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Chart: Tablets coming to market

By | November 19, 2010, 7:07am PST

Wondering what tablets are going to be coming down the pike? Look no further.

In a research note this week, Doug Reid, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, handicapped the mobile OS wars and included this handy chart outlining the tablets about to hit the market.

Here’s a look (click to enlarge):

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good idea about android
gavin.chan 30th Sep
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Tablets with Android 2.2 and earlier, Windows 7, Atom processors
DonnieBoy 19th Nov 2010
will not be viable. To hit the price points, battery life, size, weight, screen size, functionality, we need Gingerbread running on Arm. Well, or course iPad will have a lot of success. WebOS and Blackberry tablets are the wild card. Microsoft does not yet have a viable tablet strategy.
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More Donnie nonsense
itpro_z 19th Nov 2010
@DonnieBoy, I see at least one tablet on the list with Windows 7 Embedded Compact, which Microsoft has pretty much said all along is their OS for the low end tablet market. There will also be applications that require a full OS, and Windows 7 running on Atom based units will target that need, although I would not expect that market to be huge.

So, the market will break into at least three pieces: "Consumption" devices running phone type OSs like the iPad, Android and perhaps Win Phone 7, more flexible models based on Windows 7 Embedded, Chrome, WebOS, or QNX, and full blown hand held PCs running a complete OS like Windows 7 or Ubuntu with a simplified UI.

Just because you don't understand Microsoft's strategy (understandable since you work for Google) does not mean they have none.
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Keep telling yourself that..
trickytom3 19th Nov 2010
@DonnieBoy

...and eventually, you'll believe it!
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HP Slate, with Windows 7 OS, Sells out...
adornoe@... 19th Nov 2010
http://www.conceivablytech.com/4141/business/windows-7-tablet-miss-creates-a-mess-for-hp/

The folks at HP apparently underestimated need for tablets based on a full OS.

Granted that, it's a tablet intended for business needs, but, with some tweaking for longer batter life and quicker response times, it could turn into a regular consumer tablet. A full OS tablet with long battery life and that can perform virtually the same jobs as a full-blown laptop computer, would become the most in demand, and it could end up being the tablet to kill all of the other crippled tablets, like the iPad or any Android-based tablets.
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HP Slate truly does look fantastic
NonZealot 19th Nov 2010
@adornoe@...
The more I hear about how great this device is, the more I'm convinced it is the right tablet for me. I already have an iPhone 4 which is a great iOS device, I have 0 use for a giant iPod Touch which is all that the iPad is.

I guarantee you that it will not kill the iPad though. Apple is too good at marketing and Apple has too many rabid fanboys and astro-turfing plants to lose to amateur marketers like HP and MS.
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RE: Chart: Tablets coming to market
msalzberg 19th Nov 2010
@adornoe@...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/13/hp-slate-500-sees-extraordinary-demand-experiences-six-week-s/
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RE: Chart: Tablets coming to market
kenosha77a 19th Nov 2010
@adornoe@...
Published reports indicated an initial HP production run of only 5000 HP Slate units. Demand peaked at 9000 units for this model.

I can understand why some consumers would wish to own an antique collectable. With only roughly 10,000 units in the wild, the value for this particular rare model can only increase in time - say in thirty or forty years from now.

All kidding aside, some noted ZDNet commentators indicated that the first three generations of iPhones were .. well .. less than useful. I view this HP Slate first generation model in that light. I think (just going by the specs) that it will be underpowered. Perhaps the second or third generation of this product might be better suited for non-enterprise or consumer level use. Till then, this first generation model is simply an "engineering proof of concept" and that its limited sale to enterprise customers is just an indication that HP wishes to recoup some of its design costs.
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@adornoe: interesting the different questions asked by Apple zealots
NonZealot 19th Nov 2010
The normal consumer asks: What will this product do for me?

The Apple zealots who have responded to you so far ask: What will this product do for the corporation that is selling it to me? Will it outsell the competing product sold by the corporation that I have an unhealthy emotional attachment to?

Note that utility never even comes into question with these "people".
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kenosha777: Even as "underpowered" as it might be, it's still more powerful
adornoe@... 19th Nov 2010
than the iPad, and businesspeople can actually accomplish business-work with it as opposed to the iPad, which is mostly a media consumption device.

But, the sad part is that, HP didn't really have confidence in expected sales and didn't manufacture enough for the unexpected demand.

