Tablets become the new Smartphone OS Battleground

Tablets become the new Smartphone OS Battleground

Tablet computers were once considered to be one of the few technological failures of the last decade. Bill Gates famously believed that tablet computing was the future he wanted Microsoft to pursue back when he showed developing prototypes to the world at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas back in 2001, though this wasn't a success with consumers.

The constant demise and then reinvention of the tablet computing form came to a head in 2010 when Apple decided to dip its toe into the pond and release what it thought a tablet computer should be, its key philosophy being that the user interface should be built around the user, and not adapted from a desktop. This was evident in its choice to make use of its iPhone operating system, iOS, on the iPad instead of porting a version of the desktop OS X to it.

The unexpected success of the iPad has caused Apple competitors to start shaking in their boots, and attempt to develop what they envisage a tablet computer to be. They may all share the same hardware specifications, but the major differences come down to the software running on the tablet computers. This has become a battleground for smartphone manufacturers trying to port their mobile operating systems to a bigger screen.

Blackberry

Research in Motion's Blackberry phones have taken the business and enterprise world by storm, creating high quality products that provide services geared towards the businessman on the move. Their reaction to the ever growing tablet computer market has been the PlayBook. This tablet is being pitched to consumers as a complimentary device to their BlackBerry mobiles, working in conjunction with their phone to allow them to carry out heavier tasks such as manipulating documents or surfing the internet, all while being able to sync with their BlackBerry device.

Motorola

The company that had seen market share steadily drop has seen resurgence of late when it comes to their Android smartphone devices. After having spent the best part of the decade trying to create a product that would achieve the popular heights of the RAZR handset, it seems Android is part of their new plan to conquer the mobile world. Their iteration of the tablet computer comes in the form of the Motorola Xoom. This device is one of the only tablet computers available in the market that runs the latest version of Android, Honeycomb 3.0.

Hewlett-Packard

The company that brought us innovations such as the iPAQ line of personal digital assistants, as well as high-spec printers that have allowed us to reduce the cost of digital photography, purchased the innovative but ill-fated Palm Pre line of phones and its webOS software, and publically admitted that they were going to be releasing a webOS tablet in the near future. This proved to be true when they announced the launch of the HP TouchPad tablet computer. Combining all of the excellent usability features of Palm's webOS with a big screen; it looks set to be one of the serious competitors to Apple's iPad.

There are so many more devices being previewed and planned for release this year, and it seems that 2011 will possibly be the year of the table computer. But whether they will be able to compete with the well-received success that is the iPad is another question altogether.

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