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Hands on with Lenovo’s Intel-powered Android phone and tablet

By on January 13, 2012 at 11:02am in Mobile News


Lenovo is using this year’s CES to showcase a reference set of phones and tablets powered by Intel’s upcoming low-powered Medfield chipset.

Intel knows that it cannot rely on its desktop and laptop chips to fuel record growth, so it’s adapting the Atom series to work with Android. Though the x86 architecture is still quite buggy, and most apps don’t seem to work all that well, Lenovo is showing off its K800 smartphone and IdeaTab K2110 tablet, both running Medfield reference chips. The K800 runs a modified version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and has a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor and 4.5″ 720p screen.


The K2110 runs a fairly unfettered build of Ice Cream Sandwich, which is supposed to have improved x86 support and better app compatibility. Its 1080p screen is sharp and beautiful, but the design is a little “forced cool” for my liking.

Both of these devices are China-only at the moment, but we hope to see variations launching in North America this year.

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7 comments for “Hands on with Lenovo’s Intel-powered Android phone and tablet”

  1. It would be interesting to see the phone come stateside and to Canada. The design is totally out of a Batman film…well the back anyways…? agree?

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    Posted by Danny | January 13, 2012, 11:08 am
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  2. @Danny Agreed. Looks like it came out of a dark knight film.

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    Posted by radapple | January 13, 2012, 11:34 am
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  3. That is a sweet looking phone.

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    Posted by jcrew1047 | January 13, 2012, 11:43 am
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  4. Wow. Microsoft should be talking to them for interface design. At least it LOOKS appealing, unlike the absolutely 1988 4 Color DOS design Microsoft currently uses for their phones in their so called Tiles….vomit….

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    Posted by Clint | January 13, 2012, 12:01 pm
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  5. The bottom grills… is it a speaker grill or for ventilation?

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    Posted by Apple4Life | January 13, 2012, 2:02 pm
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  6. This is just a Reference Design. The actual production units will be different.

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    Posted by Danll | January 13, 2012, 2:28 pm
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  7. Sounds like you shuold be paid up though and be all covered for the season.Disclaimer: You’ll need to check with Real for the final say. I can’t comment on their billing system.

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    Posted by Qadan | February 23, 2012, 2:59 pm
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