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Analysis, News
100+ million tablets to ship in 2012
ABI Research predict tablet sales will reach more than 100 million in 2012, the figures are based on a very successful first quarter, where 25 million tablets were sold with Apple gaining the lions share of the market. Figures from ABI show the April to June quarter of 2012 set a new record for media…
Android, Apps, News
ViewSonic try for free tablet computer
Viewsonic allow users to try out the ViewPad 7 for 30 days for free, could this be a free way to test your tablet apps?
News
Tablets to evolve into a $35 billion market by 2012
JPMorgan Securities expect tablet revenues and sales to increase more than they first predicted A Reuters report reveals brokers JPMorgan Securities expect tablets to evolve into a $35 billion market by 2012, eating into the share of PCs, and competition to drive down premium prices. The brokerage, has increased its forecast for tablet unit shipment…
News
One in five new tablets sold is an Android device
Android is making huge inroads into the Apple iPad tablet heartland with one in five new tablets running Android. The latest research from market research company Strategy Analytics, finds Android making big gains in the tablet market. According to the research during Q4 2010, 22% of the 10 million tablet devices that where shipped ran…
News
HP (re)enters the smartphone and tablet market
HP launches a new tablet and two new smartphones all running WebOS Hewlett Packard (HP) have had phones for a long time, trouble was they were all Windows phones and while the iPaqs were good phones they didn’t sell too well, apart from on Expansys. They also didn’t have too much luck with tablets either,…
News
Android now the number one smartphone
Android is now the number one operating system for smartphones and dislodges Symbian from the number one position it has held for 10 years. According to research company Canalys, Android sold 32.9 million devices during Q4 2010, overtaking Symbian, which sold 31 million. This represents a 615% year on year sales increase for Android, and…
News
The rise of the two tablet household
An old acquaintance of ours once said “you know when you’re rich because you start to buy art.” Well that was a long time ago and the modern equivalent would be that you know when you’re too rich because you have more than one tablet, and just to prove our point a new survey from…
News
Almost one in three in the UK access the net from mobile
Office for National statistics figures for the UK show that almost a third of the UK population are accessing the internet via their mobile, up by 30% on earlier this year. Mobile web use is up sharply in the UK. About 31% of internet users said they went online via mobile phone in 2010, compared…
News
Tablet devices to reach 81 million by 2015
The number of annual shipments for tablet devices will reach 81 million by 2015 as an increasing number of consumer electronics players and handset manufacturers enter the market, finds Juniper Research‘s latest report. According to Juniper Research the catalyst for this expanding market is not the iPad but the Android Operating system which is allowing…
News
11 Million tablets to ship in 2010
According to new forecasts from ABI Research, just over 11 million media tablets and 43 million netbooks will ship worldwide this year. While the 43 million figure sounds big it’s actually somewhat lower than observers expected at the end of last year. Last year netbook sales were big and they were expected to get bigger…
News
Keep taking the Tablets
High Street retailer Dixons have launched two own-brand tablets aimed at the mass market. Dixons has announced it will be selling two own-brand tablets, priced at pocket money prices. The tablets launched under the Dixons Advent brand name, include the cheap as chips Advent Vega, a 7″ Android tablet, and the more expensive – but…
News
Dell to release a 7 inch Android tablet in next few weeks
The seven inch Android tablet that Michael Dell whipped out at last week’s Oracle World conference (see our report) is going to be released in the next few weeks, with a ten incher to follow in the next six months according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Dell’s Greater China President Amit Midha…
News, Video
WeTab to launch the first MeeGo tablet
WeTab*, a German tablet computer start-up, is set to launch “the first shipped MeeGo-based tablet in the world” next week, offering the WeTab product initially in its home market, with availability through retailer Media Markt. The company is a partner of Intel, one of the main proponents of the platform, and the planned shipping was…
News
Amazon takes £645 million from mobile shoppers
Amazon.com generated revenues of £645 million ($1 billion) from mobile purchases during the last 12 months. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the statistic during the Amazon’s Q2 earnings release, and stressed the importance of mobile phones and tablet computers in the company’s future plans. The news comes just a few days after Amazon revealed that sales…
News
Tablet computers to ship over 11 million in 2010
When ABI Research first examined the media tablet market in February, neither Apple’s iPad nor any other multinational-branded tablet had been released. Six months later, the firm has revisited its forecasts, almost tripling the original estimate to reach about 11 million tablets expected to ship by the end of 2010, with the majority of the…