Lenovo takes over X86 server business from IBM

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Lenovo's new LaVie Z laptops weigh even less than Apple's ultra-light new Macbook
PCWorld

• May 4, 2015 8:12
• Lenovo recently released the super-svelte LaVie Z laptop, offering Windows fans a clamshell that’s just as lightweight as Apple’s new 12-inch MacBook. As promised during CES, the new laptop is available in two different flavors: the standard LaVie Z and theLaVie Z 360 convertible.
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  At 1.87 pounds, the standard model of the LaVie Z is a little heavier than the promised 1.72 pounds when we saw it in Las Vegas in January. Nevertheless, it still weighs less than Apple’s 2.03-pound, 12-inch MacBook, and Lenovo’s LaVie Z comes with a larger 13.3-inch screen.
  
  The key to the LaVie Z’s lighter weight is the laptop’s Magnesium-Lithium (Mg-Li) alloy chassis, which is supposed to weigh half as much as aluminum but as strong as standard magnesium alloy.
  
  
  When it comes to pixels, the new MacBook has the LaVie Z slightly beat, at least when it comes to density. Apple’s MacBook has a Retina display with 2304-by-1440 resolution at 226 pixels per inch. The LaVie Z has a higher resolution at 2560-by-1440, but a lower ppi count at 220. The difference should be imperceptible in daily life, however.
  
  The MacBook is also a little thinner. At its thickest point the MacBook measures 0.52-inch, compared to the LaVie Z’s 0.67-inch.
  
  But enough about the MacBook comparisons! We’re here to learn about the lightweight LaVie Z laptop.
  
  Under the hood, both the basic laptop and the convertible are packing a 2.40GHz Intel Core i7-5500U, integrated Intel graphics, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. You also get two USB 3.0 ports, one HDMI-out port, and an SD card reader. The convertible 360 comes with a touchscreen
  
  The LaVie Z is available directly from Lenovo for $1500 or $1700 for the convertible model.
  
  

 

[cirr]

All future smartphones、tablets、laptops and notebooks should come with magnesium-lithium or aluminium-lithium alloy body。

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Their Yoga serie was already a better buy than macbooks

 

[cirr]

Lenovo's concept phone to project touchscreen on to any surface

By: John Davidson | afr.com | Posted: 28 May 2015, 15:23

Lenovo just launched a concept phone with a built-in pico projector that turns any surface into a large touchscreen for your phone.

On stage here at its Tech World gadget festival, it showed the phone projecting a piano keyboard onto a surface, and then someone playing a little tune by touching the surface.

He then went on to play a real piano, which had nothing to do with anything. Details are scant, but the phone has obviously got some movement sensors built into the projector, which detect movements and convert them into the equivalent of on-screen touches and gestures.

Lenovo isn't the first company to release a projector that works as a sort-of touch screen, but it's the first one to build it into a thin smartphone.More details and hopefully a hands on review to follow.

Lenovo's phone concept to project touchscreen on to any surface - OFweek News

 

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Lenovo's concept phone to project touchscreen on to any surface

By: John Davidson | afr.com | Posted: 28 May 2015, 15:23

Lenovo just launched a concept phone with a built-in pico projector that turns any surface into a large touchscreen for your phone.

On stage here at its Tech World gadget festival, it showed the phone projecting a piano keyboard onto a surface, and then someone playing a little tune by touching the surface.

He then went on to play a real piano, which had nothing to do with anything. Details are scant, but the phone has obviously got some movement sensors built into the projector, which detect movements and convert them into the equivalent of on-screen touches and gestures.

Lenovo isn't the first company to release a projector that works as a sort-of touch screen, but it's the first one to build it into a thin smartphone.More details and hopefully a hands on review to follow.

Lenovo's phone concept to project touchscreen on to any surface - OFweek News

A very practical solution for quick presentations.

 

[cirr]

A very practical solution for quick presentations.

The phone is also great news for smartphone addicts with presbyopia, a condition that will eventually catch up with all of us.

 

[Speeder 2]

this is sth most close to hologram.

great , but how's battary life pans out then?

