2016: The year of the tablet

Tablets are on the verge of displacing typical PC and notebook sales. And that will make for a consumer electronics industry that is configured very differently. By Peter Suciu, contributor FORTUNE — Shipments of tablet computers will surpass notebook shipments in 2016, but overall mobile PC shipments will see strong growth by 2017. According to [...]

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Tablets to surpass notebook shipments in 2016 – NPD

Shipments of tablet PCs, such as Apple’s iPad, will surpass notebook shipments in 2016, according to US-based research company NPD DisplaySearch. This is not bad news for the notebook PC industry: NPD expects notebook PC shipments to grow from 208 million units in 2012 to 393 million units in 2017. However, it expects tablet PC [...]

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Amazon Kindle Fire 2 May Actually Have 3-4 Versions Available This Year

Everyone’s been talking about a successor for the Amazon Kindle Fire and we informed you that actually there may be a 7 and 10 inch version of the device coming. Now it turns out that not 2 and not even 3, but 4 versions of the device will be available, according to NPD. The earliest [...]

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Report: Tablet shipments to surpass those of notebooks by 2016

A new report says tablet shipments will surpass notebooks by 2016 to become the dominant type of mobile computer sold around the world. The report, put out by NPD Display Search, finds that the number of tablets that will be shipped between now and 2017 will increase at a compounded annual growth rate of 28%. [...]

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