However, it's good to see a real demand for a fully powered (as in a full OS) tablet.
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Did you not see the entry for the EEE Pad?
Cylon Centurion 19th Nov 2010
@DonnieBoy

Go look again at the claimed battery life...
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Where's Apple?
Userama 19th Nov 2010
Guess they're going to get out of the tablet business, eh?
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Since Apple is essentially 100% of the market, and the next generation of
DonnieBoy 19th Nov 2010
the iPad has not been announced, not much to mention concerning tablets that are COMING to market.
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Breaking News - Stifel Nicolaus reports no Apple iPad gen 2 model!
kenosha77a 19th Nov 2010
Larry Dignan cites the highly respected firm of Stifel Nicolaus indicating Apple plans to drop the second generation iPad tablet and concede the tablet market to the Android and Windows platforms. (Which is why the vaporware iPad tablet was not shown in the supplied chart documentation.)

No mention of Apple iPad tablets exist in Stifel Nicolaus's most in depth analysis of the tablet market to date.

By the way, Larry, just "who" is Stifel Nicolaus anyway. It takes a "special talent" to ignore the elephant in the room.
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And the Apple zealots engage fingers before brains
NonZealot 19th Nov 2010
I'm assuming that they have brains which might be giving them more credit than they deserve.

Has Apple announced iPad 2? No? Then isn't that a likely reason that it isn't in the list? Of course that is a likely reason. You guys are SOOOOO sensitive and you flip your collective lids if someone dares to not mention Apple in a technology story.
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Tablets, who needs tablets?
GoPower 19th Nov 2010
Wasn't that the collective response from the Apple haters? Now everyone is trying to make one. Good thing none of you Apple haters run businesses!
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Good point
CowLauncher 19th Nov 2010
I remember all the usual suspects predicting the failure of the "iFlop" and "iFail" And now everyone and their dawg is slipping in their own poo to get some kind of iPad-like tablet out there. And most probably still won't get what makes iPad different from every tablet before it.
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You do know this is a tech site, right?
itpro_z 19th Nov 2010
The iPad is doing very as a consumer device, but that is not what most of us do. Apple is not into the Enterprise, and we still have very little interest in their products because they are simply not a good fit for us. Now, if RIM gets their tablet to market I would expect it to meet our needs, as RIM is a strong player in our market, as are HP and Dell.

I am sure you are quite happy with your iPad, watching movies, dinking around on the Internet and playing games, but we want something different, and we absolutely do not want iTunes on any of our systems. From that perspective, the iPad is an iFail.
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Will any be as good as an Ipad??
camcost@... 19th Nov 2010
In all fairness, there's already been many tablet releases.. both before the ipad, and after. I've personally owned several.
So far, none can compete with the ipad. I'm not talking about the silly squabbles that "the ipad doesn't have a camera or a card slot or a USB slot, etc". Simply silly.
A tablet is so much more than any of those non-included items... it is how well-thought-out and responsive, and how well does it handle. I wish my Windows and Android tablets performed half as well.
I'll wait and see who delivers and who doesn't.
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RE: Chart: Tablets coming to market
blackjack861@... 19th Nov 2010
There is no mention of a 2nd gen. ipad. Because the list is not about the ipad. But rather about tablets that are as the author put it" Are going to be coming down the pike? The ipad came down the pike, a Long time ago, and is selling like hotcakes.
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Android: release the hounds!
Dietrich T. Schmitz, ~ Your Linux Advocate 19th Nov 2010
nt
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RE: Chart: Tablets coming to market
infomaniacal 19th Nov 2010
Windows just was never cool enough.

Face it, Apple could come out with iTurds and the Huffpro crowd would trip over themselves to buy them.

No accident in that analogy, btw. The IPad makes people LESS productive... Conduct races, typing, navigating, email. You'll see. I am a recovering 8 year user of tablet pc's, and while the functionality rocks for drawing and browsing, for everything else, a laptop is better. iPad What a waste of your precious time here on Earth. And the apps! OMG if the chinese take over, its because we lost our edge... MP3's, Movies, Feed me mentality, Thanks Apple!
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RE: Chart: Tablets coming to market
aiellenon 20th Nov 2010
why does this website never include the Notion Ink Adam Android 2.2 with promises of upgrade to 2.3 or 3.0 when available? http://notionink.in go look it rocks, I love it, wish I could buy a thousand of them and give them away, I'll keep playing the lottery and that is exactly what I'll do if I win. This is a fantastic device "might" be available before 2011 and kicks the crap out of most of the devices on that list.

beware, iCrapple users, the website uses flash, and a lot of it!
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a little web search will prove that this table is lacking several notable
wessonjoe 21st Nov 2010
tablets that may be attractive to the mobile (not phone) user.

makes us wonder what industry affiliation really has to do with these internet articles.

this service is becoming less and less useful.

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good idea about android
gavin.chan 30th Sep
A good post. Thanks for sharing.Hi, do you own a tablet pc? We supply kinds of tablet computers, including wholesale android tablet and windows 7 tablet pc. Buy a hd android tablet from China at wholesale price.iZaYB

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