Sentences with phrase «tablet owners say»

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.

Around half of all tablet owners say they are the only ones that use the device in any given house.

In a survey conducted by Forrester, 12 percent of respondents said they had bought a tablet instead of an e-book reader, and 39 percent of tablet owners said they wouldn't buy an e-book reader in the future.

Not exact matches

Jaime and Mark Van Wye, owners of dog - training franchise Zoom Room, say they're running a more efficient business thanks to tablet technology.

The technology giant said Monday that people can now send free text messages or make video and audio calls to other tablet owners, as long as they have installed the Alexa app to their devices.

I just checked my bottle of «Wal - Profen» and it says right on there, «This product is not manufactured or distributed by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, owner of the registered trademark Advil Tablets.

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.

Looking to increase the value of its Android - based Nook tablets, Barnes & Noble on Friday said it will offer a different paid app free of charge every Friday for Nook HD, Nook HD +, Nook Tablet, and Nook Color owners.

As an owner of a Stream 7 & 8 I have no issues in saying both are solid tablets at their price points.

However, in what should be even more exciting news for current PlayBook owners, the company is said to be in the advanced stages of launching an update for the tablet.

Tablets are, by design, perfect content - consumption devices (that's what 94 % of current tablet owners do, said the OPA), and they're also great for web browsing, e-mail and getting your daily news fix.

Only nine per cent of new owners said their tablet had remained untouched.

«We are still in the early - adoption phase of tablet ownership, so the next wave of tablet owners will not be as eager; to convince them to adopt a tablet, marketers will need to stress attributes like accessibility, ease of use, and relevance,» says Forrester.

However the analyst says what's true for the current crop of (still early adopter) tablet owners, won't be true as tablet ownership expands to take in a greater proportion of the population.

«We know that eighty - eight percent of tablet owners in the US are using their tablets in the living room, ¹ and are multi-tasking with their tablets while watching TV,» said Phil Lubell, vice president of networked technologies and services at Sony Electronics.

Speaking on the new year offerings for Reliance Tab owners, Mr. Sanjay Behl, Group Head - Brand & Marketing, Reliance Communications, said, «Witnessing an explosive growth in the Tab market, Reliance 3G Tab has hit the sweet spot with a terrific combination of a fully loaded Tablet and a seamless IP enabled 3G network leading to an unmatched customer experience.

Even with all the competition it faces across the tablet space, and the fact that iPad owners recently updated their software to iOS 5, Research In Motion said yesterday that it's holding off on launching the second generation of its tablet software until next year.

Among smartphone and tablet owners asked, 60 percent said they'd cast their vote for the next president through a mobile app or text message — if they could do so without any fear of fraud.

They were also generally tech owners — 18 % of those who said they owned an e-book reading device also said they planned to purchase a tablet in the next six months.

E-reader owners were more likely to say they were planning on purchasing a tablet in the next six months than non-ereader owners.

News remains an important part of what people do on their mobile devices - 64 % of tablet owners and 62 % of smartphone owners say they use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the phone).

At the same time, 18 % of non-tablet owners said they intended to buy a tablet or were considering it — 10 % said they hoped to buy one in the next six months and another 8 % said they were considering it further down the line.

«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.

According to the same Pew survey, «41 % of tablet owners and 35 % of e-reader owners said they were reading more since the advent of e-content.»

ASUS didn't need to confirm Android 4.2 for the Nexus 7, but it's what they didn't say that may have other ASUS tablet owners concerned.

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.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder and CEO, said the product's 139 - dollar price tag meant owners of tablet computers, such as the iPad, were also buying Kindles.

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».

Only 4 in 10 smartphone owners said they also used large tablets.

Several Pixel C tablet owners took to social media over the weekend to say that the latest Android 8.1 update caused their tablet to factory reset and wipe all data.

Survey results of U.S. commercial tablet owners indicate 39 % of respondents said having a Windows OS option as part of their next tablet purchase was important to very important.

Kindle Fire owners are most attracted to the price of the device — 59 % of owners said it was what they liked most about the tablet — and 27 % of owners said the lack of physical volume control buttons was their least liked feature.

Performance is generally good, but there are definitely some responsiveness issues and it's safe to say your Nook won't exactly be making any owners of dual - core Honeycomb tablets jealous when it comes to performance.

It's right between the Nexus 7 and, say, the Note 10.1, so it could offer a good in for tablet owners here too.

Jobs also argued that tablet owners are already smartphone owners, and that both devices have their distinct advantages — and that seven - inchers fall into the chasm between those two device types: «The seven - inch tablets are «tweeners»,» he said, «too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.»

US bookseller Barnes & Noble said on Tuesday it would launch a video service with films and television programs which can be purchased by owners of its Nook tablet in the United States and Britain.

Today, Samsung UK is shedding light on another Galaxy device's fate; it has responded to a Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 owner on Twitter and said that the tablet will not be getting Lollipop.

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.

iPad owners are going to say, «so this is what an Android tablet looks like,» Android phone owners are going to say «I could really use this thing if I could find the link to the Android Marketplace,» and Kindle owners are going to say «I don't need color and backlighting to read.»

That said, Google (slated to become Motorola's new owner) has the wherewithal to tinker with its business model, and Motorola under Google ownership will likely outlast, and prevail over, lesser companies that don't have the stomach to stick it out in the hypercompetitive Android tablet market.

Motorola Mobility says about 100 Xoom tablet computers that it refurbished for sale on Woot.com may not have been properly wiped of the previous owners» data.

Amazon said there is over $ 10,000 worth of games and apps, as well as in - app upgrades, that are completely free for Fire tablet owners to use.

The digital content readers who said they were reading more stood out in several respects: 41 % of tablet owners and 35 % of e-reader owners said they were reading more since the advent of e-content.

This is a consistent judgment throughout different demographic and tech - owning groups, although tablet owners (14 %) are more likely than those who do not own tablets (7 %) to say they prefer e-books for this situation.

One major difference is that those who own handheld e-reading devices like e-readers or tablets are more likely to say e-books are preferable to print books for reading in bed: 53 % of device owners say e-books are better than print books in this situation, compared with 45 % of all print and e-book readers.

The same study says that Apple's iPad still dominates: Approximately half of all tablet owners have iPads.

Surprisingly, of the 12 Nook owners, 10 had rooted their eReaders to make them more functional and most of them said that they enjoyed the tablet functionality more than using them for reading.

However, a recent Harris Poll found that of the dog owners surveyed who provide a monthly oral heartworm disease preventative to their dogs, nearly one quarter (23 percent) say their dogs do not always eat the entire tablet.

Some users say their pets ate the beef - flavored tablet right out of their (the owners») hands, but others say they had to resort to tricks like slipping it in a «pill pocket» or grinding it up and mixing it with peanut butter.

«In order for us to work in an environment where we don't have to worry about flea infestations, every dog or cat that comes into our facility gets a Capstar tablet, whether it's for boarding, grooming or any veterinary services,» says Chris J. Rehm, DVM, owner of Rehm Animal Clinic.