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To: Road Walker who wrote (6466)	7/10/2011 3:03:07 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

>>>I don't see how Android will be able to play in that upscale market. LMAO... You got to be kidding... for more than a year Android smartphones have been more high end than the iPhone 4. Same with the Android Tablets. More high end that the iPad2. So anything Apple brings expect within a month or two more high end that anything they do. It's a fact. Unless thinner, lighter, higher resolution, bigger screens, NFC, build in HDMI, USB, 8MP cameras, memory expandable, 1GB RAM 64GB flash, battery replaceable, cloud computing, cutting edge notifications, real multitasking, Flsdh capable, full web browser, etc...etc..etc.. do not mean high end to you... LOL... too funny...

To: Road Walker who wrote (6466)	7/11/2011 12:15:45 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 32692

iPad looks more like iPod all the time; a whole bunch of players but nobody with any real traction except Apple. We'll see when Amazon comes out with their tablet; they have the ecosystem so if they get the hardware right they might have a winner. While the possibility can't be discounted, it is a little difficult to see the iPad maintaining the kind of control of the marketplace that iPod did. The principal applications for tablets are available, or will be, for both platforms, and from a price/performance perspective, the Androids are going to be better bargains. Unlike with the iPod vs. its competitors, there is no compelling difference between iPad and Androids as far as the average user can see. I'm not saying I know; but it seems to me there is a reasonable possibility that Android tablets will drain away iPad sales just as the phones have iPhone sales. Today, like it or not, iPhones are not materially better than the Android competition and a few Android competitors are arguably better than iPhones by any objective measure. The Apple brand is powerful, and that's what's keeping them going right now, but every sale lost and every tidbit of bad publicity drains away some of that goodwill. Personally, I think both platforms will continue to do well, but projections of Apple having 50% of the tablet market share a couple years down the road don't seem unreasonable.

To: Road Walker who wrote (6466)	7/11/2011 6:38:01 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Amazon expected to ship 1.2M of its mystery tablets in Q3 Report from tablet component makers indicates Amazon tablet would be largest of non-iPad tablets By Matt Hamblen July 8, 2011 03:49 PM ET2 Comments computerworld.com Computerworld - Amazon.com is expected to ship up to 1.2 million tablet computers by the end of September, making it the biggest of the non-iPad tablet suppliers in the third quarter, according to a new report in DigiTimes. Citing unnamed tablet PC component suppliers, Taiwan-based DigiTimes also said that Amazon is expected to order as many as 2 million touch-panel displays from suppliers in the August-September period. The prediction for Amazon tablet sales is surprising, because the online retailer hasn't announced a tablet and has thus far focused on selling its low-cost, black-and-white Kindle e-readers. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment. Rumors have circulated that Amazon is prepping two tablet models, code-named Coyote and Hollywood, which would both be powered by Nvidia processors. The tech website BGR said the entry-level Coyote would have a dual-core Tegra 2 chip, while the more powerful Hollywood would be equipped with a quadcore T30 Kal-El processor, which would offer 500% better performance than the Tegra 2. Nvidia showed a prototype tablet running the quadcore Kal-El in late May before the Computex trade show in Taipei. The Tegra 2 is used in the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the LG Optimus and the Asus Transformer tablet computers. If Amazon enters the tablet market, it would join a crowded field led by the Apple iPad. The DigiTimes report said Apple will take delivery of 14 million to 15 million iPads from Foxconn Electronics in the third quarter, up from 10.5 million to 11 million in the second quarter. Other vendors' tablets, most of which run the Android mobile operating system, would account for 6 million to 7 million of the tablets sold in the third quarter, according to DigiTimes. The website didn't calculate how many Samsung Galaxy Tabs would ship in the third quarter, but it said the Acer Iconia Tab A500 would be behind Amazon's, at up to 900,000 units shipped. Meanwhile, DigiTimes said Motorola Xoom shipments would reach 400,000 for the quarter, the Dell Streak would see sales of up to 250,000 units, and sales of the HTC Flyer could be as high as 450,000 units. The report didn't calculate shipments for the HP TouchPad, which runs the WebOS operating system. One analyst, IDC's Bob O'Donnell, said Amazon "has something in the works, but the question is whether it will be a true tablet or something that competes with the color Barnes & Noble Nook." The Nook is classified as an e-reader but it has a browser, runs Android and has other attributes that bring it closer to a tablet. It sells for $249, which is half the price of most tablets, O'Donnell noted. Nook's lower price helped it take the lead in the e-reader market for the first time in the first quarter, IDC reported Friday. O'Donnell said the Nook accounted for about one-third of the 3.3 million e-readers shipped in the first quarter, but he wouldn't share specific numbers. "We don't know for sure what Amazon is doing, and they've been very quiet," O'Donnell said. Jack Gold, an analyst at J.Gold Associates, said Amazon is rumored to be replacing the e-ink display in its Kindle with an LCD display and equipping the device with an Android operating system instead of proprietary software. Gold said the projection of 1.2 million Amazon tablet shipments in the third quarter reported in DigiTimes "could make sense," given how successful Amazon has been in the past with the Kindle.

