Another Addition to the Lenovo Tablet Family, Perhaps Rumors surrounding a 7 - inch sibling to the 10 - inch IdeaPAd K1 and ThinkPad tablets recently released by Lenovo soar as a model bearing the numbers
IdeaPad A1 - 07 and LePad A1 - 07 passes through the FCC.
Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 is a 7 Android tablet running Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread mobile operating system.
Loose - lipped parts suppliers have given Digitimes estimates indicating only 500,000 ThinkPad tablets will be shipped, with the bulk of the remaining 2 million units devoted to the Lenovo Ideapad K1 and
IdeaPad A1 tablets.
Lenovo planned to release
IdeaPad A1 later this month, so let's stay tuned.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1's bottom edge is where you'll find the tablet's single speaker, in addition to a microSD card slot for expansion up to 32 GB and a microUSB port for charging and connecting to other USB devices.
ebookreader.com has a note saying that the Lenova
IdeaPad A1 can be preordered from Amazon for $ 199.
However, in the time it took them to finally release
the IdeaPad A1, other companies, most notably Amazon, have announced similarly - priced Android tablets.
Unfortunately the Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 felt a little sluggish compared with many other tablets I've tested recently.
And the advantage of an always - available net connection is attractive to many buyers compared to a Wi - Fi only device, which
the IdeaPad A1 is.
Like the original Samsung Galaxy Tab,
the IdeaPad A1 will be running a phone version of Android instead of tablet - optimized Honeycomb, in this case Android 2.3.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 is one of the most interesting of the bunch, because it comes from a top tier computer maker, has a great screen, and a very low price tag.
And its specs blow away
the IdeaPad A1 ′ s feature list.
The IdeaPad A1 ′ s processor won't be top of the line, but it is a respectable 1 GHz, single - core A8.
Lenovo's decision to price
the IdeaPad A1 starting at $ 229 is pretty disappointing.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 features a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive multitouch display, a 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 3622 single core processor, and 512 MB of RAM.
When we first reported on Lenovo's
IdeaPad A1, it was fairly big news because they were the first big - name manufacturer to offer an Android tablet under $ 200.
And unlike
the IdeaPad A1, which only has 2 GB of internal storage (expandable with a micro-SD slot), the Amazon Kindle Fire has 8 GB of internal storage plus unlimited cloud storage from Amazon S3.
Yesterday we reported on the Lenovo
IdeaPad A1.
The IdeaPad A1 Tablet was announced in September 2011.
The IdeaPad A1 tablet was 0.47 inches thin and weighed 0.88 lbs.
Finally,
the IdeaPad A1 is one of the only tablets with offline GPS?
But when you compare that $ 349 to the slew of other tablets crowding the market, you might come to the determination that a Kindle Fire, NOOK Tablet, or Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 will give you the best bang for your buck.
However, the Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 has a few things over the Amazon alternative.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 interface is near stock Android, and looks just like many other Gingerbread gadgets, which are mostly smartphones.
But that amount of space is generous given that this model is intended to compete against low - cost, non-mobile-broadband tablets such as Lenovo's contract - free $ 200
IdeaPad A1, which has just 2 GB of memory and a lower - resolution screen.
Already, the Nook and Kindle Fire here are too small to really compare, so if you want, you can make the same criticism of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 or the Lenovo
Ideapad A1 — which has the full Android Market.
Well, fret not — there is the Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 that has just opened up its doors for your pre-order pleasure — and this is the smaller sibling to the IdeaPad K1 just in case you were wondering.
Lenovo is launching a cute 7» Android tablet called
Ideapad A1.
As for
the IdeaPad A1 specifications, the tablet packs in a 7 inch capacitive multitouch display having a healthy 1024 x 600 pixel resolution.
Running Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread,
the IdeaPad A1 also comes with a decent set of features and is in the 7 inch tablet group.
This is weird as for just $ 20 more, one can pick up
an IdeaPad A1 that offers 16 GB of storage.
For connectivity
the IdeaPad A1 would have 802.11 b / g / n Wi - Fi, Bluetooth 2.1.
The Chinese electronics major dominated the limelight with three of its IdeaPad and ThinkPad tablet PCs, and now the FCC has cleared new Lenovo tablets in its listing under the names
IdeaPad A1 - 07 and LePad A1 - 07.
However, the most attractive feature of
the IdeaPad A1 has been its price tag, which at $ 199 for the basic model made the tablet really affordable.
Instead, Lenovo perhaps wishes to convey
the IdeaPad A1 is a full fledged tablet device with all features built in it that one has come to associate with a proper tablet.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 has just started with the pre-order process and has quite a few things going for it.
Unfortunately, for some reason not yet revealed, Lenovo has raised the price of
the IdeaPad A1 to $ 229 in its most basic form thereby robbing it of the price parity that it enjoyed with the Amazon Kindle Fire as well as the ViewPad 7e from View Sonic.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 is there for the taking for anyone the tablet appeals to, which it should given an affordable price tag of $ 199 while packing decent specs.
Running Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread,
the IdeaPad A1 also comes with a decent... [Read more...]
(Lenovo, for example, is blowing out its older
IdeaPad A1 for $ 149.99).
Folks looking for a more traditional tablet might want to check out the Lenovo
IdeaPad A1, which also sells for around $ 200, but which comes with the Google Android Market, GPS, and front and rear cameras.
On the software side of things
the IdeaPad A1 leaves the Honeycomb for bigger siblings and comes with Android «Gingerbread» 2.3.
In fact, the Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 will be one of the least expensive tablets from any major computer maker when it hits the streets in late September.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 measures about 0.5 inches thick and weighs about 0.9 pounds.
Unfortunately
the IdeaPad A1 has been out of stock for the past few weeks — suggesting that Amazon may not have been the only $ 200 tablet maker to be surprised by strong demand for a budget device.
IdeaPad A1 IdeaPad A1 is the smaller and the cheaper tablet offering from Lenovo, that will be launched in India at a later date.
It's not clear how long the promotion will last, or if we'll see another $ 199 price anytime soon, so if you're in the market for
an IdeaPad A1 it looks like this is a pretty good time to order one.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 is a 7 inch tablet which runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
The Lenovo
IdeaPad A1 features a 7 - inch dsiplay with 1024 x 600 resolution, 1 GHz TI OMAP A8 processor, 2 GB of internal storage, GPS, Bluetotoh, WiFi, micro SD slot, 3 megapixel rear facing camera, and 0.3 megapixel front facing camera.
Lenovo is again taking orders for
the IdeaPad A1 tablet in a wide range of colors.