{"id":10264,"date":"2010-05-12T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T01:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T01:47:57","slug":"google-may-be-working-on-an-android-tablet-ipad-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/google-may-be-working-on-an-android-tablet-ipad-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Google May Be Working on an Android Tablet, iPad Killer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are not much details but many technology blogs are quite sure that Google is working with Verizon to come up with a Tablet. And as more information are pouring in, it seems that it will be based on Android platform (not Chrome OS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/04-21-10lookingp.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10265\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/google-may-be-working-on-an-android-tablet-ipad-killer\/04-21-10lookingp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/04-21-10lookingp.jpg?fit=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"04-21-10lookingp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/04-21-10lookingp.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/04-21-10lookingp.jpg?fit=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10265 aligncenter\" title=\"04-21-10lookingp\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/04-21-10lookingp.jpg?resize=540%2C304\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/04-21-10lookingp.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/04-21-10lookingp.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I used this pic from Engadget and I would like to clarify that this is NOT the actual product. Anyway, the story starts from WSJ&#8217;s interview with Verizon CEO.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Verizon Wireless is working with Google Inc. on a tablet  computer, the carrier&#8217;s chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said Tuesday, as  the company endeavors to catch up with iPad host AT&amp;T Inc. in devices  that connect to wireless networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704250104575238680540806288.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read More details from WSJ<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>And then from Bloomberg, it gives more details.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tablet will run on Google\u2019s Android operating system, Marquett Smith,  a spokesman for Verizon, said today in a phone interview. He declined to elaborate and said the carrier will release more details later this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601204&amp;sid=aYIqy_o1Vsdk\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read More details from Bloomberg<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>So, lets wait to see if this is an iPad killer or not.<br \/>\n[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/05\/11\/verizon-confirms-its-working-on-a-tablet-with-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are not much details but many technology blogs are quite sure that Google is working with Verizon to come up with a Tablet. And as more information are pouring in, it seems that it will be based on Android platform (not Chrome OS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1509,1515,1711,14],"tags":[37,39,390],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-gadget","category-tablet-computer","category-techie","tag-android","tag-google","tag-verizon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-2Fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10267,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}