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Tablets hit the scene last year as the hot new toy, but can they compete with the iPad when it's already captured the heart of out review preschooler?
Ever since the original Surface
tablet hit the scene, Microsoft has been promising that its tablet would be the one to replace your laptop.
Not exact matches
That is no surprise given the improvements in smartphones and
tablets since they originally
hit the
scene.
Tablets may have dropped in popularity with the rise of smartphones with increasingly larger screens, but new models still
hit the
scene each year and -LSB-...]
Needless to say, all the above will make the Nexus 7 an even more appealing device, and the
tablet is likely to
hit the retail
scene as early as Thursday.
The first Honeycomb
tablet from Toshiba, the Thrive was slated to
hit the retail
scene in the US on the 10th of July.
Not only was the iPad the first major
tablet on the
scene in April 2010, the combination of the Apple brand and the pre-installed with iOS — already popular with existing iPhone users — made the device a
hit.
As for that launch, we might be waiting until the first part of next year, with the Surface Mini not arriving until around the same time that Windows Phone 8.1
hits the
scene for handsets, and with the
tablet itself running a future Windows 8.1 GDR update.