HP Touchpad Priced & Dated, Others Listed
HP's 10-inch and 7-inch tablets are just two listed releases on a leaked retail roadmap.
PreCentral has acquired a mysterious retailer roadmap that reveals a nice long list of tablets hitting the market this year including a 7-inch model from HP and a 10-inch model from HTC.
The leaked document reveals two tablets provided by HP: a 7-inch webOS-powered "Opal" tablet, and the 10-inch webOS Touchpad already set to launch in June. HP's 7-inch model currently doesn't have an estimated price (TBD), but is expected to launch in September. The HP Touchpad will reportedly arrive in two flavors including the $499 16 GB version and the $599 32 GB version, both Wi-Fi only.
In April, Acer is expected to launch a 7-inch tablet with Android 2.3 (Froyo) and a nice $399 pricetag. The schedule skips over May (meaning everyone may be too busy playing Duke Nukem Forever to ship anything), leaving five tablets poised and ready for a June launch. One of these of course is the 10-inch HP Touchpad, and joins the 10-inch HTC tablet (price TBD), the $499 10-inch Dell tablet, the $449 10-inch Acer tablet, and the $499 10-inch Toshiba tablet. All four non-HP tablets will come packed with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).
It's assumed that the 7-inch Acer tablet will be the ICONIA TAB A100 and the 10-inch tablet will be the ICONIA TAB A500. The Toshiba tablet currently doesn't have a name, but will come packed with Nvidia's Tegra 2 dual-core processor and a 1280 x 800 native resolution. This is also the same tablet Toshiba's Rob Wilkinson said was superior to the hot-off-the-press iPad 2 thanks to the hardware underneath its 10-inch screen.
Although 2011 may be the year of copycats, it's also the year consumers have a wider variety when choosing the right tablet. According to the list, the Motorola XOOM kicked off the copycat train just this month which will roll on through the year until the release of HP's 7-inch tablet in September. Anything after that will need a new leaked retail roadmap. Still, both iOS and Android have their strengths and weaknesses, so deciding on the right tablet may be quite difficult, especially when the purchase will be long-term.
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Errr... I'm pretty much sure that picture is a Xoom... Or I just travel to an alternate universe where they have the decency to let Palm die??
@winterblade
it's a leak of a roadmap not of the product themselves and given either they could plonk a px of an iPad or and android tablet, i guess the xoom works
Errr... I'm pretty much sure that picture is a Xoom... Or I just travel to an alternate universe where they have the decency to let Palm die??
It is a picture of the Xoom. I think Tom's has something in common with Fox News they just slap a picture or video up and hope it's close. No editing or fact checking anymore this site has gone to hell. I guess they don't read the comments daily from people who want to make it better. Let us help already. Starting with getting rid of these damn ads that people post as comments.
Good prices. I'll take the 10-inch TouchPad, as long as it comes with a passable display. WebOS has a much better UI than iOS or Android.
How exactly building different tablets makes someone a copycat? I do not see the connection.
Uhhh, Ok, I always thought that if you try and get into a market that is owned by a particular product, you come in at a lower price. Nobody really is competing with the 10" tablets with a lower price than APPLE. I would think that if they want to compete with Apple, they would come in with a price of $399.00 for a 10" tablet. I am begining to wonder if the actual cost of the tablet is close to 499 but Apple can afford to sell the IPAD only slightly above cost thinking they will get their money from app sales (something non of the other competetors can do). Sony and Microsoft do the same thing with the PS3 and Xbox 360. I am an Apple hater but I gave up on waiting for a good alternative and went ahead and ordered my IPAD2 because as much as I hate steve jobs, I have to admit, it is the best thing out there.
I guess the one thing that is for sure is that Apple is price protected so you wont get one less than $499, but you might see the HP touchpad go on sale for $350, or $399 someday. I would love to get a touchpad but I just dont know about the future of WebOS. I think it is superior to all others but it hasn't been totally accepted by the public yet.
The Xoom and Galaxy are a joke in trying to compete. Not that the Xoom is a bad product it is just that they think they can come into the market where IPAD is the sole owner and say "where just as good so buy our system .... we will even charge you more". And Samsung came in and said "Hey we can compete in every way in the IPAD, we will even sell you a tablet thats half the size, much slower in terms of efficiency, at the same price as the IPAD". I think the marketing research guys for Motorolla and Samsung should be fired!!!!! These guys have ruined any chance this year for android tablet devices to catch up to Apple.
Acer's 7" ICONIA TAB A100 was supposed to be Honeycomb. What happened? This is a shame.
"meaning everyone may be too busy playing Duke Nukem Forever to ship anything"
^^ made me chuckle
Too many tablets coming out.