Originally written in February 2011
True to my New Year’s goals I have been doing more tech research. Thanks to a discussion with my boss about iPads, I spent a lot of time looking at the up and coming tablets. I will post the rest when I get back to work
Tablets in Higher Ed
Predictions by Gartner
By 2013, 80 percent of businesses will support a workforce using tablets.
The Apple iPad is the first of what promises to be a huge wave of media tablets focused largely on content consumption, and to some extent communications, rather than content creation, with fewer features and less processing power than traditional PCs and notebooks or pen-centric tablet PCs. Support requirements for media tablets will vary across and within enterprises depending on usage scenario. At minimum, in cases where employees are bringing their own devices for convenience, enterprises will have to offer appliance-level support with a limited level of network connectivity (which will likely include access to enterprise mail and calendaring) and help desk support for connectivity issues.
Fijitsu unveiled their Windows 7 iPad competitor at CES 2011 – no known release date
http://thetechjournal.com/electronics/tablet/fujitsu-stylistic-q550-tablet.xhtml
Windows 7 tablet OS not well-designed; probably have to wait till 2012 with Windows 8 for something competitive with Android
http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/01/07/ces-2011-microsoft-windows-7-and-the-tablet-challenge/
Android 3.3 Honeycomb OS (release date 2/2/11) comes loaded on the Motorola Xoom
http://www.youtube.com/android
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/motorola-xoom-ad-targets-apple-1984_n_816823.html
http://developer.motorola.com/products/xoom/
Dell Inspiron Duo (comes loaded with Windows 7)
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-duo/pd
Samsung Galaxy Tab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAbsmHMAhrQ
We Tab (not yet released in the US)
