Tag Archives: Android
iPad vs Netbooks

Netbooks fall under tablet shipments in Q2 2011

For those who are not yet satisfied, post-PC era is already here with us? We can fairly decisively conclude we’ve finally entered a post-netbook time. And this Q2 2011 marks the first time we’ve witnessed netbbooks numbers being eclipsed by tablets, according to ABI Research – where global tablet sales increased to 13.6 million units, [...]

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7- and 10-inch tablet PC prices starting to drop dramatically

In a bid to gain more market share, makers of 7-inch tablet PCs have started dropping prices as a way to attract more consumers. This same move has also apparently been applied to tablet PCs with 10-inch screens nowadays. The quest for the top of the tablet PC space has become much harder with the [...]

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PC makers starting to feel left out after Google’s introduction of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Far from unifying the smartphone and tablet PC markets, it looks like the introduction of Google Android 4.0 a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich may have made the gap between the two market spaces even wider. Android 4.0 brings many improvements over Honeycomb, its predecessor which can be found on many of today’s most popular smartphones and [...]

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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet unveiled by Jonney Shih

It looks like Asus is planning to make moves just in time for the official release of Android 4.0 a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich. While talking on stage at AsiaD with the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, Asus head Jonney Shih unveiled the “next-generation Transformer tablet”. Much like the original Asus Eee Pad Transformer, this new [...]

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Windows 8 over Android for Dell Tablets

Dell, a world-renowned for its desktops and laptops, is branching out into the tablet market through Streak 5 and Dell Streak 7. It was at first assumed that Dell would stick with Android for at least some of their future tablets. However, the company just announced that the company is betting the farm on Microsoft’s Windows 8 for its [...]

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