The Coming Onslaught of iPad Competitors

harrymcc writes "The iPad is selling as well as it is in part because no large manufacturer has had a direct rival out yet. But boy, is that going to change in the next few months. Over at Technologizer, I rounded up known information on 32 current and future tablet computing devices, from potentially worthy iPad competitors to wannabees to interesting specialty devices. By early 2011 these things are going to be everywhere, and it'll be fascinating to see how they fare." Related: the tablet-type device I've been watching most eagerly, Notion Ink's Adam, seems to finally have a realistic manufacturing prediction and price range (by November; up to $498 for the version with 3G and Pixel Qi screen).

Re:damn....

[TheGratefulNet]

take one each day for a month and call me. at the end of the month.

(I'm not a doctor and I don't even play one on tv. but happy to complete your punchline for you..)

Re:Do not want.

[JeanBaptiste]

ok but what if I took one of these, added a hard protective plastic coating, and then some ports for keyboards and such. i'd call it a 'laptop'.

Re:Do not want.

[ceoyoyo]

Well, you don't have to worry about it. Most of them are pure vapour, and the rest of them appear to have been thoroughly trashed by reviewers and are unlikely ever to bother you by appearing in a store where you might accidentally purchase them.

Re:damn....

[RabbitWho]

It was all going fine till I got to the suppositories.

Re:History repeats

[Belial6]

I'll tell you what makes Macs better. The UI. Everyone know that green plus buttons should make a windows smaller, and a red X should sometimes close a program, and sometimes only close the window, leaving the program still running. Most of all, everyone know that the most logical way to eject a disk from a drive is to throw it in the garbage can. Until Apples competitors can match Apple in at least these obviously superior UI elements, they have no hope of being compared to Apple in quality and ease of use.

Re:Windows 7 tablets?

[fidget42]

I saw a YouTube video that claimed a Tegra 2 can decode 1080P video while dissipating only 350 Watts...

I really hope you missed a decimal point there.

Re:Do not want.

[Anonymous Coward]

Great... but I do want.

Fine, now you just have to ask yourself the question which particular brand device is more likely to get you laid [slashdot.org].

Re:damn....

[mjwx]

What will I do with 32 tablets in the house?

Only two industries in the world refer to their customers as "users".

Now they both sell tablets.

Re:Heck with Ipad, where is the Kindle competitor?

[camperdave]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I'll say. Why, I can remember a time when nostalgia really used to be something.