To announce the launch of the tablet the CEO and chairman of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer,talked about the rumors that had been spreading around the globe about the Sony S1 tablet and finally confirmed its launch at the end of this summer.
The news is official and comes from an ' interview published in the Nikkei , the Japanese business newspaper, in which the President of the Japanese giant (Sony) has revealed more details about what they want in the so called ''iPad Killer of 2011''. According to them the tablet will be presented in the next months and launched in the U.S. market by the end of the summer . They have also confirmed that the tablet will have Honeycomb Android 3.0 , the version of the mobile operating system Google created expressly for the tablet .
The specs of this iPad Killer are supposed to be:
- Chipset NVIDIA Tegra 2
- Processor dual core
- Graphics Chip GeForce
- Multi touch screen 9.4 inches
- resolution 1280 × 800
- native support for the platform Playstation Suite .
Now we just have to wait and see if the ' S1 may or may not give a hard time to the iPad 2 created by Apple.Only after its launch can we decide that its an ''iPad Killer'' or not and if it is than Apple will certainly have to find a way to fight this killer.