With a Kindle-thin device that can play music and serve books and navigate the Web and run enterprise-class apps, you've got your Burberry satchel and away you go. But there are caveats.

Apple had plenty to be giddy about on its earnings call on Monday. There was the 50% rise in earnings compared with the year-earlier quarter, and company executives could barely contain themselves when analysts, one after the other, tried to bait them into tablet talk. What was most striking was the uptick in corporate iPhone acceptance--70% of the Fortune 100, 50% of the Financial Times 100, Apple cited. Given that momentum, the company's expected sleek, supersized iPhone tablet, like no other recent Apple product before it, has a good shot at gaining even faster corporate acceptance. And that's one of the reasons we're following this unfolding story, and why I'll be blogging live from the press event being held on Wednesday.

Companies are taking a serious look at NetBooks, especially for frequent travelers who already have enough to lug around without the laptops and accessories that make them look like they're headed to a summit climb. Smartphones, as powerful as they are, usually don't cut it for people away from the office for more than a day. A BlackBerry is great for jotting off an e-mail, but terrible for Web browsing; reverse that for the iPhone.

Enter the iSlate tablet (allegedly). If all its apps come through the Apple-vetted iTunes store (thus reducing the risk of bugs and security issues, at least at the app level), and everything else works like an iPhone, then it should be an easy sell to enterprises. Arguably, so would an Android-based tablet, which may offer a more open ecosystem.

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Author: Fritz Nelson