dell 312-0653 laptop battery is developing a book with a 10-inch awning that will be appear abutting year as it tries to aggrandize its attendance in the handheld market, the aggregation said Thursday.

"You'll see for abiding a 10-inch [tablet] from us abutting year," said Steve Felice, admiral of the Global Consumer, Small and Medium Business division, in an account that additionally included Ed Boyd, who is carnality admiral of the Experience Design Group at dell 312-0508 laptop battery.

The aggregation has already appear the Streak, which has a 5-inch awning and smartphone appearance to accomplish calls. The absolute acknowledgment to Streak, which Dell describes as a tablet, has led the aggregation to cascade added assets into developing tablets and smartphones.

Dell in the past has also talked about a tablet with a 7-inch screen, and "it's possible" that device will be released in the future, Felice said. Dell is testing a number of tablets to see which size and weight ratios resonate with users.

"You're going to see a pretty fast development cycle from dell 312-0408 laptop battery and you'll see more products next year," Felice said.

The Dell executives declined to provide specific release dates, but said tablets will be offered with both Windows and Linux OSes, depending on what users want. Boyd expressed doubt on Windows 7 being the right OS for tablets, saying users would still need a keyboard and mouse to make best use of the OS.

For now, Google's Android OS plays better with tablets, but the successor to Windows 7 will have a much improved touch interface and will be well-suited for tablets, Boyd said.

"There is a tremendous amount of pent-up demand for a Windows [tablet] so you can run productivity applications. Unfortunately, it won't happen until the Windows 8 time frame," Boyd said.

Microsoft hasn't officially announced a successor to Windows 7, though leaked slides rumored to be from Microsoft suggest a beta of the follow-up OS being released around the middle of next year.

For now, dell 312-0341 laptop battery is trying to bring Windows 7 to tablets through the Inspiron Duo, a netbook/tablet hybrid first demonstrated in September and that Dell expects to release in the next couple of months.

Dell's affairs to absolution fresh articles comes at a time back tablets, led by Apple's iPad, are more bistro into netbook and laptop sales. Analyst firms IDC and Gartner aftermost anniversary said that the appulse of tablets was astringent on netbooks, whose admeasurement of all-embracing adaptable computer shipments alone during the third division this year. Competitors including Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Samsung and Toshiba accept either appear or will advertise tablets.

DELL 312-0335 laptop battery until now has paid little absorption to netbooks, adage they are under-powered and too baby for boilerplate computing. That artifice has paid off, Felice said, abacus that the aggregation has aerial hopes for tablets for as "content consumption" devices, while laptops will abide to be acclimated for abundance accoutrement and data-intensive applications.