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RIM gets very aggressive in their fight for developer attention for their PlayBook tablet
Posted on04. Feb, 2012 by Paul.
The best way to get people to do what you want sometimes is to offer them something of value for free. In their most recent attempt to rouse up developer attention for the BlackBerry PlayBook, Research In Motion has started offering one free PlayBook tablet for each app submitted to the BlackBerry AppWorld. Now the [...]
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China’s ZTE is making a move for the U.S. tablet market in 2012
Posted on29. Jan, 2012 by Paul.
The ZTE Corporation of China has plans to take a piece of that pie with two carrier-bound tablets. According to multiple online reports the new tablets will include the ZTE V55 and ZTE V66 both of which feature 7-inch displays and run versions of Google’s Android operating system. Reports indicate that U.S. carrier Sprint will pick-up [...]
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Apple posts huge sales numbers for iPad, but Android tablets aren’t failing in the market
Posted on26. Jan, 2012 by Paul.
For the first quarter of 2012 Apple has reported their highest earnings and profits yet. Apple reported on Tuesday that they had earned $46.33 billion in revenue with $13.06 billion of that being profit. In their break down of just where all that revenue came from Apple showed they make most of their money on hardware sales, [...]
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Fujitsu’s thin consumer Android tablet tipped early
Posted on18. Jan, 2012 by Paul.
Apple set the trend for extremely thin and stylish consumer tablets in early 2011 with their 9.7-inch Apple iPad 2. Soon after the iPad 2 was revealed and launched in the month of March Apple’s competitors got cracking on thin tablets of their own. Most of major manufacturers involved in tablets during 2011 had thin tablets available before [...]
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LG’s upcoming 4G LTE tablet won’t have a quad-core processor or Ice Cream Sandwich at launch
Posted on17. Jan, 2012 by Paul.
LG Electronics burst onto the tablet scene in mid-2011 with the Android 3.0 Honeycomb based 8.9-inch LG G-Slate (U.S. name)/Optimus Pad (Global name) which featured 3D rear cameras and a 3D screen that required special glasses. The G-Slate/Optimus Pad tablet featured NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core processing chip, 1GB of RAM, a WXGA (1280 × 720 [...]
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