It’s more than official, the PlayStation Certified Sony tablet is on the way.

While several websites and new articles cite the Google Android powered Sony tablet as a late entrant in an already crowded market, you should celebrate Sony for adding another tablet for us to consider buying. The recently revealed Sony S1 tablet (S1 is a codename until actual release), expects to become available later this year, possibly Q3 and is causing quite a stir.

Sony, seeking to stand out from the plethora of black slate, carbon copy tablets currently on the market opted for a different design approach. That approach resulted in a tablet design that the company says, will lend to being able to hold the Android powered Sony tablet for long periods comfortably.

With a screen just under 10-inches, the Sony S1 is a full-sized tablet powered by a Tegra 2 chip and backed by the latest Google Android operating system, which currently is Gingerbread, also known as Android 3.0. Of course you get a touch screen, Wi-Fi, WAN, an expansion card slot, front and rear camera, all the additional functions you demand in portable devices, and a bit more. Like PlayStation functionality.

The new JBL speaker dock has a mouthful of a name, but we can forgive it, because the JBL On Air Wireless AirPlay speaker dock takes full advantage of AirPlay, Apple’s wireless technology. Additionally equipped with a proprietary blend of JBL audio technology, which includes 360-degree HALO acoustics, the new JBL speaker dock provides you with wireless streaming ability for your iTunes library from your iPad, iPhone, iPod and your Mac or PC – basically from just about everywhere iTunes plays official. More over, the Wi-Fi enabled JBL On Air has a full-color LCD display, an FM Tuner, internet radio streaming capability and dual alarms so you and your bedside buddy can both “rise and shine” to your favorite beats.

I just finished reading Matt Burns’ article ruminating over the low sales numbers of the Motorola Xoom. Matt, in kindness attempts to shift the blame in equal portions away from the place where it truly belongs and that is squarely at the “feet” of Motorola and Motorola alone. Even in his introductory shuffle, where he looks to lift the Xoom even momentarily, Matt acknowledges even if not knowingly, that the Xoom is a failure of Motorola’s own creation, by pointing out the nullifying price point of the device and that the Xoom is not on par and most certainly not better than an iPad.

This writing is just my partial response and reaction to Matt’s thoughts and going line for line (almost). Well, at least I touch on the major points, reading the CrunchGear article may help, but is not required.

Google is not to blame.

It is not the fault of Google that Motorola pulled the trigger on the Xoom launch. If, as Matt points out, that it is indeed true that Samsung, Motorola and the entire host of Android manufacturers need to release devices according to the Google Android release cycle, then clearly Motorola took the calculated risk to be first, negotiated the opportunity and subsequently mishandled the occasion.

That is not the fault of anyone at Google.

That is just a bad business decision and truthfully, it was not a “bad” decision it just had bad execution.

And just like that, the most gifted, most wish listed and most talked about by Amazon, but only in a positive way item, the Kindle, is finished. Just in case you begin to think, “here we go again” let me first inform you that this is not another Amazon will be the best competitor against Apple article. Nevertheless, you can withdraw an Amazon, Apple dialog from the text. Now back to topic, which is the necessary death of Amazon’s beloved Kindle, which is definitely finished.

“How so?” one asks.

Let me first mark this by saying I pondered over the “Why Amazon Must…” article written by the ever popular Apple evangelist, MG Siegler at TechCrunch, and I do agree with MG that Amazon must and should create an Android device, but for different reasons.

So what is your reasoning behind this?

Besides the fact that these are no-brainer decisions, Amazon needs to cover their ass on the investment they have made so far on the Kindle and I don’t think any of us can make it through six months of speculative posts scattered across the Web about what essentially still to most is vaporware. But in case you require more than my unparalleled Vulcan-like reasoning dispensed as a Spider-Man Pez candy in one highly concentrated sentence, here are two thoughts that I have compiled on the matter, broken down for you to digest as if they were Gerber’s baby food.

