Monday, April 25, 2011

Sony to take on Apple with launch of first tablet PCs

Sony, a laggard in the booming tablet market, unveiled its first tablet computers in an ambitious attempt to grab second place in the market created and still dominated by Apple's iPad. The new gadgets will use an operating system based on Android 3.0, Kunimasa Suzuki, deputy president of the consu mer products and services group, told reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday.

One of the models will have two screens, he added.

Suzuki raised eyebrows in January when he told reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January that Sony was aiming for the No. 2 spot in the tablet market behind Apple within a year, even though it had yet to put a product on the market.

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