Cisco Cius Tablet Highlights Android’s Business Opportunity.

Posted on 01 July 2010, Last updated on 31 July 2015 by

If the hardware and OS is cheap why not build business applications on top of Android? It’s proving to be slim, secure, well-supported, well documented and programmers are relatively easy to find. As we move forward we’ll see more and more single-use business applications move to the Android platform and the vertical markets that were the main customers for Windows-based ultra mobile PC products could fade away leaving  even less reason to make Windows-based UMPCs. I’m expecting to see the warehousing, law-enforcement, transport and health industry gradually (remember, these industries take many, many years to change processes) move to ‘Linux’ now that the end-to-end process can be reliably evaluated and that trust and awareness of Android is being built. Google is bound to respond with a more business-like branch of Android or Marketplace. Maybe Android 3.0 is exactly that.

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Cisco’s Cius is one such product and a bit of research reveals that it’s running on an Intel Atom 1.6Ghz CPU, not ARM. I’m wondering if this is the result of some work with OpenPeak or at least the people that designed the OpenTablet 7. With a release date of 2011, an 8-hour battery and a weight of under 600gm I’m guessing that this is built on Tunnel Creek or Moorestown and will use Intel’s X86 build of Android. It appears to be getting Marketplace according to this information PDF.

Update: It is an OpenPeak collaboration and it runs on Moorestown. See first comment below. I thought Moorestown would be 1.5 or 1.9ghz but I guess clocking can be changed.

So is this an Ultra Mobile PC? Theoretically, it is and it’s just the sort of productivity-focused solution we like to see on UMPCPortal but it’s not the Swiss-army knife style of Windows-based device we often write about either. Expect to see more of these hybrid productivity solutions soon.

13 Comments For This Post

  1. UMPCPortal says:

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  2. Guy Adams says:

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  3. Steve 'Chippy' Paine says:

    RT @umpcportal: New article: Cisco Cius Tablet Highlights Android's Business Opportunity. http://bit.ly/aGlsoz

  4. DavidC1 says:

    Huh: http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://tweakers.net/nieuws/68275/cisco-kondigt-cius-android-tablet-voor-zakelijke-markt-aan.html&ei=52osTNe2L5WknQfzwrT0Ag&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCIQ7gEwAzgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCisco%2BCius%2BMoorestown%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

    So it does look like Cisco built the Cius around the OpenPeak OpenTablet 7.

    I’d have guessed Tunnel Creek if it had SATA ports but it doesn’t so its Moorestown.

    This year’s gonna get exciting. :)

  5. DavidC1 says:

    I forgot to say one more thing.

    The Cisco Home Energy Controller is the 2nd Tablet. It looks more like the OpenTablet but its using the 1.1GHz Atom with Ubuntu. I’d wager on Menlow.

  6. Chippy says:

    I just had confirmation that this is on Moorestown from Intel.
    Enterprise product (not retail), expected 2011 (tests in late 2010) and a price up to $1000 so relatively expensive for a tablet but a lot cheaper than a video conf system! It will have access to Marketplace.

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  8. Jim Wilson says:

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  9. Mark Davids says:

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  10. Gretchen Glasscock says:

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  11. animatio says:

    well the networking competence of cisco and partners with linux is a long one – over 20 years now. the same can be said for the presented “educational” classrom example. not by accident was this chosen for the system presentation and not some business group conferencing stuff. cisco has a very long experience with linux as basic system for classroom and educational solutions. thus this is a very special product with a lot more behind than simply another android device. in fact android is simply a sort of carrier shell for the real stuff. therefore this device is not a consumer device (means not a single user device, even if it could be used as such). in fact it does not live in “the cloud” and certainly not in the cloud of google. chippy i personally think that in this respect you are mislead.

  12. Ingrid Alward says:

    Rossana Tapaha

  13. happy says:

    yes, the info from insighter, the cius is from openpeak, and the one modified from opentablet 7.

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