Lenovo is moving into BlackBerry’s territory with several new mobile products, two phones and a tablet that can act as as phone. The first phone will be running an older version of Android and bears the unfortunate name of Lephone K2. The Inquirer reports that the other will be running Windows Phone OS though it would not be at all surprising if it ends up based on Win8. This may really hurt RIM as they are currently the choice of smartphone for enterprise users; these same users are likely using a Lenovo as their PC. With the already established place that Lenovo bears in the office, if they can create a decent phone that interacts with their Lenovo laptop or desktop, they could push RIM right out of the office.
"CHINESE HARDWARE VENDOR Lenovo has unveiled not one but two smartphones, the Lephone K2 and an unnamed Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device.
The Lephone K2 is the Android device and will come with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, not Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Details are very light on Windows alternative, apart from that it will run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system and tip up in the second half of next year, according to PC Mag."
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