After a bump in market share from the popularity of the Amazon Kindle Fire, android tablets once again are losing out to the iPad. Analyst firm IDC reports Apple’s iPad increased it’s market share from around 55% to 68% from Q4 2011 to Q1 2012. While the Fire pushed to around 17% market share in [...]
The latest figures show Amazon is destroying the marketplace when it comes to android tablets. In February, the Fire had an amazing 53% share of all android tablets sold. The next closest manufacturer was Samsung, with around 15%. However, Samsung’s numbers are a total of all the many different tablets it sells, while the Fire [...]
The Galaxy Tab 2 gives Samsung yet another tablet in it’s ever-increasing array of offerings. The most significant feature of this latest tablet is probably the price-$250. Samsung achieves this lower price by reducing some features. Onboard storage is 8GB, while the dual-core processor runs at 1GHZ, down from 1.2GHZ in the previous Tab 7.0 [...]
The collaboration between Google and Asustek was supposed to produce a tablet by June. However, it now looks like it will not appear until at least July, if not August. Apparently Google feels the seven-inch device is too expensive right now, at $249 USD. The delay in release is to figure out ways to reduce [...]
This week Barnes and Nobles is set to release a new version of it’s Nook Tablet. The only difference between it and the version already on sale is 8GB less storage, and a $50 less price tag. So by cutting that 8GB, Barnes & Nobles can now compete with the Kindle Fire price-wise. Since it does have an [...]
When you think of android tablets, probably Asus or Samsung comes to mind as the major players. However, recent numbers show that both Amazon and Barnes & Nobles are the big movers in the android market. Amazon went from zero shipments in the 3rd quarter of 2011, to 3.885 million in the fourth quarter. Barnes [...]
Assuming the Mayan doomsday prediction is wrong, what will the tablet landscape look like by the end of this year? One thing for sure is that a lot of tablets, whether running iOS, android, or Windows 8 will be sold. Most estimates put the number around 125 million or so for the year. With Apple set to [...]
KDE developer Aaron Seigo has announced a new tablet, named the Spark. Unlike most other devices being put onto the market, this one is not intended to compete with the iPad, Amazon Kindle Fire, or really anything else currently available. It’s hardware specifications are nothing to get excited by-1GHz processor, 512MB ram, 4GB storage, sd card [...]
According to a study released by Flurry, the Amazon Kindle Fire has totally revamped the android tablet market. Unlike most other analyses, which look at units shipped and therefore not units sold, Flurry has a different approach, by tracking end user application sessions over time. This allows strictly measuring what device is being used for actual [...]
Strategy Analytics have released another study regarding tablets, and it’s good news for both android and Apple. Overall, 66.9 million tablets were shipped in 2011, up from 18.6 million in 2010. In the fourth quarter alone, 26.8 million units went out. Of course, the holiday season is typically the biggest quarter for sales. Still, the [...]