1. Amazon has a significant investment and presence in cloud computing. An Android device, be it a smartphone or a tablet could be just the component that Amazon requires to catapult their cloud computing services to the forefront and ahead of services such as Mobile.me. (In fact, while preparing this, Amazon released a cloud based music solution for Android. So much for being too busy to press the publish button earlier this week.)

2. Today’s phones and now our tablets serve equally as doorways to consumption and items for utility, if not more. Amazon is the undisputed king of internet retail when it comes to physical goods (consumption). It should not take much to transition consumers to include and ultimately prefer making their digital purchases with Amazon as they do their physical.

Additionally I would like to highlight a point that I agree with, previously presented by Dan Frommer, in “How Amazon Could Quietly Become a Huge Tablet Player”. Dan makes several hearty vaunts on the topic but the one where he states that Amazon’s music store and video services are essentially second to only Apple is one of the strongest if not the strongest point made.

The distance from or closeness to iTunes does not matter. What does matter is that Amazon, aside from Google should be the number one destination for all things Android. To miss the opportunity to connect that to a device that could serve as a gateway to other products and services would be like failing to connect a Velcro chinstrap on your helmet before bungee jumping.

Announced at CTIA 2011, the Sprint bound HTC EVO 3D Android based smartphone is the latest in a recent barrage of HTC devices. Taking advantage of the newest available technology, the HTC EVO 3D has a high-resolution 4.3-inch QHD glasses-free 3D display and a dual 5-megapixel camera that allows you capture HD video in 3D as well. The newest HTC Android phone also functions as a wireless 3G/4G hotspot, has Wi-Fi, GPS, 1GB of memory and 4GB of internal storage to save your media and data (expandable to 32GB), all powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon chip, the HTC Sense interface and Gingerbread, the latest Google Android release. The HTC EVO 3D world tour starts later in the year and the smartphone will hit the US on the Sprint 4G network.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 hardware wise is slightly thinner than the iPad2 at 8.6mm, comes with a 8.9-inch 1280×800 HD display, a dual core 1GHz processor, WiFi, Bluetooth and HSPA+ networking. On the other side a digital compass, gyroscope and accelerometer flush out the new Samsung Galaxy Tab. The new Android tablet will ship with Honeycomb and later Samsung will provide a custom interface over the Android 3 OS by the name of TouchWiz UX. Unless another Android 3.0 based tablet beats the new Samsung Galaxy tab 8.9 to market with a customized interface, the push update of the TouchWiz UX will make Samsung the first company to customize Honeycomb. Priced at $470 for 16GB and $570 for 32GB.

Lexar is now shipping those 128GB memory cards you’ve been waiting for since CES 2011. The massive Lexar 128GB SDXC memory card is an industry first. With Lexar guaranteeing speeds at 20MB per second you can upload those hi-res hangover photos of your buddies, the HD bachelor party videos you’ve been wanting to post online and of course the professional stuff that pays the bills, without feeling as if you are waiting forever and a day for the process to finish.

The HTC Thunderbolt is Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone and the new Verizon flagship is now available for purchase and breaking sales records in the process. Pop out kickstand, high resolution 4.3-inch touch screen display, 8 mega-pixel camera with LED flash on rear, a 1.3 mega-pixel lens on front and a 720HD video recorder all powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The HTC Thunderbolt pairs HTC Sense with Android 2.2, 8GB of on board memory and a 32GB microSD card for $250 with contract, $600 without and for $180 if you buy from Amazon and are willing to wait for the mail to arrive.

With a 10-hour battery, an all-new design, FaceTime and Smart Covers, the Apple iPad 2 is here. Lighter and thinner than the original, the iPad 2 features the new Apple dual-core A5 processor, a front-facing VGA camera for FaceTime and a 720p HD video lens on the rear. The iPad 2 comes with the latest version of Apple iOS (iOS 4.3), a compass, a gyroscope and allows for a iPhone Personal Hotspot.