Hi Chris,
Thank you for the feeback on Cius.
A few thoughts on your discussion thread. I certainly agree with you about the host of consumer tablets entering the market. More than 75 that I've seen referenced since beginning of this year. Hard to keep up frankly.
Those that you've cited above are by design consumer solutions - with varying degrees of focus on communications and computing while largely focused on entertainment, gaming and social media. So that should be noted in response.
Cius is (and has been since announcement) positioned as a device specifically designed for the business user so we aren't targeting the consumer segment. Cius is a network recognized endpoint and is provisioned, just like other Cisco Unified IP Phones, from Unified Communications Manager (to your point about being part of a network VoIP system - it is).
Thus, customers get the benefit of a comprehensive set of Unified Communications features such as single number reach, call park etc., call detail records, call recording and call history logs. These capabilities can be business critical in industries that require record keeping to meet government regulatory requirements. In addition, there are Cisco Collaboration features, including WebEx with integrated calendaring, Quad, Jabber support for IM and presence, wired connectivity (not aware of any other tablet supporting Gigabit Ethernet), 802.11 Wi-Fi and later this year 3G/4G wireless capabilities. Add to that mobile video interoperability, including HD video to TelePresence systems, which isn't all the easy to do and I'd offer that's a pretty powerful and comprehensive combination of capabilities by any objective measure.
As pricing was mentioned in a few threads here, for those in this community who have partner login access, you can find the Cisco Cius ordering guide with SKU detail at www.cisco.com/go/partnercius. I think you'll find the pricing to be reasonably competitive with other tablet solutions, for the value delivered by Cius as noted above. Orders are being accepted for Cisco Cius at this time as well.
Also, if you haven't already, be sure to check out Cisco's partner community where you can also exchange ideas with other partner colleagues of yours. The link to the Cisco partner community is here and I encourage you to register if you haven't done so already and check it out:
https://communities.cisco.com/community/partner/collaboration
Of course, as we have many community members who are not Cisco partners (thank you as well for being part of our community!), you are not forgotten here! If you haven't already, check out this keynote from Senior Vice President of Collaboration and Communications Group, Barry O'Sullivan from Enterprise Connect 2011 in February. Barry talks about Cisco Cius during his presentation - along with the benefits of Cisco's Network and Collaborating with any content on any device, anywhere.
https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/collaboration/virtualenterpriseconnect
A great time to be part of the information technology industry, isn't it?
Regards,
Kirk McNeill
Collaboration Solutions Marketing
Cisco Systems
Chris,
Just to add to this you don't even get the honor of buying one unless you meet the criteria for the right environment for it to go into. It's called the Experience Assurance Program and if your network, CCM, wireless etc. do not meet the requirements; no soup for you. 
Bob James
