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Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy Note will be available at AT&T on Feb. 19 for $300 with a two-year contract.
The 4G LTE smartphone can be pre-ordered online or in stores beginning Sunday for delivery by Feb. 17, the company said.
Samsung has been hyping the Galaxy Note as a new device category geared toward the creative-minded set, although most consumers will likely view it as a combination of a smartphone and tablet. The device features a large 5.3-inch touchscreen — one of the largest on a phone — and a stylus,… Continue reading: Samsung Galaxy Note will be available at AT&T stores Feb. 19 – latimes.com
Excerpt from an Amazon snapshot; also see Tablet Sales Will Increase Fivefold Over Next Five Years
While revenue growth is impressive, the company’s profitability is being weighed down by losses from the $199 Kindle (which is not quite a break-even proposition), the construction of more warehouses across the globe (17 were added in 2011 for a total of 69) and other investments in infrastructure, like its cloud-computing services and media services, like video, music and e-books.
In contrast, Apple has a rich markup on its iDevices and doesn’t have much of the same overhead as Amazon.
Still, the number of consumers Amazon touches in just one quarter is staggering,… Continue reading: Amazon and Apple: Two Tablet Makers, Two Different Fourth Quarters – Tricia Duryee – Commerce – AllThingsD
This trend, along with the decline of the netbook market, helps to explain why Windows sales were soft in Microsoft’s most recent quarter
There was no must-have toy of Christmas 2011 — for youngsters, anyway.
For adults, tablet computers and e-readers were the gifts of choice, judging by a new report that indicates the number of adults in the United States who own tablets and e-readers nearly doubled from mid-December to early January.
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The increased ownership of tablets was especially pronounced among highly educated people with household incomes of more than $75,000. Almost one-third of people with college degrees now own tablet computers, the report… Continue reading: Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar – NYTimes.com
Perhaps these tablets will be available at the same stores offering “the majority of televisions” by summer 2012 with embedded Google TV capabilities (and/or perhaps Eric Schmidt should reconsider talking with the European press)
Google chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that the company will produce an Android tablet of "the highest quality" in the next six months to better compete with Apple’s market-dominating iPad. In an interview published Monday by the Italian-language Corriere della Sera, Schmidt praised the late Steve Jobs as "the Michelangelo of our time" but promised a "brutal competition" between Google and Apple in mobile communications and the smartphone market.
Google Promises ‘Highest Quality’ Tablet in 2012 | News… Continue reading: Google Promises ‘Highest Quality’ Tablet in 2012 | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Another Android tablet contender (that’s also like a skinny Chromebook in some respects)
I’ve been testing the Transformer Prime, and I found it to be the best standard Android tablet I’ve used. In my tests, the Prime had snappy performance, and decent battery life, though less than the iPad’s (more on that later). It is a tad lighter and thinner than the iPad 2 and has a sharp, pleasant screen.
The Transformer Prime tablet starts at $499. Keyboard dock is an extra $149
Personal Technology: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review – Walt Mossberg – Personal Technology… Continue reading: Personal Technology: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review – Walt Mossberg – Personal Technology – AllThingsD
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