In an event held just outside of Los Angeles in Santa Monica, Amazon announced the successor to
its first tablet effort.
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.
One of its biggest announcements, Amazon has just introduced the successor to
its first tablet effort: The Kindle Fire HD, an 8.9 ″ IPS tablet at 1900 × 1200 resolution.
The Playbook is
the first tablet effort on part of RIM and is all set to be released next month with rumors from some quarters also pointing to the April 10 timeline for the tablet release.
Not exact matches
To sweeten the deal for those making the
effort to get up super-early, the
first 100 customers to buy a Sony
Tablet S will also receive a FREE Sony 32» BRAVIA TV * worth # 400.
The Folio 100 will also perhaps be the
first serious
tablet effort in the 10 inch segment running the Android operating system.
What also makes Samsung's
first effort in the
tablet segment special is the fact that the Galaxy Pad is perhaps the
first Android
tablet that hold real promise, one that can ultimately bring the iPad's stronghold over the
tablet sphere.
The Vivo Tab RT is definitely Transformer - inspired, but I like the Transformers better — from the bezels to the overall build quality, Asus's Android
tablets are just slightly better hardware than its
first Windows 8
effort.
For one, it would be the
first serious
tablet effort from Motorola that till now has enjoyed a commendable presence in the smartphone segment.
Their
effort to jump into the digital realm themselves,
first with the Nook e-reader and then Android - powered Nook
tablets, did well for a while and has since floundered.
The brand's
first effort - the Sony
Tablet S - hardly set the world on fire and since its lacklustre launch in 2011 a broader selection of
tablets has emerged.
It was one of the
first tablets to get Android 5.0 since Nvidia is spending a lot of
effort on being up to date all the time.
First introduced as the Project Fiona conceptual
tablet at CES 2012, the Edge is the result of a large crowdsourcing
effort.
This second - generation kitchen
tablet made us forget all about Key Ingredient's terrible
first effort.
While the iPad 2 display easily outperformed all of the previous Android
Tablets, with the new Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung has delivered the
first Android
Tablet with an impressive, potentially outstanding display, but then ruined it by turning up the color level to obnoxious levels — apparently in an
effort to overcompensate and blatantly standout from the other mobile LCD displays that have subdued color.
Motorola and Verizon's marketing
efforts would pay off to an extent, and demand for the device was solid — Motorola shipped 250,000 XOOM
tablets during the slate's
first quarter of availability, 440,000 units during its second quarter and another 400,000
tablets last quarter.
While it has been known for a while now that Amazon's
first effort at
tablet design, the Kindle Fire, was probably the most popular non-Apple
tablet on the market, we have only just learned to what extent that is true.
Well,
first of all the initial
efforts were way ahead of time (similar with the
tablet efforts), and second, with some notable exceptions (XBOX 360 comes into my mind) Microsoft seems incapable to take a product from the lab stages to the market adoption for anything else than software.