Most of the tech news last week came out of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and much of that news centered on tablet computers. Here is a round-up of overviews and impressions from the show:

CNN Money's Julianne Pepitone ranks the show's winners and losers. Motorola Mobility lead the pack of winners, in Pepitone's opinion, giving conference-goers a glimpse of its Atrix 4G phone and its Xoom tablet. She also liked Samsung's Sliding tablet and had good words for the Android 3.0 mobile platform, known as Honeycomb. She did not like the VibaBody Slimmer, "on which people stand and literally do nothing while a machine shakes them."

The "Best In Show" award for tablets would go to the Motorola Xoom but it still is no "iPad killer," in the view of InformationWeek's Eric Zeman. The Xoom is on the large side for a tablet, with a 10.1-inch display, and Zeman reports that the hardware appears promising. The many other tablets previewed left him unimpressed, though, given a combination of problems he saw with hardware quality, interfaces, app compatibility and more. 

Zeman took a lashing for this stance in the feedback section of his site, however, with commenters accusing him of being a little too enamored with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) tablet. One commenter summed it up, writing, "the Android army of tablets all over CES have specs that undoubtedly blow away the iPad for miles...The competition has grown considerably and the iPad is now old and has been pushed to the bottom of the pile."

At NetworkWorld, Brad Reed presents the five "coolest things" he saw at the show: In addition to RIM's (NASDAQ: RIMM) 4G Playbook tablet, Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) Cius tablet, Motorola's Atrix 4G and Honeycomb, Reed names AT&T's (NYSE: T) LTE network.  

PCWorld put together a slideshow of the tablets previewed at the show. 

For more:
- see Julianne Pepitone's article at CNNMoney
- see Eric Zeman's article at InformationWeek
- see Brad Reed's article at NetworkWorld
- see Slideshow of tablets at PCWorld

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