14 DAY TRIAL // Lenovo was revealed to be working on a pair of tablet/netbook devices some time ago, the so-called LePad and U1, and though they were supposedly canceled at one point, they seem to be very much on their way towards China.
Not long after the iPad kick-started the rise of the tablet market, various PC makers announced plans to join the movement sooner or later.
Lenovo was even a bit more forward-looking and devised a pair of so-called hybrid electronics, which blur the liens between a netbook and a slate.
Said two mobile products are known as the LePad and U1 and have already gone through at last on stage of “death”.
Basically, the two were scrapped at one point, only for their maker to resurrect the project while adopting a new operating system.
Initially, Lenovo was going to use Windows 7, but the Android OS was quickly optimized for slates, leading to the company's decision to choose it as well.
The specifications of the two gadgets have not exactly been made public, but reports still speculate on what one can expect to find inside.
The tablet portion will supposedly use an ARM processor, coupled with an LCD display of 10 inches, 512 MB of RAM and internal storage of 16 GB.
There is also a separate dock, or the so-called netbook half of the mobile computer cross-breed, which has not been detailed in the slightest.
Still, it is said that one can expect to find an Intel Core 2 Duo central processing unit and 4 GB of DDR3 memory, plus a SSD of 128 GB.
The two tablet/netbooks are on their ways towards the Chinese market and should actually become available in December, while the separate dock will arrive in 2011.
Prices are, of course, not known at this time.