Posted on Tuesday, April 13 2010 @ 0:10 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Laptop Mag
reports Google is experimenting with Android-based tablet devices, and that HP is developing a 6-inch Android-based Slate.
According to The New York Times, CEO Eric Schmidt recently showed off a Google-made tablet at a party and the company is “experimenting in ’stealth mode’ with a few publishers to explore delivery of books, magazines and other content.”
If you’re wondering whether other Android tablet makers will sour on the platform, the same article says that HP is working on a 6-inch Android tablet nicknamed “the half-pint.” More important, the Times reports that Google “hopes to make its own apps marketplace available for new slate-like devices.” That’s an about-face compared to what the company apparently told the makers of the Entourage Edge, namely that Android is a phone OS and that Google works with phone companies.
