Lenovo is going on an all-out assault on the world of tablets, creating a new division specifically for them and announcing a new range. The Lenovo lineup includes the Windows 7-running IdeaPad Tablet P1 and two Android 3.1-powered tablets, including the business-focussed ThinkPad Tablet, and the consumer-focussed IdeaPad K1 which we have here. As Android tablets go, it’s fairly typical when it comes to specs. The screen is 10.1 inches, with a resolution of 1280 x 800, while the processing and graphics power is provided by a Nvidia Tegra 2 chip, running at the usual 1GHz. There’s also [...]

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Google has been tinkering with its Android OS again, and has now come up with written gesture recognition. The new service means that users will be able to simply draw a letter on your Android phone (2.0 and above only) and your mobile will trawl through the phone’s innards to show you all the things that begin with that letter. If you struggle with your finest copperplate handwriting, simply striking the letter through from left to right will erase it and you can start all over again. Bringing down the insanity This basically mimics the voice search function on the Android phone, but has [...]

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