Tweet A new report from the IDC suggests that this will be the year of the Android tablet. Thanks to a trend that has us seeing more user interest towards smaller tablets, Android will ship more devices this year than the iPad. One in every two tablets shipped has a screen size of 8 inches [...]
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Tweet Yes, you read the title right and you’re not in a dark and twisted universe. You can now share files, photos and videos between your iOS and Android devices. A new app called RemotePlay has been launched on both platforms and you can use this to stream video and more between the platforms. Since [...]
Tweet A survey conducted by BCN in Japan returned some surprising numbers for tablet market share in Japan. The iPad has been topped by the Nexus 7 in Japan. It seems Apple is losing its edge in the tablet market just like it did in the cellphone market. The Nexus 7 is a beautiful little [...]
Tweet It’s a well-known fact that Android dominates the smartphone world and it’s slowly creeping up in market share for tablets. A new study suggests that Android holds 48% of the tablet market. This is huge since the iPad help a commanding 81% just a year ago. The shift seems to be heading in Androids [...]
Tweet The other day we learned that there are 1.3 million Android devices being activated every day. That number included 70,000 Android tablets. For comparisons sake, there are around 188,000 iPad activations a day. Keep in mind the Android tablet figures doesn’t includes devices from Barnes & Noble and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. If you include [...]
Tweet Coming fresh off the heels of HTC’s smack down of Apple in the courtroom, Samsung has just won a huge victory or the former most innovative company. A judge in the UK ruled in favor of Samsung citing that the Galaxy Tab family of devices does not infringe on Apple’s design patents. The judge [...]
Tweet Apple already lost their stronghold on the mobile phone market and it looks like their advantage on the tablet side will soon come to an end as well. According to a research done by IDC, 44% of future tablet buyers in the business world will go for an Android powered slate as opposed to [...]
Tweet Here’s some good news for our friends down under. Despite Apple attempts to block the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in any parts of the world, it looks like it’s still on track for a September 1st launch in Australia. We’ll see if Apple makes another attempt to halt the sales of this [...]
Tweet The Dusseldorf regional court has partially lifts the ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. However, the ban remains intact through Germany. The rest of European Union is free to offer the slate if they do so chose. This is a small victory for Samsung in this ongoing battle with Apple. If you’ve been [...]
Tweet And now you know why Apple is taking to the courts to try and keep their lead in the tablet industry. In just one short year, Android tablets have taken 20% of the global table market from the iPad. This number will surely double over the next year as more and more Android tablets [...]
