A J.D. Power survey a few weeks ago showed that Kindle Fire tablet owners ranked highest in tablet customer satisfaction, ahead of
owners of tablets from Apple, Samsung, Asus, and Acer.
Not exact matches
Bak USA, the Buffalo
tablet computer maker with a social conscience, which last week secured another $ 10 million investment
from B. Thomas Golisano, the billionaire founder
of Paychex and the former
owner of the Buffalo Sabres, is starting to look like a real business.
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.
Data
from the RJI Mobile Media News Consumption Survey finds an average
of 14 %
of smartphone
owners use them to read books, versus 41 % using
tablets for reading, three times greater than on smartphones.
This gives
owners of any smartphone or
tablet the ability to choose
from a pool
of 4 e-books and keep one for free.
Owners of Android smartphones and
tablets can now enjoy interactive storytelling
from Disney, including digital storybook, activity, and creativity apps that invite families to read, play, and create with characters they know and love.
In a preliminary version
of Forrester's
tablet report, seen by TechCrunch, a few observations stand out — including a downward shift in the age - range
of the largest group
of tablet owners, shifting away
from 30 - to 40 - year - olds to 18 - to 24 - year - olds.
The importance
of those
tablet efforts was also highlighted by a recent survey
from the Pew Research Center, which found that 56 %
of tablet owners get their news on mobile devices each day, up
from 53 % in 2011.
It is very likely that thousands
of Nook
owners in the United Kingdom are not going to register for an Adobe Digital Editions account and take the time to sync all
of their purchases
from their PC to their e-Reader or
tablet.
Amazon is launching a new app specifically for its Fire
tablet owners that gives them six months
of free access to stories
from the Washington Post.
The newly equipped
tablet will run $ 299
from selected OEMs and also feature the latest version
of Android KitKat, which is being pushed out to
owners of the Wi - Fi version later today with additional enhancements for gaming.
Apart
from getting a first hand feel
of the new update, Galaxy Tab
owners will also be able to side load the software update on their
tablets.
Jeff Orr, Research Director at ABI Research stated «Unlike other
tablet manufacturers, Amazon views hardware as a commodity and emphasizes focus on its recurring digital content revenue stream, generated
from selling digital books, music, TV, and video programming to
owners of its devices.
«In all, the number
of owners of either a
tablet computer or e-book reading device... grew
from 18 percent in late 2011 to 33 percent in 2012.»
Taken
from another perspective, about 42 percent household in the country have a minimum
of one
tablet owner.
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.
As with all
of the
tablets from T - Mobile,
owners will get 200 MB
of free data per month on its LTE network.
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.
According to data
from Forrester Research, 56 percent
of tablet owners are male, while 55 percent
of e-reader
owners are female.
Sony
tablet owners are sometimes seen as more tech savvy than average, and Sony is actively supporting that, as we can see
from Sony's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) page on Sony Mobile, with a list
of binaries and codes for all
of Sony's
tablets that are currently running Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
The growing popularity
of the Apple
tablet means
owners will also look around for covers and cases to protect their device and one such case that not only gives a stylish look but also provides adequate protection to the
tablet is Folio Shield
from Lioncase.
Tired
of cheap and nasty
tablets undermining the Android platform, Google has decided to take matters into its own hands and created two Android
tablets, the Google Nexus 10 we'll be examining here, and the Nexus 7, that provide the same level
of user experience and Apple
owners have come to expect
from the likes
of the iPad 4.
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».
Amazon's
tablet is also driving consumers to purchase goods
from Amazon: 29 %
of Kindle
owners expected to spend more money than they had previously with Amazon during the next 90 days, but just 19 %
of consumers who don't own a Kindle Fire plan to do the same.
Amazon evidently plans on selling a shit - ton
of books, movies, music, apps and general products to the
owners of its
tablets, earning its money not
from the
tablet but
from the repeat customer transactions.
