CES or the rise of the Android!

CES usually was about TVs. This year it was all about smart phones and Tablets. The main event in my opinion was the rise of the Android. Sounds like a bad science fiction movie but Android is on most smart phones already. With just a little push from Google, Android can become a major Tablet OS.

Motorola new XOOM tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb demonstrated at CES looked very well designed and very slick. 

Digitimes said that Google was giving full cooperation and priority to Motorola, Samsung and HTC to develop new phones and tablets and 2011 will be the year of the Android.

Big looser was Microsoft! A bit on the sidelines despite the claim that there was a multitude of Windows 7 tablets at CES, most looked like prototypes and very few are available now! Most will die quickly.

To add insult to injury, Tom Kilroy, Chief Marketing at Intel told CNET that they were quite unhappy with Microsoft slowness to release a tablet OS. 

Could be because Microsoft is, let's say, dropping Intel on low power chipsets and going ARM. Can't blame them, latest tests I ran on LV and ULV chipsets, were not good. Either you ran a 100W TDP or you had a 30W TDP and 3DMark ran in molasses. Intel Chipsets are for desktops, and what they call "embedded" are just downgraded desktop chipsets with a serious reduction in RAM and graphics performance. 

Windows 7 is not a tablet OS, and any tablet running Windows 7 is in my opinion doomed because the batteries will not last if you do anything serious. To support 10 hours, you will end up with a very heavy tablet, in the three pounds range.

So CES is in fact the victory of the Tablet, and the coming of Google as a serious competitor. I am looking around for an Android Phone and/or Android Tablet and checking android development tools.

Google needs to look at the Android EcoSystem and do some thinking ...

madmac