Intel Moorestown tablets will arrive before smartphones, won't hit for at least six months

Digging all the Moorestown tablets and phones we've been seeing at Computex? Yeah, us too, but it looks like we're still going to be waiting a considerable amount of time for them to hit the market. According to Intel's Anand Chandrasekher, the first Moorestown devices won't pop up for at least six to twelve more months. That may be after the end of 2010 mark we had heard before, but let's hope Intel is using the time to get things just right. Anand also said that the first Moorestown products will be tablets rather than smartphones, the latter arriving sometime in the first half of 2011 -- not too surprising given handset manufacturers' history of designing and optimizing around ARM silicon and the fact that the smartphone flavor of the Intel-friendly MeeGo OS is still in development.

[Cynical Hippie Posted Jun 2nd 2010 8:32AM]

6 months?

TOO LONG. How about 2 months Intel?

[Nokia N900 Posted Jun 2nd 2010 8:40AM]

I love the UI of MeeGo. Its soo freaking Smooth

[rutter9 Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:17AM]

@Nokia N900

The real question is who is going to be buying all of these tablets...

[enaybee Posted Jun 2nd 2010 10:18AM]

@Nokia N900 I agree it looks good on my acer netbook too. One question tho, i see that your name is N900 so i assume u got one. Have u tried it on your phone yet? How does it look? Just like the netbook interface or some different UI theme? Pls let me know.

[incognito Posted Jun 2nd 2010 11:30AM]

@enaybee, MeeGo for the N900 still have no UI layout, so you get only the core system. Chances are that the Harmattan (Maemo 6) UI will be the first small form factor UI for the MeeGo platform.

[grandmainger Posted Jun 2nd 2010 8:38AM]

I wonder how many iPads Apple will have sold by then.

[qbgabe12 Posted Jun 2nd 2010 8:45AM]

@grandmainger

yeah and by then ver 2 is coming...

[Threlly Posted Jun 2nd 2010 8:55AM]

@grandmainger

True, if Apple haven't already cemented their market position, then they will have by then.

[stoney1973 Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:07AM]

@Threlly

+1

[SeeKo Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:13AM]

@Threlly
Didn't find a good netbook sales number this fast. But if only a third of the owners consider to buy a tablet next to complete their home PC the tablet market should remain wide open.

[SeeKo Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:21AM]

@SeeKo
Or maybe I'm wrong. Researches predict the netbook market to be around 58 million globally this year. How many of those consumers would consider buying a tablet instead? It's predicted that Apple will ship 8-10 million iPads alone. Guess you were right Threlly. "Cemented" is the right word.
http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3882956/Netbook-Sales-to-Boom-in-2010-ABI.htm

[gmcboot Posted Jun 2nd 2010 10:04AM]

@grandmainger

I find this hilarious. Honestly, the tablet market isn't even 6 months old and everyone has decided that the iPad owns it. The Ipad is nothing but a big iPod Touch or iPhone. Intel and others are trying to build real computers with real operating systems that can run real apps. I can easily wait till the holiday season for them to come out. 2 million iPads are nothing. Especially if these all come in under Apples price point, which isn't hard and have real computing power which they will. Supporting Flash and HTML5 and a more open development market will be an even bigger step in the right direction. Hell Apple can do 4 million and in the long run won't even dent the market. This is a new phenomenon. Apple hit it first with the giant iPod Touch, but it's not even remotely the end for any one.

[Muu Posted Jun 2nd 2010 10:21AM]

@gmcboot I take it you missed the previous iterations of tablet computers that perished from the market w/o making any waves?

[vqro Posted Jun 2nd 2010 2:34PM]

@gmcboot

wow...

you're kinda stupid, aren't you?

[quade Posted Jun 2nd 2010 8:53AM]

laaaate, but I will still get one if I turn out to like it better than ipad.

[impulse462 Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:07AM]

The UI of the MeeGo is very snappy, but you'd think they would come up with a better name than "MeeGo."

But that's just me.

going...

[Pickaxe Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:46AM]

@impulse462 Nokia never comes out with good names. At first devices were named with a random four-digit number, then it was N(number), E(number) etc. The different versions of Symbian were called Series 40, Series 50 and Series 60, with even more obscure names for midway versions like Series 60 3rd Edition. Are you kidding me?

[impulse462 Posted Jun 2nd 2010 12:03PM]

@Pickaxe

Very true. Maybe companies should start hiring people who's specific job is to come up with trendy names for their products. Unless they already do which, in that case, is just sad.

[Nrde Posted Jun 2nd 2010 12:51PM]

@Pickaxe

You had so many errors in your post.

