Will it kill Apple's iPad?
In the last week of January the world was witness to Apple's iPad, which was supposed to revolutionise the tablet market and blur the line between Netbooks and smart phones. Of course that didn't happen, but no fretting - Google is ready with its own version of the Tablet.
The internet is rife with pictures of how the Google Tablet SHOULD look like, below are two more images, and the photos don't seem too far fetched at all. What's more, the photos were also posted to the official Chromium site. In case you didn't already know, Chromium is the open source project behind Chrome and ChromeOS), but it is not actually part of Google. You'd be interested to know that the mockups were put designed by Glen Murphy, Google Chrome's designer. Vis a vis, the Google Tablet would look pretty much like this.
The other interesting titbit is that Google is not doling out just one Tablet, there are multiple tablets in the reckoning for release in 2010, what with Google working with a number of hardware partners like Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. There would, however, be one champion tablet with Google's brand name, much like the Nexus One (which was designed by HTC). Given our well documented hate for the iPad, we would like to see Google incorporate Flash and USB support on the tablet. A camera wouldn't hurt either. Its got to be worth the $499+ price tag after all. A Google tablet with those three features alone would shut Steve Jobs up.
The internet is rife with pictures of how the Google Tablet SHOULD look like, below are two more images, and the photos don't seem too far fetched at all. What's more, the photos were also posted to the official Chromium site. In case you didn't already know, Chromium is the open source project behind Chrome and ChromeOS), but it is not actually part of Google. You'd be interested to know that the mockups were put designed by Glen Murphy, Google Chrome's designer. Vis a vis, the Google Tablet would look pretty much like this.
The other interesting titbit is that Google is not doling out just one Tablet, there are multiple tablets in the reckoning for release in 2010, what with Google working with a number of hardware partners like Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. There would, however, be one champion tablet with Google's brand name, much like the Nexus One (which was designed by HTC). Given our well documented hate for the iPad, we would like to see Google incorporate Flash and USB support on the tablet. A camera wouldn't hurt either. Its got to be worth the $499+ price tag after all. A Google tablet with those three features alone would shut Steve Jobs up.
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