Dell dithers over fresh fondleslabs
CES 2012 Week Dell has revealed intentions to corner the consumer fondleslab market by the end 2012, promising to turn up to the soirée this time with enough party-poppers for everyone. According to chief commercial officer Steve Felice - who spoke of Dell's tablet ambitions in an interview with Reuters - the company was …
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Wednesday 11th January 2012 15:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
The Streak
I still don't quite understand the decision to withdraw from the Streak - unless it was a decision to withdraw from Android and go Windows 8 later. The Streak is/was a great device, badly let down by two problems: launching on an old version of Android to general derision and an almost total lack of marketing of it by either Dell or the networks. I can understand that some people just don't want a 5" form-factor phone, or a 7" form-factor tablet, but for those that do (and I'm one!) it's just a lovely piece of kit. I'm just glad that there are other manufacturers out there producing 5" android phones for when my Streak eventually goes tits up. -
Wednesday 11th January 2012 15:51 GMT Mikel
Go with something untried
Android tabs are taking up 40 percent market share. Much better for Dell to take up a solution that won't be ready for half a year at least, is in it's first revision, is unproven and likely buggy and not feature-complete. Ideally it should have absolutely zero presence and awareness in the market, and no affinity with mobile phones so people can avoid that messy phone - tablet convergence. And of course it should avoid extant rich app ecosystems. That's going to solve their tablet problem, of course.-
Wednesday 11th January 2012 17:03 GMT Yet Another Anonymous cowardBut they get paid $2 for the "designed for Windows8" sticker, $1 for the "Intel inside", $1 for bundling each of Norton, Mcaffee, Crap-o-backup and Office-nearly-works-once demo mode. In fact actually building a computer into the case is probably not really worth it from a business point of view.
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Wednesday 11th January 2012 16:39 GMT Robert Carnegie
Dell Latitude ST is their current Windows-running tablet product.
I've pretty much decided to go ahead and buy one of those, right away, although I'm worried about using Windows 7 with "only" 2 gigabytes of memory. 64-bit Windows 7 ran pretty badly in that much RAM, when one of my SODIMMs blew out, but apparently 64-bit is a lot "heavier" than the 32-bit edition. When is Windows 8 out anyway? Not yet...-
Wednesday 11th January 2012 19:45 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
Which windows8?
So far there are three OSes for PCs tablets and phones - all called Windows8
It's not clear how compatible they will be with each other or with existing Windows code so most statements about supporting it at the moment are marketing speak
Windows8 for PCs is already out - just another gui rearrange.
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