To: Road Walker who wrote (6466)	7/11/2011 6:43:08 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

By September/October you will have a flood of quad core Kal-El Android tablets with 10x the performance boost. Apple iPad will be looking like a complete POS by then... not that already isn't... as Android tablets taking more and more market share with each passing day... and then there is Android 4.00... OH MY!!!!... LMFAO... too funny...

To: Road Walker who wrote (6466)	7/11/2011 7:09:45 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Amazon planning Android tablet launch, according to reports Unconfirmed reports claim Amazon expects to sell 1.2 million tablets by October By Matt Hamblen \| Computerworld US \| Published: 10:30, 11 July 11 news.techworld.com Amazon.com is expected to ship up to 1.2 million tablet computers by the end of September, making it the biggest order for non-iPad tablet suppliers in the third quarter, according to a new report in DigiTimes. Citing unnamed tablet PC component suppliers, Taiwan-based DigiTimes also said that Amazon is expected to demand up to 2 million touch panel displays from suppliers in the August-September period. The tablet report on Amazon is surprising because the online retailer hasn't announced a tablet yet, and has thus far focused on selling its low cost, black and white Kindle ebook readers. The online retailer did not respond to a request for comment. Related Articles on Techworld Amazon expands cloud music storage for paid users\|Apple says App Store downloads hit 15 billion markRumors have circulated that Amazon is prepping two tablet models, codenamed Coyote and Hollywood, both powered by Nvidia processors. The tech website BGR said the entry level Coyote would run a dual-core Tegra 2 chip, while the more powerful Hollywood would run a quad-core T30 Kal-El processor with a 500% performance boost over Tegra 2. Nvidia showed a prototype tablet running the quad-core Kal-El in late May before the Computex trade show. The Tegra 2 is used in the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the LG Optimus and the Asus Transformer tablet computers. If Amazon enters the tablet market, it would join a crowded field led by the Apple iPad. The DigiTimes report said Apple will take delivery of 14 million to 15 million iPads from Foxconn Electronics in the third quarter, up from 10.5 million to 11 million in the second quarter. All the remaining tablets, mostly running the Android mobile operating system, would account for 6 million to 7 million tablets in the third quarter, according to DigiTimes. The website didn't calculate how many Samsung Galaxy Tabs would be shipping in the third quarter, but said the Acer Iconia Tab A500 would be behind Amazon's, at up to 900,000 units shipped. Meanwhile, DigiTimes said Motorola Xoom shipments would be 400,000 for the quarter, the Dell Streak would be up to 250,000 and the HTC Flyer would be up to 450,000. The report didn't calculate shipments for the HP TouchPad, which runs WebOS. One analyst, Bob O'Donnell at IDC, said Amazon "has something in the works, but the question is whether it will be a true tablet or something that competes with the colour Barnes & Noble Nook." The Nook is classified as an e-reader but it has a browser, runs Android and has other attributes that bring it closer to a tablet. It's price tag puts it at half the cost of most tablets, O'Donnell noted. Nook's lower price helped it take the lead in the e-reader market for the first time over the Kindle and others in the first quarter, IDC reported Friday. O'Donnell said the Nook accounted for about one third of the 3.3 million e-readers shipped in the first quarter, but he wouldn't share specific numbers. "We don't know for sure what Amazon is doing, and they've been very quiet," O'Donnell said. Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates, said Amazon is rumoured to be replacing the e-ink display in its Kindle with an LCD display and equipping the device with an Android OS instead of proprietary software. Gold said the 1.2 million shipments of Amazon tablets in the third quarter as reported by DigiTimes "could make sense" given how successful Amazon has been in the past with the Kindle.