Sony introduces the tablets, compete with Apple offers

Tokyo — Sony planning a tablet with a touch panel is similar to Apple's iPad for later this year and make the most of the Japanese manufacturer hiitronot gadgetry and entertainment. Koji Sasahara, AP

A prototype of Sony S1 named code is shown in Tokyo Tuesday, April 26, 2011. It comes with the 9.4 inch monitor to enjoy online content such as movies, music, video games and Internet connections, and electronics, including email, social networks.

Koji Sasahara, AP

A prototype of Sony S1 named code is shown in Tokyo Tuesday, April 26, 2011. It comes with the 9.4 inch monitor to enjoy online content such as movies, music, video games and Internet connections, and electronics, including email, social networks.

The product code named S1, shown Tuesday in Tokyo, comes with 9.4 inch monitor to enjoy online content such as movies, music, video games and Internet connections, and electronics, including email, social networks, Sony Electronics boasts the. and entertainment divisions, also displayed S2Small, portable with two 5.5 inch you like views. He did not give prices. But Senior Vice President of Sony Kunimasa Suzuki said that they would be competitive when they go on sale worldwide steamed to September. Both run Android 2.0 operating system Google's message on the suggestions link. net key Sony comes as he tries to fix its PlayStation Network outage, offering music online and games. vague when that starts playback. Sony has blamed the "external intrusion, including getting it" would have to rebuild its system to add security measures, to strengthen the infrastructure of its Suzuki said two tablets of the last feature of Sony "saku saku", or nifty technology that allows access to the smooth and quick online content and get the browsers work almost immediately after the impact. "We offer what is unique to Sony, "said Suzuki after demonstrating how to S1 is designed with elegant, tapered ??????"???. "The devices connect to Sony's cloud computing based on content such as movies and music, as well as the Sony PlayStation video game is suitable for running Android and Sony Reader digital books, said the company Sony, making your PC vkonsolt card games PlayStation 3Some of its lost glory of the past symbolized the past Cook Walkman portable music player that which bbdrchim personal music in the 1980s, catapulting the Japanese company into a household name around the world is struggling against some opponents and more efficient, including Apple's iPhone with us, IPod and iPad, as well as Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea, where Sony acquires liquid-crystal displays, a central component in flat TVs. Suzuki said that sony was not expected to beat the control of Apple tablets "number ????"??? was lidiotino to be no. 2. "There are many people who bought the iPad, "he told a press conference at the Tokyo headquarters. "These products are symbolic for Sony and the direction towards the ???????."Apple, based in Cupertino, sold 19.5 million iPads via the most recent quarter. Goldman Sachs report estimates ????? will hold a joint order of 64 percent from the calendar.Sony has already promised successor to its PlayStation Portable for late this year, code named NGP for next generation mobile "," guarantee the quality of the home console machine on the road to double the size of screen boasting smartphones. popularity of smartphones including the iPhone already a Sony Kazuo Hirai added., Promoted in March continued Consumer Services Division, Sony, Sony's strategy has always been said about the combination of hardware, software, networking to make consumers ?????? was the target of S1, S2. "There is no change to this approach," he said.

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