In the next few months to come we will see a major shift in the tablet PC market as more and more players enter the market to take a piece of the pie, the most recent company to venture into the market is Samsung Electronics, who plans to debut it’s 7 inch galaxy tablet PC, which is sized between the iphone 4 and dell streak mini.

Although the Samsung  Tablet PC is likely to compete with the iPad and not the iPhone,

Apple iPad

Similar news is cited by KT Corp who will also introduce a 7 inch tablet PC, as well as LG which will be announcing it’s tablet PC soon.

It appears that companies are lining up to launch their own Tablet PC range just before the run up to Christmas which is when all retailers make the most profit.

Since the rising popularity of the ipad, you could be forgiven for thinking that windows will follow suit, however windows explains this is not the case. Whilst the Tablet PC has been a success in some selective commercial applications and has been a big hit with some consumers. Windows says it will not hit hard and try to break into the Tablet PC market quite so soon.

At the moment the tablet PC market is dominated by the ipad, and numerous other low cost alternatives such as linux and android. Whilst windows is happy to go along with the tablet pc market trend and provide capability and support in its latest installation of windows 7. Windows explains that the tablet PC still needs to plug the gap for the still quite impractical battery life and lack of support by app developers to create suitable applications tailor made for tablet pc systems.

WIndows explains that it has always been a champion of mobile computers and entered the market back in 2002, with it palm top windows CE devices, however it feels that there is still a long way away before windows dedicates the OS for touchscreen computers.

This is in start contrast to google and apple’s initatives, apple has already created the ipad tablet PC, and google programmers predict that the growth of the tablet pc will continue and isn’t just a “fad”. The move towards the tablet PC has been slowly emerging, mobile phones have transformed into mini tablet devices, and laptops have turned into ultra protable netbooks, at a time when sales of IT have slumped due to the recession.

Google predicts that in the future the two devices will become more and more homogenised and we’ll begin to see more widespread use of mini tablets like the dell streak mini.