Tablets are coming from: Apple, Blackberry, Motorola, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, and Vizio

By : Noman Lahli, Chief  Techie at Cell Phone Repair Guys  January 7, 2011

A market that was nearly non-existent one year ago is now dominated by Apple. Now the catch up game begins for everyone else.

A few years ago, Apple revolutionized a market that they had no experience in: The Cell Phone Market. It was the beginning of the take over by computer makers and software companies of the cell phone universe from the control of the traditional manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia. Today we live in an age where there are 3 choices when it comes to buying a new cell phone: Apple, Android, or Windows?

And now, we see another similar revolution that now is taking over the current “it” category: Tablets. And once again it is Apple that has created the product that everyone else is trying to mimic in the wildly successful iPad. The concept of the tablet itself is quite simple. It is a machine that allows you to get a web experience that is more vibrant then a mobile phone but not as space-hogging as a desktop PC. The tablet industry is poised to sell approximately 20 million tablets this year, with sales increasing year after year into the foreseeable future. Kids as small as 2 years old are using the tablets like the way we adults would. The user-friendly machines are easy to learn and a joy to use. Maybe that is why the iPad was the most searched term on eBay AND Google in the last 90 days.

This week’s Consumer Electronics Show was the stage for all the major electronics titans to showcase their soon-to-be-released interpretations of the tablet.  Below is the Blackberry Playbook which will run on the company’s own proprietary operating system.

Finishing off the list below are the Motorola Xoom which will run on Android’s new Honeycomb 3.0 operating system,

And finishing off with the tablets from Dell, Toshiba, and yes even Vizio the LCD TV company has not only a tablet but also a smartphone coming very soon.