Best Buy Working on a Rocketfish Tablet
Best Buy Working on a Rocketfish Tablet
Posted 08/06/2010 at 1:49pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Best Buy’s CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens has just piqued our interest today after tweeting some pics of a Rocketfish tablet. In case you haven't spent any time in the big box electronics chain, Rocketfish is Best Buy's in-house brand for various accessories. But a Best Buy tablet? There are a few things this might be, some of them pretty exciting.
There are a fair number of similarities to the HP Slate, at least superficially. The ports seem to be the same, and the design is similar. So it's possible this tablet is being manufactured by HP. It would be a cunning way for HP to test the markets. They said the HP Slate would be a business only product, but they didn't say anything about a Rocketfish-branded, HP-built tablet. If this device fails, consumers will chalk it up to Best Buy, not HP.
But what OS is this tablet running? The obvious answer is Windows 7, just like the Slate. But HP did acquire Palm for webOS. But would they really debut a webOS tablet under someone else's brand? While webOS is a long shot, Stephens did let it slip a while back the company was working on an Android 2.2 tablet. What's your take on this?
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eday_2010
August 09, 2010 at 7:03am
If it runs Windows 7, is decently powerful, and just works, I would buy this. Being made by HP would be a huge plus since they make good stuff, and the Rocketfish brand would mean the thing will be cheaper (hopefully) than if HP's name was on it.
mkarias1
August 07, 2010 at 6:16pm
I am waiting for this:
http://tabletconnect.blogspot.com/2010/07/velocity-micro-cruz-tablet-coming-in.html
It should be out this month. Specs are decent.
Keith E. Whisman
August 06, 2010 at 8:16pm
Best Buy Geek Squad will be happy to install your favorite apps at a low price of $50bucks a pop. Only Geek Squad can install apps on the device. That has to be the marketing model for this device. Tie it to Best Buy so that you have to pay them to use it and ad functionality.
Fecal Face
August 06, 2010 at 4:39pm
I want to see a tablet with Windows Phone 7. THAT would be a nice tablet...
jgrimoldy
August 06, 2010 at 2:26pm
And just how much will the shitheads at BestBuy tack-on to the price for "Optimizing" this little gem?
Keith E. Whisman
August 07, 2010 at 11:31am
I don't know but they did a great job optimizing my new 3D TV. And my new laptop is virus free, and it only cost me a couple hundred bucks....
Just kidding. I wouldn't pay anyone anything to optimize anything for me or get rid of a virus. I haven't found a virus yet that I haven't been able to get rid of or protect my system from.
cpuking2010
August 06, 2010 at 2:18pm
Would make the most sense, seeing how its the preimeier mobile OS.
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