Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X230 keyboard is creating quite a stir. For the first time, the 12″ ultraportable X200 series is ditching its classic ThinkPad keyboard in favor of a more modern island-style keyboard. So what’s the big deal? Traditional ThinkPad keyboards, such as the one found on the ThinkPad X220, are the gold standard in [...]
Today Lenovo officially unveiled the X1 Carbon, the world’s lightest 14″ notebook. Weighing in at three pounds and with a strong dose of creature comforts, the X1 Carbon is the kind of notebook companies that care about their employees should buy. The X1 Carbon is similar to the 13.3″ ThinkPad X1 that Lenovo released last [...]
Despite the growing importance placed on 4G LTE and tablets in the consumer tech space, Sprint isn’t quite done with its 4G WiMax technology and the concept of netbooks for those who are looking to do some lightweight, connected computing while mobile. The Now Network had said that it is giving up on releasing new [...]
With the release of the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 there is now four great 7-inch Android tablets on the market that cost $250 or less. This is great news for consumers on a budget but does create a problem: which one should you buy? It’s not just a matter of picking the least expensive, you [...]
Lenovo has announced a new tablet, the Lenovo IdeaTab S2109, which will be arriving with a 9.7-inch screen and Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The tablet had passed through the FCC last month but a YouTube video, first discovered by NetbookNews Italia, signals a release in the not-so-distant future. The IdeaTab 2109 [...]
It’s clear that the tablet market has become a two horse race. We have the likes of the iPad, which starts at $499, competing for marketshare with tablets that check in under $250. One of those sub $250 tablets is the Lenovo IdeaPad A1 which the company launched back in October of 2011. Of course, [...]
While much of the talk about Windows 8 tablets in recent days has centered around Nokia, who has confirmed that it is in fact building a tablet device, it appears that another manufacturer could be first to the market with a Windows 8 slate. According to a source of The Verge, Lenovo may be the [...]
Apple is presumed to be launching its next iPad sometime in March. While the company has yet to send out invitations to a press event, March 7th is the day that many have circled on their calendar as launch day. If you’re currently an iPad or iPad 2 owner or if you’re just thinking about [...]
The Lenovo IdeaPad A1 tablet has just come in for review and we are going to be putting it through the paces over the next week or so. If you’re not familiar with the IdeaPad A1 tablet, it’s an Android Gingerbread based slate that launched back in October of 2011. Lenovo clearly did not have [...]
Not wanting to be left out of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Club, Lenovo has announced that its Android-powered ThinkPad tablet will be getting Android 4.0 at some during the month of May. Sadly, like many manufacturers, the company did not specific any sort of target date for the software’s arrival. Still, it’s better [...]
Have you been craving a new tablet? Perhaps you want an Android tablet that you can use at work now that your kid or significant other has commandeered your iPad to play Angry Birds. If so, you’ll want to enter for a chance to win the ThinkPad Tablet from Lenovo. This tablet can play Angry [...]
When the Kindle Fire debuted last year analysts predicted that the tablet’s $199 price tag would initiate a race to the bottom on tablet prices. That prediction proved prescient at this year’s CES where we saw several high-profile Android tablets priced between $179 and $249. Unlike the Kindle Fire and it’s arch nemesis the Nook [...]
The market for 10 inch tablets is pretty crowded, but Lenovo hopes that the IdeaTab S2 can standout with a custom Ice Cream Sandwich interface and a locking keyboard dock. The IdeaTab S2110 as you’ll see it called online, measures under 9mm thick and offers a clean design. This second generation IdeaTab tablet shows a [...]
We met what has to be one of the most extreme mobile tech users in the world at CES 2012. Josh Wurman’s team drives Doppler on Wheels (DOW) trucks into storms with a team of researchers and a cabin filled to the brim with mobile technology. He explained to us that the best way to [...]
The GottaBeMobile team has been roaming Las Vegas for the past week checking out the best that CES 2012 has to offer. And while we have seen a ton of great new gear, there have certainly been a handful of devices that stand above the rest. What you’ll find here are the gadgets and gizmos [...]
The IdeaPad Yoga is one of the hottest products at CES 2012, thanks to an innovative form factor and dual hinge design that lets you convert form an Ultrabook to a tablet in a mater of seconds. The IdeaPad Yoga looks great, and feel pretty amazing in your hand, but this isn’t the first time we have [...]
GottaBeMobile has landed at CES 2012 in Las Vegas to see the latest and greatest gadgets and thanks to our sponsor, you can win some great prizes of your own. Lenovo is the official sponsor of GottaBeMobile.com and Notebooks.com at CES 2012 and has given us four great prizes to give to our readers. We [...]
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga ultrabook has all the features and specs you’d expect from the category: a 17mm thin chassis, around 3 pounds, and a smooth, streamlined design. It’s beautiful as well, following on the aesthetics we saw in the U Series notebooks that eschew the MacBook Air clone approach and go distinctly Lenovo. However, there’s [...]
