Lenovo will focalise on consumer tab and also depend at enterprise tablets as it attempt to rev up up its mobile military operation , a fellowship executive said last workweek .
The ship’s company is also looking to put Google ’s Android 3.0 OS , which is code - named Honeycomb , on tablets after this class , say Rory Read , prexy and chief operating officer at Lenovo , during an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas .
At CES , Lenovo showed its first pad , the LePad , which has a 10.1 - inch screen and runs on Google ’s Android 2.2 OS . The ship’s company also showed the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid , a gadget that turns the LePad into a netbook . The LePad serves as the monitoring equipment , but can be come off as a tablet .
“ We have the LePad ; we ’re set up into China . We ’ve got the Hybrid . When Honeycomb is finished from Google in May , something like that , [ a ] couple of months after that we ’ll discharge it to the rest of the world , ” Read said .
ship’s company officials have say they will found multiple Android tablets worldwide this yr .
Lenovo is taking a measured approach to building tab to see to it they succeed , Read say , adding that the company just does not seize a lot of applications to it . The companionship in the past has reworked its tablet hardware and software to bring in better gimmick to customer .
The company last year showed off a pad with an sleeve processor and the Linux OS . The pad was never relinquish , and for LePad , Lenovo has included the Android oculus sinister . The society has also partner with mobile postman and subject partners in China to include localized gaming , news and other content .
“ When we did the first versions of the [ pill ] , we used a unlike operating system of rules and a different chipset . That ’s why we ’ve taken some time to retread it . Android has really picked up and we ’ll play off the Android software market on a global basis . That ’s why we need to have the Honeycomb study finish to really take it to the next step . ”
show envisions tablets as one of the building cylinder block that will enable seamless information rally between twist . In the futurity , machine like tablets , TVs , tv camera and PCs will meet to enable easy exchange of video , pictures and subject matter .
“ The game is not the next twelve months . People are all over the tablet and the next gimmick . The plot is the next three to five years and that integration across equipment , ” Read pronounce .
Lenovo ’s mobile strategy took Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe at last twelvemonth ’s CES , when the company announce the LePhone smartphone . The society is in the end hoping to tightly integrate its mobile strategy into its core operation as a PC maker .