Android 3.0 "Honeycomb," which could accelerate Androids presence in the tablet market, could also complicate Microsofts Windows tablet plans. – Google Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, could complicate
Microsofts nascent tablet efforts.
Scheduled for a media unveiling Feb. 2 at Googles Mountain
View, Calif., headquarters, Honeycomb has been designed with larger screens in
mind, including a retooled, tablet-friendly virtual keyboard and…
Apples iPad owned 95 percent of the tablet market in Q3, but one quarter later its slipped to 75 percent, due to Samsungs Galaxy Tab and other Android tablets. – Apples iPad
is still the world-dominating tablet by far, but during the fourth quarter,
competitors running Googles Android OS led by the Samsung Galaxy Tab took a
sizeable bite out of Apples lead.
While Apple
fully owned the market during the third quarter of 2010, with 95 percent of the
worl…
This news, if it bears out, comes at a good time for the worldwide DRAM-producing industry, which has experienced slipping market prices for months. – Following
in line with its projection of a continued
surge in NAND flash memory sales in 2011, market analyst IHS iSuppli
reported Jan. 27 that dynamic RAM demand is expected to explode by a factor of
more than nine in 2011.
This news, if it bears out, comes at a good time for worldwide DRAM …
Rumors about HPs planned WebOS-running tablets continue to emerge. Fox has reported that HP is having trouble selecting a name, and that Sprint may be a partner. – Hewlett-Packard appears to have a blabber mouth in its ranks
that Fox News is happily exploiting.
According to the news site, HP reportedly held an emergency company meeting to
remind employees that sharing details about its top-secret tablet projects said
to be known
internally as “Topaz” a…
New details about HTCs rumored Android-running tablet, the Flyer, suggest the 7-inch tablet, with a stylus, could arrive in March running Android 2.3. – Rumors that
smartphone maker HTC is planning an Android-running tablet called the Flyer
received a bit more backing Jan. 26, though the device still has yet to be
officially confirmed.
Norwegian site
Amobil, citing an “insider who is familiar
with the companys plans,” has offered specification…
IDC and Appcelerator said Android smartphones and tablet computers are gaining in popularity on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The survey sets up some interesting competition in 2011. – Google has nearly caught up
to Apple in smartphone popularity and is closing the gap in tablets, according
to 2,200 developers polled by Appcelerator and IDC earlier this month.
The joint survey showed
87 percent of respondents are quot;very interested quot; in writing
applications for Android…
Apple seems committed to a practice of updating most of its products, including the iPhone and the iPad annually. But will this be often enough to keep up with whats becoming a breakneck pace in tablet innovation? – Apple has a problem with the iPad. While its by far the top-selling tablet in history, its popularity hasnt escaped the notice of would-be competitors. Some, notably Samsung, have already responded with tablets of their own. Others, such as Hewlett-Packard, are about to respond.
As each tablet arr…
Images on the Internet of an unidentified Nokia tablet, reportedly running the joint Intel/Nokia MeeGo OS, have piqued interest while offering little to go on. – Grainy images
of an unidentified Nokia tablet are have surfaced on the Internet. According to My Nokia Blog,
the device appears to be running MeeGo, the operating system that Nokia announced it was developing with Intel
nearly a year ago, at the 2010 Mobile World Congress. More contested is wheth…
Toshiba is offering users a peek at its forthcoming Android 3.0 tablet, a 10.1-inch-screen device coming this spring with dual cameras, Flash support and a swappable battery. – Toshiba launched a preview Website of its forthcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb
tablet, a device geared to provide features Apple’s iPad lacks such as dual
cameras, a swappable battery, several data ports and Flash support.
eWEEK got a sneak peek of the tablet three weeks ago at the 2011 Consumer
El…
In 2010, tablets started making their way into homes and offices around the world. That trend was led mainly by Apple and its iPad, which according to a recent study from IDC captured 87 percent market share during the third quarter of 2010. Apple’s device is being chased in the share ranking by a handful of other devices, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Dell Streak and the JooJoo tablet. However, none of those products was able to capture consumer or enterprise attention the way the iPad did. In 2011, that could very well change. Apple’s iPad will still be a dominant force, but several new devices will be joining the fray to see if they can steal some of the market share Apple currently controls. Moreover, some of the companies that folks would expect to see compete heavily in the marketplace will have little, if any, showing. Simply put, the tablet market will be a fascinating space to watch for the remainder of 2011. As the year unfolds, there are a number of things that people should know about the rapid evolution of the tablet market. Read on to find out what everyone should know about tablets in 2011. – …
While AMD may be giving more attention to the tablet space, the company will continue to focus on current plans, particularly with its Fusion initiative, according to interim CEO Thomas Siefert. – A week after Dirk Meyer’s resignation as CEO
of Advanced Micro Devices, the company’s position going forward is essentially
to stay the course in the short term, while creating expansion plans farther
down the road.
Executives
at AMD, speaking during a conference call
with analysts and journal…
Industry researcher iSuppli predicts NAND flash revenue this year will reach $22.0 billion, up 18 percent from $18.7 billion in 2010 (itself a 38 percent rise over 2009). – Apple and several other
companies aren’t only changing the world as we know it when it comes to
portable phones, music devices, and tablet PCs. They also are recharging the
supply markets in a big way.
Because NAND flash memory provides the storage media for most of those consumer
electronics…
News Analysis: Apple’s iPad is wildly successful and continues to appeal to consumers. But competing tablet makers have a shot at dethroning the device if they do the right things. – Apple’s iPad is an unbridled success. The company announced in its
first-quarter earnings report on Jan. 18 that it sold 7.33 million iPads during
the quarter. And Apple CEO Steve Jobs said
that his firm is quot;firing on all cylinders. quot;
That’s certainly true. Apple’s iPad has helped lead …
Details have emerged about the WebOS tablets HP is rumored to be introducing Feb. 9. Professional-quality sound and inductive charging are among them. – Curious about the WebOS-running devices that Hewlett-Packard is expected to
introduce at its Feb. 9 event? According to sources trusted by Engadget, a few smartphones
can be expected, along with two tablets the “Topaz” and the more petite
“Opal.” In a Jan. 19 report, the tech site offered new, …
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Motorola, Samsung and other vendors are fueling a trend that will mark 2011 as
a “tipping point” for tablet sales, consultancy Deloitte said in a Jan. 18
…
HP is reportedly planning to introduce a netbook running Palm’s WebOS, in addition to tablets and smartphones. – Hewlett-Packard
is expected to soon introduce a tablet running WebOS, as well as a smartphone.
But a netbook? According to Jan. 17 report from Ars Technica, netbooks are
among the planned HP devices that will not only run the company’s prized new
mobile OS, but will seamlessly interact.
HP
r…
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Motion is positioning its upcoming PlayBook tablet as mostly a WiFi device,
walking a delicate line between touting the devices BlackBerry tethering a…
HPs Todd Bradley, in a Jan. 7 interview with CNBC, all but confirmed that HP will show off a WebOS-running tablet at its planned Feb. 9 event in San Francisco. – The expectation that Hewlett-Packard will finally introduce a WebOS-running tablet (or tablets)
at its planned Feb. 9 event was all but confirmed by Todd Bradley,
executive vice president of HPs Personal Systems Group, during a
recent television interview.
In the segment aired, Jan. 7 from the …
Sony has yet to join the tablet market, but in a year it nonetheless plans to become the number-two player behind Apple  or Samsung. –
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