Chinese computer titan Lenovo was one of the few
tablet makers seeing growth in the declining overall market thanks to a diverse product line and low - price offerings, according to IDC.
We see on our tablet reviews that many
tablet makers see Google Android as the be all and end all of operating systems and figure customers will be happy with the bundled content and not want anything else.
In the fourth quarter, four of the top five
tablet makers saw shipments tumble.
Not exact matches
Despite 1:1
tablet rollouts, bring - your - own - device (BYOD) programs, and
maker space initiatives we've all
seen in the last few years, the nation's school systems still vary widely when it comes to which digital tools students have at hand, how often they have access to them, and for what purpose.
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.
Interestingly, it's not the first time that the Finnish phone
maker has been associated with a
tablet running Windows RT, though Nokia loyalists surely hope this is the last time they
see Nokia being linked with a Windows RT
tablet.
China's biggest personal - computer
maker by shipments is following rivals such as Dell Inc. that
see tablets as a new potential growth driver.
Today
sees the
maker announce THREE new Android - powered Xperia models, the high - end Sony Xperia T, plus the Xperia J and Xperia V. Oh, and the Xperia
Tablet S for those who always carry a manbag.
Best IT World (India) Pvt. Ltd,
makers of the iBall range of products will soon have the
tablet ready to battle it out with the other budget
tablet that got to
see the light of the day in the last few weeks.
Also with Technicolor already having a presence in the service provider market due to it having its roots as Thomson —
makers of set top boxes, we might also get to
see service providers even offering customized versions of the Media Touch
tablet that would add value to the triple or quad - play service packages.
While the above should be sweet news for
tablet makers, it is predicted to be not quite so for Apple that could be
seen losing its dominant position to Android toting devices in 2014.
For this, the chip
maker is
seeing to it that there are enough
tablet choices available before the onset of the back - to - school season.
We've
seen Honeycomb
tablets from big mobile phone
makers like LG, Motorola, and Samsung, but also from smaller firms like Anydata and from PC giants like Acer and Asus.
For us, the 10 - inch form factor really is the right size for a
tablet — we know some of you like the 7 - inch blueprint, but the 10 - inch screen feels right for the web — so we're glad to
see the Android
tablet makers jumping into this space.
Rumours indicate Google's event will also
see the Android
maker officially unwrap the new 4.2 Jelly Bean build of its operating system as well as a Nexus 10
tablet built by Samsung, a 32 GB Nexus 7
tablet and another near - identical model with the addition of HSPA +.
While we've
seen much interest in Google's Android, both from game
makers and others, Android 3.0's
tablet apps, at this point, rank only in the hundreds (optimistically), not thousands.
It would be Amazon's first shot at a smartphone, and with how much success it's
seen in the
tablet market, it's an entrant that existing phone
makers will want to take seriously.
Sharp's choice of LCD over the grey - ish e-paper screens used in e-readers isn't a surprise — it's one of the world's major LCD
makers — but that choice and the Android operating system could
see some consumers thinking of them more as
tablet PCs.
Last week at CES we
saw a lot of
tablets and I met with a lot of
tablet makers.
The team at TabletPCReview typically ignores such devices, but every so often we like to check in on the budget Android
tablet market to
see what the knockoff
makers are offering.
While one has to wonder if every
tablet maker really needs to include a social networking aggregator (Samsung will have one, too), it's nice to
see Lenovo trying to innovate here, even if the result currently is visually uninspiring and crashes often.
Lenovo, the worlds second largest PC
maker surprised the world this week at the Computex technology show by teasing with a previously unannounced and never - before -
seen Windows 8
tablet.
«It looks like the market may be tiring of
tablets and as
makers get desperate, you may
see more pressure on prices,» Enderle said.
While competitors including Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, and Samsung have been duking it out for dominance in the smartphone and
tablet space, Freescale is one of the top
makers of chips for eBook Readers, in - vehicle entertainment systems, and other devices that you
see everywhere, but not might hear as much about..
Nexus 7
makers Asus
saw its market share drop from 7.8 % to 5.8 % after shipping 3.1 million
tablets, but still
saw a 402.3 % year - on - year increase in market growth.
From what I've
seen so far, the other
tablet makers are 18 months behind the iPad softwarewise, and most are that far back hardwarewise (the exception being Samsung's Galaxy).
FINNISH PHONE
MAKER Nokia's Lumia 2520 is its first foray into the
tablet market, and
sees the firm competing against Microsoft, the company that recently bought...