It’s hard to get excited about an upcoming Dell Windows 7-based tablet codenamed “Rosemount” and due in June, the details of which Engadget published. It’s obviously aimed at the corporate market because few consumers want a Windows 7 tablet, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted.
Rosemount will reportedly use Intel’s Atom “Oak Trail” processor and have features that appeal to the corporate crowd such as stylus input, software encryption and a remote wipe capability.
Engadget said there’s a tablet that’s code-named Peju on Dell’s roadmap for 2012. Perhaps it’ll have the much-ballyhooed (at least by Microsoft) Windows 8.
Consumers will hardly notice the lack of a Windows 7 tablet. They’ll have lots to choose from out of at least two iPads: RIM’s PlayBook and HP’s TouchPad. And who knows how many Android tablets.
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Kno, which developed two tablets that are aimed at students, may sell off the hardware part of the company and concentrate on selling electronic textbooks, according to All Things Digital.
Kno executives told it that a faster-than-expected uptake of tablets like the iPad by consumers made its efforts to package a seamless offering less critical.
It offers e-textbooks on the iPad and Android-based tablets. Kno’s tablets have features like onscreen editing that appeal to students but are bigger than iPads. An entry-level single-screen 14-inch tablet computer is to sell for $599 and a dual-screen model for $899.
The questions are who would want to buy the hardware operation and who will buy the tablets?
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