Sony have officially announced they will finally be entering the touch screen tablet market. The Telegraph has said that Sony is to 'challenge Apple with two tablet computers'; one of which will be a similar shape to conventional tablets, but the other will be a clamshell design with two screens (like the Nintendo DS). I think that there is a possibility that Sony will be able to reach its aim of being 'second to Apple in the tablet market by 2012' because they have a substantial customer base already. Also, they plan to incorporate Sony Playstation into the device, ebooks from their Sony Reader store and 'music and film streaming service, called Qriocity.' Notably, the device will also use Android, which already dominates Apple OS mobile systems in terms of the amount of users. All of these different killer features mean that Sony could well be on the ball for being a genuine Apple rival in the tablet market. That is to say, the first.
The ultimate killer app for Sony would be to make these devices cheaper - people in the west trust Sony and they have done for years, so will people decide to buy these over the new tablet empire Apple have built upon (new) reputation?
UPDATE (5/05/11):
It has been announced that a Canadian technology firm has designed a 1mm thin touch screen device, called 'PaperPhone', currently based on the same ink screen technology as the Kindle. Here is a video explaining the new product, which apparently bends like a piece of paper and is designed to be able to fold into the users pocket.
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