Sony Honeycomb tablet to hit US by end of summer 2011

By Chris Davies
on 4 Apr, 2011

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has apparently confirmed that the company will launch an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet later in 2011. Bloomberg quotes Japan’s Nikkei as saying Stringer confirmed the slate would drop at the end of the summer, with the US targeted first.

Last we heard, Sony was readying an S1 PlayStation tablet with a 9.4-inch display, Tegra 2 processor and a distinctive curved “wrap” chassis. Gaming, ereader, computing and media streaming is all expected to be included; we’d also expect Sony to do some UI work on top of Android 3.0, too.

We’re having trouble finding the exact Nikkei report, though back in January the paper claimed Stringer was aiming to take the number two spot in tablets, after Apple, by the end of 2012. The CEO suggested Sony’s lengthy development period was so that the slate could be sufficiently differentiated from other Android tablets, and hinted that 3D was a possibility.

[via Engadget]

Robert

Less talk more action.
Going to need lazors to beat out the current tablets.
Robert

Less talk more action.
Going to need lazors to beat out the current tablets.
Anonymous

Oh another tablet that’s “coming soon” let’s add it to the already long list…..
jeremy1278@yahoo.com

Sony has ran out of ideas?
So end up following other ideas.
Andrelrivers

Asus Transformer 10.1 took the cake. Sony ps3 integrated sounds nice, but i bet for the price, u can just buy a ps3 and a few games. Asus hands down the tablet race. Sony is trying to catch up.