According to Gartner 2012 WW tablet sales will grow by 98% Y-o-Y to total 118.9m, as the Apple iPad continues dominating the market.

In comparison 2011 tablet sales total 20m units.

The analyst projects iPad global market share will reach 61.4% in 2012-- with non-Apple vendors finding limited success in the market, despite the international Amazon Kindle Fire launch.

Making things worse for the competition is Apple resetting "the benchmark for the product to beat" with the new iPad.

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EReaders might soon get lighter and more flexible-- LG Display plans to launch a flexible plastic electronic paper display (EPD) in Europe for eReader use this month, a world first according to the company.

The LG design measures 6" diagonally and handles XGA (1024x768) resolutions. Construction is in plastic, meaning the display is only 0.7mm thick and weighs 14g (50% less than traditional glass displays). It is not able to handle colours or animation, but should offer a crisp reading experience. Continue reading...

The iPad might rule the tablet market, but the situation might change soon enough-- ABI Research predicts low cost (sub-$400) tablets will take over 60% of the market by 2016, while the over $400 segment shrinks.

The tablet market remains a booming segment 3 years after its general birth. Tablet models currently on sale total over 220 models ABI says, with the majority having sub-$400 price points.

Display sizes are also set to change-- while tablets with wide aspect displays (9" and over) account Continue reading...

Think Google's ambitions to take over the laptop market with Chromebooks are over? Maybe the cloud-based notebook concept will be getting some fresh blood soon, as America's FCC-approval website reveals a Chrome OS-powered Sony Vaio model.

The recently declassified FCC listing for the Vaio VCC111 series features a number of photos, including one of a keyboard lacking a Windows button. It also has a copy of a user manual explaining how to use Chrome OS.

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As the 3rd iPad hits the market (3M already sold WW since March 16, Apple gloats), Dell chief commercial officer Steve Felice insists the tablet market is still "wide open" for non-iOS devices.

Speaking to Reuters, Felice says Dell plans to launch Windows 8 tablets sometime around H2 2012-- with a particular focus on office workers looking for an enterprise-class device.

"We have a roadmap for tablets that we haven't announced yet. You'll see some announcements.. for the back half of the year," Continue reading...

No longer the iPad3 but the “new” iPad features no enhancement more prominent than its Retina display with improved resolution (2048 × 1536 and 264 pixels per inch vs 1024 x 768 resolution and 132 pixels per inch).

Charles Annis, VP Manufacturing Research for DisplaySearch explains how Apple quadrupled the amount of pixels on iPad2’s display.: a pixel-design technique called Super High Aperture.

The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG not only has an unwieldy name, it is also carries a GeForce GT640M, the first Nvidia GPU based on the power efficient Kepler architecture.

Kepler GPU architecture is in 28nm silicon, with 384 cores running at 625Mhz and a 128-bit memory interface running at 64GB/sec-- a combination Nvidia says can handle a game of Battlefield 3 on ultra settings at 1366x768 resolution.

As for the ultrabook itself, the 15.6" Ultra M3 carries an Intel Core i7-2637M ULV processor, Continue reading...

Nokia already makes Windows smartphones-- but will it really start making tablets? DigiTimes insists so, saying Nokia will enter the tablet race with a 10-inch Windows 8 offering sometime in Q4 2012 "at the earliest."

The Nokia tablet will apparently carry a dual-core Qualcomm SoC... in which case, judging from the Qualcomm SoC roadmap, it could be the Snapdragon S4.

Digitimes also says Taiwanese ODM Compal will take on production duties, with the first batch of shipments to total 200000 units. Continue reading...