Dell to re-enter with Windows 8 or Android tablet this year

Dell will return to the tablet arena with a Android or a Windows 8 powered tablet this year.

The PC maker forayed into the tablet market with its Android-powered device, Dell Streak in 2010. The tablet received mixed response and was gradually pushed to the back burners as the market evolved with better and productive devices.

However for those who thought that Dell has pulled out of the tablet market are in for a surprise.

In an interview with Reuters at CES 2012, Steve Felice, Dell's chief financial officer said, 'you will see us enter this market in a bigger way toward the end of the year.'

Felice mentioned that the company had learned a lot from their past mistakes and will bring a more consumer centric device this time.

He said:' when you are talking about PC, people are more focused on the hardware itself. When you are talking about the tablet or the smartphone, people are interested in the overall environment its operating in.'

Felice did not disclose any details about the tablet- whether it will be a Android or a Windows 8 device.

We put our money on Windows 8-powered Dell tablet though, as the company has already burned its fingers with Android.

It does not come as a surprise that Dell is returning to the tablet market. With consumers gradually seeing tablets as PC alternatives, PC makers have to move in the tablet market- whether they like it or not.