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No mobile device is hotter than the tablet. And it’s not just the iPad. Though Apple’s product is the highest profile, there is a universe of highly functional and creatively put together tablets that can do virtually anything that a teleworker asks. Here are some links to recent stories on the tablet front:
Losing that Spark in the Bedroom? Consumers Confess to Honeymooning with Their Tablets: With nearly one-third of all Americans now owning a tablet or e-reader, Valentine’s Day romantics should take note. A new Tablet Trends Study just released by Rosetta reveals that the majority of tablet users (68%) will likely spend significant time with their touch-screen devices in the bedroom. At the potential expense of their significant others, consumers are enjoying their own private “honeymoon” with their tablets for the first few months as they get to know their new devices in some untraditional rooms in the home, including 24% who take their tablets to the bathroom. Read More…
Ten Tablet Tricks to Try: Do you know your tablet can also act as a teleprompter, whiteboard, heart rate monitor, or even an emergency Windows 7 machine? Read More…
Apples, Suppliers Explore Smaller Tablet: Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a new tablet computer with a smaller screen, people familiar with the situation said, as it looks to broaden its product pipeline amid intensifying competition and maintain its dominant market share. Read More…
Someone Told Samsung We Needed Another Tablet: At what point do you stage an intervention: gently prise the set-square and soldering iron from Samsung‘s hands, and lead them from the tablet labs and into a quiet room where all the iPad adverts have been snipped from the coffee table magazines? This morning Samsung outed its latest model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, a 7-inch successor to the original Galaxy Tab of late 2010. In the intervening period, we’ve seen a cavalcade of Samsung slates – the Tab 10.1 and 8.9, the 7.7 with its Super AMOLED Plus display, the 7.0 Plus which, for a while, looked like the original Tab replacement, and they’ve not been the only ones. Has Samsung got a tablet obsession or is it simply reading the market right? Read More…
Second City in China Halts Sales of Apple iPads: The authorities in a second Chinese city were said Tuesday to have begun seizing iPads from local retailers in an escalating trademark dispute between Apple and an insolvent maker of computer displays, Proview Technology. Read More…
Chinon Rolls Out Low-Cost Android Tablets: The quest for a good low-cost table continues with Chinon’s announcement of a pair of Android tablets called the Swtich 7 and Switch 10. The 7-inch model starts at $159.99, while the 10-inch version starts at $279.99. Read More…
Tablets Make Their Way into the Workplace: The tablet has been the hottest device in the consumer market since Apple’s 2010 iPad launch. Yet over the past year, tablet use has begun to crossover from the consumer world into the workplace. New NPD In-Stat research confirms that the most common business uses of tablets are email/calendar management, note taking, and presentations, with 77% reporting email as a common workplace use. Read More…
Motorola & Verizon Upgrade Xyboard Tablets for Better Browsing, Touch Control and Global Roaming: The tablet manufacturer and data plan provider have teamed up for a new software update which will see the 8.2-inch and 10-inch Xyboard tablets boast better browsing, touch response and data connection, as well as global roaming. Read More…
Super Tablet vs. Ultrabook: Closer Than You Think: I’ve had a number of Intel based Ultrabooks in house for the last several weeks and I’ve become a fan; however, I’ve also had the first Super Tablet, the NVIDIA Tegra 3 based Asus Transformer Prime running the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, and in a number of ways it is better than an iPad (suggesting next month’s iPad 3 release is timely). However, the two products are starting to overlap a lot. Neither can replace the other yet, but with each step the gap is getting narrower. Read More…
10 Most Intriguing Tablets of 2012: This time last year, one tablet ruled them all. The Apple iPad sent tablet sales skyrocketing, leading them to outsell laptops and to became the second largest consumer electronics category, behind only phones. But many joked that there is no “tablet market.” There’s just an “iPad market.” By this time next year, that may no longer be true. Read More…
