Lenovo announce plans for LePad follow-up

Lenovo have announced that they plan to follow up their new LePad tablet with the LePad 2 by October 2011. The LePad has not even been released in the UK yet.

The company have described the follow up as a lighter and thinner second generation version of the LePad.

The announcement was made at the inaugural banquet for the 2011 China IT Leadership Summit. Lenovo’s CEO, Yang Yuanqing said that the company had experienced a positive response following the 12-day presales of the LePad, and that its successor, the LePad 2, would require a further nine months of development before it can be released.

Yang also revealed that the device was being developed by a separate team to the one that worked on the original LePad, before outlining the benefits of the LePad compared to the iPad in the Chinese market. Firstly, the homegrown Lenovo brand is far stronger in China than Apple, and secondly the LePad is substantially cheaper.

This week the Chinese company announced that, despite concerns over the supply of components following the tragic events in Japan, the LePad would be available in the UK in June.

At this early stage, there is no information about a possible release of the LePad 2 in the UK. However, if it follows the same release schedule as its forerunner, we can expect it to land in the UK by early 2012.

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