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Tablet sales rebound in 2020 with Apple still dominant

21Apr

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Gadgets, Tech News

Tablet sales rebound in 2020 with Apple still dominant

The worldwide tablet market had an outstanding fourth quarter (4Q20) with 19.5% year-over-year growth and shipments totaling 52.2 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Impacted by the pandemic, the tablet market reached shipment levels not seen since the fourth quarter of 2017 when the total was 49.9 million. Detachable tablets have broadened their presence in the market as the emphasis on productivity, flexibility, and ease of use is now greater than ever before and sales for this category were often in direct competition with notebooks. Shipments for detachable tablets grew 27.9% during the quarter as both Microsoft and Apple helped push the form factor with their respective pro...

Why the Alcatel OneTouch POP 7 is a great Tablet for your kids

31Aug

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Gadgets, Tech Reviews

Why the Alcatel OneTouch POP 7 is a great Tablet for your kids

The US$144 (JA$16,795) to US$154 (JA$18,000) Alcatel OneTouch POP 7 is an interesting 7” Tablet indeed from TCL Corporation. Launched way back at CES (Computer Electronics Show) 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Alcatel OneTouch POP 7 has been having as hard time finding a home in the US of A, as it has not sold well, despite being a Tablet that sports 4G LTE! The Alcatel OneTouch POP 7 runs Google Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and comes with an optional magnetic cover attached to a backplate in various colours: Yellow Black White Pink Blue Changing the backpanel and magnetic covers is quite easy and efficient. It’s a bit heavier and the microSD and SIM-card slots are inaccessible. However, they’ll be protected from grit and keep your microSD card safe. You also get t...

How Samsung Galaxy S2 replaces your Laptop at Samsung Unpacked Event

7Aug

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Gadgets, Tech News, Tech Events

How Samsung Galaxy S2 replaces your Laptop at Samsung Unpacked Event

“The Galaxy Tab S2 is not only our thinnest and lightest Tablet of its size ever, it also gives users quick, easy access to a wealth of superior viewing and productivity features. We believe the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 is the most complete personal visual device designed for consumers to carry and use anywhere.” CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division at Samsung Electronics JK Shin during the July 20th 2015 launch of the Samsung Galaxy S2 Tablets On Monday July 20th 2015, Samsung Electronics made an incredible announcement regarding Tablets. They decided to launch Samsung Galaxy S2 Tablet to the world in all its super AMOLED glory. Heir apparent to the previous 10.5” and 8.4” Samsung Galaxy Tab S Tablets as described in 10.5” and 8.4” Samsung Galaxy Tab S Tablets are Solid Ta...

18Nov

By KelroyNo Comments

Gadgets, Tech News, Press Releases

Nokia Announces N1 Android Tablet

Nokia today announced the N1, the first Nokia-branded Android tablet. The N1 offers the innovative, predictive Nokia Z Launcher interface, and a carefully crafted industrial design by Nokia with a focus on simplicity. The N1 will be brought to market in Q1 2015 through a brand-licensing agreement with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner responsible for manufacturing, distribution and sales. "We are pleased to bring the Nokia brand back into consumers' hands with the N1 Android tablet, and to help make sophisticated technologies simple," said Sebastian Nyström, Head of Products at Nokia Technologies, who announced the N1 at the Slush technology conference in Helsinki. "The N1 has a delightfully intuitive interface and an industrial design to match it. This is a great product...

10.5” and 8.4” Samsung Galaxy Tab S Tablets are Solid Tablet Products

24Oct

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Gadgets, Tech News, Tech Events

10.5” and 8.4” Samsung Galaxy Tab S Tablets are Solid Tablet Products

All I can say is wow! A fourth product WAS NOT on the cards for me when I got conscripted to attend the Samsung Launch Event that was held at their Samsung Experience Store in Tropical Plaza in Half-Way-Tree on Thursday October 16th 2014, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Style as faithfully recorded in Samsung Launches quartet of Note-worthy Products to Tab into the Gear S Alpha in all Jamaicans! And yet here I was face to face with Apple's iPad’s nemesis, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S times two whose parent, the Samsung Galaxy Tablet, was originally launched at the IFA Consumer Electronics Fair in Berlin, Germany on September 2010 as per my ditty of an article Samsung Galaxy - Apple iPad's contender for the Christmas. I say this as it was not one but two (2) separate Tablets that w...

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is a flatteringly fabulous Phablet with an improved S Pen

22Oct

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Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is a flatteringly fabulous Phablet with an improved S Pen

Finally Samsung has decided to launch the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in Jamaica as originally reported in my article Samsung Launches quartet of Note-worthy Products to Tab into the Gear S Alpha in all Jamaicans! It was launched in fine style too during a fairly low-key Meet and Greet Press Event held at Samsung Experience Store in Half Way Tree that's celebrating its one year anniversary since being opened back in September 2013 . The pleasantries and strange food-on-a-stick aside, ma cherie, I'll just get to the meat of the matter and tell you all about Samsung's latest Toy, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. I held it in these two (2) hands people! For a phablet, I tell you, it is gorgeous! Holding it was a lot like being Frodo Baggins when he slipped on the Ring of Power. In that instant ...

Samsung Launches quartet of Note-worthy Products to Tab into the Gear S Alpha in all Jamaicans

22Oct

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Gadgets, Tech News, Internet, Tech Events

Samsung Launches quartet of Note-worthy Products to Tab into the Gear S Alpha in all Jamaicans

“[for] Samsung, it of great satisfaction that only a month after the presentation worldwide in Berlin, the Galaxy Note 4 becomes a real option for Jamaican consumers. Combining an evolved version of the S Pen with a superior viewing experience, the newest member of the iconic Note series proposes a unique experience by presenting the latest technologies that the uses have come to expect from the Galaxy Series” Key Accounts Manager of Samsung Electronics, Kenneth L. Moore, Jnr a quoted in the Samsung Press Release for the Galaxy Note 4 and it quintet of products launched at the Samsung Experience Store on Thursday October 16th 2014 Samsung has managed to surprise me yet again! Just when I thought they were into super-large and bendy UHDTV (Ultra High Definition Televisions) by fois...

How to recover smartphone SD Card with Photos, Video and Music taken from a Blackberry

22Sep

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Gadgets, Tech Tips

How to recover smartphone SD Card with Photos, Video and Music taken from a Blackberry

So, you’ve messed up yet again, haven’t you? You forgot the cardinal rule of transferring SD Cards between Blackberry and smartphones: Back up your photos and audio as I’d pointed out in my article How to transfer Phone Contacts and Data from your Blackberry to your Apple iPhone or Google Android smartphone or Tablet. Believe it or not, you CAN’T just take the SD Card out of your Blackberry and insert it into your brand New DL600, DL700 or whatever smartphone and expect it to just “pick them up”, to use the common parlance of the non-techie. Smartphones are programmed to regard all SD Cards as potentially new media to place fresh data i.e. Photos, Video and Music files. To that end, once you insert a SD Card from anywhere, including your old Blackberry, it’ll format the SD Card to...