Enterprise Mobility: Amazon's New Tablet Design: 10 Existing Devices That Provide Inspiration

Speculation about the features of the upcoming Amazon tablet continues to leak out. The rumors suggest that the device will be priced affordably, run Android and come with the ability for users to both read e-books in color as well as surf the Web, check email and more. Like the Nook Color from Barnes & Noble, the device looks to be a tablet alternative to all those currently on store shelves. For prospective customers and others concerned with Amazon's next move, the question now might relate to what the online retail giant has planned. Amazon has long been known to try out new things and do its best to offer customers what they're looking for. But with a tablet, everything is different. Amazon needs to figure out what works best and it needs to determine how it can succeed where others—like the HP TouchPad tablet—have failed. Luckily for Amazon, it can examine several competing tablets products to help determine what the most desirable features are. From the iPad 2 to the Nook Color, there are several products available now that can inspire Amazon's tablet. Flip through this eWEEK slide show to see what features might work well in the new Amazon tablet.