At the same time, Samsung is also introducing a few new services and features — including expanded hovering capabilities and more apps, which it hopes will also help it gain more consumer ground against the world's
biggest tablet maker.
Not exact matches
Google, the other
big tablet software
maker, will also certainly become more of a player in the future.
Unlike other companies, Chinese smartphone
maker Huawei had a
big quarter for
tablet shipments.
The
big difference with other Android
tablet makers is that Amazon is not a «pure hardware player».
Now a days,
tablet makers have inclined to invent
bigger tablets.
Luckily, we just have to wait till this coming Friday to have an idea of whether the third
tablet attempt from one of the largest PC
makers in the world would be just right to make it
big enough to justify the brand name it is carrying.
Before this, Dell, Acer and HP were the
big time netbook
makers who have been trying to shift focus away from netbooks, though none have been able to make any significant mark with their individual
tablet offerings.
Taiwan's struggling PC
makers are unveiling a new generation of ultra-thin laptops at the world's second -
biggest computer show this week, even as they tap into the ever - expanding
tablet market to help compensate for declining...
China's
biggest personal - computer
maker by shipments is following rivals such as Dell Inc. that see
tablets as a new potential growth driver.
There are also predictions that 2013 will prove even
bigger for ebooks in China, as Apple and other
tablet makers are projected to sell some 40 to 50 million
tablets in China this year.
Meanwhile, CEO of China's
biggest PC
maker, Yang Yuanqing has confirmed the LePad will be in the market by this March itself, refuting rumors the Lenovo
tablet might be in for some delay.
The iPad has weathered many an onslaught from many
big name
tablet makers but has prevailed on every occasions only to have a 7 incher from Amazon cutting into its sales.
Android
tablets as a category have undergone a pretty profound cooling - off period this year, with few
big - name device
makers other than Samsung and Lenovo still churning out many premium devices.
So with Kindle Fire price being fixed at US $ 199, many of the other
big time
tablet makers have been forced to slash pricees of their
tablet offerings in general, and for those in the 7 inch segment in particular.
We've seen Honeycomb
tablets from
big mobile phone
makers like LG, Motorola, and Samsung, but also from smaller firms like Anydata and from PC giants like Acer and Asus.
In another sign of how grim things are looking for the PC, The Korea Times reported Monday that officials of Samsung Electronics, the South Korean manufacturer that is the
biggest phone
maker in the world, said the company would because demand was low and the devices were unprofitable, and would instead focus on
tablets and laptops.
Toy
maker Hasbro is suing computer manufacturer Asus for daring - allegedly - to name an Android
tablet after one of its
biggest money spinners.
EInk (the
maker of Kindle eInk displays) has won a
big order to make 6 ″ color eInk Panels for Amazon (presumably for color eInk Readers or color eInk powered
Tablets).
It's hardly a
big surprise but Samsung has officially launched the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 over in Orlando at CTIA which, along with its 10.1 brother, its
makers state is the thinnest mobile
tablet at just 8.6 mm skinny.The Honeycomb
tablet (with TouchWiz... Read more
There's not an awful lot in it as far as the displays go and, with neither
tablet maker giving huge boasts about its respective screen technologies, this category has come down to a simple case of which one is
bigger.
Lenovo Group Ltd., China's
biggest personal - computer
maker, recently announced that it will introduce a
tablet called LePad next year.
The world's fourth - largest PC
maker by shipments hopes to be the first
big - brand company to launch a
tablet priced to jostle with Chinese white - box
tablet makers for consumers in developing countries.
BlackBerry -
maker RIM is betting
big on its first
tablet effort, the BlackBerry Playbook, apparently expecting more than one million shipments of the device by the end of March.
Huawei could become the second
biggest smartphone
maker this year or next, and sooner or later could be No 1, he said, speaking after his company unveiled a new notebook PC and two Android
tablets.