Here we go with another tablet computer success story and strangely, like the last one, it's to do with airplanes. We all know long or frequent fights are boring. Once you accept the magic of floating through the clouds and God know how many miles an hour the landscape of the sky tends to lose its novelty. So what do you do? If you're lucky enough to be a writer, you can spend your time penning poems about the melancholy of travel, if you're not though, it's a crap movie, or a crap movie (or the mile high club.)
Luckily enough for first-class passengers on American Airlines domestic flights there's a nifty solution to in flight boredom, a tablet. Opting for Android, the airline is to use the Wi-Fi enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to keep the rich and famous happy.
Six thousand of the tablets will be specially optimised for the airline, with extra memory and an updated user interface for easier use of the available in-flight entertainment.
And the launch date? Samsung Mobile and American Airlines are saying that the tablets will be rolled out “later this year.” The good news for us economy class and British citizens is that it's not just AA who are interested in in-flight tablets. In fact a lot of airlines are interested so it's probably going to be a standard feature in a few years, for an extra fee, naturally.