Not surprising, given that more than a third of
tablet owners report having content on their devices they don't want anyone else to see.
The survey also covered where people were using the apps, finding heavy usage at home, with about 78 % of
tablet owners reporting they used apps at home and 55 % of smart phone owners using apps in the car.
Pew found that just over half of
tablet owners reported owning Apple's iPad, compared with 81 percent a year ago.
Microsoft Surface
tablet owners reported higher overall satisfaction with features and «styling and design factors.»
It is also reported that 7 % of customers who own an Amazon Kindle Fire planned to switch to an iPad and 2 % of Samsung
tablet owners reports they will use an Apple tablet.
Not exact matches
According to the survey, 89 percent of small business
owners currently use a smartphone to run their businesses occasionally, and 56 percent
reported using
tablets.
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.
This kind of issue can definitely be chalked up to issues with
owners» individual internet service provider (or ISP) at certain times, but due to the volume of issues
reported with WiFi, it's likely some
tablets have a predisposition to have problems connecting via WiFi in certain use cases.
Smartphones and
tablet owners cut the time they spend on laptops, cameras, MP3 players and other standalone devices, the CEA
reports
Yesterday, we
reported that ASUS» Gary Key took to XDA to let
owners of the Transformer Prime and Transformer Infinity
tablet know that they could expect to see a Jelly Bean update within 48 - 72 hours.
«This is a consistent judgment throughout different demographic and tech - owning groups,» reads the
report, although
tablet owners (14 percent) are more likely than those who don't own
tablets (7 percent) to say they prefer ebooks for this situation.
«Device
owners in the U.K. logged heavy usage for
tablets (80 %) and smart phones (78),» a Nielsen blog announcing the results noted, while Italians and Germans were least likely, with 29 % in both countries
reporting that they never used a
tablet while watching TV.
Owners of Acer's Iconia Tab A200
tablet are going to have a good Sunday: users are
reporting that the device received an update to Android 4.0 today.
She points to some of the same
reports that we have covered over the last few weeks, such as surveys showing that
tablet owners are buying less physical media, and projections that on - line advertising spending will this year surpass that for print advertising for the first time.
Owners of Acer's Iconia A200
tablet are going to have a good Sunday: users are
reporting that the device received an update to Android 4.0 today.
Because the Apple iPad has demonstrated a quick rise to dominance in the
tablet marketplace, this
report delves into iPad
owners» practices and perceptions surrounding the use of e-books in their kids» literacy development.
A new
report shows that 85 percent of U.S.
tablet owners are using their
tablets as their «couch computer» instead of laptops or smartphones while watching TV.
Eighty - five percent of U.S.
tablet owners fiddle around on their
tablet while watching TV, according to a new
report by marketing research company Forrester.
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.
Forrester Research
reported that online purchases made on
tablets now account for 20 percent of all mobile e-commerce sales, and that almost 60 percent of
tablet owners have used them to shop.
The Amazon Hollywood name is straight forward, Barron's has
reported it will have access to a streaming movie service, which will be free for the first batch of
tablet owners.
A number of Pixel C
tablet owners are
reporting they can download and install the official, non-beta version of the Android 7.1.2 Nougat update.
As previously
reported, Android device
owners can check to see if Carrier IQ resides on their rooted phone or
tablet by downloading a non-Market application.
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.
Owners of the LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition
tablet are also
reporting Android 5.1 is showing up on their machines, and
reports gathered of the update's arrival on the HTC One M8 Google Play Edition.