tablets

Analyst believes tablet market would become controlled by Android

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Piper Jaffray’s analyst Gene Munster suggests that despite the current success of the iPad, Android will control the largest part of the tablet market. He told Business Insider that Apple would not have the majority of the tablet market share and probably Android would have it. Piper Jaffray’s analyst was also skeptical about sources claiming [...]

Microsoft will not have an interim tablet version of OS before Windows 8

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Microsoft’s chief Steve Ballmer declared at a TechDays session in the United Kingdom that there would not be an intermediate version designed for tablets between Windows 7 and 8. He said Microsoft would not make a revamp before its next version of the operating system, which would probably wait until 2012. Improvements of the user [...]

Microsoft expects Windows-based rivals for iPad by holidays

Published on: 8th October, 2010

The tablet strategy of Microsoft has accelerated with the remarks of the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer who said that Windows-based devices rival to the iPad should be in stores before the end of this year. It was in a presentation held at the London School of Economics where it has not named the companies but [...]

First official PalmPad webOS tablet reference made by HP executive

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Hewlett Packard executive Todd Bradley has for the first time referred to the upcoming webOS tablet of the company, giving it a name. The executive vice president of the Personal Systems Group, at an analyst meeting, said that HP would push the product range beyond smartphones and would introduce a “webOS-powered PalmPad”, which would be [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab with 4G may arrive to Sprint in November

Published on: 6th September, 2010

According to a recent brief rumor, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab could get a unique-to-Sprint model. The tablet’s CDMA-friendly variant is due for Sprint, as soon as November, as an unnamed BGR source declared. If the rumor is true, the tablet will benefit from both 3G through EVDO and 4G through WiMAX; this would make Samsung’s Galaxy [...]

Toshiba to enter the tablet area with Folio 100

Published on: 6th September, 2010

After teasing the mobile tablet space for several months, Toshiba has confirmed the intention of launching its Folio 100. The tablet will have a ten-inch size and will run a significantly modified version of Android 2.2. It will also be one of its major devices equipped with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2, which is a powerful enough [...]

Dual-core Android tablet Folio 100 from Toshiba seen at IFA booth

Published on: 5th September, 2010

The Folio 100 tablet, previously leaked, has been confirmed by Toshiba at the IFA booth of the company. The Android 2.2-based tablet, although not having any specification, was evidently running a significantly customized front end provided with large buttons to be used for Daily Motion videos, 7’s digital music service and Flickr photos. Toshiba Places [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab may only get 100K units per month

Published on: 1st September, 2010

According to part suppliers, despite the fact that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has been setup as an iPad rival, the maker may have modest ambitions for the tablet. They have estimated for DigiTimes that the initial production for Samsung’s Android tablet sits at 100,000 units per month, which means less than a tenth of Apple’s sales [...]

Is Google’s tablet strategy clear enough?

Published on: 1st September, 2010

Debating the importance of the tablet space is probably not necessary nowadays. Arguments that can be brought in its favor would be as notorious as is Apple itself. But it is important to know that it is not enough at all to only have a new device and simply throwing it on the market. And [...]

A new glasses-free 3D tablet from Rockchip

Published on: 28th August, 2010

On August 25, 2010, at an event in China, there has been spotted a new prototype tablet, which is capable to display 3D images without even needing 3D glasses. According to “Engadget Chinese”, the Supernova X1 was being shown off by Rockchip. Currently there is no information on the technical specs, on the exact pricing [...]

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