Sony to ship first Android-based tablet in September

Sony's Android Honeycomb-based single and dual-screen tablets will be called Tablet S and Tablet P, and will cost 479 euros (US$690) and 599 euros (US$860), the company said Wednesday at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.

The two tablets were announced in April and have until now been known as the S1 and the S2.

Like so many other vendors of Android-based tablets, Sony hopes it can make a dent in Apple's sales of the iPad and grab a piece of the growing tablet market.

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