Lenovo looks at tablets to expand mobile operations

09.01.2011
Lenovo will focus on consumer tablets and also look at enterprise tablets as it tries to rev up its mobile operations, a company executive said on Friday.

The company is also looking to put Google's Android 3.0 OS, which is code-named Honeycomb, on tablets later this year, said Rory Read, president and chief operating officer at Lenovo, during an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

At CES, Lenovo showed its first tablet, the LePad, which has a 10.1-inch screen and runs on Google's Android 2.2 OS. The company also showed the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid, a device that turns the LePad into a netbook. The LePad serves as the monitor, but can be detached as a tablet.

"We have the LePad; we're launching into China. We've got the Hybrid. When Honeycomb is finished from Google in May, something like that, [a] couple of months after that we'll release it to the rest of the world," Read said.

Company officials have said they will launch multiple Android tablets worldwide this year.