Lenovo announces 'respite-from-recession' consumer offer

Offers BlackBerry, Additional On-Site Warranty, Canon Inkjet Printer On Select Models.

Lenovo has introduced a delightful offer that offers consumers a respite from the severe, ongoing recession. The offer includes exciting gifts such as a BlackBerry handset, Microsoft Office Student Pack, Canon Inkjet printer, Powercom UPS and two-year warranty upgrade, on the purchase of select Lenovo consumer notebooks and desktops. The offer is open across all Lenovo retail stores in India, and is on from February 12 – March 31, 2009.

“Lenovo aspires to deliver great value to its customers. With this offer we hope to enable our customers with a technology advantage of some of our best computing products, combined with exciting gifts for added benefits. We are not only extending this offer to products, but also services like additional on-site warranty to deliver an overall ­­­exciting experience to our customers” said Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan, Vice President, Transactional Consumer Sales, Lenovo India.

BlackBerry!
Lenovo is offering one of the most tempting, value-offers seen in the Indian PC market by providing a BlackBerry 7130g on the purchase of the Lenovo Y430, Lenovo Y330 or Lenovo G230 notebooks.

The BlackBerry 7130g from Vodafone (worth about Rs. 20,000/-) will include one-month subscription as well, making this offer irresistible. This offer is valid on a first-come-first-basis only, making it exclusive to the first 1,000 purchases in India. Consumers can also opt for a Microsoft Office Student Pack, in place of the BlackBerry.

• The Lenovo Y430 is a fun, mainstream notebook that features touch sensitive multimedia controls, Dolby® Home Theatre, One-Key Rescue System and VeriFace™ facial recognition, a HDMI port in a mainstream notebook for the first time, Gesture Recognition, among others.
• The Lenovo Y330 features switchable graphics, is equipped with the latest version of VeriFace™ facial recognition technology, Dolby® Home Theatre and touch-sensitive multimedia controls. The notebook comes equipped with HDMI with DDR III, ultra slim LED backlit display panel and a built-in DVD burner.
• The Lenovo G230 is an ideal ultraportable for consumers looking for a notebook that is not just easy on the eye, but easy on the budget as well. It features brilliant high-definition displays, powerful, integrated stereo speakers and dual-layer DVD recordable drive.

Extended On-Site Warranty
In a unique initiative in the PC market today, Lenovo is extending on-site warranty for up to two years on the purchase of Lenovo G430 and G530 notebooks.

• Lenovo G430 and G530: Their stylish form factor and impressive features make them ideal for consumers seeking the transition from desktops to notebooks. Their brilliant, widescreen displays provide the ultimate mobile viewing experience with Lenovo's VibrantView technology. The integrated speakers are louder and more powerful compared to a typical mainstream notebook.

Desktop Offer
Desktop users too can rejoice, as consumers buying a Lenovo Q, K and H Series desktop can avail two-year additional warranty or Powercom UPS or a Canon Inkjet printer.

• The Lenovo K Series desktops offer distinctive style, multimedia versatility, and smart technology features – like face recognition, automatic brightness adjustment, and one-key functionality – to provide the very best user experience.
• The Lenovo Q Series features living room digital performance PCs. Besides its slim design and style, it boasts of reliability and high quality. It and incorporates Lenovo’s vantage technology along with one-key recovery, one-key antivirus, file management and installing drivers and software, and Lenovo’s Bright Vision for eyesight protection.
• The Lenovo H200 is a great choice for consumers seeking a high-value computing experience, sleek design at a low-cost, advanced processing and mainstream features. Besides giving consumers the access to email, Internet, view pictures and video, and other basic computing applications, the Lenovo H200 ensures life-long saving as it consumes 60 Watt less energy than any other mainstream desktop in the market, making it a supersaver on energy and cost.

About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building exceptionally engineered personal computers. Lenovo’s business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com.