Tag Archive | "tablet"
Samsung now takes to copying Apple’s iPad commercials
Samsung can make a helluva TV set, but when it comes to smartphones and tablets, the company apparently has no scruples. In addition to copying many features of the iPhone and iPad, the Korean based electronics giant has now taken to copying elements from Apple’s iPad ads and inserting them into their own. Clearly, Samsung [...]
Continue reading...Samsung hoping to release 11.6-inch tablet with Retina Display before the iPad 3
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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Samsung has done an impressive job of giving Apple’s iPhone a run for its money with its line of Galaxy smartphones. Though Apple claims, and in our opinion rightfully so, that Samsung flagrantly copied the look and feel of the iPhone, there’s still no getting around the fact that Samsung’s Android phones are selling quite [...]
Continue reading...Kindle Fire sells for $199, while bill of materials cost about $202
Friday, November 18, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: The Amazon Kindle Fire is an interesting beast. Set to take on the iPad and other tablets, the Fire is able to leverage the media content of Amazon to give it a leg up on the competition. But it takes more than just a robust media content delivery system to compete with [...]
Continue reading...Amazon Kindle Fire debuts to scathing reviews
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Amazon, more than any other company, is uniquely positioned to give Apple’s iPad a real fight. Not only can Amazon leverage the popularity of the Amazon.com homepage to drive sales, it has a vast sea of media content at its disposal. From books and movies to music and apps, Amazon can distribute [...]
Continue reading...Apple executives not worried about the Kindle Fire, welcome more fragmentation
Friday, November 4, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: With its cheap $199 pricepoint, Amazon isn’t making too much money with every Kindle Fire unit they sell. But that’s not the point, really. Amazon is playing catchup in the tablet space and if they can flood the market with cheap Kindles then all the better. Now Amazon’s Kindle Fire is based [...]
Continue reading...Motorola only shipped 100,000 Xoom tablets last quarter
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Motorola Mobility released its earnings last Thursday and the results sort of depend on how you look at things. You see, Motorola lost a lot of money during the last fiscal quarter – $32 million to be exact – but still didn’t lose as much money as it has in previous quarters. [...]
Continue reading...Tim Cook not worried about the Kindle Fire, says tablet market may eclipse the PC market
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: With competitors still trying every which way to take on the iPad, Apple is just rolling on ahead and racking up sale after sale. Yesterday Apple reported 11.2 million iPad sales in the September quarter, representing an astounding 166% increase from the same quarter last year. The most recent entrant into the [...]
Continue reading...Australian Court grants Apple injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: In what Apple hopes will be the first of many legal victories against Samsung, an Australian Court has granted Apple’s motion for an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. What this means is that Samsung can’t sell its iPad competitor in Australia until a final hearing on the issue is held, [...]
Continue reading...Despite upcoming Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’, manufacturers becoming wary of taking on Apple’s iPad
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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You can line em’ all up. The HP TouchPad. The Motorola Xoom. The BlackBerry PlayBook. What these tablets all have in common is that they’ve been remarkably unsuccessful at stealing away any significant marketshare from Apple’s iPad. Sales of the TouchPad were so low that HP ultimately decided to axe the product altogether, and Motorola [...]
Continue reading...Motorola Xoom 2 specs leak: More RAM, 1080p video recording, and more
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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What you’re looking at above may very well be the second iteration of the less than spectacular Motorola Xoom tablet. In what’s becoming quite the pattern, Motorola Xoom sales were lukewarm at best. And whereas iPad 2s for sometime were being purchased at a faster clip than Apple could manufacture them, the Xoom was never [...]
Continue reading...Amazon introduces $199 Kindle Fire
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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Bloomberg broke the news this morning regarding Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire Tablet. With a surprisingly low pricepoint of just $199, the Kindle Fire may prove to be the first real competitor to the iPad we’ve seen in the marketplace. Sporting a 7-inch display and running Android underneath the hood, Amazon is hoping to leverage their [...]
Continue reading...Gamestop planning to release gaming optimized Android tablet – Report
Monday, September 12, 2011
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Well the Android party is about to get a little bit more crowded, folks. Last week we reported that Gamestop was rumored to be getting into the iOS hardware business as a means to stay relevant in a gaming market that has largely shifted towards mobile gaming and digital downloads. Now comes word that Gamestop [...]
Continue reading...Samsung only sold 20,000 units of its 7-inch Galaxy Tab – Report
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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Apple is currently devoting an inordinate amount of legal resources in its effort to prevent Samsung from releasing a bevy of products it claims purposefully infringe upon Apple patents and slavishly copy the look and feel of iOS. Currently, Apple’s legal team is working tirelessly to prevent Samsung from releasing its Galaxy Tab 10.1. Earlier [...]
Continue reading...Amazon prepping $250 7-inch Kindle tablet with color, multitouch support, and a whole lot more
Saturday, September 3, 2011
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Amazon has been rumored to be working on a tablet version of the Kindle for some time now and we can now say with certainty that it’s 100% real and is coming sooner rather than later. While initial reports claimed Amazon was working on a family of Android-based tablets in time for a 2011 holiday [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs explains why Apple wasn’t keen on tablet computing back in 2003
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Apple didn’t release the first tablet computer or even come up with the idea for tablet computing itself. If anything, Microsoft, and Bill Gates in particular, were championing tablet computers years before the iPad was released. In this video clip from the first All Things D conference in 2003, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains [...]
Continue reading...Knight Ridder promo video from 1994 describes iPad-esque tablet device [Video]
Sunday, August 21, 2011
The iPad essentially revitalized a tablet market that was previously non-existent. That’s to say, the iPad wasn’t the first tablet to hit the market, but it was the first tablet to actually have a discernible impact on the marketplace. The notion of tablet computing has been around for ages and can be traced back to [...]
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Friday, December 30, 2011
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