Neowin News Feed for: Tablets

Microsoft to bundle Office 2013 in "small" Windows 8 tablets for free

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:35:05 +0100

Tami Reller has stated today at Computex 2013 that new 7- and 8-inch Windows 8 x86 tablets will come with the basic Microsoft Office 2013 apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote out of the box Read more...

Microsoft is cutting the price on Windows RT for smaller tablets

Brad Sams — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:20:35 +0100

A new report is stating that Microsoft is cutting the price on Windows RT for smaller tablets to help encourage OEMs to produce tablets that sell at a competitive price point. Read more...

IDC cuts its 2013 PC shipment forecast; sees decline of 7.8 percent

John Callaham — Tue, 28 May 2013 18:03:11 +0100

IDC has cut its worldwide forecast for PC shipments again for 2013, saying it now sees a decline of 7.8 percent for the year. In another report, it sees tablet shipments outpacing PCs by 2015. Read more...

Lenovo posts record sales just as PC market shrinks

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:39:57 +0100

Lenovo has published its quarterly earnings report and the Chinese manufacturer has had a record setting quarter. They now stand at 15.5% of the global PC market and they rank third on smart devices. Read more...

Samsung hyping new 3200x1800 LCD display for future notebooks

John Callaham — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:08 +0100

Samsung says it will be showing off new displays this week that will include a 2560x1600 WQXGA LCD for 10.1 inch tablets and a 3200x1800 WQXGA+ LCD display for 13.3 inch laptops. Read more...

NVIDIA backs Windows RT, multiple tablets coming

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:17:09 +0100

NVIDIA has backed Microsoft's ARM-based tablet platform, Windows RT, saying that it has a "bright future", while also mentioning that multiple Tegra 4-powered Windows RT machines are on their way Read more...

Asus will make smaller Windows 8 tablets; prices could go below $300

John Callaham — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:04:04 +0100

Asus has confirmed that it will be making smaller Windows 8 tablets in the near future, adding they are "very optimistic about sales for Windows 8 tablets this year." Read more...

BlackBerry CEO predicts demise of tablets within five years

Andy Weir — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:11:55 +0100

BlackBerry's CEO thinks users will no longer want tablets within five years, claiming they "are not a good business model", adding that BlackBerry will be "the absolute leader in mobile computing." Read more...

Intel CEO: future Atom-powered Windows tablets will start at $200

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:47:00 +0100

According to Intel's CEO future Atom-powered Windows 8 tablets will have a very low starting price: $200. The new Atom Bay Trail chips will also offer great performance and long battery life. Read more...

Xbox SmartGlass for Android updated to support tablets

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:56:28 +0100

An update has been made to Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app for Android, adding support for tablets 7-inches or larger, while also adding a few other features, and fixing numerous bugs. Read more...

Microsoft said to be working on 7-inch tablet

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:05:22 +0100

A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims Microsoft is working on a 7-inch tablet, citing unnamed sources, adding that the device will go into mass production later this year. Read more...

Microsoft tablet share predicted to grow to 10% by 2017

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:20:01 +0000

Research by the IDC has predicted that Microsoft's tablet market share will grow to 10% in 2017, but the Surface RT will account for just 2.7% of that. Additionally, iPad shipments will drop in 2013. Read more...

TechSpot: Tablets of 2013

Julio Franco — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:44:57 +0000

The tablet market doesn't look very different than it did a year ago from the perspective of who's doing well and who's not. And yet quite a bit has changed in the last twelve months. Apple is still.. Read more...

China overtakes US as largest smart device market

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:09:18 +0000

According to a report China is set to surpass the US as the world's largest smart device market by the end of this month. This comes from data aggregated from iOS and Android apps. Read more...

Rumor: HP to sell Android-based tablets?

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:11:09 +0000

A few days after announcing its first Chromebook, a new rumor claims HP could launch its own Android-based tablets, starting with one running NVIDIA's Tegra 4 processor. Read more...

Google could make $5 billion from tablet search revenue alone

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:59:04 +0000

In a report today, Marin Software - who advise Macy's, Gap and others on web-search ads - predict that Google could make $5 billion from tablet ad clicks alone. Read more...

Microsoft exec alludes to smaller Windows 8 tablets on the horizon

John Callaham — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:15:48 +0000

Microsoft's chief financial officer Peter Klein said today that Windows 8 is "set up" to support smaller tablets than the current 10 inch models that the company and other PC OEMs currently sell. Read more...

NPD: People moving to tablets and phones for some PC activities

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:21:23 +0000

A new report from the NPD Group claims that 37 percent of PC users are now doing some former PC activities such as web browsing and Facebook access on their tablet or smartphone. Read more...

Thief steals iPads, nothing else, from Microsoft building

Anthony Tosie — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 01:06:55 +0000

According to a new report, Microsoft's Mountain View campus was robbed of some valuable equipment recently. The only problem is that equipment only consisted of Apple iPads - no Microsoft products. Read more...

No Microsoft at CES 2013, but still plenty to see

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:38:38 +0000

Even though Microsoft will not be exhibiting at CES 2013, or delivering the opening keynote, there will still be a load of products on show utilizing Microsoft's software such as Windows 8 Read more...