Almost 22 % of adults own a tablet computer, double the 11 % who had a tablet a year ago, and 64 %
of tablet owners say they use the device to access news at least weekly, according to a new study from Project for Excellence in Journalism and The Economist Group.
Around half
of all tablet owners say they are the only ones that use the device in any given house.
In a survey conducted by Forrester, 12 percent of respondents said they had bought a tablet instead of an e-book reader, and 39 percent
of tablet owners said they wouldn't buy an e-book reader in the future.
Not exact matches
Jaime and Mark Van Wye,
owners of dog - training franchise Zoom Room,
say they're running a more efficient business thanks to
tablet technology.
I just checked my bottle
of «Wal - Profen» and it
says right on there, «This product is not manufactured or distributed by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare,
owner of the registered trademark Advil
Tablets.
In a product briefing, Mark Webster, Mercedes - Benz general manager
of e-mobility,
said owners would get online accounts for their cars, letting them schedule charging and set climate control remotely from a PC,
tablet, or smartphone.
Looking to increase the value
of its Android - based Nook
tablets, Barnes & Noble on Friday
said it will offer a different paid app free
of charge every Friday for Nook HD, Nook HD +, Nook
Tablet, and Nook Color
owners.
As an
owner of a Stream 7 & 8 I have no issues in
saying both are solid
tablets at their price points.
However, in what should be even more exciting news for current PlayBook
owners, the company is
said to be in the advanced stages
of launching an update for the
tablet.
Tablets are, by design, perfect content - consumption devices (that's what 94 %
of current
tablet owners do,
said the OPA), and they're also great for web browsing, e-mail and getting your daily news fix.
Only nine per cent
of new
owners said their
tablet had remained untouched.
«We are still in the early - adoption phase
of tablet ownership, so the next wave
of tablet owners will not be as eager; to convince them to adopt a
tablet, marketers will need to stress attributes like accessibility, ease
of use, and relevance,»
says Forrester.
However the analyst
says what's true for the current crop
of (still early adopter)
tablet owners, won't be true as
tablet ownership expands to take in a greater proportion
of the population.
«We know that eighty - eight percent
of tablet owners in the US are using their
tablets in the living room, ¹ and are multi-tasking with their
tablets while watching TV,»
said Phil Lubell, vice president
of networked technologies and services at Sony Electronics.
Speaking on the new year offerings for Reliance Tab
owners, Mr. Sanjay Behl, Group Head - Brand & Marketing, Reliance Communications,
said, «Witnessing an explosive growth in the Tab market, Reliance 3G Tab has hit the sweet spot with a terrific combination
of a fully loaded
Tablet and a seamless IP enabled 3G network leading to an unmatched customer experience.
Even with all the competition it faces across the
tablet space, and the fact that iPad
owners recently updated their software to iOS 5, Research In Motion
said yesterday that it's holding off on launching the second generation
of its
tablet software until next year.
Among smartphone and
tablet owners asked, 60 percent
said they'd cast their vote for the next president through a mobile app or text message — if they could do so without any fear
of fraud.
They were also generally tech
owners — 18 %
of those who
said they owned an e-book reading device also
said they planned to purchase a
tablet in the next six months.
News remains an important part
of what people do on their mobile devices - 64 %
of tablet owners and 62 %
of smartphone
owners say they use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on
tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the phone).
At the same time, 18 %
of non-
tablet owners said they intended to buy a
tablet or were considering it — 10 %
said they hoped to buy one in the next six months and another 8 %
said they were considering it further down the line.
According to the same Pew survey, «41 %
of tablet owners and 35 %
of e-reader
owners said they were reading more since the advent
of e-content.»
In fact, it can be
said that Wi - Fi connectivity proved to be quite the pain for some
owners of the Sony Xperia
Tablet S before, so keep you fingers crossed that with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich, things will be better from now on in terms
of Wi - Fi connectivity.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder and CEO,
said the product's 139 - dollar price tag meant
owners of tablet computers, such as the iPad, were also buying Kindles.
Owners of the
said tablet who happen to reside in the UK should receive an update notification any time now — assuming that they haven't already — but as is generally the case with OTA (over the air) software releases, users can also try to trigger the update process manually from the
tablet's «Settings» menu under «About device» > «Software update».
Survey results
of U.S. commercial
tablet owners indicate 39 %
of respondents
said having a Windows OS option as part
of their next
tablet purchase was important to very important.
Kindle Fire
owners are most attracted to the price
of the device — 59 %
of owners said it was what they liked most about the
tablet — and 27 %
of owners said the lack
of physical volume control buttons was their least liked feature.
Performance is generally good, but there are definitely some responsiveness issues and it's safe to
say your Nook won't exactly be making any
owners of dual - core Honeycomb
tablets jealous when it comes to performance.
US bookseller Barnes & Noble
said on Tuesday it would launch a video service with films and television programs which can be purchased by
owners of its Nook
tablet in the United States and Britain.
Between mid-December and the beginning
of January, the number
of tablet owners in the U.S. almost doubled from 10 percent to 19 percent,
says Pew Internet.
Motorola Mobility
says about 100 Xoom
tablet computers that it refurbished for sale on Woot.com may not have been properly wiped
of the previous
owners» data.
Amazon
said there is over $ 10,000 worth
of games and apps, as well as in - app upgrades, that are completely free for Fire
tablet owners to use.
The digital content readers who
said they were reading more stood out in several respects: 41 %
of tablet owners and 35 %
of e-reader
owners said they were reading more since the advent
of e-content.
One major difference is that those who own handheld e-reading devices like e-readers or
tablets are more likely to
say e-books are preferable to print books for reading in bed: 53 %
of device
owners say e-books are better than print books in this situation, compared with 45 %
of all print and e-book readers.
The same study
says that Apple's iPad still dominates: Approximately half
of all
tablet owners have iPads.
Surprisingly,
of the 12 Nook
owners, 10 had rooted their eReaders to make them more functional and most
of them
said that they enjoyed the
tablet functionality more than using them for reading.
However, a recent Harris Poll found that
of the dog
owners surveyed who provide a monthly oral heartworm disease preventative to their dogs, nearly one quarter (23 percent)
say their dogs do not always eat the entire
tablet.
Some users
say their pets ate the beef - flavored
tablet right out
of their (the
owners») hands, but others
say they had to resort to tricks like slipping it in a «pill pocket» or grinding it up and mixing it with peanut butter.
«In order for us to work in an environment where we don't have to worry about flea infestations, every dog or cat that comes into our facility gets a Capstar
tablet, whether it's for boarding, grooming or any veterinary services,»
says Chris J. Rehm, DVM,
owner of Rehm Animal Clinic.
Research firm Strategy Analytics
says Apple took 95 %
of the 4.4 million unit worldwide
tablet market, while another firm finds unusually high satisfaction ratings among iPad
owners.
As any electronic device
owner knows from experience, dropping a smartphone or small
tablet or even that handy digital music player into a body
of water, whether it'd be a pool, toilet, bay, sink or bathtub, can lead to a daunting and stressful experience
of having to wait anywhere from three to 24 hours to see if
said device will work again.
Google made headlines earlier this year after it
said it would put the onus
of device security in the hands
of the phone or
tablet owner.
But needless to
say, it's going to be the platform
of choice for many millions
of smartphone and
tablet owners.