 

[TaiShang]

Lenovo Tech World draws Microsoft, Intel, Baidu CEOs
Shanghai Daily, May 29, 2015

Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group Ltd, delivers keynote speech at the Lenovo Tech World held on May 28 in Beijing. [Photo/China Daily]


Lenovo Group yesterday showed off concept products such as a double-screen smartwatch and a laser projector smartphone and other future technologies at the Lenovo Tech World, which drew the chief executives of Microsoft and Intel.

It was the first time for Lenovo, the world's biggest personal computer maker, to hold the tech event in Beijing, at which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and Baidu CEO Robin Li gave speeches and demos covering technologies on voice assistant tool and machine learning. The technologies will be used in Lenovo PCs and smartphones.

Lenovo, which sold 148 million devices globally in the year ended on March 31, aims to offer users combined services covering devices and software as it transforms from a hardware maker to a "One-Stop" service provider, said Lenovo's Chairman Yang Yuanqing.

Motorola Mobility, a unit of Lenovo after a US$290 million acquisition in 2014, debuted its customized service, Moto Maker, on China's mainland.

It allows users to choose color and back material for Moto X phones. The service also promises to deliver the phones within seven days on the mainland.

Lenovo's future wearable computing products will feature wireless connection, big data analysis and cloud services, Yang added.

Its Magic View smartwatch features two screens and virtual interactive display technologies while the Smart Cast handset has a projector.

In the first quarter, Lenovo's mobile business contributed a revenue of US$2.8 billion.

 

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Lenovo announces dual-screen smartwatch, projector smartphone

By: Aimee Chanthadavong | zdnet | Posted: 29 May 2015, 10:25

Lenovo has announced two concept products that it believes will eventually become part of the company's growing product portfolio.

Much similar to the way the company's Yoga tablet was first introduced to the world, Lenovo has announced at Tech World 2015 a dual-screen smartwatch and a laser projector smartphone.

Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius said the dual screen smartwatch, known as the Magic View, has been designed to address the pain points of users when it comes to other smartwatches: Small screens and privacy.

(Image: Lenovo)

The second screen is a virtual interactive display at the top of the watch band, which uses optical reflection to create a virtual image to allow users to see a virtual display more than 20 times larger than what users would see on the display. It also allows users to privately view messages rather than openly view messages on the main screen.

Lenovo also announced the first laser projector smartphone, Smart Cast. The Smart Cast concept features a built-in laser projector, infrared motion detector, and gesture recognition algorithms. Using the projector, users will be able to project images and videos from their smartphones onto a wall or table top.

Lenovo Smart Cast (Image: Lenovo)

At the same time, users can project virtual touchscreens such as virtual keyboards, or even piano keys onto a table. For video chats, users can project contact onto the wall while viewing different content simultaneously on their smartphone screen.

While no specific dates of release have been given, Hortensius said Lenovo is serious about making it widely available.

"We wouldn't be showing it if we weren't," he said.

Lenovo announces dual-screen smartwatch, projector smartphone - OFweek News

 

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Lenovo's Smart Cast Takes The Wildest Laser Projector Phone Concept You've Seen And Makes It Seem Slightly Less Crazy

A couple of years ago, I couldn't talk to anyone about smartphones for two minutes without them shouting in ecstatic delirium, "Have you seen the new iPhone 5?" Of course, they were talking about this concept video, which everyone in their right mind knew was a "concept" for no less obvious reason than the fact that it was titled as such and created by an animation studio. Except hundreds of people around me still believed it was the real deal. Before I digress any further into the naiveté of common mortals when it comes to technology, I'll remind you of the one feature in that video everyone thought was super cool and that has made it onto countless other concept videos for various companies and products: the projected keyboard.

Not one to be told that such concepts shall remain forever locked in some fanboy's wet dreams, Lenovo has decided that maybe, potentially, it could bring them to market. What we have here is another concept video, released by Lenovo during its Tech World conference, but the fact that the company officially decided to put its name behind it shows that it has at the very least seriously thought about it. That grants it more credibility than some animation studio's graphic prowess.

