Black Friday Tablet Rumored from HTC; Toshiba Tablet for September
August 18, 2010 by Amy Gilroy
Filed under Industry news, Tablet 1
Toshiba and HTC are rumored to be readying tablets with HTC preparing a Chrome OS model that will hit stores on Black Friday, November 26.
And HTC may launch the tablet in conjunction with Verizon. The blog Download Squad got the tip from a single unnamed source so the HTC tablet is still very much in the rumor stage, although it’s not surprising that HTC, which produces Google’s Android-based phones, would venture out with a Google-based tablet.
Part of the big news here is that the Chrome OS was selected over Android. The Chrome OS was announced by Google last month as a lightweight, open-source Linux-based OS designed for speed, quick start-up and very heavy web usage.
For its part, Toshiba may offer a tablet as early as September or October for the global market, says Digitimes. The device will bear a 10-inch screen and use Nvidia’s Tegra 2 processor running Android. By the end of the year, Toshiba may ship 40,000-50,000 units.
Source: Download Squad via PCWorld, Digitimes
Photo: Rendering of Chrome OS tablet by Download Squad
