Most Tablet PCs have come to market as convertibles, which are perceived as expensive notebook PCs.
In addition, Tablet PCs sold only 1.4 million units during 2007, their best year for sales.
Gamers playing on consoles, laptops, and tablet PCs are hardly the lone market for Immersive.
As I reported in August, Best Buy is throwing its weight behind tablet PCs for the holidays.
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They have to decide whether to allow employees to use their smartphones and tablet PCs on the corporate network.
The evidence mounts: we are headed for a monumental glut of tablet PCs.
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Global shipments of tablet PCs surged 75% in the final quarter of 2012 to a record 52.5 million units.
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Increased sales of high-resolution panels for tablet PCs and OLED panels for smartphones also helped boost profit in the quarter.
Lenovo recently diversified into smartphones and tablet PCs, although it lags behind the market leaders such as Samsung and Apple.
However, the question really is whether HP can gain traction in an already crowded market for smart-phones and tablet PCs.
Projected capacitive growth has been explosive since being popularized by Apple in 2007, and many tablet PCs manufacturers have adopted it.
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This report has a detailed breakdown of 22 applications (with tablet PCs application) with 11 touch technology categories and nine size categories.
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Some analysts said the rapid rate of growth that smartphones and tablet PCs had seen in recent years could not be sustained.
The tablet PCs come with either a 64GB or 32GB SSD to power on the device and retrieve data quickly and securely.
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In the retail industry, sales assistants are finding tablet PCs easy-to-use tools with real-time updated catalogs, allowing for customization and on-the-spot ordering.
Acer will aggressively yet cautiously develop data-consumption products, tablet PCs and smartphones based on the solid foundation of the main PC business.
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But online security threats have proliferated over the years with the proliferation of new, Web-ready devices like notebooks, mobile phones, and tablet PCs.
Growth continues to be strong, with DisplaySearch forecasting over 72 million touch screens for tablet PCs in 2011, and over 100 million in 2012.
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Many of these tablet PCs will be shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and go on sale in the spring .
But from the outset it seems Microsoft is going to have to educate consumers to help them differentiate between tablet PCs and smart displays.
The fear for Microsoft is that as more people use smartphones and tablet PCs to access the internet, it may see its market share decline.
While the possibilities for this technology are far reaching, Sharp is already implementing IGZO technology in its displays, tablet PCs, monitors and smartphones available today.
Bulky, ugly, but tough as nails, a few million Windows-based tablet PCs are bought every year for military, field service or health care use.
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Brass admits that many of these concepts are not new, with attempts at tablet PCs beginning in the 1980s and running through Apple's Newton computer.
Samsung products affected by the ban include its smartphone models Galaxy SI and SII and its Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet PCs.
Ambrish Srivastava , a semiconductors analyst with BMO Capital Markets, says he expects Nvidia chips to show up in a number of tablet PCs next year.
Tablet PCs, which have thus far outlived their doomed consumer cousin, the Smart Display, were originally heralded as featherweight slate computers intended to expand the notebook market.
Like all digital products, mobile devices, including smartphones and tablet PCs, rely on high-speed memory to supply the main processor with essential instructions and frequently requested data.
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Although mobile handsets are the first devices benefitting from wireless charging, the new technology can be extended to PCs, tablet PCs, electronic toothbrushes and even electric cars.
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