NEC working on an Android tablet for suits?
By Nilay Patel 
posted Oct 27th 2009 12:29PM
posted Oct 27th 2009 12:29PM
Super-vague report in the Nikkei this morning about NEC working on a seven-to-eight-inch "mobile device as capable as a personal computer" that's aimed at business customers -- no specs are given, but the tiny accompanying pic definitely shows the Android app tab at the bottom of that custom UI. Very mysterious. The report says NEC thinks it'll move 100,000 to 200,000 of these a year after it launches next fall, and plans to sell a million a year over time, but we'll wait to see what's real and what's not before we tackle that prediction.[Via Slashgear; warning, read link requires registration]
I would really like to be looking at such products for education as well. Very similar needs.
Better have a turbo graphics 16 emulator in it or FAIL!!!
I wonder if they could make a lite version of Android for craphones, I mean simbple phones. That would be really cool.
Touch Pro 4 !!
When they say it's for business, does that mean it's along the lines of business laptops where you pay a premium for a sturdier product? If so, and it has a headphone jack, I'm interested.
It would be cool if it had the ability to stream music over a local network, but I could do without it if it has a large enough capacity.
"aimed at business customers" is code for "so expensive you'd never buy it yourself, but you'd expense it without thinking about the cost for a second."
Somebody claimed that Apple would be able to move 300,000 to 400,000 tablets a month which seems fairly outrageous. Who's going to be buying all these tablets that are on the market. It seems like some company is coming out with a new tablet every couple of days.