Back at CES 2010, Lenovo unveiled the Skylight smartbook, promising to launch it in April. April came and went and there was no Skylight. Now comes word that Lenovo has delayed (canceled?) the device to make changes to the OS that will power it. Rather than a proprietary Linux based OS, Lenovo is likely to use Google Android (or Google Chrome maybe?).
“After careful consideration of market conditions and user feedback, Lenovo has decided to focus its resources on building a family of next-generation mobile internet devices based upon open technologies such as (but not limited to) the Android kernel, similar to the Lenovo smartphone, which is available for sale in China now.
As a result of Lenovo’s strategic shift towards open standards such as an Android kernel based environment, the Company has shelved its plans to release the initial version of the Skylight smartbook that featured a proprietary Linux based OS.”
Lenovo provided no indication as to when the Skylight could resurface.