Computer-makers Acer and Lenovo are targeting the third quarter of this year to launch tablets with Intel’s x86 architecture and Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform, which has been re-designed in face of stiff competition from consumer-centric mobile operating systems delivered by rivals Apple and Google. The Win-tel tablets will mostly be geared at enterprise users, who [...]
Education systems and school administrators looking to outfit their students with laptops have a new choice in the ThinkPad X130e, Lenov’s newest notebook for the K-12 set. Built to withstand slightly less than gentle treatment at the hands of kids, this rugged little machine is built to last. Add to that some robust internal specs [...]
Microsoft is working on finalizing its list of vendors and manufacturers to produce Windows 8 machines running on ARM’s chip architecture, a first for the desktop PC OS as it has historically relied on Intel’s and AMD’s x86 core. The software giant is selecting three ARM chip-makers, which can then each choose two OEM hardware [...]
After having announced an Android-powered LePhone S2, Lenovo will also be adding a Windows Phone to its growing smartphone lineup. The Windows Phone device will be coming in the second half of 2012, giving it a late arrival date, but would utilize the same form factor and hardware design that the Android LePhone S2 employs. [...]
Samsung’s expansive Galaxy Tab lineup will be getting some competition from Lenovo as the latter has announced a trio of tablets that are aimed at consumers with differing tastes and needs for their mobile slates. Lenovo has announced in China a 10.1-, 7-, and 5-inch LePad. The 10.1-inch LePad, model S2010, is a bit different [...]
Following in the footsteps of Dell, with the Streak 5, and Samsung, with the Galaxy Note, Lenovo is also looking into launching its own 5-inch Android tablet. In the case of Lenovo’s rivals, both those 5-inch numbers were and are considered ‘hybrid’ products, spanning the divide between uber-portable tablet and gigantic smartphone as the 5-inch [...]
Black Friday is at the end of the week, looming there, tempting you with deals on tablets. However, as a smart consumer you should always be cautious of Black Friday deals. There are Black Friday Tablet deals to be had, but many more duds. It’s worth noting that there aren’t many Black Friday iPad deals [...]
Lenovo has yet to announce its LePad K2, but the tablet has been put to the test utilizing GL Benchmarks. The benchmark results reveal that the 10-inch slate was tested running Android 3.2 Honeycomb, and not Ice Cream Sandwich, and that the processor is made by NVIDIA. With a quad-core Tegra 3 CPU, performance is [...]
There are certainly quite a few Android Tablets to choose from this holiday season. They come in a variety of sizes, which is a good thing as it gives users some choice. But when it comes to looking for accessories for your Android tablet of choice this makes for some challenging shopping. In preparing this [...]
Look at Transformer Prime, Lenovo’s catching up in your rear view mirror with its own Android 4.0 quad-core tablet that’s speculated to be launched at the end of this year. While there’s quite a bit of specs leaked for the device, at this point it’s still unclear if the device will be coming to the [...]
A number of new devices were outed on Sprint’s inventory computer system. A leaked screen shot of the system shows that two new devices from Huawei and one laptop from Lenovo will be headed to the Now Network, though at this point it’s unclear if those devices will be 3G, 4G WiMax, or dual-mode 3G/4G [...]
Lenovo surprised everyone by knocking Dell out of the number two spot for worldwide PC sales last quarter. The jump was no small feat for Lenovo, which focused on delivering a a range of consumer and business notebooks. To take the number two position away from Dell, Lenovo drove a 36.1% growth over the 3rd [...]
Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet is a good companion device for the more business-minded amongst us. Still, as with all tablets, it’s productivity quotient isn’t so high when it comes to on-screen typing. The FlexT9 keyboard is fine for basic text input, but when you write something longer than a few lines or want to type faster [...]
Almost as soon as tablets became the hot new thing in consumer electronics, corporations and small business users wanted in on the action, too. While the form factor makes for a sweet portable computing experience, deploying tablets isn’t always feasible due to security concerns and basic usability issues. It’s no surprise that Lenovo would create [...]
Hardware-wise, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is similar to other Honeycomb tablets on the surface — same CPU, RAM, display resolution, and basic functionality — which is why there’s so much intense interest in one of the features that makes it stand out: the stylus. This isn’t the first Android tablet to come with a pen, [...]
The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet has finally landed. After many weeks of merely consoling myself with hands-on videos and product shots, I finally have the tablet in my hands. I’ll be putting the ThinkPad through its paces this weekend and have a review for you all as soon as possible. In the meantime, here are some [...]
Lenovo showed off the IdeaPad U300s at IDF 2011 this week. A follow up to the IdeaPad U260, the U300s sports an all-metal enclosure and some respectable specs. More importantly, it looks and feels great and will surely appeal to those who are able to lay their hands on it. The U300s is an Ultrabook, [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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