Many tech companies are talking tablets at this week’s annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. After being mostly blind sided by the popularity of Apple’s iPad last year, several tech companies are looking to debut their own versions of this new form of tablet computing.
Analyst Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group says that more than 100 companies will debut versions of a tablet computer. For example, Motorola, Toshiba, Research In Motion, Asus, Acer and Vizio are among the companies expected to unveil tablets during this week’s Consumer Electronics Show.
Apple's chief competitor, Google’s Android, is expected to be used in many of the new tablets.
Samsung released its 7-inch screen Galaxy Tab in November. Other companies’ debuts may still be awhile. For example, tablets from Toshiba and Motorola aren’t expected until the second half of the year.
The new tablets are expected to fill in gaps with features the current iPad doesn’t have. For example, the Tab and Toshiba’s Tablet will feature two cameras for videos and photos, a USB port as well as a slot for SD memory cards for photos, and work with Adobe Flash software.
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs isn’t worried about the competition and called the new tablets “dead on arrival." He said many of the competing tablets will be too small with 7-inch screens. "Seven-inch tablets are tweeners -- too big to be a phone and too small to compete with the iPad," he said.
Analysts expect Apple to announce it's next version of the iPad soon.
Source: “Is 2011 the Year of the Tablet?; Tech Companies to Play iPad Catch-up at CES,” USA Today (Jan. 4, 2011)
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