There is a new tablet in town, and it's not every day that we get to see a top notch car
maker launch a tablet.
Not exact matches
Blackphone, which claims to be the most secure smartphone
maker, recently told CNBC it is
launching a
tablet.
What's less known, however, is that PC
makers tried for roughly a decade ahead of Apple to
launch mobile
tablets.
The latest iteration marks an all round improvement over the LeapPad that was
launched in 2011 and had gone on to what its
makers claim as the number one
tablet for kid's entertainment and education.
This surprised many as the mobile phone
maker was expected to
launch the
tablet at the upcoming MWC event later this month.
While there is no stopping
tablet makers from
launching a smaller
tablet with a 1366 x 768 display, 7 inch
tablets with that resolution are often prohibitively expensive and don't do well on the market.
BlackBerry
maker Research in Motion will
launch a 4G LTE 32 - gigabyte version of its PlayBook
tablet on August 9th, but just in Canada.
While
tablet makers HP, RIM and Samsung race to get new
tablets into the market, the iPad is revving its second generation for
launch March 11.
The Tegra 2 chip once was the craze among
tablet PC
makers, though the preference has naturally shifted to the Tegra 3 chip after it has been
launched.
Details around this
tablet are few and far between but most manufactures and component makers all proclaim Amazon has placed massive orders for a new Android Tablet that will launch later this
tablet are few and far between but most manufactures and component
makers all proclaim Amazon has placed massive orders for a new Android
Tablet that will launch later this
Tablet that will
launch later this year.
The
tablet's early 2013
launch became possible after its
makers sought public funds of at least $ 49,000, though surpassed that and collected $ 72,707.
Chinese handset
maker G'Five plans to
launch an Android
tablet with a 7 inch touchscreen priced below Rs 10,000.
Of course, without even a peep from Amazon itself, rumors of a new
tablet have abounded for months, with many debating whether an Amazon offering could manage to do what other
tablet makers hadn't:
Launch a serious contender to Apple's iPad throne.
In other words, if you buy an Android 3.1
tablet next month and it can support Android 5.x when it's
launched next summer, Google is trying to get device
makers to promise that they will offer the software update.
PC
maker Lenovo has announced the
launch of its IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad
tablets in India.
BRITISH
TABLET MAKER Elonex has
launched its range of budget
tablets at today's Gadget Show in Birmingham with a clear mission to undercut the rest of the market on price.
«Amazon is poised to step into
tablet PCs and will
launch models as soon as August - September, with targeted global sales of four million units for 2011, according to Taiwan - based component
makers.»
The Digitimes article is light on specifics, but it seems the poor sales of the XOOM have other
tablet makers spooked - and the lack of
tablet applications and missing features of the XOOM at
launch (the non-functional microSD card is apparently Google's fault) have made for an unstable ecosystem for Android
tablets.
Chinese telecoms device
maker Huawei has
launched the MediaPad, a dual core CPU
tablet that will run from the Google mobile «Honeycomb» 3.2 OS.
When Sony
launched its first models in April last year, Suzuki at the time said Sony was aiming to overtake Samsung to become the leading Android
tablet maker within a year.
The Kno dual screen
tablet is inching closer to its
launch schedule which its
makers Kno have pegged to be around the end of this year though no specific
launch dates have been revealed.
So the newest member of the $ 199
tablet club is Arnova 7 G2
tablet from French device
maker Archos who had first
launched it this summer.
And the reason why the
makers of this dual screened
tablet are able to come up with the
launch window is that they have secured a whooping $ 46m funding that is needed to make the Kno
tablet a market reality.
One of most rapidly -
launch phone
maker from South Korea, LG Electronics has officially introduced its latest mid-range Android
tablet, called the LG G Pad III 8.0.
