Targeted squarely at business users, Cisco is set to launch its own tablet PC, coming complete with Google Android, a seven-inch high resolution screen and a promise that it will include Cisco’s collaboration software that integrates virtual desktop applications with high-definition video.

Is Cisco trying to create the BlackBerry of the tablet PC market?

Plans for the Cisco Cius, as it will be called, were announced during the company’s annual customer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. “We haven’t thought about a big consumer play at all here,” said Barry O’Sullivan, the senior vice president in Cisco’s voice technology group. “This is a mobile video device for corporate users.”

With the rapid success of the iPad, this approach of choosing a very specific audience seems like a wise move. It’s a good way to give users a superiority complex for one and who wouldn’t like that?

The company announced plans for the Cius during its annual customer conference in Las Vegas. The device, which will only weigh about 1.15 pounds, also has a 720p high-definition webcam on the front and a 5-megapixel camera on the back for still images and streaming video. It can connect to the internet via Wi-Fi or through a 3G network.

Cnet noted that Cisco’s explanation for using the Android OS is that it will allow the company’s business customers to tap into the growing Android developer community, which is developing new business-class products.

The company’s main aim then, you could say, is to become the BlackBerry of the tablet PC market. With the reach Cisco has in the business world, it’s not the most outlandish of ideas, and the first reviews should be interesting anyway. Expected to cost around €800, it should get into users’ hands during the first quarter of 2011