According to Amazon, Kindle Fire has developed its strong launch with quadrupled sales on Black Friday. The initial Black Friday for the Kindle Fire was a good one. Although the company didn’t supply exact sales figures, Amazon has announced this morning that it had sold four times as many Kindle products this year than on [...]
It is reported that Amazon’s much-anticipated handset will be released in October. The company, which already has its own Android app store and sells digital music and movies, has already seen significant success with its Kindle ereader. A handset, which is based on Google’s Android operating system, is thought to be one of tablets that [...]
Microsoft has officially revealed some key new specs of its forthcoming operating system. The next-generation OS, which may or may not be named “Windows 8” (its “internal code-name”), will supply a completely re-imagined user interface; focus on touch-based functionality that takes a hefty helping of inspiration from the Windows Phone UI. One of the initial [...]
A new version of the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader is going to be launched. According to the Wall Street Journal, Barnes & Noble unveiled this week that it intends to introduce a new version of its Nook e-book reader on May 24. The news appears through a filing from the company with the US [...]
Samsung is going to organize a big event tomorrow at CTIA, unveiling that the company will reveal its new Galaxy Tab 8.9. The new handset will be running Honeycomb with Samsung’s own UX on top of it. In addition, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 will feature the Live Panel homescreen, a “personalized homescreen” with custom widgets [...]
According to Wednesday data from ABI Research, roughly 4.5 million tablets sold in the third quarter of 2010, which accounts for 93 percent, were Apple iPads. It can be assumed from those numbers that media tablets were the “promising new innovation” in the tech world. Senior practice director Jeff Orr has stated that for a [...]
According to Digitimes, the introduction of the iPad 2 could result in a massive touch panel shortage worldwide; ring-fenced 60 per cent of the global touch panel capacity. There are some suggestions that Apple’s iPad wishes to gain a sale of 40 million (or 10 million per quarter) in 2011. This is feasible as Apple [...]
