Posts Tagged ‘Tablet’
Motorola product delay, tablet margins to hurt Q3
July 27th, 2011
NEW YORK – Motorola Mobility warned that its third-quarter profit would miss expectations due to the second delay of a smartphone launch and price cuts of its tablet computers, sending its shares down 4 percent.
Chief Executive Sanjay Jha acknowledged that Motorola’s Bionic, a high-speed device for Verizon Wireless, would be delayed until September. He had already the delayed the phone’s launch from the second quarter to the summer.
Jha also noted that gross margins would be worse than expected in the third quarter, the result of Motorola’s decision to cut the price of the Xoom tablet to compete with rivals such as Apple Inc’s iPad.
The executive said he had misjudged pricing in the highly competitive tablet market but vowed that Motorola’s profit would be back on track in the fourth quarter, when he promised to introduce more competitive products.
“We now recognize where the price points are,” Jha told Reuters.
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Panasonic Announces Toughbook CF-H2 Field Tablet
July 11th, 2011
Panasonic today launches the Toughbook CF-H2, its second generation, fully rugged tablet PC designed specifically for field workers. Setting new standards in ease of use, connectivity and productivity, the CF-H2 is the ultimate tool for mobile and field workers helping them to stay productive, even in harsh environments, by delivering constant access to their applications and business data. The lightweight, yet fully rugged tablet is ideal for field workers in utilities, logistics, automotive workshops, rail and aviation as well as sales personnel, retail point of sales and market research. Find more…
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Samsung May Build Custom Amazon Android Tablet
April 25th, 2011
Engadget and gdgt co-founder Peter Rojas added another layer to the slowly peeling meme about an Amazon tablet when he said he’s almost positive the e-commerce giant is having Samsung build a device to compete with Apple’s iPad.
However, Rojas said Amazon might run a custom version of Android rather than employ Android 3.0 or “Honeycomb”, Google’s tablet OS du jour.
Kindle for Android
Amazon just launched its Kindle for Android application for Honeycomb to accommodate the more than a dozen Honeycomb tablets coming to market this year. That does
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Acer’s Honeycomb Tablet Priced to Kickstart Sales
April 2nd, 2011
Acer’s Iconia A100, a 7-inch Google Android Honeycomb tablet, has appeared for pre-order on Amazon’s UK site with a £299 ($483 US) price tag reports Netbook News. This marks the lowest Wi-Fi tablet cost to date from a top-tier manufacturer and also the first 7-inch slate to run Google’s latest operating system specifically optimized for tablets. Acer’s tablet is priced £80 less than the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer and £100 below that of Apple’s cheapest iPad 2 in the UK.
Such pricing gives the tablet a chance to compete: although the device has no mobile broadband connection, is smaller than most tablets and includes only 8 GB of internal storage, tablet cost is a key decision point for consumers. A recent surve
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