Toshiba is going to surprise the market with its
13-inch tablet to be rolled out probably in June this year. The company is
optimistic about response from consumers since it has already carved out a
target market for the off-the-beaten-path launch. The tablet is 0.4 inch thick
and weighs 2.2 pounds.
“One size does not fit all, so we are carefully considering how and where
people are using tablets and designing form factors to best suit various
needs,” BusinessWire reported Carl Pinto, vice president of product
development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division
as saying.
“With amazingly thin and light designs, our new Excite family of tablets
continues to incorporate what consumers have come to love about Toshiba
tablets,” he said.
Along with the strange one, 10.1- and 7.7-inch will also hit the shelves in
mid of this year. Toshiba is one of
the oldest technology companies in the world with a network of 490 companies,
203,000 employees, and $77 billion annual sales.
Will this really be strange or up to the expectation of consumers? Wired
presented a detail story on it and promoted replies then and there, majority of
which seemed open to breaking-Apple-charm thing.
The big-screen is basically for household use and thus its mobile function is
automatically minus which is a cause of concern for enterprises/commercial
ventures to the least.
The Excite 13 with quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 1GB RAM, a 5-megapixel
camera, and four rear-mounted speakers, 1,600×900 screen resolution, a
micro-USB port, a micro-HDMI port, and a full-size SD card slot, costs $649.99
for the 32GB model and $749.99 for 64GB version.
Growing interest of tech-savvy people in media tablets is giving a constant
push to the sales. In 2011, end-users including enterprises picked up 60
million PC tablets. This number is projected to nearly double to 118.9 million
units in 2012, according to Gartner Inc.
The research firm says things are going in favor of iOS that will continue
to reign supreme in the global tablet market this year despite forthcoming
Windows 8 and international rollout of Amazon’s Kindle Fire.
Last year, Apple held approximately 53 per cent share in the tablet market
after having sold 39.9 million tablets to end-users. The share is expected to
reach 61.4 per cent this year. Android-powered
tablet PCs play second fiddle to the market leader, forecast to account for
31.9 per cent of media tablet sales in 2012.
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