Google has revealed its new giant touch-screen 'super tablet' for organizations attempting to make it easier for their employees to brainstorm as they work on team projects and other assignments. Google is hoping that the "Jamboard" can replace the whiteboard when it goes on sale beginning in May of next year, to be priced at $4,999. The Jamboard super tablet measures at 55 inches with ultrahigh definition screen capable of recognizing the difference between someone writing on the screen with a stylus or touching it with a finger.
Google will be releasing the device to a small group of companies this coming Tuesday before making it widely available in May of next year. As a whiteboard alternative, employees can post their ideas, documents, and images on the Jamboard, without the need to use markers, tape, or sticky notes. Instead, they can use their fingers, a stylus, a smartphone, and smaller tablets to share information and content from anywhere so long as there is an adequate internet connection.
All the work posted on a Jamboard can be saved in Google's online 'Drive' storage service. This super tablet / electronic whiteboard represents Google's latest effort to lure business and government customers away from Microsoft, since the latter makes a similar product called the Surface Hub. Google is attempting to undercut Microsoft by pricing Jamboard at $4,999, this being 33 percent lower than Surface Hub's price of $9,000.
