Google To Release Android Tablet

Recently presented to you the leaked photos and videos that were released on Google’s blog as concepts for a future tablet device. It was widely rumoured that these images were those of un upcoming Chrome OS tablet; rather it seems Google had other ideas up it’s sleeve.

In recent news the New York Times revealed:

chief executive of Google, told friends at a recent party in Los Angeles about the new device, which would exclusively run the Android operating system. People with direct knowledge of the project — who did not want to be named because they said they were unauthorized to speak publicly about the device — said the company had been experimenting in “stealth mode” with a few publishers to explore delivery of books, magazines and other content on a tablet.

This (yet to be confirmed) decision by Google could quite easily be understood as an attempt to push a tablet product onto the market, in time to compete with the Ipad. The Ipad thus far has proved to be a very successful product but other players (notably HP and Microsoft) seem to think they have a better offering. It then makes sense for Google to also make an early entry into the Tablet market with an Android OS powered device.

Another way to look at this is that Android OS is the most logical competitor to the Iphone 4.0 OS. It is yet to be seen whether a Windows 7 powered device (e.g. the HP Islate) can succeed as a competitor to the Ipad due to the very fact that the Islate is using a “full-on” operating system. This then may have been Google’s ploy to compete using Android OS (another light, phone operating system) rather than using their “full-on OS” (Chrome OS)….I hope this is making sense; it seems to have made sense to Google’s product development team.

Nevertheless it is a welcome note that Google will bring some much needed competition in the Tablet devices market; even so this decision has also left us wanting. There is still little news of the much anticipated Chrome OS and it seems like the limelight has completely turned away from it.