14 DAY TRIAL // The fact that Sony is preparing two S-series tablets is far past the stage of rumor, but there is hardly any official information on them, a fact that might have just changed now that a certain pair of photos have been leaked.
There are certain details about a product that companies do not want leaking to the Internet before the actual launch.
Then there are those controlled leaks, where one or more pieces of data are allowed to slip in order to revive interest and attention for some device or another.
A recent one on Sony's part more or less fits into the first of these two categories, given how quickly the page where everything originated was pulled from Sony's website.
Fortunately, the folks over at Carrypad and Engadget were all over the leak as soon as it happened and they were able to snatch those photos before they disappeared.
Basically, the two pictures carry a certain piece of information that had left consumers guessing up to now.
It would appear that the S1 and S2 tablets will run either Android 3.1 or 3.2 once they finally get to stores.
The two photos appear to conflict on which version is to be used, but they do show some extra details, like the fact that bundled Sony apps (Chumby, Crash Bandicoot and Crackle) are present.
As a refresher for users' memory, the S1 and S2 slates are powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip.
The S2 is even fairly unique because, instead of one display, it has two, one of which occupies the space that one might expect to see dedicated to a keyboard.
Unfortunately, exact specifications are still unavailable, as is the actual date of arrival, though one can only hope these final details will be revealed soon, the same way it is finally known that October will see NVIDIA's Kal-El Tegra 3 quad-core platform arriving in tow with ASUS' Eee pad Transformer 2.
