Rumored Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Coming This Summer

Lenovo is adding to its ThinkPad batting order this summer with a dual-core group, single-venire pill spurting Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), reported to online rumors. According to Network reports the device wil sport an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core chip, 10.1-inch display with 1280-by-800 resolution, front- and rear-facing cameras, lifesize USB 2.0 port, micro USB port, 3-in-1 SD card reader, mini HDMI, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. The twist would reportedly librate 1.57 pounds, come in 16, 32, and 64 GB memory flavors, and pricing would start at $500, according to a swoop deck obtained past This Is My Next, a modern site run by a team of Engadget alumni.

It's not clear what the name of the rumored tablet power be, but could be called either the ThinkPad Tablet operating theater the Think Slate, This Is My Succeeding says.

Occupation Focus

While the reported device sounds like a fantastic tablet for the average user, the so-called ThinkPad Lozenge appears to be back-geared primarily towards business users. One slide obtained aside This Is My Next says the tablet is "for the on-the-go business pros, and the IT managers that support them." The purported ThinkPad Tablet features a host of business-friendly features such as a stylus stimulation pick, remote PC access through and through Citrix Telephone receiver, Cisco enterprise package keep going, device and Mount Rushmore State card encryption, remote wipe, and McAfee security software. The device whitethorn also have a laptop shell with a strong-arm keyboard soh you can use the device as a netbook.

Lenovo's purported tablet would also come with the usual consumer-neighbourly Mechanical man apps such as the Android Market, and Google-branded apps including Gmail, Maps, Latitude, Google Talk and search.

The rumored ThinkPad Tablet sounds like an glorious offering, and if it comes in at the promised price point on the slue deck this could be a serious competitor to Apple's iPad. But at this point it's not perspicuous if the device is the real stuff or vindicatory an idea under ontogenesis at Lenovo. This Is My Next claims to have sources that say this intersection is in active development, just the device is obviously subject to change ahead (and if) information technology surfaces.

Information technology's non clear when Lenovo's rumored tablet would launch this summer, but This Is My Next is betting on a July or August set in motion

Suss out This Is My Incoming's slide deck for more inside information.

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