Cisco Gets Into Tablet Market With Cius
Cisco this week unveiled Cius, a 1.5 pound tablet with a 7-inch VGA touch-target display, front-mounted 720p HD camera, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, and an accelerometer. The Cius features 8 hours of battery life and support for 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and 3G, with 4G support coming.
Partners see plenty of potential in Cius, which will tie into Cisco's Unified Communications Manager and support Cisco tools such as Cisco Quad, Cisco WebEx Connect and Cisco Presence. Android developers will have access to Cisco Collaboration APIs through a Cius-specific SDK.
Everyone's got a tablet these days, but Cisco can bring unified communications integration to bear in a way that could set the Cius apart. For a company that is uncharacteristically late on this market trend, this could be a key differentiator.
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