14 DAY TRIAL // Since the tablet market is more or less taking off, even though most announced members have yet to start selling, Lenovo intends to bring out its own offering sometime during 2011.
When Apple launched the iPad, PC makers were more or less skeptical about its chances to sell and especially about the likelihood of media slates becoming a market in their own right.
Still, a few months later, the good iPad sales more or less confirmed that slates were here to stay, so companies began to put together their own models.
Lenovo is among those that plan to grab a slice of this dawning segment as early as possible, which is why it has been working on the LePad.
It is set to become a competitor against the iPad, the obviously best-selling slate so far (it was alone in this market for a while).
Unfortunately, the most that recent reports seem to have uncovered on this tablet is not much at all.
It will supposedly have a screen with a diagonal of 10.1-inches, but no other technical details, save for, perhaps, the OS choices, are known at this time.
Apparently, the company will go for either Google Android or the Google Chrome, provided the latter gets done by the time the LePad itself comes out.
Regrettably, whether or not this will happen is as unclear as the specifications themselves, since all that Lenovo reportedly said was that the launch will happen in 2011.
In order to successfully take on the Apple iPad, the LePad will likely support Adobe Flash Player and may end up needing an overall better feature set.
This is because the iPad has access to Apple's App Store, which means that consumers will always have suitable content available for download.
Some time ago, Lenovo also said it would launch slates aimed for the enterprise market, branded ThinkPad, but no update was given on whether or not those plans are still in effect.