Nokia has named their phones other than with plain numbers and the numbering isn't even "random" (although they don't mean that much anymore). Senator, Cityman and Talkman are way cooler than "nexus" "desire" or "sausage" imo anyway. And if you can't top those names why bother.

Symbian has never had S40, S50 or S60 versions. S60 is Nokia's UI framework, which was later made as integral part of Symbian. S40 on the other hand is Nokias software platform that uses Nokias own operating system. Symbian has had normal version numbering from 5 to 9.5

[quade Posted Jun 2nd 2010 12:53PM]

@impulse462 MeeGo,TheyGo,YouGo!

[mastermindnate Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:10AM]

can someone tell me why it seems like we have seen "previews" of these tablets for like the last 10 freakin years.. and everyone you read is.. "coming soon" or "6 more months" ... are any one of these thing every going to actually materialize

[Incorrigible Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:34AM]

@mastermindnate

Seems everyone wants to show they have something.. except.. they don't have anything lol.. Though, I imagine they also want to build up a little hype for their brand and possible get a few to hold off on iPads.. or give hope/capitalize on those that felt the iPad wasn't for them...

[Incorrigible Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:38AM]

@mastermindnate

I am getting sick of seeing 10-20 different tablets a day that aren't coming out anytime soon though.. And 80-90% of said tablets appear to be junk...

[Tes Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:10AM]

For all those saying they should release it NOW what's the point if Apple have all the content providers locked in already? It's going to take a lot of negotiating and app development for them to be in the position to release anything useful.

[juanvaldez Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:28AM]

@Tes I'd say the fact that things are going to get worse, before they get better, by your logic *it almost sounds as if* they should never release them.

I'm not sure what would stop a content provider from signing a deal today versus what would change their mind in 12 months, other than a sick prototype, but I think that wasn't involved in your premise at all.

[Tes Posted Jun 2nd 2010 10:12AM]

@juanvaldez

My pint is that the iPad was released with content to be consumed day one. That took Apple negotiating deals with and then providing development platforms for those content providers. No one is saying they can't do the same or that these providers are locked into exclusive deals, my point is it not going to come easy convincing people like Conde Nast to drag some of their development teams or contractors to start whipping up something for a new untested platform when they could be working on maximising iPad profitability. We've already got the eBook publishers moaning about the emerging and competing formats and stores so I doubt they'll jump at yet ANOTHER platform.

With Apple it's a safe bet you'll have the type of consumer who isn't averse to paying over the odds for your content/apps. With this who knows?

[sourav Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:33AM]

To all those complaning about the delay, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE understand that this is not any black magic, but a good amount of engineering work goes behind making these devices. And as with everything, it takes time to do that work. Now, don't ask the engineer to work 16 hours a day to get this out, because the poor enginneer is probably already working 22 hours a day.

Please leave your impulsive soul and think about engineering for once. And, for God's sake try to understand that technology is not magic.

[technoob Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:40AM]

but if it's good, it's well worth the wait

[stoffer Posted Jun 2nd 2010 9:52AM]

I hope that they will not cripple MeeGo like many manufactures do with their Linuxes. I hope that MeeGo will be able to run any Linux application, just as any other decent Linux distro and will have a decet package manager and will have some decent repositories.

Linux w/out repositories and without sources = FAIL

[duine Posted Jun 2nd 2010 10:26AM]

@stoffer Nokia will probably require you to only use Qt on MeeGo.

[stoffer Posted Jun 2nd 2010 11:07AM]

@duine How can they require that? I mean what is the window environment? Besides that, Qt is just a toolkit, it is not an API.

[incognito Posted Jun 2nd 2010 11:33AM]

@duine, MeeGo will come with native Qt AND GTK+ libs, and if you are not happy with that, you can add your own toolkits...

[stoffer Posted Jun 2nd 2010 3:00PM]

@incognito Let's hope that is true.

[WillSmith Posted Jun 2nd 2010 10:00AM]

by then ipad 2 will be around the corner with even more magical revolutionary features! :D

[patp Posted Jun 2nd 2010 11:06AM]

@WillSmith ......the dreaded camera lol

[Stormstrike Posted Jun 21st 2010 7:32AM]

@patp

Make no mistake, the main feature is and has always been to fill jobs pockets with your cash.

And thats not going to change...

[Muu Posted Jun 2nd 2010 10:25AM]

Hopefully these things will be out by the holidays. It'd be suicidal to release them now at the height of iPad's popularity, but on the other hand the majority of Americans will have depleted their credit line by the end of December. Hell, this may actually be the only real reason they're 'delaying' these products.

[erh Posted Jun 2nd 2010 11:57AM]

Intel is in the same place as Microsoft: they own the PC market and ONLY the PC market. Every attempt to expand into other markets fails.