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HTC Flyer Tablet release date leaked
Posted on March 15th, 2011 1 comment
A release date for HTC’s new Flyer tablet has apparently been leaked by an online retailer.Expansys announced a sale date of May 5th in a pre-order advert for the tablet device on their website.
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Microsoft to delay tablet OS release until 2012
Posted on March 4th, 2011 No comments
Business reporters, Bloomberg have announced that Microsoft will not be releasing a specifically designed tablet operating system this year, and instead, plan to launch the OS in September 2012.This report is a contradiction to earlier indications that tablets supporting Windows 8 would begin to appear in the third quarter of this year, with Dell’s Streak tablet leading the way.
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Motorola XOOM 3G available on preorder
Posted on March 3rd, 2011 1 comment
Motorola’s new Xoom tablet is available now on preorder from Carphone Warehouse.Carphone Warehouse, who struck a deal that gives them exclusive sale rights on the 3G version of the Xoom tablet, have announced that the item will be in stock in early April.
The Xoom has been placed in direct competition with the new iPad 2 device, and compares favourably with the Apple tablet in the specifications department:
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Apple line-up “iPad 2.5” mini-tablet
Posted on February 19th, 2011 3 comments
Apple are rumoured to be developing a 7-inch tablet, to be released after the iPad 2 in the second half of 2011.
Apple head honcho, Steve Jobs has previously gone on record dismissing such devices as ‘tweeners’, but apparently now his company is willing to invest in these stepping-stone slates.
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Asustek promise to roll out a “secret weapon” to combat iPad 2
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 No comments
As tablet manufacturers ready their challenges to Apple’s dominance of the market, Asustek claim they have a “secret weapon” that will combat the iPad 2 on release.
Asustek have already launched four new tablets – the Eee Pad Transformer, MeMO and Slider and the Eee Slate – but have vowed that this is only the beginning of their challenge on the tablet market.
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MeeGo tablets to hit shelves in Q2 of 2011
Posted on January 31st, 2011 No comments
Tablets running the MeeGo operating system will launch in the second quarter of 2011, according to sources close to Intel .
The company have made no noises regarding which products will be running the OS, only hinting that MeeGo tablets will appear in Q2.
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Profit boost for ARM thanks to Apple’s iPad
Posted on January 31st, 2011 2 comments
Processor manufacturers, ARM are expected to post pre-tax profits of £160m for 2010 – a 70% increase from 2009.
This explosion in profits has been attributed to the success of Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, which use the Cambridge based company’s processor chips.
The full year figures – due to be announced on Tuesday – are also expected to show that sales of ARM processors hit £400m in 2010; £100 million higher than in 2009.
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Experts back Android in the battle for tablet supremacy
Posted on January 28th, 2011 No comments
Experts have predicted that 2011 could be the year of the Android tablet, as the market braces itself for a deluge of incoming devices.
Asus, Toshiba, LG, Samsung and Motorola are all developing Android based tablets in a concerted effort to smash the iPad’s dominance in the field.
Apple COO, Tim Cook adopted a “points-on-the-board” stance when countering these predictions;
“[Current Android tablets] are “scaled-up smartphones” – that’s a bizarre product in our view.” He said. “In terms of next generation; there’s nothing shipping yet, so I don’t know. Today they’re vapour; however we are not sitting still. We have a huge first mover advantage.”
Apple’s “first mover advantage” cannot be underestimated; 7.33 million iPad devices were sold in the final quarter of 2010 alone. But this does not dent the speculation that something big may be brewing elsewhere in the market.
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Apple produces “retina display” tablet prototype
Posted on January 19th, 2011 1 commentApple have confirmed that they have produced a prototype iPad that featuring the much hyped “retina display”, as seen on the smaller iPhone devices.
Tech blogger John Gruber, of Daring Fireball, reported that a prototype iPad exists, capable of handling 2048 x 1536 pixels.
But what is retina display? Well, basically it’s a screen, but a very good one, with a 326dpi resolution. This is the upper limit of pixies discernable to the human eye.
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iPad sales cause Apple to eat into Acer’s laptop and computer market share
Posted on January 18th, 2011 5 comments
New sales figures show that Acer’s PCs shipped 2.1 million units in the U.S during the fourth quarter of 2010.
The study, carried out by IT research and advisory firm, Gartner, identified this as representing a 11% share of the market, a marked reduction from the 15% share enjoyed by Acer in the same period of 2009. Apple are now only 1.4% behind Acer in the race for PC dominance.
