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Triple premiere of Lenovo

27.10.2011

Lenovo has launched three ten-inch tablets on the market at once.

The first two of them run on the Tegra 2 platform running Android 3.1. They target different audiences. More than 30 applications are preinstalled on the multimedia Lenovo IdeaPad Kl, including Angry Birds, Kindle e-book reader and Document To Go office suite. With the SocialTouch app, you can chat on Facebook and Twitter. Through the miniHDMI interface, you can output video in 720p format to the TV screen.

The ThinkPad Tablet is the second tablet variant. It is equipped with software for remotely erasing data from the device in case it is lost. It has a USB flash drive slot and an SD card slot.

The third tablet, the IdeaPad Tablet PI, runs Windows 7. It will be available in 32GB or 64GB versions and comes with a stylus.

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