Sony Confident that It Can Make a Kick-Ass Tablet
Sony Confident that It Can Make a Kick-Ass Tablet
Posted 02/04/2010 at 8:12pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Apple is busy touting the iPad as an avant-garde device, the first of its kind. But it is clearly something that even the most impassioned Apple devotee will have difficulty digesting. It may not be revolutionary, but there is little gainsaying the fact that it will soon be spearheading a procession of tablets. Should the iPad be a resounding success, the procession then will be made up of potential iPad-killers.
One of the potential participants has already announced their interest. Nobuyuki Oneda, Sony's CFO, is “confident we have the skills to create a product” to match or outstrip the iPad. "Time-wise we are a little behind the iPad but it's a space we would like to be an active player in,” Oneda said at a Tokyo news conference. The iPad is also being considered a potent threat to the e-book reader market, where Sony is present with its own offerings. But Oneda dismissed the existence of any such threat. He did not say whether such a tablet is already in the works or not.
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violian
February 05, 2010 at 11:32am
Sony always seem to fail when it comes to portable media devices. Their closest device coming close to success is maybe the UMD-movies for the PSP...and who even buys those anymore? Their MiniDisc players anyone? And how about their MP3 players? Or that Sony mini PC MiMo thing? Did you know that Sony also makes netbooks? Well apparently, even people didn't know that. So how are they expecting this tablet to be an iPad killer? Everyone has an iPod these days. I see another Sony portable media device that is about to fail again. Or if it doesn't fail, it won't come close to scratching the iPad.
majorsuave
February 05, 2010 at 7:46am
If Sony can make a PS3 tablet that can: boot a custom user friendly OS that allows for common netbook apps, play PS3 games on the go, play BD movies and plug to a regular TV using good ole HDMI I will officially buy a PS3 tablet edition.
In the meantime my laptops, PCs and Xboxes are enough.
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