Shipments are now expected to reach 212 million with the vast majority being
pure slate tablets.
Noted IDC, while
pure slate tablets saw their greatest annual decline ever with a drop of 21.1 percent, detachables more than doubled their shipments since the fourth quarter of 2014.
Not exact matches
Although Amazon wowed many with its new Kindle Fire HD
tablets this week, don't count
pure Android (s goog)
slates out of the race for
tablet sales.
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slate /
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We've been hearing of a «Google Nexus»
tablet for quite some time and recent rumors seem to talk about Asus as the hardware manufacturer for the first «
pure Android»
slate — the Motorola and its Xoom model were the partners for the Android 3.0 Honeycomb launch.
The
Pure has stereo speakers on either side of the
tablet, with a front - facing camera and power button on the top of the
slate.
Whereas the Write ($ 579) and Pro ($ 479) are high - resolution
slates running on Nvidia's new Tegra 4 processor, the Tegra 3 - powered
Pure is Toshiba's entry - level
tablet starting at $ 299.
Although this volume is far below that of the more affordable
slate tablet segment, IDC believes these devices appeal to an audience seeking an alternative to
pure tablets with smaller screens.
Either Google's art department purposely manipulated an image of the company's current Nexus 10
tablet, or Google just quietly revealed its next - generation
pure Android
slate.