BELLEVUE, Wash. — Oct. 10, 2011 — T - Mobile USA, Inc. today unveiled two new 4G * Android ™ 3.2 (Honeycomb) tablets, enhancing
its growing tablet business and portfolio of high - speed mobile broadband devices.
Meanwhile, Microsoft captured a niche 1 % global tablet share in fourth quarter, which will make the upcoming release of Windows 8 later this year particularly important for the company's efforts to scramble back into the rapidly
growing tablet business.
Of all the companies in the top 5, Lenovo is likely best positioned in terms of channel strategy to
grow its tablet business and IDC expects to see more of its successful notebook PC lineup migrate into the detachable tablet category.
Not exact matches
Research firm Forrester projects that sales to
businesses will represent as much as 20 percent of the overall
tablet market by 2018, compared to 14 percent this year, as the market
grows from 218 million units to 250 million units.
The preliminary survey by
business research firm IDC showed the
tablet market
grew 75.3 percent year over year in the quarter.
If that makes you think
tablet PCs has made considerable inroads in the short span of time that they have come into being, well there still remains a lop of space to
grow as a whooping 14 percent have shown active interest in ushering in the use of
tablets in their
business operations in the first quarter of next year.
So while there has been a maturation of the
tablet segment along with gradual segmentation of the
tablet market to some extent with some distinct categories coming up like those of
business or children oriented
tablet, the market itself has
grown manifold with a lot more players joining in almost every other day.
When the company started in 2007, there wasn't cloud or
tablets but the
business has
grown as the technology has developed.»
Bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering spinning off its Nook digital
business to help it
grow, following strong growth in sales of the Nook reader and
tablet and digital content in the nine - week holiday period ending Dec. 31.
Unless the deal with Microsoft yields fruit soon and enables the Nook / Newco venture to
grow shipments and sales aggressively, we have seen the peak of the Nook
tablet business.
The
tablets provide access to some existing Web applications, originally created for the laptops, to current
business data via the MicroStrategy
business intelligence suite, and to a fast -
growing array of PDF - based documents, and watch or show corporate videos.
The
growing popularity of media
tablets with full - color displays likely played a big role in the decline — sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook
Tablet are thought to be eating into the companies» respective dedicated eReader
businesses to an extent.
AP says that top Samsung executive Shin Jong - kyun told analysts on Wednesday that the company's
tablet business growing rapidly.
«According to NPD's Consumer Tracking Service, 76 percent of consumers who purchased a non-Apple
tablet didn't even consider the iPad, an indication that a large group of consumers are looking for alternatives, and an opportunity for the rest of the market to
grow their
business.»
Business use of
tablets will account for a
growing proportion of the market, IDC predicted.
HUAWEI's
tablet business has
grown significantly in both the enterprise and consumer spaces with shipments rising over 70 % year - on - year.