Android

A prediction about tablet computers in 2016? Really?

July 30, 2011 Science & Technology

A few days ago, I noticed a story that made its rounds through all the various news outlets: Android tablets will outsell iPads in 2016, with the iPad seeing its market share reduced to around 30%. Honestly, no matter which system you favour, but this is one of the silliest predictions anyone could ever make. [...]

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Will next Kindle be an Android tablet?

March 20, 2011 Business

The current Amazon Kindle 3 is a nifty and highly useful e-reader. Now imagine how much greater it would be if it were more like the Nook?

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Apple versus Android – Apple wins!

March 10, 2011 Business

If you have installed the new iOS 4.3 on your iPad today, you may have been disappointed not by what you saw, but rather what you didn’t see. I’m talking about the “multi-gesture” feature that would have allowed you to close apps with a five-finger tap, for example. In other words, the “button-less iPad future” [...]

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The battle of the tablets

March 5, 2011 Business

As I recently noted in my online magazine, the iPad2 is a wonderful device, but wasn’t really necessary from a user’s point of view. For me personally, the iPad2 departs from the way I normally use the original tablet in ways that I find inconvenient. For one thing, I really don’t have any use for [...]

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Is Apple charging too much?

February 22, 2011 Business

Amazon and Apple share the same compensation plan for developers and publishers: the two Big A’s pocket 30 per cent of sales, and the other 70 per cent goes to the developer or publisher. Apple recently launched a new subscription feature for companies wishing to publish their newspapers and magazines over the iPad, and again, [...]

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Is RIM admitting defeat?

February 12, 2011 Business

If you can’t beat them, join them. This is what Research in Motion must be thinking ahead of the launch of its Playbook tablet.

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Almost $700 for Galaxy Tab – who are they kidding?

November 18, 2010 Science & Technology

Have you tasted blood yet and become an avid tablet user, that is iPad user? I’m specifying “iPad” for good reason: except for the iPad, there is no other product yet that deserves to be assigned to the tablet category. The Galaxy Tab by Samsung, a so-called “tablet” based on the Android operating system, has [...]

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Tablets – is the world flat after all?

October 8, 2010 Science & Technology

I have a confession to make. I used to be extremely skeptical about such “newfangled” devices as the iPhone and the iPad for the longest time. At a time when the iPhone was already all the rage, I decided to buy a Blackberry phone instead. Nor did I hold out much hope for all those [...]

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Tablet market is growing

September 3, 2010 Science & Technology

Samsung is coming out with its new tablet called Galaxy Tab, which runs on the Android operating system. Some sources say the device could cost as much as $1,200, which would make it much more expensive than even the top-grade iPad model (64GB, 3G + Wi-Fi). This strikes me as somewhat odd, because the Galaxy [...]

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