Dell’s Tablet Roadmap Leaked; Windows 8 Powered Slate Coming Next Year
Recently, we posted the Dell’s leaked smartphone roadmap, which revealed some of the upcoming Android Ice Cream and Windows Phone 7 based smartphones. And now, the guys at Android Central shared the leaked slide of the Dell’s 2011 tablet roadmap. According to the roadmap, Dell will launch 4 Android powered tablets and 2 Windows based tablets, ranging from 5 inch to 10 inch touchscreen display. The codenames of Android based tablets are Gallo, Sterling, Opus One and Silver Oak, while the codenames of Windows based tablets are Rosemount and Peju.
Dell Gallo is the company’s first Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) powered tablet with 10 inch touchscreen display. On the other hand, Dell Sterling is a 7 inch tablet powered by the same operating system. Dell Gallo is expected to launch in April 2011, while the Dell Sterling will be available during Q4 of 2011.
Dell is not only planning to launch Android Honeycomb based tablets, but the company is also planning to launch Windows 7 and Windows 8 based tablets. Dell Rosemount is a 10 inch tablet with 1366 x760 pixels HD display. Rosemount runs on the Windows 7 operating system. Dell Peju is the company’s first tablet which runs on the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Dell Peju also features a large 10 inch touchscreen display. Rosemount is expected to launch in June 2011, while the Windows 8 based Dell Peju will arrive next year. Dell Peju might be showcased next year at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas.
Dell Opus One and Silver Oak are Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) based tablets, but the Opus One comes with a 5 inch touchscreen display, while the Silver Oak comes with a 7 inch touchscreen display. Both the Opus One and Silver Oak will be arriving next year. These tablets are also expected to be showcased at the CES 2012, along with the Dell Peju tablet.
Are you excited about the Windows 8 powered tablet? Or you will go ahead with the Android powered tablets? Let us know your views, in the comments below.
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I have been through 5 Android devices to date (everything from a 5-inch Dell Streak to a Samsung Galaxy S2 and an Acer tablet. I’ve not been complete satisfied with a single Android device (in most cases I’ve been extremely disappointed due to the laggy user experience and Google’s inability to use GPU acceleration to provide a smooth responsive UI). See: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
I also have a Windows Phone 7 (HTC HD7). While I like the tile concept and the buttery smooth UI, third party apps are laggy, it can’t integrate with Exchange Server if your password has a space in it, and the browser is terrible (not to mention YouTube on the device is very primitive compared to YouTube clients on Android or iOS).
I’ll buy the Dell Peju if (and only if) it’s possible to install Ubuntu on it and have everything working flawlessly (I’ve looked at the eKoore Ubuntu tablets, but they’re single core Atom CPUs – no thanks!!).