Better than a price cut or even extra RAM or processing speed, Barnes &
Noble have just made their range of well-built tablets even more attractive to
potential customers. They can now directly access Google Play, rather than the
walled garden of the company's own apps ecosystem.
Like its closest
direct competitor, Amazon, Barnes & Noble's Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets run
a slight variation on pure Q88 Android
Tablet , meaning that owners only had access to NOOK apps and NOOK
multimedia content. And, like Amazon's Kindle Fire HD slates, the NOOK range
were very competitively priced, to the point where they were probably being sold
at cost, in order to stimulate sales of e-books and videos.
As of Friday,
an over-the-air software update will enable all existing NOOK HD and HD+ devices
to access the Google Play app store and therefore access 700,000 apps that other
Android tablet owners take for granted. However, the software update will not be
pushed out to the Nook Color and Nook Tablet or to its range of
e-readers.
The update won't affect the devices' look and feel; all that
will change is that the tablets will now have access to native app versions of
Gmail and YouTube,Q88
Tablet be able to run the Chrome web browser and will still be able
to access the NOOK app store for e-books and other multimedia content.dsDSSD43F
Priced at $199 with 8GB of onboard memory, the NOOK HD boasts a full HD
seven-inch display while the NOOK HD+, at $70 more offers a 9-inch HD display
and 16GB of memory as standard. They were originally priced to compete with
Amazon, but now that they're full Android tablets, they are priced to compete
with anything that Samsung, Asus or Sony has to offer too. Simply put, two good
niche tablets have just become two great mainstream tablets.
In the
future BOXCHIP
Android Tablet, you won’t need a Blu-ray player anymore, and you
probably won’t need a TV tuner. The company showcased a 4K TV – the next
generation in HD – running off of a tablet with 7.1 sound. That’s a center
speaker in front of you, along with two speakers for stereo facing you, two
speakers beside you, and two speakers behind you. A single tablet fed the entire
system. But Qualcomm is also working with the cellular carriers like Verizon to
broadcast live TV over cellular networks. This would allow large numbers of
users to watch the same show, all using the same video stream and sharing the
same signal, both providing real-time HD TV and preserving the wireless
network.
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2013年5月3日星期五
Android tablets edging out iPad
If tablet sales are to be believed, it seems like Apple, still the premier
computer maker in the world, is losing out. While the global Q88
Tablet market saw substantial growth year-over-year, Apple remained
the number one tablet vendor throughout the first three months of the year.
However -- iPad's overall share of the tablet market has dropped sharply from a
year ago.
Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads, giving it 39.6 percent of the 49.2 million tablets shipped during the period. Apple shipped more tablets than any other hardware vendor, but iOS's dominant position in the tablet market crashed from 58.1 percent to 39.6 percent.
The new heir apparent has arrived on the horizon: Google's Android platform is now the dominant operating system on tablets worldwide.Q88 Android Tablet vendors shipped an aggregate 27.8 million devices, giving Android 56.5 percent of the tablet market in terms of the operating system.Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows RT platforms together saw shipments of 1.8 million, giving them a combined presence of just 3.7 percent of the market.
Looking at the individual hardware makers, it is no surprise to see Samsung in second place behind Apple. Samsung shipped 8.8 million tablets, giving it 17.9 percent of the market. Samsung saw impressive 282.6 percent growth from the year-ago period, when it shipped only 2.3 million tablets.
Asus fills out the third spot, with 5.5 percent of the tablet market, no doubt thanks to continued strong sales of the Nexus 7. Amazon ranks fourth, with sales of 1.8 million tablets, giving it 3.7 percent of the market. It, too, saw growth, swelling 157.1 percent year-over-year. Microsoft ranks fifth, with sales of about 900,000 and 1.8 percent of the market.ssdEfg7
Strategy Analytics tallied figures differently, saying it chose to largely ignore what it calls "white-box" tablets in its main analysis. White-box tablets are the term used for low-end devices made by one company but sold with another company's brand on the box. Strategy Analytics chose to compare "branded" tablets from known manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, ASUS, Microsoft and others in its report. With the white-box BOXCHIP Android Tablet off the table, Strategy Analytics says Apple's iPad still maintains the top position in terms of hardware sales and operating system.
When you put the white-box tablets back in the picture, though, Strategy Analytics allows that, indeed, more Android tablets shipped than iPads during the first quarter.In essence, Google's Android operating system was on the majority of tablets shipped during the first period of the year, putting Apple's iOS-drive iPad firmly in second place.
Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads, giving it 39.6 percent of the 49.2 million tablets shipped during the period. Apple shipped more tablets than any other hardware vendor, but iOS's dominant position in the tablet market crashed from 58.1 percent to 39.6 percent.
The new heir apparent has arrived on the horizon: Google's Android platform is now the dominant operating system on tablets worldwide.Q88 Android Tablet vendors shipped an aggregate 27.8 million devices, giving Android 56.5 percent of the tablet market in terms of the operating system.Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows RT platforms together saw shipments of 1.8 million, giving them a combined presence of just 3.7 percent of the market.
Looking at the individual hardware makers, it is no surprise to see Samsung in second place behind Apple. Samsung shipped 8.8 million tablets, giving it 17.9 percent of the market. Samsung saw impressive 282.6 percent growth from the year-ago period, when it shipped only 2.3 million tablets.
Asus fills out the third spot, with 5.5 percent of the tablet market, no doubt thanks to continued strong sales of the Nexus 7. Amazon ranks fourth, with sales of 1.8 million tablets, giving it 3.7 percent of the market. It, too, saw growth, swelling 157.1 percent year-over-year. Microsoft ranks fifth, with sales of about 900,000 and 1.8 percent of the market.ssdEfg7
Strategy Analytics tallied figures differently, saying it chose to largely ignore what it calls "white-box" tablets in its main analysis. White-box tablets are the term used for low-end devices made by one company but sold with another company's brand on the box. Strategy Analytics chose to compare "branded" tablets from known manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, ASUS, Microsoft and others in its report. With the white-box BOXCHIP Android Tablet off the table, Strategy Analytics says Apple's iPad still maintains the top position in terms of hardware sales and operating system.
When you put the white-box tablets back in the picture, though, Strategy Analytics allows that, indeed, more Android tablets shipped than iPads during the first quarter.In essence, Google's Android operating system was on the majority of tablets shipped during the first period of the year, putting Apple's iOS-drive iPad firmly in second place.
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