Canalys Predicts Half a Billion Traditional and Tablet PC Sales in 2013
Print Traditional PCs and tablets can coexist. The demise of the PC as you know it is often talked about, or at least alluded to, but just because tablets are uber popular doesn’t mean there isn’t room for old and new style PCs in the market. According the latest forecast by Canalys, traditional and tablet [...]
‘ India tablet market scratching surface ‘
Asserting that India’s tablet market is just “scratching the surface” in terms of usability beyond mere entertainment and consumption, Intel’s India sales head has said that providing hardware that has a direct impact on education or the livelihoods of India’s technology users can help dispel the “myth” of the tablets being price sensitive. “China’s low-cost [...]
The Tablet Market’s Gain Becomes the PC Market’s Pain
Recs 0 By Andrew Tonner More Articles June 1, 2013 Comments (0) As many of us are keenly aware, the tablet market caused a significant shift in the way people and businesses meet their computing needs. Duh. However, as this trend becomes increasingly entrenched, we’re truly beginning to see how massive the disruption has become. [...]
Sony Xperia Tablet Z review: the company’s best Android tablet yet–Duplicate
It wasn’t all that long ago that every month offered up yet another Android tablet for review. While Samsung is still producing plenty, the output of Google-powered slabs has generally slowed, replaced by a steady stream of Windows 8 / RT hardware often from the very same manufacturers that were once all about Android. Sony [...]
Why Android Is Winning The Tablet Wars
Android tablets took the lead from Apple Apple‘s iOS tables in Q1 of 2013 (source). This is a huge change from three years ago, when Apple invented the modern tablet. Global electronic tablet market share by OS and Vendor; data via IDC and Strategy Analytics. What is happening and where is this going? I see [...]
Android Grabs the Top Spot In The Global Tablet Market
For the first time, Google’s Android platform accounted for the majority of quarterly tablet shipments. According to IDC, 27.8 million Android tablets were shipped in the first quarter. However, IDC includes Amazon’s Kindle Fire in its tablet count. The Kindles run on a heavily customised Android “fork,” so it doesn’t make sense to include them. Excluding Amazon’s [...]
Strategy Analytics: Tablet Apps Processor Revenue Jumped 83 Percent in 2012
BOSTON, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The global tablet applications processor market showed an impressive 83 percent year-on-year growth in 2012 to reach $2.7 billion, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service report, “Tablet Apps Processor Market Share 2012: Chinese Tablet Chip Companies Capture 20 Percent Share.” This report provides tablet applications processor unit [...]
Acer Announce the Iconia A1 and Iconia B1 Tablets Supporting 3G Variants
It has been long rumored that Acer is going to release new highly attractive products for the tablet market and now the manufacturer has finally decided to launch an official announcement. The Acer Iconia A1 and B1 both pack more that adequate configurations and come in WiFi and 3G variants. The newly announced Acer Iconia A1 will be [...]
Tablet Market: Can Microsoft Speed Up?
A new survey on tablets released by IDC this week shows that the tablets market continues to expand at a healthy rate. Easily exceeding numbers for the entire first half of 2012, tablet shipments for the first quarter of 2013 came in at 49.2 million units for the first quarter of 2013. The demand for [...]
PACIFIC MONEY Tablet Faceoff : Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 vs . iPad Mini …
Quite recently, Samsung has unveiled one of its latest additions to the tablet market segment: the Galaxy Tab 3. To be more precise, this is the 7-inch Tab 3 which is aimed at competing with the likes of Google, Amazon and Apple on the budget-friendly side of the market. That said, the Tab 3 has [...]
Windows 8 tablet sales: not terrible so far–Duplicate
Although Microsoft is staying mum about Windows 8 tablet sales, research firm Strategy Analytics has some slightly encouraging news. In the first quarter of 2013, Windows 8 and RT devices accounted for 7.5 percent of the tablet market, with 3 million units shipped. That’s up from 0 percent a year earlier, before Windows-based tablets were [...]
Pipo M8Pro Offers Powerful Specs and a 9.4-inch HD Screen
The new additions to the Android tablet market are of the most interesting kind and manufacturers have been progressing in regards to their ways of offering new and attractive products. Thus we are progressing towards the days when high performance tablet devices will become as accessible so anyone can afford one. Manufacturer Pipo is not one of the most popular [...]
