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While most electronics manufacturers struggled throughout 2020, Lenovo had quite a remarkable showing in the tablet segment, ultimately growing its market presence by 120% annually.

What’s the secret to Lenovo’s explosive growth?

According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, the Chinese tech giant expanded its tablet operations by as much as the three largest players did, combined. And just for clarity, the said trio also happens to consist of the only three tablet manufacturers that are still larger than Lenovo in terms of both shipments and revenues. Those would be Apple, Samsung, and Amazon, in that order. As things stand right now, Amazon won’t remain ahead of Lenovo much longer, however. Granted, the Kindle family did fairly well last year, accounting for over 17 million shipments, nearly 2 million more than in 2019. And yet that improvement seems minuscule compared to Lenovo’s jump from 8.5 million tablet shipments in 2019 to 14 million devices last year.

Strategy Analytics believes portfolio variety was a massive factor contributing to this achievement. Lenovo is pretty unique in this regard, seeing how it’s equally eager to keep making high-end Windows hybrids, intelligent displays with smart assistants like the Yoga Smart Tab (pictured above), and traditional Android-powered slates hoping to rival the iPad.

Source: StrategyAnalytics.com

Lenovo has once again succeeded in reducing the physical footprint of its already minuscule ThinkPad ultrabooks, as underlined by the Chinese firm’s announcement of the new ThinkPad X1 Nano which happened early in the afternoon. Behind that simple name is an impressively compact device weighing a record-low 1.99 pounds, which comes down to some 907g.

Despite the unmatched portability, the ThinkPad X1 Nano still manages to pack quite a punch processing-wise, as Lenovo turned to Intel’s Evo platform and its 11th-generation Intel Core notebook processors. Coupled with a familiar 13-inch display format (with 2K, i.e. 1440p resolution support in a 16:10 aspect ratio), 3D sound support, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, and up to 16GB of LPDDR4x RAM, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano promises over 17 hours of standalone operation on a single battery charge, which is an amazing figure currently only rivaled by Dell’s 2020 refresh of its iconic XPS 17 notebook.

Lenovo is accepting pre-orders for the ThinkPad X1 Nano in the United States starting from today, with prices starting at $1,399. The company will begin shipping first units to early adopters early into the final quarter of the year, which could very likely mean by the end of the following week.

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Google and Lenovo are hardly strangers, but they haven’t been collaborating too closely ever since the former sold Motorola to the latter back in 2014.

That particular event allowed Google to net in excess of $2.9 billion, and while the duo’s latest endeavor probably won’t lead to such financial incentives, it does show promise in the enterprise segment. More specifically, Google and Lenovo teamed up in order to make Google Meet even more accessible to companies of all sizes.

The project, powered by Google Cloud, revolves around specialized Google Meet hardware coming in the form of the so-called Google Meet kits which are meant to be super easy to set up and start using momentarily. The Plug-and-play solution will be made available to all new and existing G Suite and Google Meet subscribers interested in investing in a better set of equipment for home offices and setups involving a large number of those.

Technologically speaking, the kits are powered by the Tensor Processing Unit developed by google’s AI chip experts. Intuitive voice recognition, 4K capabilities, and intelligent framing automation are all part of the package that Lenovo and Google are now offering to enterprise customers in the United States and abroad.

Prices, naturally, will depend on order sizes, as tends to be the case with B2B solutions.

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