Holy tablets Batman! CES 2011 was flooded with companies promoting their soon-to-come tablet computers including Toshiba, Vizio, Acer, Samsung, Motorola, Blackberry and more. Most will run some version of Android but a couple will have other operating systems like Blackberry or Windows 7. Two major players who didn't announce anything tablet related, but probably will in the coming weeks are Apple and HP. HP has scheduled a WebOS event for February 9th. Odds are they will announce a tablet computer. Then there's Apple which will almost certainly reveal their second generation iPad soon.

Here's my quick take on the situation. It's a train wreck. I think that there's only room for a few major players in the tablet space because a) they're still pretty expensive so the market is relatively small, and b) if people are spending good money they want something that works really well and integrates with their other computing devices. Also, the many flavors of Android will confuse consumers and perhaps push them to the next gen iPad which will probably add features that answer most people's grievances with the device. I have talked to several people since Christmas who bought iPads and love them because they complement their iPhones and Apple TVs. That's exactly what I was predicting in my post on the new Apple TV as part of an ecosystem.

Oh, and there's one more player lurking that can really shake things up. Amazon.com is building an Android app store. I think that they have their own version of an Android tablet in the works. It will be very successful. Amazon has proven with the Kindle that they can design a quality device and get it to the market. 

Check out some tablet videos from CES 2011 after the break.

Toshiba

Motorola

Samsung

Vizio

Blackberry

Acer

Lenovo

Dell