Archive for the ‘Lenovo’ Category

Last month we spotted a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 with an Intel WiMAX card, and today a Lenovo U150 showed up on the FCC with Intel WiMAX goodness.  According to label photos, the U150 will rock an Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150 card, enabling 802.11 b/g/n along with WiMAX.

Over the past two years WiMAX coverage in the US has slowly improved.  And things are only getting better – last month we learned that Sprint will finally be brining WiMAX to Silicon Valley.  These new WiMAX deployments and WiMAX enabled computers like the Lenovo U150 will hopefully drive expansions in WiMAX coverage.

No word if the Lenovo U150 will be subsidized by a WiMAX carrier, but ideally a carrier will knock a couple hundred bucks off the U150’s price in exchange for a service contract.

The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t made its second appearance on the FCC today, this time thanks to Quanta Computer.  Quanta is one of Lenovo’s OEM suppliers, and this filing shows that the S10-3t will feature 802.11 b/g/n powered by Broadcom, as well as 850/1900 GSM and WCDMA 3G (Bands II and V).

Overall, it’s been a busy day for the S10-3t, and we’re excited about this multi-touch tablet.

The Lenovo S10-3t convertible tablet netbook, which is expected to be announced at CES, made an appearance on the FCC today thanks to Ericsson AB.  According to reports, this netbook will feature a 10.1” multitouch capacitive display that will swivel 180 degrees to a tablet layout.

Today’s FCC filing also reveals 850/1900 GSM/EDGE, as well as quad band WCDMA (I, II, V, VIII bands).  A version of the S10 called the S10-3 will also be available.  The S10-3 will have a regular netbook form factor, sans tablet touchscreen.

From:  Netbook Choice

A filing by Realtek Semiconductor today mentioned three Lenovo products, the ThinkPad Mini 11, ThinkPad Mini10, and ThinkPad X100e.  We’ve already heard about the ThinkPad X100e – the device made an appearance last month on netbooknews.de – however this seems to be the first time the ThinkPad Mini 11 and ThinkPad Mini10 have been mentioned publically.

At first glance it appears that the ThinkPad Mini10 and Mini 11 are new netbooks from Lenovo with 10 and 11 inch screens, respectively.  The FCC filing does refer to these devices as ‘ThinkPads,’ which suggests these are actual products, not just parts.

However, Lenovo does use the “Mini 10” terminology for some of its wireless adapters, and the FCC filing does suggest that the Mini10 will be installed in X100e and Mini 11 hosts.  Still, even if the Mini10 is only a WiFi adapter, the FCC filing does mention that the ThinkPad Mini 11 is actually a ‘host.’

The branding of the Mini 11 and Mini10 is also interesting, since Dell already offers ‘Mini’ branded netbooks.  It seems unlikely that Lenovo would release a netbook with a model name that’s so similar to Dell’s product line.

You’ll also note that this filing has a space between Mini and 11, but not Mini and 10.  I’m not sure if that’s significant or just a typo, but this naming convention is consistent throughout the FCC filing.

I’ll guess we’ll just have to wait and see with this one – no additional information is available on ReakTek’s filing.  It would be nice to see a new line of ThinkPad Mini netbooks from Lenovo, however.

This glossy black IdeaPad netbook from Lenovo made an appearance on the FCC late Friday in a filing by Intel.  The device, which is known as the FL5-B3, features a 10.1” screen with a 1024×600 resolution, 250 GB hard drive, and 2GB of RAM.

The most interesting part of this filing, however, is the FL5-B3’s processor.  Stickers on the back of the device list the processor as a 1.66GHz PineView from Intel.  The PineView is the next generation of Intel’s Atom, and features a built in DDR2 memory controller, integrated graphics and a Broadcom video decoding processor.

The PineView is expected to be formally announced in December 2009, with a release date in January 2010.  And, as far as I can tell, the FL5-B3 is the first netbook that has been confirmed to use the PineView processor.

Notes on the back of the FL5-B3 warn that the device has not yet received regulatory approval, so the netbook is not close to being launched at this point.  Given that the PineView will be formally released in January 2010, I wouldn’t expect the FL5-B3 until Q1 2010.

One more interesting tidbit on the FL5-B3 – I don’t see any left or right mouse buttons near the device’s trackpad (close-up below).  This suggests that the trackpad may have integrated left and right buttons like a MacBook.  If implemented well, this could be a great space-saving design choice that is perfect for the netbook category.

Overall, this is definitely a welcome addition to Lenovo’s netbook lineup.  The PineView, 250 GB of storage and 2 GB of RAM are nice spec bumps.  The only qualm I have at this point is the glossy finish – if FCC filings are any indication this device is a fingerprint magnet.