By Greg Millls
Microsoft, stung by critics and stockholders alike, for missing the mobile revolution, is still playing catch-up on smart phones and now tablet computers. Apple is merging the iOS with OS X in many respects and Microsoft has taken a cue from Apple to do something similar with it’s flagship PC operating system and at least the look and feel of the new Windows Mobile OS, according to reports.
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Posted by Greg Mills
The Washington Post/Bloomberg report that Amazon is planning to launch an Android tablet they bought from an unnamed manufacturer. The screen size is expected to be just a bit smaller than iPad, but in color. The price point of the new tablet hasn’t been decided or disclosed yet, but it has to be a bargain to even compete with iPad, which is very hard to do.
The sources also have claimed Amazon has an in-house design in the works for an Amazon tablet computer but won’t have that product ready to launch until next year.
Read MoreApple has filed for a European design trademark that shows what appears to be a tablet computer. “The filing, made in May this year but only published this week, covers a ‘handheld computer’ and contains sketches of what look like an iBook screen minus the body of the computer,” reports The Register. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said in the past that he has no plans to develop a tablet PC. “It turns out people want keyboards.
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