tablet

Apple may have contributed to BlackBerry PlayBook’s delay by a month

Published on: 18th April, 2011

It is possible that Apple had unwittingly produced a month-long postponement of BlackBerry’s PlayBook. According to panel builders, Apple had booked a large amount of touchscreen production capacity for its iPad and other devices and had consequently triggered a shortage that made it very hard for Research in Motion to get supplies. The only other [...]

A new 23-inch tablet from Lenovo, designed for home use

Published on: 18th April, 2011

According to some comments from William Cai, Lenovo’s senior marketing specialist, the company is supposedly working to create a new large tablet based on a 23-inch LCD. Their new device is expected to be designed for home use, rather than the mobile functionality which has been the focus of most tablets recently presented by several [...]

Analysts indicate 100,000 Motorola Xoom shipped by now

Published on: 13th April, 2011

Deutsche Bank analysts have indicated Xoom sales were possibly slow. They estimated about 100,000 Motorola Xoom tablets shipped between the debut on the 24th of February and the end of March, based on extrapolation from information found in Google’s Platform Versions chart. Hacked installations on other devices were also included, although in a small number. [...]

Dell: 10-inch Android tablet to be shown in mid-June

Published on: 13th April, 2011

Dell’s plans related to tablets may soon become reality as the company would launch an Android tablet, likely named the Streak 10, ahead of the Windows-based equivalent. A recent leak revealed that Dell’s talk of a launch in 2012 was conservative and that there were chances for the Android slate to be ready by mid-June, [...]

Popular Science: only 10,000 subscriptions on iPad

Published on: 4th April, 2011

The Popular Science version for iPad has only reached 10,000 subscriptions so far, says publisher Bonnier Technology Group. The milestone has been reached in a timeframe of only six weeks after the adoption by Apple of a new in-application subscription model and therefore the company is very excited about it. Details on iPad performance have [...]

Google’s Android in-app purchases ready to go live

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Google has recently followed up on a last-minute promise and started up public access to the Android In-app Billing. This system catches up to iOS and offers the possibility of buying books, game add-ons, as well as other content which had formerly been locked out. This can take the same payment methods as standard Android [...]

Dell asserts iPad would not be successful in enterprise

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Andy Lark, head of global enterprise marketing at Dell, in an interview, told CIO that he was convinced Android and Windows would overtake the iPad in the enterprise. He said that runaway sales have created a market for tablets in offices but a more diverse and open approach would have chances to win. In his [...]

Lenovo’s second-generation, slimmer LePad a few months after the first

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo’s chief, at the Chinese IT Leadership Summit, said in a presentation that his company already had a second-generation LePad in development. He added that the new Android-based tablet had been in development almost side-by-side with the original device, but in a distinct group, and was scheduled to ship as fast as three [...]

Android 3.0 catalog below 100 applications

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Second Gear’s developer Justin Williams, following a new check, has revealed the little progress made by Android 3.0’s application catalog in the month since its launch. Only fourteen applications are truly native. A total of fifty include both native applications and phone applications meaning resizing for a larger screen. The report includes Google’s applications and [...]

Many Canada and UK stores run out of iPad 2

Published on: 31st March, 2011

Apple has repeated its past performance by selling out at retail for its international launch. Several Canadian Apple stores said they had run out of devices in a short time, while almost all third-party retailers, such as Future Shop and Best Buy also run out of supply. It has been difficult to quantify international sales, [...]

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