Lenovo unveils gadgets to tap mobile Internet
By Zhu Shenshen |
January 8, 2010, Friday
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LENOVO Group Ltd launched three new models, including a smartphone, at the world's biggest consumer electronics fair in the United States to tap into new mobile Internet opportunities, the world's No. 4 PC maker said yesterday.
Lenovo launched the LePhone, a smartphone that uses Google's Android system for mobile phones. It is the first new product to make its debut since the firm announced in November that it would acquire Lenovo Mobile, which it originally set up in 2002 and sold in 2008 for US$200 million.
"The next big opportunity (in the industry) is the mobile Internet," Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing said during a news conference at the Consumer Electronics Shows in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Its LePhone features a 3.7-inch screen, is 12 millimeters thick and runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor. It will be launched in China this year, Lenovo said.
Mobile devices are a natural extension for PC makers, industry officials said.
"There is convergence between PC and mobile phone," said Ian Yang, Intel China president. "The question is which side will win in the new market segment, PC vendors or handset makers?"
But JT Wang, chairman of Acer Inc, the world's No. 2 PC maker, believed that converging PCs and handsets will create a much bigger market for PC makers.
Finland's Nokia Corp, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, also has launched netbook computers and the N900, a mobile Internet device and smartphone which features an upgraded operating system with PC functions.
Lenovo also unveiled Skylight, a new smartbook - a tiny computer that combines elements of netbooks and smartphones - based on the low-power ARM chip architecture in smartphones, which uses the Snapdragon processor and operates on the Linux system. Its third new product is the PC IdeaPad U1 tablet, a hybrid notebook which can be converted to a tablet by popping out the screen from the clamshell frame.
Lenovo launched the LePhone, a smartphone that uses Google's Android system for mobile phones. It is the first new product to make its debut since the firm announced in November that it would acquire Lenovo Mobile, which it originally set up in 2002 and sold in 2008 for US$200 million.
"The next big opportunity (in the industry) is the mobile Internet," Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing said during a news conference at the Consumer Electronics Shows in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Its LePhone features a 3.7-inch screen, is 12 millimeters thick and runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor. It will be launched in China this year, Lenovo said.
Mobile devices are a natural extension for PC makers, industry officials said.
"There is convergence between PC and mobile phone," said Ian Yang, Intel China president. "The question is which side will win in the new market segment, PC vendors or handset makers?"
But JT Wang, chairman of Acer Inc, the world's No. 2 PC maker, believed that converging PCs and handsets will create a much bigger market for PC makers.
Finland's Nokia Corp, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, also has launched netbook computers and the N900, a mobile Internet device and smartphone which features an upgraded operating system with PC functions.
Lenovo also unveiled Skylight, a new smartbook - a tiny computer that combines elements of netbooks and smartphones - based on the low-power ARM chip architecture in smartphones, which uses the Snapdragon processor and operates on the Linux system. Its third new product is the PC IdeaPad U1 tablet, a hybrid notebook which can be converted to a tablet by popping out the screen from the clamshell frame.
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