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If Amazon were to OEM this device, brand it Kindle Fire 2.0, and provide relatively inexpensive wide-area wireless (e.g., via Sprint or Clearwire), it’d be a very different tablet competitive landscape
By any standard, this is a marvelous device. It’s decisively the best minitablet I’ve tried. It’s razor-thin, sleek, and light, with a gorgeous touchscreen capable of true high-definition video.
But it’s not the new iPad from Apple Inc., which goes on sale Friday. Indeed, using the Tab reminded me why the iPad is the world’s dominant tablet computer, and probably will be for years to come.
Galaxy Tab 7.7 an admirable also-ran – Business – The Boston Globe
… Continue reading: Galaxy Tab 7.7 an admirable also-ran – Business – The Boston Globe
From a tablet market share snapshot
Though Apple’s iPad shipments grew in the fourth quarter of 2011 — to 15.4 million versus 11.1 million in the third quarter — it nonetheless lost market share. In the fourth quarter, it held 54.7 percent of the worldwide market, down from 61.5 percent in the third quarter.
Amazon shipped 4.7 million Kindle Fires in 2011, enough to boost the company into second place behind Apple with 16.8 percent of the worldwide market.
[…] Here’s IDC’s chart:
 Microsoft Pri0 | Android tablets gain market share, thanks to Kindle Fire | Seattle Times Newspaper
There may yet be a few price elasticity curve surprises in this context
The most plausible: Taiwanese trade mag Digitimes’ claim that Apple plans to sell a cheaper, 8 gigabyte iPad 2 alongside the iPad 3 in a play for the lower end of the tablet market being staked out by Amazon’s Kindle Fire. I’ve heard nothing about such a plan, but it makes good sense. A new, low-capacity iPad 2 — priced at, say, $299 or even $349 — could wreak havoc on the low-end tablet market, clearing out a raft of struggling competitors and making the choice between Kindle Fire and iPad a much more difficult one for those consumers weighing the two.
Rumor… Continue reading: Rumor Mill Ramps Up Production of Cheaper and Smaller iPads – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Considering my experience with my Kindle 2 over the last couple years, and my initial Kindle Fire impressions (mostly from a distance; I don’t own one), I’d prefer a more svelte ~7: Kindle Fire than one super-sized to iPad dimensions, at this point (in part because I also expect to continue being an iPad user…). I’m also still tempted by the Samsung Note smartphone/tablet tweener… In any case, it’s not surprising that Amazon wishes to avoid pulling an Osborne, and likely won’t announce the next wave of Kindle Fire devices until they’re ready to ship. Tangentially, I won’t be surprised if the next wave of Kindle Fire devices is based on Samsung hardware, but that’s just a hunch.
… Continue reading: Amazon Prepping New 7- and 9-Inch Kindle Fires for Midyear? – John Paczkowski – Mobile – AllThingsD
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Microsoft Pri0 | Android tablets gain market share, thanks to Kindle Fire | Seattle Times Newspaper
