Tablet Crunch

Freedom just got a whole lot closer today! For those of you who are waiting for a Linux tablet to land comfortably into your hands, your wait just got a whole lot closer.  MakePlayLive.com just published a pre registration form to order the super cool Spark tablet - price tag only €200 ($262).  When you register for ...

The now infamous $35 Indian tablet (a tablet that costs $35 in India) is now going to be given away to students in India for absolutely free.  The Indian government wants to ensure that all students have the opportunity to own the Aakash tablet and so will subsidize 50% of the purchase price for each ...

T-Mobile is getting all radical on us for Valentines Day.  In a press release issued late yesterday, the carrier announced a new promotion for this coming Saturday, February 11, where they will be giving away all of the 4G smartphones, and their best select tablets, for free.  The myTouch series and Galaxy S II smartphones ...

For those of you who've been ready to throw your Nook Simple Touch out the window over the last year because the darn thing just won't connect to the web, you might want to hold off.  It took awhile, but the Barnes & Noble "team" has confirmed that yes, your Nook does in fact having ...

There's been plenty of buzz building up around tablets running Linux.  The buzz was first centered around what was being called simply the Ubuntu tablet.  And then came the Mer Linux and KDE tablet that's being called Plasma Active. Trimble Yuma Ubuntu Tablet:  Price = $3695 Well now we have a new Ubuntu tablet called the Trimble Yuma.  The ...

*** UPDATE 2.7.12 *** I apologize for the confusion.  The Plasma Active and, what's being referred to here as the "Ubuntu Tablet", are two different tablets - two different Linux builds.  The Ubuntu tablet is of course going to run Ubuntu and the Plasma Active will run Mer Linux and KDE.  Thank you to those who ...

Another day, another development in the cat fight between Apple and Samsung.  This time, Apple is walking away with a victory in hand.  Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1n was ruled in violation of Apple's iPad copyright laws in Germany which resulted in Samsung having to pull all of their tablets from the marketplace.  Samsung of course ...

Acer figures they better forget about the trying to compete with the high end tablet market (aka, iPad) or the low end and entry level market (aka, Kindle Fire), and instead focus on the mid-range tablet market.  According to Acer chairman JT Wang, there is a huge untapped market in the mid-range category of tablets ...

The tablet market from 2011 is just now starting to come to light with some solid numbers.  And from the looks of things, tablets are even more popular than everyone expected.  According to Strategy Analytics, total global shipments of tablets hit 66.9 million units in 2011.  This represents a massive 260 percent increase from the ...

Display Search has an impressive chart out today that shows by the year 2017 that 383 million units (tablet pc's) will ship annually.  And a high concentration of this massive surge in growth will occur in emerging markets. According to Richard Shim, NPD DisplaySearch Senior Analyst, "The emerging market opportunity for tablets has been flying under the radar mainly ...

Up to this point, the only expectation of a future Linux tablet has been embedded in the rumors (and hopes) of an Ubuntu tablet. That is, until now! Today comes a new breed of Linux based tablets however.  No longer does the Ubuntu tablet have center stage. Introducing the Spark Plasma Active tablet! The Spark Plasma Active is a ...

Dude... I think Ubuntu just killed the traditional drop down menu with HUD, Canonical's new menu thingy.  HUD (which is the acronym for Head's Up Display) is a radical new approach to menus and drop down menu searching and browsing. Basically, instead of clicking or browsing through a bunch of menus to find what you need, HUD allows ...

So you think tablets are growing fast?  Well... actually, they are - but still.  My point here is to set up the emphasis on the fact that Ultrabooks, something people are still relatively unfamiliar with in mass, are expected to grow three times faster than tablets over the next 5 years.  I know, that's hard ...

According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, it's really only a matter of time before the tablet market is bigger than the PC market.  This is not too hard to believe actually since Apple sold 15.4 million iPads in Q1, and the Kindle Fire (the #2 tablet and #1 Android tablet), sold nearly 6 million tablets ...

Get the ASUS Zenbook Ultrabook used for only $1481.84 (16% off a new Ultrabook). With the rising popularity of the Ultrabook, people are obviously on the lookout for the best deals available.  So I decided to take a look around Amazon to see what's available in the Ultrabook space and to try to find the deepest ...

The overall tablet market will experience a compound annual growth rate of 77% through the year 2015, according to Taiwan-based Gartner analyst Ben Lee who spoke at a conference recently.  Total shipments of tablet pc's, to include both Android and Apple's iPad, is expected to reach 316 million units by 2015.  Just to put that in ...

Intel CEO Paul Otellini said in a conference call today the Ultrabook market is exploding and that we are basically at the front end of huge growth in the market.  Mr. Otellini said that by the end of the year, Ultrabooks could dominate 40 percent of the consumer laptop market and the daily number of ...

Tablet ownership has skyrocketed, nearly doubling just in the month of December, according to a recent Pew Internet study.  The tablet computer ownership of adults in the U.S. went from 10% to 19% from December 2011 to January 2012.  And the ownership of e-book readers went duplicated that tablet growth by also growing from 10% ...

The Acer Aspire One HD is the current best selling netbook on Amazon.  Since the netbook made its appearance in 2007, the smaller, lighter laptop has become quite popular with technology enthusiasts.  Some people are buying up netbooks like the Acer Aspire One because they need a lightweight, and highly mobile computer to take on ...

Even though Macbooks have been running Thunderbolt since early 2011, the new super faster port technology is set to come to Ultrabooks in Q2 2012.  Leading Ultrbook manufacturers Acer, Asus, and Lenovo are all expected to integrate Thunderbolt into their ultrabooks based on Intel's Ivy Bridge platform.  Thunderbolt technology uses two major components, PCI Express ...