing for everybody, as well as entertainment-friendly options and content for customers, or business-friendly options to reinforce productivity for professionals still as security and manageability for IT managers,” said Liu Jun, senior vice chairman and president, Mobile web Digital Home business cluster, Lenovo. “So whether or not it’s the IdeaPad for entertainment or the ThinkPad for business, we've got listened to our customers and are delivering Android-powered tablets designed to satisfy their specific desires."


Netflix Anyone?
As the 1st Honeycomb tablets certified for Netflix, Lenovo tablets will facilitate flip each night into “movie night.” With HDMI output and Digital Rights Management (DRM) engineered directly into the IdeaPad and ThinkPad tablets, Netflix members will instantly watch movies and television shows streaming from Netflix on to an enormous screen TV,

“We’re terribly excited to examine that TV shows and flicks streaming from Netflix are on the market on Lenovo’s family of Android-powered tablets,” said Bill Holmes, Netflix vice chairman of Business Development. “This isn't solely a crucial development for our company as we have a tendency to request to expand the advantages of our services to a lot of individuals, however conjointly means shoppers currently have bigger alternative in choosing a pill device that most closely fits their entertainment wants.”

NVIDIA Anyone?
Building on Lenovo’s heritage of innovation, quality and reliability in PCs, Lenovo’s new tablets deliver an accelerated mobile expertise. The IdeaPad and ThinkPad tablets feature NVIDIA* Tegra* two dual-core mobile processors that supply extreme multitasking, noticeably faster net browsing with built-in Adobe* Flash* Player, console-quality gaming and low power consumption for improved battery life.

“The Tegra a pair of twin core processor is that the excellent match for Lenovo’s tablets,” said Michael Rayfield, general manager, Mobile Business, NVIDIA. “Consumers will currently relish the entire internet with Flash, console quality gaming, high definition video, and streaming Netflix. These are a requirement have for today’s tablets.”