On Friday, the head of Lenovo Yang Yuantsin reported that in three to five years the share of mobile devices in the products of this company will be 70-80%. He noted that the ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebooks are already outpaced sales desktop computers, and this trend will intensify with each passing year. Over time, the bulk of mobile range will be smartphones, with an important role to play, and hybrid devices such as Tablet Notebook IdeaPad U1 smartbuka and Skylight.

Thus, Lenovo is planning to transfer business almost entirely on mobile rails. In this field it will have to compete with traditional rivals such as Acer and HP, as well as with mobile mastodons Apple and HTC. Lenovo has entered the market touch smartphone (Ophone O1 and LePhone), and the device type U1 represent a direct threat iPad and other tablet.

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The organization Greenpeace has updated its Guide to Green Electronics, which praised Apple for its active stance on the environment, noting that the company is making a lot of effort to make its products were harmful components.

«Apple is leading, but HP is also very close, – commented Greenpeace activists Gerell Casey (Casey Harrell). – And here is the lack of initiative on the part of other companies shows that consumers and the environment continues to lose ".

The biggest drop in the rating of Green tested Samsung – from second place to seventh. Greenpeace criticized the Samsung because it did not remove their products from brominated flame retardants, that Greenpeace asked to do before 2010. But Samsung has initiated steps to remove toxic compounds from mobile phones. Before notebooks turn comes in 2011.

Dell, Lenovo and LG also worsened the position: they promised to take some measures, but did not. Good situation for Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

"In 2010, important changes must occur in the use of BFRs and PVC manufacturers of computers and televisions," – considers Gerell.

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According to the Chinese site Netease, Lenovo may enter the market of electronic books with its own device. The source claims that the "reader" is ready, now it passes the last test and should be on sale very soon. Lenovo itself has not commented on these rumors. Naturally, none of the characteristics and prices are still unknown.

Lenovo is not the only Chinese manufacturer who is not averse to master tempting market electronic books. First in the Middle Kingdom did Hanwang, in the past year sold almost a million devices.

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The site of the Federal Communications Commission appeared description of the new Lenovo netbook with a multitouch display on a rotating hinge, like a tablet. Novelty be called IdeaPad S10-3t. It is assumed that it will be officially presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January, CES 2010.

The heart of the device will be Atom N450 processor at 1.66 GHz and Intel platform Pine Trail. According to preliminary data, the netbook will be 10.1-inch screen, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, Windows 7.

It is expected that the netbook will be released in two configurations: S10-3 and S10-3t. We will not be the first multitouch screen and hinged display.

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After service in the Flickr photos of the new network has spilled VAIO P-like computers from Lenovo with the code name «Pocket Yoga» ( «Pocket Yoga»).

Judging by the pictures, you can provide any size will devays, but what there will be an operating system, remains anyone's guess.

According to the Chinese newspaper Commercial Times, a company Lenovo is planning to soon release the 11.6-and 12.1-inch notebooks, which will be used by Intel Atom processors and graphics platform Nvidia Ion. The beginning of the release is scheduled for the second quarter of this year, for which its production capacity will provide Wistron. No kommetariev nor from Lenovo, or from Nvidia have been reported.

In addition, Lenovo, reportedly at the moment is also considering the possibility of producing 13-inch laptop models on the platform of Ion and 12-inch notebook on the platform from VIA.