Acer's 10.1" Iconia Tablet (A500-10S16U) is set to arrive April 24th at BestBuy for $450 with 16GB of internal storage.
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| Acer's Iconia |
Then there's the 10.1" Asus Eee Pad Transformer (TF101) coming out on April 26th for $400 with 16GB of internal storage. Of course, the Transformer is a little different than other tablets, in that it has a separate $150 base that turns it into a netbook good for....16 hours!
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| Asus Eee Pad Transformer |
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| Transformer with optional base |
And as previously mentioned, the Toshiba 10.1" tablet is also coming out, though not specifically stated when.
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| Toshiba Tablet |
And just this week, T-Mobile made it official with the 8.9" G-Slate, for $529 on 2-year contract...because a lot of people are going to want a smaller screen on a 2-year contract that requires a mail-in rebate, and cost more money...right? Right?!?
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| LG's / T-Mobile's G-Slate |
And by the time Summer is here, we'll have new Honeycomb wares from Archos, Velocity Micro (they promised late Q1 during CES 2011, but apparently that's slipped), and Dell's 10" Streak.
So where does that put Google's Chrome CR-48, the upcoming release of the official Chrome netbook, rumored to be in May (or it could be June/July)? Seems like it'll be battling for the same people...those looking for a cheaper, lightweight device aside from their main laptop / desktop, no? I know I'll be buying just one or the other, because neither will be sufficient for my high-power computing needs.
If that wasn't enough competition, rumor has it, Amazon could be releasing an Android-based tablet this Summer. Now that's a biggie.
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