If this is going to be interesting then Android will need a reworking like Apple gave iPhone OS (now iOS). If the LePad is going to sport vanilla Android then I can't see it being interesting. IMHO this needs to be done by Google, another host of OEM specific Android variants seems to be the very last thing that's needed.
I don't like the name much. Lenovo has rather a lot of "Pad" product names already (IdeaPad, ThinkPad) and "LePad" hardly stands out.
Watch out, iPad. Lenovo is jumping into the tablet computer ring later this year with the similarly-named “LePad.”
The announcement comes courtesy of recent comments by Liu Jun, the senior VP and president of Lenovo’s Consumer Business Group. While there hasn’t been an official press release or conference regarding the LePad yet, we do know that it will be Android-based and it should launch by the end of 2010.
Hopefully it starts off with Android 2.2 when launched, but anything else could be just as likely given that we don’t know any of the other important specs like display size, processor, etc.
It’s also likely that this will launch in China first (à la LePhone) to test the waters, so don’t bank on seeing this in North America soon just yet.