While there's no word on any new
tablet hardware (the future
of the PlayBook line is definitely in flux), existing
owners will be relieved to hear that they'll benefit
from the overhauled BlackBerry 10 OS - which is based on the same QNX platform as the current Playbook OS.
Reports
of updates are coming
from users with the Wifi version
of the
tablet in the U.S., so we can't confirm beyond that, but we think more than a few Note 10.1 - 2014 Edition
owners will be happy with the update news.
I like the follow up and commitment
from Nvidia on this
tablet, since only two weeks ago Nvidia released yet another upgrade with additional content for owners of the Shield T
tablet, since only two weeks ago Nvidia released yet another upgrade with additional content for
owners of the Shield
TabletTablet.
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.
An update is being pushed to
owners of the Venue 8 7000 series
tablet from Dell, one which enables a key feature
of the device's 3 rear - facing cameras.
The end
of next month is when
owners of a Sony
tablet — namely Tablet S or Tablet P — should be preparing to receive the official Ice Cream Sandwich update from the manufac
tablet — namely
Tablet S or Tablet P — should be preparing to receive the official Ice Cream Sandwich update from the manufac
Tablet S or
Tablet P — should be preparing to receive the official Ice Cream Sandwich update from the manufac
Tablet P — should be preparing to receive the official Ice Cream Sandwich update
from the manufacturer.
Although Maritz underrepresented Windows 7
tablets by leaving out devices
from Acer, ASUS, and others, the iPad was still the top choice
of Windows Phone
owners at 40 percent.
Meanwhile, men make up 57 percent
of tablet owners, which is down
from 61 percent in the third quarter.
The
owners of Kindle eReaders have until tomorrow to update the software on their
tablets or else they will the ability to download books
from the cloud, Amazon warned device
owners.
The more successful Apple's
tablets and apps are, the more difficult it will be for Amazon to walk away
from its iOS platform — but it could whip up a dangerous level
of consumer, developer and even regulatory opposition to the iPhone maker (though, as the proud
owner of a closed ecosystem itself, it would need to tread carefully).
Meanwhile, Amazon has quietly removed support for encryption
from Fire OS 5, forcing Fire
tablet owners to either update and lose the encryption support or continue running an outdated version
of the operating system.
Previous 12.9 - inch iPad Pro
owners, for example, will see much bigger improvements between those first - and second - generation models than moving
from the discontinued 9.7 - inch iPad Pro to the new 10.5 - inch model — and if you're going to spend hundreds
of dollars replacing a relatively new
tablet, that boost may be necessary to justify the cost.
The app launched earlier this week, and allows Windows 10 PC and
tablet owners to watch live and on - demand programming
from a large number
of cable TV networks, with packages starting at $ 20 a month.
Consumer Reports based its assessment on responses
from 90,000
tablet and laptop
owners and estimated that a full quarter
of all Surface
owners would experience some sort
of problem with their PCs within two years
of purchase.
Amazon today announced that Android
tablet owners will in the UK be able to stream the catalogue
of films and media
from the service via the Prime Instant Video app.
The action comes as new studies that it carried out revealed that 25 percent
of the
owners of these
tablets and laptops experience issues with the devices within two years
from buying them.
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.
Over the next five years, the global
tablet market is estimated to increase to 375 million devices, up
from 56 million sold in 2011, for a total global base
of more than 760 million
tablet owners.
If you're a PS4
owner and a Z3, Z3 Compact or Z3
Tablet owner you'll be able to download the new Remote Play application
from the Google Play Store — and it'll be available at the launch
of these devices — and hook into your console over Wifi for some remote play goodness.
Even with that requirement, Microsoft Band
owners with a Windows 8.1
tablet or PC will see some benefits
from using this new version
of Fanband, including a way to search across all 700 themes and a way to see all
of the themes in each category.
Unfortunately for
owners of these devices — both the original Shield
Tablet from 2014, and 2015's Shield
Tablet K1 — NVIDIA has now revealed they won't be upgraded to Android 8.0 Oreo, the newest version
of the mobile OS.