Sony Android tablet released this year
There will be a Sony Android tablet – based on the Android 3.0 operating system – before the end of the year, a Japanese newspaper reported this week.
Sony chairman and chief executive Sir Howard Stringer told Nikkei that there would be a Sony tablet using Android 3.0 before the summer. This would be the first tablet from Sony using this version of the operating system (code-named Honeycomb), which was specifically designed for tablets. Honeycomb has so far provided the basis for Motorola’s Xoom tablet.
There have been mobile phone releases from Sony Ericsson using Android, but no tablets as of yet. Stringer didn’t give a specific deadline or details about the device, so users are inevitably wondering to what extent this tablet will be able to match Apple’s iPad, which is dominating the tablet market.
Earlier this year, reports circulated about a tablet from Sony that used Android 3.0 as well as being fully PlayStation-certified. This S1 tablet was reported to have a 9.4 inch screen and would be able to connect to the Sony Reader ebooks store.
Written by Matthias Scherer
Matthias is a journalist and writer covering the latest news in technology as well as reviewing new computer products for PC Site. After studying journalism and economics in London, Matthias worked in radio and as a music writer for various publications in the UK and Germany, covering everything from politics and music to online publishing and social media. He is a self-diagnosed internet addict, but wrestles himself away from the computer to read books by angry young men, put on punk or rap records and watch Seinfeld.
Thu, Apr 7, 2011