Lenovo's mystery handheld
LAS VEGAS--At Lenovo's press dinner the other night there was an unidentified handheld on display, sitting casually next to the three new consumer-friendly IdeaPad laptops the company had come to Las Vegas to push.
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Lenovo)
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No one--not even the PR people for Lenovo--could give me specific details. All they could say was that it is only available in China, the company's home market. This video gives a bit more detail, including that it runs Linux and uses a new 45-nanometer chip from Intel.
From what I saw, it had a lot of nice features, even if it was a bit hefty: GPS, music, Web browsing, a camera, plus several-layer-deep menus I didn't have time to delve into.
No word on whether it's something planned for the North American market any time soon.
Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her non-work life, she's a history geek, a loyal Dodgers fan, and a mac-and-cheese connoisseur. E-mail Erica. View complete CES 2008 coverage from CNET.
Vive la Pomme.
- boring - again no touch type keyboard
- by primaz April 1, 2008 3:55 PM PDT
- All of the UMPC's have had weak sales and yet they continue to make devices the same. What is missing is a simple touch type keyboard NOT a thumb input. How do you use full Windows? with a real keyboard. Remember the HPC's, the clamshells like the Psion Revo/5mx or HP Jornada 720? That is what we need now but with UMPC technology.
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