• Fujitsu To Bring Out 7-Inch Android Tablet This Year

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    Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

    Just last week had Fujitsu announcing the TH40/D, a 10-inch convertible Windows tablet/notebook. It’s actually aimed more at the enterprise market, but Digitimes reports they have an option coming for consumers as well. It’ll be smaller, with a 7-inch screen and Android 3.1, but it’s not clear whether it will have the stylus support and keyboard of the TH40/D.

    If it’s convertible, it’s got its work cut out for it, with the Eee Pad Transformer presumably coming out soon, and sporting better specs (in some ways) than the more expensive TH40/D model. Fujitsu is supposedly targeting a sub-$400 price point for the low-end (16GB) model, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

    If it isn’t convertible, it may join the other devices that fail to differentiate themselves sufficiently from the herd. Hopefully Fujitsu works hard to make this thing a real option.