Sentences with phrase «against launching a tablet»

Amazon may decide against launching a tablet with a more expensive high - res display this year, as the company is clearly focusing on price and its content sales.

Not exact matches

It's now been almost a year since the Kindle Fire HD was released, and as surely as fall follows summer, Amazon is preparing to launch an updated line of tablets to compete against the rejuvenated Nexus 7 and the (assumed) iPad Mini with Retina display.

The original Google Nexus 7 by Asus really kickstarted the market for the mini tablet, and was launched well before Apple's iPad mini, pitting it against the Kindle Fire.

The Playbook did not launch with a ton of applications to really make it stand out against the avalanche of Android tablets.

A Windows 8 based tablet would be a natural progression on that front and a safer bet than launching a consumer oriented tablet running Windows RT that would be pitted against the iPad on the one hand and the Surface on the other.

As you all know, a lot of companies including HP have pulled the plug on their tablet launches temporarily as they want to make sure they have a muscle to flex against Apple's iPad.

This could be seen as both an attempt to compete against the high sales of the recently released new Nexus 7 FHD (estimated to sell 3.5 million units in 2013), as well as be seen as an indication of the 3rd launch of new Kindle Fire tablets drawing nearer.

Microsoft said to be planning on launching low - cost tablet lineup that will stand up against the iPads.

We saw the Kobo e-Reader application and ditto with the Barnes and Noble Nook App, no word if this will ship with the unit, but normally when a tablet launches they don't normally bundle competing applications against each other.

The latest rumor is that Motorola is launching a 10 inch tablet to directly compete against the Apple iPad 2.

I think it would be ideal for the company to launch the Xoom 2 and a new 7 inch tablet to compete against the Playbook and upcoming Viewsonic Viewpad 7X.

Surely, there will be many more launch events lined up for the 10.1 inch Galaxy Tab tablet that will pitch Samsung against Apple for the first time in the tablet category.

This full review was written on launch day after we had 14 hours of playing around with the new features and comparing it against the first and second iteration of the iPad tablets.

Nonetheless, like it or not, right or wrong, the Apple iPad 2 is going to become the de facto standard against which all other tablets launched this year are measured, and it's to that standard we'll be holding it — game on, Apple.

According to reports Microsoft may decide against launching the Surface Pro 4, if that's what it ends up calling the tablet, during the summer.

Specifically, in an attempt to compete against the tablet - as - a-platform (think iPhone apps with a bigger iPhone), Amazon just announced the launching of a Kindle development platform.

With a June launch slated for the Asus Eee MeMo it's a long time to wait for the tablet to come out and their will be plenty of choice that the Asus model will have to compete against.

Barnes & Noble invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its own device, the Nook tablet, which it launched in 2009 to give itself a fighting chance against Amazon.

It would also compete against a slew of Android tablets (s goog), many of which are waiting for the release of the Honeycomb update to launch.

Rather than expand its potential market and launch a larger Kindle Fire to compete against the iPad, Amazon will stick with the two 7 - inch tablets.

And Apple just launched a lawsuit against Samsung claiming that its Android tablets violate various patent, design patent, trade - dress, and other IP rights of Apple.

Rumors of HTC making a return to tablets has been gaining a lot of steam recently, and if NVIDIA's patent lawsuit against Qualcomm and Samsung is to be believed, such a device could be launched very soon.

Anonymous insiders speak of a first quarter 2017 launch, which would probably slot the presumably Kaby Lake - powered convertible tablet directly against Apple's next generation of iPad Pros.

When Microsoft went up against its own Windows hardware partners and launched the Surface line of laptop / tablet hybrids, pundits weren't sure what to make of the move.