Dell’s Latitude 10 Essentials tablet promises to be the first business-friendly Windows 8 Pro tablet under $500

If you’ve been wondering why there seem to be so few big-name Windows 8 tablets, it’s not that manufacturers don’t want to make them; it’s that they’re having problems making enough of them

We’ve had laptops, and we’ve had tablets, and we’ve even had “phablets”, which inhabit the middle ground between smartphones and tablets. Now it seems we need a new term to describe tablets such as Dell’s XPS12 Duo

Dell’s moving into the tablet business, but unlike some Windows 8 manufacturers it isn’t worried about competition from Microsoft’s own Surface tablets

We’ve know for a while that Dell will be one of the Windows 8 launch partners, and now we know what its flagship Windows 8 tablet will look like: last week, Dell unveiled the Latitude 10 tablet

PC giant Dell is one of Microsoft’s key hardware partners, so it’s not a surprise to discover that it’s working on Windows 8 tablets. What is surprising, however, is that the tablets they’re working on are a bit… meh

There’s been another casualty in the tablet wars: Dell’s Streak tablet. The five-inch model had already been put out to pasture, and now the seven-inch streak is en route to the glue factory. The problem, it seems, is that the Streak just wasn’t selling.

The cancellation of the 5-inch Streak tablet in the US doesn’t mean Dell’s getting out of the tablet business, quite the reverse.

Dell has already dipped its toes into the tablet water with its Streak range, and it’s got some interesting kit up its sleeve for 2011.

Dell has two tablets to choose from: the 5-inch Streak 5 and the forthcoming seven-inch Streak 7. A third tablet, the Streak 10, is due later this year, although that one’s aimed at business users and will run Windows. So what do Dell’s current tablets have to offer?

Tablets will be everywhere this year. Where 2010 was largely about tech firms promising tablets that didn’t turn up, 2011 is when the big hitters will actually ship. So what’s worth getting excited about?