But the projected keyboard isn't the only feature of Smart Cast. Lenovo imagines the device to have a focus-free laser projector that can send images and videos onto walls (like current pico-projectors, but with a better technology than DLP) and a swiveling mirror part with a kickstand that lets you project on a surface in front of you — think keyboard, virtual piano, Fruit Ninja, and more.

It's crazy, and crazy awesome at the same time. But given Lenovo's current interest in embedded projectors (Yoga tablets), it's not hard to imagine that the company may really be working on something like this in a secret room inside its R&D labs.

 

[cnleio]

Lenovo + WOT + Russian girls + T-72 + BMP-3 == sell China smartphones in Russia

近日，联想公司在俄罗斯与热门军事游戏《坦克世界》联合举办了一次产品介绍会，大力推销新款智能手机。这次推介会的举办地是俄罗斯一处装甲兵基地，该基地出动了多辆T-72坦克和BMP装甲车前来助阵，活动主办方也邀请了多名军装模特在现场活跃气氛。

 

[cnleio]

Good deal

 

[rott]

Wot blitz, my all time favorite game.

 

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Lenovo chief draws roadmap for global top slot
September 22, 2015

Growing strength in innovation will help China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest personal computer maker, gain a stronger presence on the global stage, said Yang Yuanqing, its chairman and chief executive, on Monday.

"Chinese firms need an all-around beef-up in (aspects like) product design, business model, internationalized team, (corporate) culture and, most importantly, innovation, to earn greater respect from overseas markets," Yang told China Daily ahead of his visit to the United States as part of the Chinese business delegation accompanying President Xi Jinping on his state visit to the country.

The Lenovo veteran is set to hold talks with heads of 15 US technology companies, including Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Cook of Apple.

Yang, 51, said he expects "substantive results" from his meetings. "The visit will offer a great opportunity for entrepreneurs from both sides to discuss a wide range of topics."

For nine consecutive months now, despite a global slowdown in demand, Lenovo has held on to its top position in the world's PC market with more than 20 percent in market share.

Tim Coulling, a senior analyst at research firm Canalys, said: "Lenovo controls almost 30 percent of the Chinese PC market and is steadily building its share in the US. With a more diverse product portfolio, Lenovo is in a stronger position than Apple to cement its lead in the market."

Going global is a key strategy for Lenovo as Yang leads the Chinese giant to compete with overseas vendors in PC, server, smartphone and other segments.

Lenovo operates in more than 160 markets and roughly 70 percent of its annual revenue comes from markets outside of China. It was among the top three players in tablet and enterprise-related businesses. Having completed the $2.9-billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google Inc last year, Lenovo has an eye on the global smartphone market share.

Yang attributed Lenovo's global success to clear strategy, innovative products, an efficient business model and a multicultural management team. "These are our ingredients for success. As we enter the era of 'Internet Plus', our strength in innovation is playing an increasingly critical role. It's a strong innovative spirit that has brought Lenovo to where it is today."

Mergers and acquisitions have been useful for Lenovo to grow its global presence. Before the record Motorola buyout, it bought IBM Corp's PC unit in 2005, a bold move that was to lift the company to the top of the global PC market.

Today, the Beijing-based company is looking within for innovative ideas. Yang chairs a monthly summit in which the company's most experienced researchers discuss ideas with a high-level management team. If necessary, executives revise technology strategies.

The company's research facility is responsible for drawing up a route map for technology development over the next five years. Lenovo encourages lower-level staff to come up with out-of-the-box ideas. Employees from other departments can contribute to the design process.

Lenovo said it spends $1.7 billion annually in research and development. Its investment in innovation will increase by more than 20 percent year-on-year.

Yang said Lenovo's 8,000 developers and engineers in China, the US, Japan, Europe and other regions gave him confidence to advance into international markets, selling products with higher technology value.

Earlier this month, Lenovo revealed the next-generation flagship wearable and smartphone it will introduce in the global market. The Moto 360 smartwatch and Moto X Style pamphlet boast ultramodern features such as always-on voice assistance and a 21 megapixel camera.