The HP Slate

Tablet development rumors have started to circulate that the large names have closed up shop, but they are just rumors.

Officially the only tablet to cancel it’s current production is the Microsoft Courier, which was an unconfirmed, unreleased prototype supposedly to be released this year. A day later, the HP Slate was rumored to have canceled it’s predicted released date of June after their acquisition of Palm.

Various sources are now speculating that HP may release a Windows 7 based version, but the majority of tech sites are claiming that it won’t even bother. No information has yet to be confirmed from HP, so until June rolls by there is not much to be said officially.

Additionally there has been news about a new Android based tablet, which has no confirmed pricing or release date, but will supposedly support mobile flash with the latest update to the Android OS. The Aigo seems to be every non Apple fan boys new dream, right next to Notion Ink’s Adam tablet.

Additionally, an almost finished Samsung tablet that runs an Android OS is also close to the market, possibly in August. Sadly this is by far the ugliest tablet, but it does have a built in keyboard of sorts.

A majority of reviews on the JooJoo have also been relatively bland for the price. It costs just as much as the basic iPad, but has quite a few OS issues still.

The prices of the iPad are extremely high in comparison to Netbooks, so it would generally be difficult to compare the two products. They also reach out to two very separate markets. The manufacturing of netbooks is also on the rise, but as new tablets come out at the end of this year (hopefully) they may begin to phase out.

Decline in Netbooks

Both tablets and netbooks will not phaseout the need for a laptop or tower PC, but as cloud computing grows and more applications are built right into the Web, these gadgets will quickly become essential to all.

Now the million dollar question of the day; will you wait for unannounced tablet dates or go right for the quality netbooks?