2011: The Year of Too Many Tablets
I’m not quite sure how to view this list of tablets that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month–as a monument to competitive spirit and move-the-story-forward innovation or as a memorial to vaporware.
Either way, this canonical categorizing of the multiplicity of slates and e-readers by CEA Chief Economist and Director of Research Shawn DuBravac is pretty stunning. There are more than 100 in all, and they run the gamut from Panasonic’s diminutive 4-inch VieraTablet to Kno’s dual-14-inch-screen device. DuBravac has helpfully broken them out according to OEM, screen size and operating system (note the proliferation of Android tablets). Notably absent: Any data on pricing and availability, which isn’t too suprising since only a portion of the tablets on this list will ever need it, particularly with the iPad 2, Research In Motion’s PlayBook and whatever webOS creations Hewlett-Packard’s Palm division has cooked up headed to market.
| OEM | Name | New | tablet or e-Reader |
Screen size | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acer | iconia tab a500 | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Acer | Iconia W7 tablet | New | tablet | 10.1 | Windows |
| Aluratek | Cinepad | New | e-Reader | 10 | Android |
| AOC | Breeze | New | tablet | 8 | Android |
| Archos | 101 | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Asus | Eee Slate EP121 | New | tablet | 12 | Windows |
| Asus | Eee Pad Slider | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Asus | Eee Pad MeMo | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Asus | Eee Pad Transformer | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Augen | Doppio | New | tablet | 10.1 | Android |
| Augen | Espresso | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Augen | Latte | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Augen | Latte Grand | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Azpen | tablet | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Azpen | tablet | New | tablet | 7 | Windows |
| BlackBerry | PlayBook | New | tablet | 7 | QNX |
| Dell | Streak 10 | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Dell | Streak 7 | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| eFun | Nextbook Next4 | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| eFun | Nextbook Next6 | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Enspert | Identity Tab E201 | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Enspert | Identity Tab E301 | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Entourage | Pocket eDGe | New | e-Reader | 6 | Android |
| Freescale | 24 different models | varied | tablet | varied | varied |
| Fujitsu | unnamed Windows 7 tablet | New | tablet | 7 | Windows |
| Fujitsu | Lifebook T901 | New | tablet | 13.1 | Windows |
| Gajah International | multiple e-Readers | New | e-Reader | 7 | unknown |
| Hanvon | WISEreader N500 | New | e-Reader | 5 | WinCE |
| Hanvon | WISEreader N618 | New | e-Reader | 6 | WinCE |
| Hanvon | WISEreader N628 | New | e-Reader | 6 | WinCE |
| Hanvon | WISEreader N638 | New | e-Reader | 6 | WinCE |
| Hanvon | WISEreader N800 | New | e-Reader | 8 | WinCE |
| iRiver | StoryHD | New | e-Reader | 6 | unknown |
| Key Ingredient | Demy | Previously Released | e-Reader | unknown | |
| Kno | single screen | New | tablet | 14 | Linux |
| Kno | dual-screen | New | tablet | 14×2 | Linux |
| Lenovo | LePad | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Lenovo | Windows7 slate | New | tablet | 10 | Windows |
| LG | Optimus tablet | New | tablet | 8.9 | Android |
| LG T-mobile | G-Slate | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Motion Computing | CL900 | New | tablet | 10 | Windows |
| Motorola | Xoom | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| MSI | WindPad 100A | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| MSI | WindPad 100W | New | tablet | 10 | Windows |
| MSI | Kid Pad | prototype | tablet | 10 | Android |
| NEC | Cloud Communicator LT-W | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Netbook Navigator | Nav7 | New | tablet | 7 | Windows |
| Netbook Navigator | Nav9 | New | tablet | 8.9 | Windows |
| Netbook Navigator | Nav10i | New | tablet | 10.1 | Windows |
| notion ink adam | tablet | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| OpenPeak | OpenTablet 10 | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Panasonic | VieraTablet | New | tablet | 4 | Android |
| Panasonic | VieraTablet | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Panasonic | VieraTablet | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Pandigital | Multimedia Novel | New | e-Reader | 9 | Android |
| Pandigital | Multimedia Novel | New | e-Reader | 7 | Android |
| PocketBook-USA, Inc. | 902/903 | New | e-Reader | 9.7 | Linux |
| PocketBook-USA, Inc. | 602/603 | New | e-Reader | 6 | Linux |
| PocketBook-USA, Inc. | 701 IQ | New | e-Reader | 7 | Android |
| Razer | Switchblade | New | tablet | 7 | Windows |
| Rullingnet | Vinci | prototype | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Samsung | Galaxy Tab WiFi | Previously Released | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Samsung | TX100 | New | tablet | 10 | Windows |
| Sharp | Galapogas E-media Tablet | New | e-Reader | 5.5 | Linux |
| Sharp | Galapogas E-media Tablet | New | e-Reader | 10.8 | Linux |
| toshiba | Toshiba Tablet | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Velocity Micro | Cruz tablet | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Velocity Micro | Cruz tablet | New | tablet | 8 | Android |
| Velocity Micro | Cruz tablet | New | tablet | 10 | Android |
| Viewsonic | ViewPad 10 | New | tablet | 10.1 | Android / Windows |
| Viewsonic | ViewPad 10s | New | tablet | 10.1 | Android |
| Viliv | X10 | New | tablet | 10.2 | Android |
| Vilix | X7 | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
| Vilix | X70 | New | tablet | 7 | Windows |
| Vizio | Vizio (Via) Tablet | New | tablet | 8 | Android |
| Samsung | Galaxy Tab 4G | New | tablet | 7 | Android |
Chart and data courtesy Shawn Dubravac
