HTC and Google are allegedly working on a pair of touch screen tablets to compete with Apple’s tablet. Two devices are rumoured to be on the way – one based on Google’s mobile OS Android, the other on the web-happy Google Chrome OS.
The rumour springs from Smarthouse, an Australian site, which claims that Google and HTC have been pulling together a pair of touch tablet devices for 18 months. It says there are several working models of the touch tablet in existence.
As well as an HTC/Google Chrome OS tablet, the rumour claims an Android device will be shown to HTC customers this week at CES in Las Vegas. The Android touch tablet will apparently boast new Qualcomm processors and custom software from Adobe.
Adobe’s not a big fan of Apple thanks to Steve Jobs’s continuing shunning of Flash on the iPhone. But the big publishers are likely to warm to a touch tablet running Abode software since most of their tablet prototypes have been based on Adobe Air.
HTC has also been working with Google to develop the Nexus One which adds some weight to the idea that they’d be developing further devices together.
Due TBA | £TBA | HTC/Google (via Smarthouse)
