Lenovo promises LePad Android tablet for the end of the year
By Vlad Savov 
posted July 20th 2010 4:36AM
posted July 20th 2010 4:36AM
posted July 20th 2010 4:36AM
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Awesome! Hope this signals a new wave of good tablets comming into the USA.
@Firewave That, is true!
@Firewave The design form is so cool.
@DrScope
PalmPad... LePad... Look what Apple has done! Coined the name of a... err... woman's... monthly... thing... thing... *cough* For all future Slate/Tablet devices. :( DARN THEM SCOUNDRELS!!!
@CJisohsocool
Dude, only if you really, really want to you will associate the word 'pad' with female hygeine products. The word has like 20 different uses in normal language already. Can we all stop beating this dead horse already, it wasn't even witty or funny in the first place.
@drange
geez whats up your butt.
@drange
LeSigh....
@CJisohsocool
Time of the month perhaps..
@Firewave After seeing the MeeGo tablet UI demos the idea of an Android tablet is meh.
@Firewave
This name stinks like Pepé Le Pew!
@Firewave WOW LOOK AT THAT BEZEL! Er...
@Firewave : Hey look! More tablet promises. :|
@CJisohsocool
You do realize that Lenovo uses the word "pad" for a number of different product lines, most of which have been in existence a tad longer than the fruity pad?
@One Love Yep. trouble is that they all say 'later this year' and 'by the end of the year'. They are all at risk of failing to break into the market for that one issue. Only those that are fanboys for the OS in question or just kneejerk antiboys about Apple stuff are going to wait. The vast majority will get tired and go get what is available -- the ipad. But at least some of them might have waited if they knew exactly how long the wait is
@Firewave This is the 6th identical post on this, am I wrong?
@Kid Red You need bezel on a tablet, why do you care, bezel isn't ugly unless the device is 10"x14" and the screen is 3"
@joe23521 Except that in all of Lenovo's other lineups, the emphasis is on the first part like "Think" or "Idea", and "Pad" rounds up the name like a notepad. So IdeaPad is where you put all your ideas together.
In LePad's case, what does "Le" even mean besides "the"? Also, LePad is a brand of feminine products in europe.
@Narutogrey
"Le" means "happy" or "to be happy" in Chinese. That's where it came from. I agree that it's entirely lost in translation.
@CJisohsocool
Don't be an idiot. Lenovo made the IdeaPad and the ThinkPad while everyone esle still thought the iPad was going to be the Mac Slate.
So much for first 1/4 release...
Better, Faster, Stronger... Cheaper?
@Charbax Lamer.
"LePad"? Seriously?
@demenzia Agreed. The name is sad. It makes it seem like ita trying to be the iPad instead if being it's competitor.
On that note a nice android tablet would be bad ass. Running the latest and greatest of course. If it came out with anything less then 2.1 the thing is as good as a coaster for my 6 pack
@audrywienerdog
2.2*
Sorry you had a typo there :)
@demenzia Exactly what we said when the iPod came out.
@audrywienerdog
I think it sounds pretty cool. I often call my computer the "ordinateur", so "le pad" would be nice.
@demenzia Hey, guys. Gonna go use my LePad while I take a LeShit.
@demenzia
The name is actually quite good in Chinese, but yeah, it's pretty weak once translated to English.
@demenzia I agree pad is the worst name ever. Slate and Tablet are much better. Just because apple named their's Ipad doesn't mean it's now cool. People didn't buy it because of the name, they bought it despite it.
@jek Actually no, iPad sounded nice, but only in this one case, so other companies should know it didn't sell cause of the name, and naming it similarly won't confuse people into buying their product: *convo at radioshack* hi I was looking to buy an iPad? Oh have you heard of the new LePad? What's the difference? Nothing. You sure? Yes. Oh I'll take that then
@CJisohsocool Oh yah at first I didn't catch that typo, he should've said 2.1 or lower, but seriously 2.1 is minimum, but yah 2.2 cause it has flash, I just realized, I think it's gay when people do this, but where's the 2.2 on iPhone? With flash
Lenovo better get moving, thy are risking being LaLate...
@DrScope LOL I think they LeLost already.
Why everybody goes after the name "pad". ipad, palmpad, lepad. Are we running out of names ?
@symbian
Apple didn't invent the word Pad, you know. ThinkPad, IdeaPad, LePad. Makes sense to moi.
Would love to see a "the whole internet in your hands" marketing campaign for it in China...
I just hope it is priced right... still sour about the hole in my wallet after the iPad... don't get me wrong its worth it but I would love to have android tablet as well
LePad? The world is going short on names
That looks pretty sweet! The fact it can be a laptop and and android pad at the same time is superb. If android shapes up some more and gets more productivity apps. This could be a superb computing device that is very easy to use, and very portable.
solitaire on big touchscreens rocks.
how will it be called in France? Le LePad?
the the fail.
But I am le tired....
Then take a nap. Then fire ze missiles!!!
LeBezel.
And that Ladies and Gentlemen, is a really bad TN-Panel...
I'll believe it when I see it on display, in a store next to the iPad.
Haven't they learnt the lesson. Don't open your mouth unless a product is available to buy in the next 6 weeks. 6 months to end of the year is an eternity in the Tech World. We'll already have iPad 4.0 and maybe even a revision by then.
they seem to obviously be "pad" computers.
yet you're appending "tablet" to them all the time.
LePad is next to ze LeRed thing-a-ma-jig. Seriously, what is that?
Le sad. It looks like Lenovo has become everything IBM wishes it wasn't.