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Lenovo To Launch Several Tablets This Year
If you’ve been thinking of getting your hands on some of Lenovo’s products it seems that come this year you will be getting several options to choose from.
Come this summer Lenovo will be launching a 10-inch tablet that is running on Android’s Honeycomb 3.0 operating system and it will be targeted at consumers which is part of their consumer centric IdeaPad line. A couple of months later another 10-inch Honeycomb tablet from Lenovo will be released except this time this tablet will be aimed at enterprise users in mind and this tablet will be part of their ThinkPad line.
Later on in the year it looks like Lenovo has more plans regarding tablets, this time it looks like instead of Android, this 10-inch tablet will instead feature the Windows operating system instead which we are guessing will be aimed more towards the enterprise users, due to the productivity tools that Windows has over Android.
If you like the products that Lenovo has been putting out so far and were hoping to see some smartphones from Lenovo, it looks like you might be in for a rather long wait and it is reported that we will not be seeing Lenovo smartphones hit the market for at least 12 to 18 months, but hopefully their tablets will prove to be hits, enough to keep their current customers satisfied.
The Fairphone 2 was first unveiled in June earlier this year, where this particular handset carried a modular design while featuring majority of its components that have been sourced from conflict-free mines. It seems that this particular handset that you can purchase with a clear conscience has begun to ship to those who happen to live across Europe.
Fairphone announced in a blog post, “It’s been almost two years in the making, and some of the earliest buyers have been patiently waiting since July to receive their new phones. As community manager, I want to personally welcome the new batch of Fairphone owners to our community.” The initial 1,000 units are tipped to ship this month, before the other pre-orders follow in January 2016.
In terms of hardware specifications, the Fairphone 2 will run on a Snapdragon 801 chipset, has a 5″ 1080p screen with Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP camera, with Android 5.1 Lollipop in tow. It will be a dual SIM capable handset with a microSD memory card slot and plays nice with 4G LTE networks, retailing for approximately €525 a pop.
It looks like the upcoming flagship model from Xiaomi will feature NFC support, at least based on a document that was released by China UnionPay. Just in case you are scratching your head and wondering who China UnionPay is, they happen to be the only domestic payment gateway supplier and card organization, and hence, to see them offer detailed support concerning the newly released NFC-based payment system points to the very real possibility of the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 5 featuring NFC capability.
After all, the Xiaomi Mi 3 was also mentioned on the list, which so happens to feature NFC, and there is no mention of the Xiaomi Mi 4 which does not come with NFC. Still, such a new payment system would be the ideal tool to see the reintroduction of NFC to the flagship model.
OnePlus did make an announcement in the previous month that the Ceramic variant of the OnePlus X will be released on November 24. True to their word, they did exactly that – although only a pitiful number of units were made available, and not only that, this was through a charity auction. Thankfully for the rest of the masses who are on the lookout for this device, it has gone on sale officially already.
Needless to say, this particular variant is available only by an invitation, although do bear in mind that standard OnePlus X invites are not good here – you will still need to snag yourself a specific Ceramic variant invite before you make a purchase. OnePlus is also on the lookout to offer additional methods of picking up this smartphone, although no further details were revealed.
The OnePlus X Ceramic will be available only in select markets, where among them include Europe, India, and Hong Kong. To date, we do know that OnePlus had made only 10,000 units of the handset available. A case of the early bird getting the proverbial worm here?