Sony cuts sales target of smartphone, tablet, camera by 13-17%

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Telecom Lead Asia: Sony cut its sales targets for smartphones, tablets and digital cameras by 13-17 percent for the year to end-March 2015. Sony’s cut in sales target is happening at a time when its rival Samsung surpassing 10 million units mark with Galaxy S4 smartphone. Launched globally on ...

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Swipe Telecom prices 4.7 inch Fablet with 1 GHz Dual Core Processor at Rs 8999

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Telecom Lead India: Swipe Telecom has priced Swipe 9X– a new Fablet with 1 GHz Dual Core Processor — at Rs 8999. The latest 4.7 inch Fablet running on Android Ice-cream Sandwich 4.0 OS comes with a HD capacitive multi-touch screen. The 3G Dual SIM Fablet has dual camera — 8 MP ...

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Galaxy Note 510 tablet priced at Rs 30,900 in India

Samsung Galaxy Note 510

Telecom Lead Asia: Samsung says Galaxy Note 510 — the world’s first 8 inch (20.32 cm) tablet – is available in India at a price of Rs 30,900. The Samsung Galaxy Note 510 tablet – that features 1.6GHz quad-core processor — supports HSPA+ 21Mbps 850/900/1900/2100 in India. The new ...

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Zync unveils Quad 10.1 Android tablet at Rs 14,990

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Telecom Lead India: Zync Global has unveiled its new tablet at Rs 14,990. The tablet – running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean – features Quad-core 1.5 GHz processor. The new HD tablet is available on the company website for purchase. Earlier, the company launched Dual 7.0, Quad 8.0 and Quad 9.7 ...

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DataWind supplies 100,000 Aakash tablets to IIT-Bombay

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Telecom Lead India: DataWind has supplied 100,000 Aakash tablets to IIT-Bombay. Announcing the completion of the tablet project target, DataWind said it supplied 98,000 Aakash2 devices and 2,000 devices with DataWind’s recommendations for Aakash3 at a price of Rs 2,263 (currently $41.61). The ...

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Apple’s tablet market share dips to 39.6%, Samsung up to 17.9% in Q1 2013

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Telecom Lead Asia: Apple’s market share in tablet segment has declined to 39.6 percent in Q1 2013 from 58.1 percent in Q1 2012. Samsung increased tablet market share to 17.9 percent from 11.3 percent. Microsoft has 1.8 percent market share in tablet space in the first quarter of 2013. It ...

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BlackBerry CEO sees a limited future for tablets

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Telecom Lead India: BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins sees a limited future for tablet computers. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” said Heins in an interview on Monday at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. “Tablets themselves are not a good ...

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LG and Samsung in Korea’s trouble zone: Will global smartphone and tablet production halt?

Korean companies may halt smartphone production if there is a war

Telecom Lead Asia: The rising friction in Korea may impact the production of smartphones, media tablets and PCs. Samsung, Apple, Nokia, LG, HTC, BlackBerry, Sony, Huawei, ZTE, etc. will be forced to look for new alternatives as the electronics supply chain grinding may pose. If current tensions ...

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Salora prices new tablet Fontab on Android 4.1 Jelly bean at Rs 6,899

Salora prices new tablet Fontab on Android 4.1 Jelly bean at Rs 6,899

Telecom Lead India: Salora International has priced its new tablet on Android 4.1 Jelly bean – Fontab – at Rs 6,899. Fontab — powered by Cortex A9, 1.5 GHz processor — is Salora’s third device in the tablet series. Salora says the new tablet features 1GB RAM, internal memory of 4 GB ...

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Asus FonePad tablet to land in India on April 24

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Telecom Lead Asia: Asus will unveil its FonePad, a tablet with phone functions, in India on 24 April, 2012. Peter Chang, regional head – South Asia, Country Manager – System Business Group, Asus India and Debjani Ghosh, managing director – Sales & Marketing Group, Intel South Asia, ...

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Kobian to launch seven Mercury tablets during AMJ quarter 2013

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Telecom Lead Asia: Kobian will launch more than seven Mercury tablets during the quarter AMJ 2013.   The company launched more than 8 models in 2012-13.   Announcing the road map for Mercury tablets for the year 2013-14, Kobian said these new tablets will address demands of students ...

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AOC launches Android tablets in Indian mobile market

AOC Breeze Tablet

Telecom Lead Asia: AOC has launched Breeze tablets in the Indian market. The Breeze tablets — available in two sizes, 7” and 9.7” display – will be priced at Rs 7,990 and Rs 12,990, respectively. The new tablets – on Android version 4.1.1 — will be available in the next couple of ...

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Panasonic unveils new tablets for Indian enterprises

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Telecom Lead Asia: Panasonic has unveiled Toughpad FZ-G1, a Windows 8 enterprise-grade ruggedized tablet, ToughpadJT-B1, a seven-inch Android tablet and two personal computers Toughbook JT-H300HT and Toughbook JT-H320HT. These four new mobile computing devices are aimed at business users in ...

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Samsung may double tablet market share in 2013

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Telecom Lead India: Samsung may double tablet market, according to ABI Research. Tablet sales in 2013 will grow 28 percent to $64 billion. The tablet unit shipments will reach 150 million, growing at 38 percent in 2013. Market intelligence firm ABI Research says a well-executed Samsung tablet ...

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Tablet market to grow 69.8% to 197 million units in 2013

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Telecom Lead Asia: Global tablet market is expected to grow 69.8 percent to 197 million units in 2013. In 2012, the worldwide tablet shipments were 116 million units. Tablets will see aggressive price erosion. Key growth drivers in the global tablet market — which is dominated by Samsung ...

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Asus India’s Nexus 7 tablet priced at Rs 22,000

Nexus 7

Telecom Lead Asia: Asus India on Tuesday launched Nexus 7 tablet computer, powered by the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and Jellybean operating system. It has over nine hours of HD video playback, 10 hours of Web browsing or e-reading, and up to 300 hours of standby time. The Nexus 7 3G version will ...

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