Oh no, it’s not as regards to the 5-inch tabletphone today. Announced on the same event in Beijing today are a few larger tablets from Lenovo: the LePad S2007 and the LePad S2010. Interestingly, the latter 10.1-inch device isn’t quite similar to what we saw in our exclusive scoop from two weeks ago: it’s 1.5GHz Qualcomm dual-core in place of 1.6GHz NVIDIA quad-core, 1GB RAM in place of 2GB, no funky fingerprint scanner at the back, and it’s launching with Android 3.2 in place of Ice Cream Sandwich. But fret not, as we’ve been informed that its international counterpart — aka the IdeaTab K2 in our scoop — will launch with the newest Android OS; so we’re just looking forward to a release date.
Either one of these Honeycomb tablets share many similarities: Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.5GHz chip, 1GB RAM, 1,280 x 800 IPS display (pretty nice on a 7-inch form factor, with 216ppi density), eight megapixel main camera, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, dual-mode 3G (China Telecom’s EV-DO plus China Unicom’s WCDMA) for data plus voice calls, and plans to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich one day. Except for the plain physical differences, these tablets also include different battery capacities: the 360g-heavy, 9.7mm-thick S2007 comes with 3,780mAh that may last as long as eight hours on WiFi; whereas the 670g-heavy (almost almost like the unique WiFi iPad, uh-oh), 9.9mm-thick S2010 has a generous 7,560mAh that could push it to 11 hours. Just like the S2005 tabletphone, both tablets can be available in China next month; so for now, stay tuned for some hands-on photos from our folks over at Engadget Chinese.
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