No doubt that Apple’s Magical device ‘iPad’ is the hot cake around us. In just first 80 days Apple has sold about 3 million iPad around the globe and Apple might have sold 2 million in the month of July. With out any doubt Apple’s iPad is leading global tablet market. A lot of manufacturing companies are spending a lot of money in R&D playing catch-up. So, lets take a look at few Tablets, Slates & Pad that are or will compete with iPad. Few of these devices are current in market and few of them are yet to release.
Archos 5
Availability: Now
OS: Android 1.6
Screen size: 4.8″
Price: $299 (16GB version)
Archos 7
Availability: Now
OS: Android 1.5
Screen size: 7″
Price: $199
Archos 9
Availability: Now
OS: Windows 7 Starter Edition
Screen size: 8.9″
Price: $549.99
Asus EeePad EP101TC
Availability: Early 2011
OS: Android
Screen size: 10″
Price: $399 to $499?
Asus EeePC EP121
Availability: Early 2011
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: 12″
Price: $399 to $499?
Augen Gentouch78
Availability: Now, at Kmart
OS: Android 2.1
Screen size: 7″
Price: $150
Best Buy Rocketfish Tablet
Availability: Unknown
OS: Android 2.2?
Screen size: nine inches or thereabouts?
Price: Unknown
Cisco Cius
Availability: First quarter of 2011
OS: Android
Screen size: 7″
Price: Unknown
Dell Streak
Availability: Now (as of August 12th)
OS: Android 1.6 at first; 2.2 later this year
Screen size: 5″
Price: $249.99 with a two-year AT&T contract; $549.99 a la carte
Dell Windows Slate
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
EnTourage eDGe
Availability: Now
OS: Android 1.6
Screen size: It’s got two of ‘em: a 10.1″ LCD touchscreen and a 9.7″ E-Ink touchscreen. It also has a stylus.
Price: $539
ExoPC Slate
Availability: Early September
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium with proprietary layer
Screen size: 11.6″
Price: $599
Fujitsu Windows Slate
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
Fusion Garage JooJoo
Availability: now
OS: Linux
Screen size: 12.1″
Price: $499
HP Windows Slate
Availability: Fall 2010
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: 8.9″
Price: At one point, it was allegedly going to start at $549
HP “PalmPad”
Availability: Rumor has it that it’ll ship in the first quarter of 2011
OS: WebOS
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
Lenovo “LePad”
Availability: Late 2010, although it’s not clear it’ll be sold anywhere but China
OS: Android
Screen size: Unknown (at least to me–I’m not positive that the photo here is of this particular Lenovo device)
Price: Unknown
MSI WindPad 100
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium with a “Wind Touch” interface layer
Screen size: 10″
Price: Approximately $499
MSI WindPad 110
Availability: This year, or possibly never
OS: Android 2.1
Screen size: 10″
Price: $399?
Marvell “Moby” Tablet
Availability: This year
OS: Android
Screen size: I’m not sure (and it might vary)
Price: Starting at $99
Motorola-Verizon TV tablet
Availability: Fall 2010 or next year, depending on who you believe; neither Motorola nor Verizon has acknowledged its existence
OS: Android (possibly version 3.0 “Gingerbread”)
Screen size: 10″
Price: Unknown
Nefonie WeTab
Availability: September?
OS: Linux (unless that’s really Windows 7 under there)
Screen size: 11.6″
Price: Apparently around $580
Notion Ink Adam
Availability: Possibly this year
OS: Android
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
OLPC XO 3.0
Availability: 2012, in theory
OS: Linux with a next-generation version of the Sugar user interface, I’d imagine
Screen size: The device itself is 8.5″ by 11″ and all screen (and 1.4″ thick)
Price: They’re shooting for $75
Onkyo Windows Slate
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
Panasonic Windows Slate
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
RIM “BlackPad”
Availability: Supposedly November
OS: Presumably BlackBerry OS
Screen size: Apparently similar to the iPad’s 9.7″
Price: Allegedly $499
Samsung Windows Slate
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
Sony Windows Slate
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
“The $35 Indian Tablet”
Availability: Mid-2011
OS: Linux. Or maybe Android.
Screen size: Unknown (at least to me)
Price: Um, $35? In theory, they might eventually cost ten bucks apiece.
Toshiba Libretto W100
Availability: This month
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Like the eDGe, it’s a dualie–it has two 7″ color LCD touchscreens (the bottom one can display content or a keyboard)
Price: $1100
Toshiba Windows Slate
Availability: This year
OS: Windows 7
Screen size: Unknown
Price: Unknown
If you feel that, if we are missing anything. Please let us know in the comment section.
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