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2010: Year of the Tablet
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iamNarada
2009-12-24 , 02:48
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I wonder if POCKETABLE is part of the criteria these manufacturers are apply. I mean, you don't get much larger than the n800 before it isn't pocketable (I said n800 because the n810 and n900 are substantially smaller of course). That market space is pretty well defined and is crowded as it is with the high end smart phones. From the HD2 to the x10 to the Nexus to the n900, the "tablet" space as Nokia defined it it pretty saturated nowadays. The space that seems to be targeted now from the JOJO to Notion Ink's to Camangi's webstation, seems to be more in the 7-10inch screen size, which is of course the size of a netbook, sans keyboard. Of course there are hold outs, namely Archos, and maybe Motorola with it's Sholes offering, but even that is likely to be classified as a high end smartphone rather than a "tablet". The idea of a netbook sized tablet always made more sense to me than a netbook, because it has USB or Bluetooth (as it almost certainly would, and as all of the prospective models seem to) you could use a full sized keyboad at will (both Apple and Microsoft make full sized portable bluetooth keyboards). Anyways, next year promises to be interesting at the very least.
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