[Sly Fox]

Verizon, Google teaming up for Android tablet

May 12, 2010 — 7:37am ET | By Phil Goldstein

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) plans to launch a tablet based on Google's Android platform, and a host of other connected devices, in a bid to catch up with rival AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) on the tablet front. The move also deepens the relationship Verizon forged with Google last fall, when the two announced a multi-year collaboration on devices.

"What do we think the next big wave of opportunities are?" Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "We're working on tablets together, for example. We're looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience."

Verizon has declined to discuss when it will release the tablet, how much it might cost and which company might make the device. A Verizon spokesman, Marquett Smith, told Bloomberg that the device will run on Android and that Verizon will unveil more details later this week.

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They better hurry up and find someone to make the hardware, HP is rumored to have a tablet ready sometime this year using WebOS.

The boat seems to have left Microsoft back at the peer.

[phoenix]

I don't see Microsoft doing much in the way of iPad-style tablets, unless they can get something running Windows 7 Mobile Whateverthenameis. They've got full laptop-size tablets running Vista and XP already -- more powerful tablets than the new breed coming out now, but battery life suffers (and the price is much higher). It will come down to the iPad, Android-based, and WebOS-based in the "new tablet" market. Tablets are going to have to run a mobile OS and have killer battery life to make it anymore.

I was disappointed when Microsoft announced they weren't going to produce the Courier. THAT was something I could see myself buying.