In the recent T3 CES special report its seems many manufacturers are about to make announcements around tablet or slate PC’s.
Hewlett Packard Touchscreen slate is expected to go on sale later this year for under $500 and was demonstrated by Microsoft’s chief, Steve Balmer, who stated “Its a beautiful little product..as portable as a phone and as powerful as a PC running Windows7.”
Sony have a slightly different take on the tablet bandwagon with the announcement of a 7 inch touch screen, WiFi Personal Internet Viewer which runs the Linux based Chumby OS.
T-Mobile are also set to announce the Vega, what they call a Innovative Converged Device (ICD), which could be one of the first to run on the Android OS. With a 15 inch screen this is going to push the from factor to the limit and is designed, they say, to be a family communication network within the home.
Dell also have released pictures of their Dell Concept Tablet which will have a 5 inch screen and ruin Android OS. The unit is expected to have a 5 megapixel camera and have 3g and WiFi capabilities.
As you can see it could easily become a crowded market, with already a large number of new acronyms
Get March issue of T3 magazine to se the full CES Report.
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Hrmm, Tablets yep. Compete with iPad? Not so sure, the thought of being able to have most of your current iPhone apps available on the iPad is hugely appealing.
Android on a Tablet? Yuk.