Lenovo Reveals Tweaked Android, App Store for Lephone

From PC World: Lenovo showed off a tweaked version of Google's Android operating system on its upcoming Lephone handset, as the company also launched an application download store for the phone and other products.

Lenovo also announced a service that will automatically push e-mail and other content to the Lephone, adding more services alongside hardware in the company's new focus on mobile devices.

"We're doubling down here into the mobile Internet space," Rory Read, chief operating officer of Lenovo, told reporters at a Beijing event.

A large, onstage screen at the event displayed the phone's "four-leaf clover" user interface, which centered on a circled picture of the user surrounded by four square icons used to open sections like e-mail, chat and calls. Lenovo designed the interface and runs it on top of the Android core, Read said.

The Lephone was also shown multitasking, or running multiple applications at once. A port on the side of the phone will allow a mini-keyboard to be attached, but third parties could also design devices like video-game controllers that use the port, Lenovo CTO He Zhiqiang said during a speech

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