Sony CEO Howard Stringer has announced his firm will be releasing a tablet by the end of this summer.
The news, which first surfaced in Japan’s Nikkei newspaper and was later picked up by Bloomberg, also maintains the tablet will run Android 3.0 Honeycomb – though by the summer, who knows how many new OSes Google may have come up with.
Other than the fact it will be Android based and released in summer, details of Sony’s tablet remain shrouded in secrecy. The firm had better be planning something spectacular, however, if it intends to make good on its Sony deputy president Kunimasa Suzuki’s CES 2011 pledge to “take the No. 2 position [in the tablet market] by 2012”.
Stringer certainly believes his company can deliver the goods, especially when it comes to entertainment and media consumption. “When our tablet comes out it’ll have content of its own,” Stringer promised back in January, adding that Sony had television and film studios “working very hard to create content specifically for it.”
Word on the street has it Sony’s tablet will come in two flavors of form factor, one 9.4-inch and the other 5.5-inch. We’ll just have to wait and see.
