The Chinese producer, Lenovo had launched 3 of their latest tablets. Unmitigated, Lenovo launched the three of them all at once to invade the global marketplace.
Prepared to face the more competitive tablet PC market competition, the Lenovo tablets comes in a variety of options. These tablets have one that uses Windows 7 OS or Android, with the price more or less similar to iPad. This makes Lenovo joined other companies like Samsung Electronics, and Blackberry’s RIM. Lenovo had begin selling Android based tablets since last March in China. Lenovo are planning to sell more mobile devices including smartphones. Each Lenovo tablets have 10,1” touchscreens. But every tablets were designed for a different segment. The IdeaPad K1 is for the consumer segment, the ThinkPad tablet is for the business class, while the IdeaPad P1 is for home users and offices. The IdeaPad P1 uses Windows and the other two tablets uses Android Honeycomb OS.
Although the Google+ is newly launched and still in beta format, Google is setting up for their social networking to be able to run in every platform. The internet giant has just released the Google+ application for iPhone.
To be able to use the application, the Apple gadget must be the one that uses iOS 3.1 at least. Google optimistic this Google+ application for iPhone will be welcomed like the Google+ for Android. As we all know, the Google+ for Android have impressive downloads of 1-5 millions installation. At first glance, the Apple version Google+ is not too different from the desktop. But Google+ for iPhone offered an optimized support to block unwanted messages, enhance the support for photo uploads, and provides many bug fixes and performance improvements.
Google showcased their latest mobile operating system, the Ice Cream Sandwich in the event Google Mobile Revolution held in Tokyo, Japan. The Android Ice Cream brought by Google in a demo is embedded on the Motorola Xoom tablet PC. From the appearance, the user’s interface of the new OS have no significant changes.
Maybe this is because it is still in development stage, a more significant changes is shown by the darker environment color. At the bottom, there are also available some kind of group folder that groups the applications. Special for the demo, Google also brought some of the interesting applications that pretty amazed the media. The first application is a kind of face recognition but can be edited in real-time. This application can capture everyone’s face in front of the tablet’s front camera and then do some editing to the face caught by the camera, with this application, you can edit your face to have bigger nose, slanted eye, as well as smaller lips. The real-time means that you don’t have to take the picture and then do the editing, this can be done while you are looking to your face live. The editing is also more than adding mustache or beard like many other applications. In the demo, the application is still limited on detecting and editing the face area. The next application is Virtual Camera Man. Like a cameraman, it will follow the actor even when the actor have change places. But in order to be able to follow the “actor”, the Xoom must recognize the actor first. The identification process is not by recognizing the face but by sound. So whenever you have change places but still making a sound, then the gadget’s camera will still follow you around as the main focus. But of course the distance is limited in certain range. The application is made for video conferencing for corporate and domestic users. And this application is made specially for the Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
Google admits the average Android phone price currently circulating in the market is relatively expensive with the price range of US$500. But with some innovation in progress, it is expected phones with this green robot operating system will be more cheaper.
This was conveyed by the Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in the Google Mobile Revolution event in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday (19/07/2011). Eric said the current price of $500 will decrease to become $200, or even $50. Eric said this is because the possible decrease of the hardware price. While Google is playing in software area through Android that is an open source. But Eric didn’t mention when will this decrease going to happen, or which vendor will be the first to do it. One thing for sure, the Android gadgets keeps increasing. By the last Google data, there are more than 550 thousand Android gadgets activated daily. While currently, there are 135 millions gadgets with Android OS.
