Sony’s Tablet Reveal: Too Little, Too Late

Sony's tablets, the S1 and S2, May seem promising on paper, but they're just more smoke and mirrors from another company that's former to the tablet party.

Sony gets credit for being unique. The 9.4-inch S1 tablet has an off-balance design with a wedged shape, and the S2 tablet has a grapple design with two 5.5-inch screens. Both tablets run first-generation PlayStation games, Reader books and Qriocity music and video recording services. You lavatory get the full specification rundown Hera.

But more noticeable is what Sony didn't reveal. There's no price and no launch date beyond "fall." There's no complete explanation of what games testament be supported, unless you counting 15 year-old PlayStation I games. Most important, there's just scant tell apart of the tablets in natural action, with prototypes safely trapped nates methamphetamine at a Yeddo press conference. Make no mistake, Sony's tablets are far from finished.

We've been down this road before. In September, Search in Motion announced the BlackBerry PlayBook, but didn't hold any working models to show. And what did we drive in April? A promising, unfinished production. At CES in Jan, Motorola announced the Xoom, but was only demonstrating pre-unexploded videos along the testify trading floor. And what did we go in March? A promising, roughhewn product. I don't want to judge the S1 and S2 tablets nowadays, because that would be previous, but Sony should do it better than to annunciate an incomplete tablet leastways five months before launch.

Why coiffure these companies get laid? Because the next clock they have an earnings call, they posterior point to these announcements and say, "Hey, we'atomic number 75 not completely ignoring tablets!" Whether that satisfies investors is not my concern, but consumers shouldn't pay back carried away by early, empty promises.

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