Tablet

India’s tablet market grew 68% year-on-year (YoY), while 4G tablets recorded a sequential growth of 74% YoY, claims new insights from CMR’s Tablet PC Market Report Review for Q1 2022 released today. Shipment of tablets with 8 inches display constituted 26% of the overall shipments in the Indian market. On the other hand, tablets with 10-inch and above displays contributed to 61% of the shipments. Lenovo (36%), Apple (22%), and Samsung (22%) captured the top three spots in the tablet…

Tablet shipments in India grew 28 percent year-on-year (YoY) in 2021 according to data shared by a research firm, indicating a rise in the popularity of the portable computing devices amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Lenovo dominated the tablet market with the highest percentage of tablet shipments in India, while Samsung and Apple were in second and third position. Meanwhile, companies like Realme, which have recently entered the tablet segment, also managed to capture a small percentage of the market…

Realme Pad Mini and Realme Buds Q2s were launched in India on Friday — alongside the Realme GT Neo 3 and Realme Smart TV X FHD. While the Realme Pad Mini is the company's latest Android tablet, the Realme Buds Q2s are its new affordable truly wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds — an upgrade to the Realme Buds Q2 that debuted last year. The Realme Pad Mini comes with features including an 8.7-inch display and an 8-megapixel rear camera. The Realme Buds Q2s, on the other hand, offer Dolby Atmos support and a total of up to 30…

Google I/O 2022 event witnessed announcements related to the Pixel portfolio. The Pixel portfolio here means not only smartphones but TWS earbuds and Pixel Watches. The 2022 input/output event for the developers brought the news of the expansion of Pixel portfolio henceforth. Having said that, the Google Pixel portfolio has been kept away from India and Indian buyers. The US-based tech giant has avoided India for the launch of Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, primarily because of dwindling sales numbers.…

This year’s Google I/O keynote was filled with hardware announcements, which is unusual considering it’s typically a software and services-focused affair. Of these, the most exciting was the news that Google plans to return to the Android tablet market next year and that it’s also releasing its first smartwatch — the Pixel Watch — later in 2022. Google gave a couple of different reasons for its change of heart. But the most interesting of these was a comment from Google’s VP of product management Sameer Samat, who…

Reliance recently launched the JioPhone Next affordable smartphone in India. It came with an aggressive price tag and was positioned for first time smartphone converts. A new report now suggests that the company is also working on other hardware products apart from phones, entering new hardware categories next year. The report claims that the company may be developing a new Jio tablet for the Indian audience. In addition, a new Jio TV is also reported to be in the works. Earlier rumours had tipped a Jio laptop as…

Google had another surprise up its sleeve at Google I/O today, announcing that it will be expanding its lineup of first-party Android products with its first Pixel Tablet. Although it’s not expected to arrive until 2023, Google wanted to give us a sneak peek at its new tablet. The company said there’s so much energy around tablets in the developer community that it wanted to ensure everyone was in the loop and ready for it. Google It’s a next-generation Android tablet powered by the Google Tensor chip and designed to…

Big white bezels. Matte, looks-like-plastic back. Thick profile. 2023. Android. That’s about all we know about Google’s forthcoming Pixel Tablet, which the company teased during its keynote presentation for the I/O 2022 developer conference this week. Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president of devices and services and head of the Pixel program, confirmed to my colleague David Pierce that the tablet is coming to fill out the range of Pixel devices and provide a complete ecosystem in Google’s lineup. But as I saw…

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Tablet and Chromebook shipments reportedly saw an annual decline in Q1 2022. This data comes from a report by the International Data Corporation (IDC). As per the report, the overall shipments continue to be above pre-pandemic levels, however, the overall growth has slowed down. This trend might indicate that the tablet and Chromebook markets are reverting to normality after experiencing a boom due to the pandemic. People worldwide supposedly made aggressive purchases in 2020 and 2021, which might have led to a more…