Report: Sony's Got a PlayStation Tab Called S1
With all the new tablets being announced, it’s hard to find one that really stands out from the crowd. However, it seems Sony is getting ready to surprise us with the unveiling of an honest-to-goodness PlayStation-branded tablet. Seriously!
Engadget’s nabbed itself some exclusive intel: Confirmed by “two highly trusted, independent sources” comes word that Sony has got not one but two tablets in development. The first is a 9.4-inch Android device (Honeycomb, of course), which is apparently going to be PlayStation-branded.
Said to be 100 percent focused Qriocity, the music, games, ebooks, and videos on demand service that's live in Europe, the team behind the tablet incorporates top engineers from Sony's Reader, PlayStation, and Sony Ericsson departments, but is ultimately lead by the VAIO product team. Sony's working on some custom-built transitions and UI elements for Honeycomb and the result will apparently rival the user interface experience offered by the iPad.
What do you guys think: Is a gaming tablet a possibility or do you just have to have those hardware controls? Let us know!

This coming from a owner of a 80 Gig PSFat.
You think any of that will stop the community from getting what it wants? look at the PS3. The seemingly impenetrable console was even hacked, and is continuing to be hacked after each attempt that Sony tries to patch it over.
a dual shock cut in 2, you hold it in the corners, and in the middle is a 10 inch screen. and that screen, plays psp/psp2 games, its also 720p, and has a minihdmi input, so you can connect ps3, or any other hdmi device into it.
i would so pay for that. SO pay for that.
You are totally right. iOS looked fresh and nice in it's beginning, but as soon as you've started using Android, the iOS GUI is laughable after all: the weather icon that displays 73°F all year long is the best example I can think of... Widgets are the way to go and even the stock Android desktops had this right from the beginning.
I hope that Sony will not try to reinvent the wheel with their customizations: the laggy mediascape they put on the Xperia x10 was the first thing to disable if you wanted a decently working handset...
A PS3 Controller would also be nice.
1) Getting as much of the market share as possible is more important than worrying about "cannibalizing" one's own future sales. Just look at how well AMD/ATI did with the HD 5000 series graphics cards. Better to have one of your own products in the consumer's hands than your competitor's.
2) These are different market/price segments.
3) PSP2 will focus on its added portability and smaller form factor. You can't pocket a 9'-10" tablet.
All true, I'm not denying that at all, I was mainly saying that Sony needs to make sure the products are differentiated enough, that's all.
VAIO Team = FAIL
Almost every OS that is not made by MS is based on Linux and that didn't change gaming for it so this will be no different
Linux is merely the kernal, and for the most part it's great. The problem with Linux is all the craptastic, fragmented, poorly UI'd crap that sits on top of it. Mainstream gaming on Linux (excuse me, GNU/Linux, for the zealots)? Not gonna happen.