IDC is the firm with the figures and they've shown that Samsung Electronics was
the largest tablet maker worldwide, with a 19 % market share in Q1 2017, followed by Foxconn, with 16 % and Compal a 13 %.
Indeed, the company argues that it's now the third
largest tablet maker in the world.
Not exact matches
About the Company: Apple Inc. is one of the world's
largest makers of PCs and peripheral and consumer products, such as the iPod digital music player, the iPad
tablet, the iPhone smartphone, and the Apple Watch, for sale primarily to the business, creative, education, government, and consumer markets.
While the iPad Pro, an anticipated
larger version of the iPad Air with a 12.9 inch screen, would mark Apple's entrance into the enterprise
tablet market, it faces competition from Surface Pro 3, the most successful
tablet in Microsoft's Surface line so far, and other two - in - one
tablets, which have a detachable keyboard, from PC
makers such as Lenovo, Acer, and Asus.
Hanvon, the
largest e-Reader company in China, was accepting bids from various component
makers for a new
Tablet PC they want to develop.
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.
Surely it would mark a grand entry to the
tablet scene for Acer and will allow the world's second
largest PC
maker to take on two of the most happening segments of the
tablet scene in one go.
Device
maker Samsung and bookseller Barnes & Noble are introducing a new
larger - screen Galaxy Tab 4 Nook
tablet two months after the first version was announced.
Well, it's a double bonanza that we have got from Asus for it's not only a
Tablet PC that the world's second
largest PC
maker had to unveil in Beijing yesterday but it also surprised everybody present at the Source Home summit when it brought forth an e-reader device as well, which as per Asus, will take the reading... [Read more...]
Well, it's a double bonanza that we have got from Asus for it's not only a
Tablet PC that the world's second
largest PC
maker had to unveil in Beijing yesterday but it also surprised everybody present at the Source Home summit when it brought forth an e-reader device as well, which as per Asus, will take the reading experience to the next higher level.
Personally I'm eagerly awaiting the day when
tablet makers come up with a double - screen format (perhaps with a slide - out second screen) designed for
larger - format publications.
Given the
large number of units sold — more than 15 million to date, according to Apple — the market leader from California is the only
tablet maker able to obtain high end materials at low prices from component suppliers, thanks to its high volume of sales.
Nokia, the world's
largest mobile - phone
maker, joins the
tablet race as it prepares a touch - screen device for the fall.
The
large - size
tablet's panel is supplied by a Taiwan - based touch panel
maker, sources have said.
The two devices, which have mostly opposite characteristics to what had been pushed by the major android
tablet makers, are now looking to outdo their
larger cousins.
Among competing, full - blown 7 - inch
tablets, the latest models from Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, and leading
tablet makers use Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system, which was optimized for the
larger screen sizes of
tablets.
It marks a setback for ARM, which from the outset won't have its technology in Windows
tablets sold by the
largest maker of personal computers.
However, even though Samsung holds the title as the
largest single Android
tablet maker, it hasn't made the same sort of inroads against Apple in the
tablet space as it has with its Galaxy smartphones.
Lenovo, the world's
largest PC
maker, is adding to its mind - bending Yoga family with the eight - inch Yoga
Tablet 8.
Google is essentially missing out on this segment of small slates as
tablet makers have focused on
larger devices ranging from 8.9 - to 10.1 - inches in an effort to compete with the iPad.
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.
Lenovo, the worlds second
largest PC
maker surprised the world this week at the Computex technology show by teasing with a previously unannounced and never - before - seen Windows 8
tablet.
For years, Android
tablet makers were chasing one bad idea after another, until Google landed on the Nexus 7 and actually came up with a compelling counter to Apple's
larger and more expensive iPad.
Compal Electronics, the world's second
largest contract
maker of laptop computers, unveiled a sleek Android - based
tablet with a 10 - inch touchscreen and a stereo speaker it docked into.
Huawei is now the third
largest smartphone
maker in the world behind Samsung and Apple, and the Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 shows that it's bringing that know - how to the
tablet format.
While most smartphone
makers were ditching the stylus after the iPhone was released in 2007, Samsung decided to bring it back in 2011 with its take on a smartphone
large enough to venture into small
tablet territory, the first - generation Galaxy Note.
Samsung and Lenovo held their positions as the
largest Android
tablet vendors in Australia, but other device
maker have turned their focus to Windows 10
tablets and 2 - in - 1s in place of Android».