Sources coming in thick and fast are suggesting that BlackBerry
maker RIM is about to
launch its
tablet device as soon as next week to kick off its BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.The Wall Street Journal is citing its usual «people familiar... Read more
RIM, the
makers of BlackBerry have
launched a new
tablet device called the BlackBerry PlayBook, and with it a new operating system which is currently going by the moniker of the BlackBerry Tabl
tablet device called the BlackBerry PlayBook, and with it a new operating system which is currently going by the moniker of the BlackBerry
TabletTablet OS.
RAmos, well - known Chinese budget - friendly gadget
maker, is getting ready to
launch a new Windows
tablet with pen input capability.
CyberLink,
makers of the popular PowerDVD multimedia playback software, this week
launched PowerDVD Mobile, media playback software that lets you view photos, videos and listen to music on your Android Honeycomb
tablet.
Panasonic
launched a new rugged
tablet today, actually a 2 in 1 model dubbed Panasonic FZ - Q2 and dubbed a «semi rugged» device by its
maker.
It's hardly a big surprise but Samsung has officially
launched the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 over in Orlando at CTIA which, along with its 10.1 brother, its
makers state is the thinnest mobile
tablet at just 8.6 mm skinny.The Honeycomb
tablet (with TouchWiz... Read more
PC -
maker Lenovo will
launch a
tablet device running Google's Android operating system before the end of this year, according to a report in TradingMarkets.com.
August: Dominant
tablet maker Apple is expected to
launch a smaller version of the iPad, according to reports in Digitimes and elsewhere on Wednesday.
Digitimes is now reporting that component
makers are prepping for an August to September
launch of Amazon
tablets, which will feature a Texas Instruments chip, Wintek touch screens and Quanta as the manufacturer.
Whichever operating systems it does eventually
launch on a
tablet, HP - like fellow PC -
maker Dell - will face some tough competition in Apple's iPad, analyst Ben Ritzes, with Barclays Capital, told investors in a July 7 research note.
Soon after the
launch of Ivory M4
tablet, the Noida - based handset
maker Lava today
launched Ivory POP
tablet in India.
Just about every
tablet maker, including Apple, is rumored (or expected) to announce (or
launch) a new
tablet version within roughly the next four months.
Smartphone -
maker Alcatel on Monday
launched a new
tablet — A310 ″ Wi - Fi — for Rs 6,999.
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.
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.
Digital Book World reports that «international e-book retailer and device -
maker Kobo has
launched a new fleet of e-reading and
tablet devices along with an e-book store for children and a partnership with content aggregator Pocket — all aimed at helping Kobo win the fight for «people who have reading at the center of their lives,» according to Kobo chief content officer, Michael Tamblyn.»
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.
DataWind, the
makers of Aakash
tablet, has announced the
launch of two new
tablets â $ «Ubislate7 + and Ubislate7C.
And in the new
tablet market in which brand name
tablets from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lenovo and soon ASUS are
launching for $ 250 and less, can buget Android
tablet makers remain relevant?
The Chinese phone
maker, Huawei has recently
launched a new 8 - inch Android
tablet, dubbed the Huawei MediaPad Honor T1.
On the French market we don't have a lot of smartphone and
tablet makers, but Archos manages to stand out and today
launches a new slate, a pretty attractive one.
Of course, Sandy Bridge processors are much more powerful than the ARM - based chips favored by most Android
tablet makers, and since Android is designed to run on those low power chips, it makes sense that an Android
tablet would appear faster than a Windows machine, at least in terms of the amount of time it takes to boot, suspend,
launch programs, and perform many other tasks.
HTC is most likely to introduce a
tablet computer after the rumored BlackPad from Research in Motion is
launched, online odds
maker Bookmaker.com predicts.
Well, a new Nexus 7
launch this summer could force other low - price Android
tablet makers to make their slates irresistible.
UBI says that if OLED
makers will be able to
launch and commercialize foldable OLEDs, it could seriously disrupt the
tablet PC market.
Noted PC
makers - HP, Dell, and Asus too have
launched their latest budget
tablets recently.