Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet sold out quickly at $ 99. Now Lenovo is giving the tablet market its best shot with the ThinkPad Tablet. The product is Lenovo’s first business-class Android-based tablet, and it’s priced at $ 499.
What sets the ThinkPad apart from the TouchPad and all the other Apple iPad competitors? Lenovo is coming to market with a message about letting users do more right out of the box. Whether that will be enough to avoid the fate of the TouchPad remains to be seen.
The ThinkPad Tablet is a 10.1-inch tablet running Android 3.1. Lenovo promises the device will let users work productively and securely and enjoy plenty of entertainment in off times. The ThinkPad also takes a page from TouchPad with a stylus, albeit a supercharged one.
Writing on a Tablet?
Dilip Bhatia, vice president and general manager of Lenovo’s ThinkPad business, figures the pen-based handwriting-recognition technology offers mobile professionals a “more intuitive” user experience than competitors.
“We wanted to replicate the way people work naturally with pen and paper by allowing them to digitally write, draw and create content while also optimizing the ThinkPad Tablet for business with a layered security solution and full IT management,” Bhatia explained.
The ThinkPad Tablet also draws from some popular features on other ThinkPad-branded devices that play to mobile users. Beyond the digitizer pen, the tablet sports a full-size USB port and SD card slot, mini-HDMI for connecting to external displays, and a keyboard folio case with optical TrackPoint.
iPad Still Reigns
Lenovo touted more than a dozen partners and pointed to more than 250,000 apps in the Android Market as well as the Lenovo App Shop. But that doesn’t touch the offerings from Apple’s App Store.
Still, Seton Hall University is convinced, or is at least willing to be convinced, that the ThinkPad Tablet is a…
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