Though the operating system probably won't launch until Q3 or Q4 of the year,
the major tablet makers will look to a head start on the market by rolling out the latest and greatest Windows tablet PC hardware.
App giveaways are becoming a trend from
major tablet makers.
According to IDC, when looking at sales in the first quarter of 2016, pretty much
every major tablet maker's growth fell year - over-year.
Not exact matches
The one
major caveat against Mario
Maker's possibility as a port is that Nintendo has yet to show off the touch capabilities of the Switch
tablet, if they exist at all.
«With a record 10 million
tablets and computers sold into US schools last year, district leaders and decision
makers are gearing up to make a
major shift to from print to digital,» said Gideon Stein, Founder and CEO of LightSail Education.
It just might be the cheapest android
tablet from a
major maker.
In fact, the Lenovo IdeaPad A1 will be one of the least expensive
tablets from any
major computer
maker when it hits the streets in late September.
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.
As CNET noted, Nokia is the only
major smartphone
maker that has yet to dip its toe into the warm, inviting waters of the
tablet market.
Besides
major players like Apple and Samsung, some handset
makers such as Lava and G'Five are also planning to enter the
tablet space.
Sharp's choice of LCD over the grey - ish e-paper screens used in e-readers isn't a surprise — it's one of the world's
major LCD
makers — but that choice and the Android operating system could see some consumers thinking of them more as
tablet PCs.
The
tablet war has been heating up the Indian computing landscape, with
major PC and handset
makers lining up a slew of launches this year.
It's technically the first Android
tablet from a
major PC
maker, but it's actually a lot more like an Android smartphone than a competitor to the Apple iPad.
Organizers of the electronics show say all of Taiwan's
major laptop computer
makers plan to display
tablet devices at Computex.