Microsoft, which has been marketing its Windows operating system to
tablet makers around the world, was notably absent from the Gartner forecast.
Not exact matches
The only good thing to come out of Apple's announcement is the hype that built up
around it got PC
makers working on their own
tablet devices.
Originally slated to retail for
around $ 250, talk is that it will now be closer to the $ 300 mark; that's an interesting change since Barnes and Noble is set to host its own press conference next month in which the e - reader /
tablet maker of the Nook Color releases its second device in the line, the Nook Color 2, which is supposed to retail for $ 250.
The Fujitsu Sylistic Q572 is one of the very first
tablet devices to have been built
around the new AMD Z - 60 Hondo processors which, its
makers claim, is 20 percent more power efficient, thereby leading to better battery times.
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.
With a starting of 7,500 INR (circa $ 140) and going up to 14,000 (
around $ 265), the three Classpad
tablets are more expensive than the government sponsored Akash, which retails at $ 45, but its
maker believes that it has more benefits.
The
tablets, however, failed to ignite consumer interest and Sony has yet to break into the top five
makers in a market still dominated by Apple with
around a 70 percent share.
The Creative ZiiO 7 has received an Android update boost, with its
makers announcing that the 7 - inch
tablet is to get access to Froyo and all the goodies that come with it.We know, this is news that would have been much more exciting
around 6 months ago... Read more
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.
Blackberry
maker Research In Motion (RIM) said Monday it is recalling
around 1,000 PlayBook
tablet computers because of an operating system issue.
To be run on Honeycomb based
tablets Popular
makers of Photoshop Adobe has announced a range of touch apps designed for Android run
tablet devices, which are all based
around their Adobe Creative Suite of products.
Windows 8
tablets are just
around the corner but and
tablet maker Kupa is showing off the X11... running the upcoming operating systems.
Since Amazon has yet to start retailing the Fire outside the U.S., there are still openings for
tablet makers to turn things
around elsewhere — although with no obvious new offerings to compete with the content portfolio that Amazon (and Apple) have available to users via their app stores and other cloud - based media services, for the moment they unfortunately remain sitting ducks.
The Creative ZiiO 7 has received an Android update boost, with its
makers announcing that the 7 - inch
tablet is to get access to Froyo and all the goodies that come with it.We know, this is news that would have been much more exciting
around 6 months ago... Read more