Tablets in 2012: what to expect

In Depth: iPad 3, Ice Cream Sandwich and dead tablets walking 2011 was an amazing year for tablets. Apple’s purple patch continued, bookshops such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble demanded a piece of the action and big-name manufacturers ended up in big, big trouble. HP’s TouchPad and RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook were flops, forcing their manufacturers to embark on massive price cuts – RIM will currently swap a PlayBook for a Mars bar and a few shiny beads – while other firms, such as Dell, exited the Android market altogether. If you thought that little lot was interesting, you ain’t [...]
Google’s Android surpasses 10 billion app downloads
Google has announced that more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the Android Market. The search engine giant is offering a selection of premium applications for 10p each over the next ten days to celebrate the milestone. “One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing,” Google wrote on its blog. “This past weekend, thanks to Android users around the world, Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads – with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month. We can’t wait [...]
Nokia Windows 8 Tablet by June 2012

Nokia plans to introduce a tablet PC based on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system next year, the Nokia’s French division manager let slip in an interview. Nokia plans to launch an iPad competitor based on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system next year, the company’s French division manager let slip in an interview with newspaper Les Echos. The tablet would launch next summer and would be the first such product from the Finnish phone maker. “In June 2012, we will have a tablet that runs on Windows 8,” Paul Amsellem told the Parisian daily. The potential launch date of the tablet [...]
Nokia GEM SmartPhone review

Nokia design teams have been getting a lot of inspiration of late. The companies renewed effort to assault the smartphone industry, coupled with the 25th Anniversary of the Nokia Research Center has been pushing it’s researchers to put their genius at work. And the result – the Nokia GEM concept. The Nokia GEM, is a concept device with an astounding design element – the whole surface is a touchscreen. The core of this concept is that this device adapts to the function at hand. For instance if you were using it as a navigation device, the phone would allow you [...]
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