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  • Asus Expects Tablet Shipment Boost From New Nexus 7

    Details about the upcoming refresh of Google’s Nexus 7 are now being leaked at a fast pace. Photos of the device even surfaced earlier this week. The new Nexus 7 is expected to have a 1920×1200 resolution display, a 1.5GHz S4 Pro CPU, a 5MP rear camera, and is expected to ship running Android 4.3.

    Though it is no Kindle Fire, the original Nexus 7 was a strong player in the 7-inch tablet market. Now, it appears that Asus, the manufacturer of the Nexus 7, is expecting the new version of the tablet to boost its sales numbers later this year.

    According to a report from DigiTimes, Asus is expecting the new Nexus 7 to improve its tablet sales in the third quarter of 2013. The report cites unnamed “sources from the upstream supply chain” as saying Asus expects the Nexus 7 to make up for poor sales of its other tablets. According to DigiTimes, Asus has already shipped 5.7 million tablets this year, and is aiming to ship 12 million total units for 2013.

    The report also states that Asus had originally expected the Nexus 7 refresh to appear as early as May 2013, but that the tablet was delayed by Google over original Nexus 7 inventory numbers. Asus’ second quarter 2013 tablet shipments were affected accordingly, with the manufacturer shipping around 10% fewer tablets than in the first quarter.

    (via DigiTimes)

  • Apple iPad Accounts For 98% of Tablet Web Browsing, Report Says

    As popular as Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets are, it seems that customers who use the tablets are not often using them to browse the web.

    Onswipe, a company that specializes in creating touch-screen experiences for the web, today released the results of a new study that looked at what tablet devices people were using to access their websites. The unsurprising result is that the iPad is the tablet most people were using. What is unexpected is the scale of the iPad’s dominance: the device accounted for 98.1% of Onswipe’s unique impressions.

    The study looked at Onswipe’s web data from September 13th to September 20th. The company announced on its blog that the data covered 29.5 million unique impressions from 1200 different sites. “The iPad is clearly a browsing device,” said Jason Baptiste, Onswipe CEO.

    The runners-up for web-browsing tablets are the Samsung Galaxy Tab with 1.53%, the Motorola Xoom with .21%, the Amazon Kindle Fire with .11%, and the Asus Tablets (presumably the Nexus 7) with .06%.

    So, if the iPad is for web browsing, what are people using the other tablets for? One thing to consider is the sheer number of iPads that have been sold. Apple set the standard for the tablet industry the same way it did with smartphones, and iPad sales outnumber other tablets by millions. Still, that alone might not account for such a dominant representation on the above graph.

    Another possibility is that smaller tablets, such as the Galaxy Tab, the Kindle Fire, and the Nexus 7, are being used for the consumption of content other than the web. Amazon, in particular, has created its Kindle Fire tablets to be perfect at pushing content (books, streaming video, apps) straight from Amazon’s ecosystem.

    It also has to be considered that Onswipe’s websites might appeal more to iPad users for some reason. With 1200 websites and 29 million impressions included in the study, though, it probably gives a good overview of tablet web browsing as of this year.

    (via Apple Insider; Image courtesy Onswipe)

  • Asus Confirms New Google Tablet On the Way

    For a few months now there have been rumors that Asus and Google will be releasing a 7-inch Nexus tablet at the upcoming Google I/O conference. Now a report from Android Authority is confirming that the rumors are true. They sat down with an Asus executive over the weekend, and he said that the Google tablet does, in fact, exist. On top of that, he confirmed that it would be available by the end of June.

    This really does seem to indicate that the rumors of the I/O conference unveiling are also true. The San Francisco conference wraps up at the end of June, so this can be the only logical conclusion.

    Late last week, a few shots of the rumored tablet were supposedly leaked. The tablet is said to have a 7 inch screen and will run on a quad core Tegra 3 processor with 1 gigabyte of RAM. The pictures also revealed a forward facing camera and what appears to be an earpiece similar to a smartphone.

    Early rumors also pointed to the possibility of it running on Android 5.0 Jellybean. Later reports are saying that that is false, and it will run on Android 4.1 OS. So the operating system doesn’t appear to be getting a complete overhall, but expect to see quite a few changes to the 4.1 OS.

    According to Android Authority, ASUS is also in talks with carriers to bring the Padfone to the United States. So far, they all hate it (free data), but AT&T may be willing to give it a try. According to the source, this front is moving slowly.