This is becoming bothersome. I had planned on purchasing at least one of these as a gift, and it seems to have disappeared from the civilized world since IFA.
Here is some late news:
"Cheap tablet Lenovo IdeaPad A1 will be released in Russia in October
Posted by admin2 on October 1, 2011, filed in: Application, Gadget, Tablet
The Russian division by Lenovo in its microblog Twitter announced that its tablet IdeaPad A1 will go on sale in Russia in mid-October. The device will cost from 8500 rubles (depending on memory capacity). Recall, this tablet was announced earlier this month at the IFA 2011. It’s quite simple and, consequently, low-cost solution. The device is running an operating system Android 2.3 and is based on single-core ARM Cortex A8 processor with a clock frequency of 1 GHz.---"
http://mobile263.com/cheap-tablet-le...n-october.html
((supposedly 199USD))