Not exact matches
The TH700 is also a bit thicker in dimension, which makes the TH700 different from the
general trend of
tablet PC that we have
come to know of to be sleek handy devices sporting minimalistic dimensions though its dimensions should be OK if the Lifebook is considered from the point of view of
tablet - style hybrid devices.
Coming to the
tablets themselves, both the Galapagos seems to be made more for e-book reading than anything else, which is in contrast to the iPad that it intends to rival and which is more of a
general purpose mobile computing device.
We've seen Fujitsu
come and go with a couple of 10 - inch and 11.6 - inch Windows 7 slates and one 10 - inch slider /
tablet hybrid this year without much fanfare, although it obviously doesn't help that these products are only available in Japan, one of them not even to
general consumers.
Parents will need to be more hands - on when it
comes to restricting these
general - purpose
tablets, though.
In a note to investors on Thursday, RBC Capital Markets
General Manager Mike Abramsky reiterates the firm's belief that the
tablet market is poised to explode over the
coming years.
While the iPad holds some 95.5 percent of the worldwide
tablet market, according to recent data from Strategy Analytics, the
general expectation is that proliferating Android
tablets will begin to seize a higher percentage of the market in
coming months.
Interestingly, when the iPad
came out, some thought that the iPad, and
tablets in
general, could eventually kill ebook readers.
Small
tablets are colliding with large smartphones, with
tablets in
general coming out the loser, according to market researcher NPD DisplaySearch.
I'm not ignoring the fact that Samsung, Huawei, and Lenovo continue to push out Android
tablets, but the Android
tablet market in
general seems to be in an awkward position, seeing how Chromebooks have
come as close as ever before to usurping Android
tablets.
The IDC study showing worldwide
tablet shipments show that the
tablet industry in
general is growing by leaps and bounds, with Amazon
coming in at 6 million units sold and third on the list and Barnes & Noble being the only company in the top 5 to have had less of an impact on the market than it did Q4 one year ago.