Acer is the latest company to jump aboard the tablet wagon with the Iconia A500 Android tablet. The 10.1in Acer Iconia A500 runs the latest version of Google's Android operating system, Android 3.0 'Honeycomb', and has a full-sized USB port for storing and transferring files, along with an HDMI port for direct connection to a high-definition television. 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We like how the brushed-aluminium back wraps around to the bottom and top bezel on the front, and, although Acer can't claim to offer the same superb industrial design that Apple is well-known for, the Iconia A500 feels sturdy and well built. Side-mounted headphone jack, USB and HDMI-out ports, a bottom-mounted proprietary port and a plastic flap housing a microSD card slot along the top complete the Iconia A500's exterior. The downside to the industrial look and feel of the Acer Iconia Tab A500 is that it is a little on the chunky side, and at 730g it is rather heavy. Acer will be hoping that potential buyers may be happy sacrificing a little size and weight for some extra features - while we think many people will be happy to do so, we still have our reservations about carrying the Iconia A500 around all day. We also didn't like the external buttons: the power, volume and screen-orientation lock keys are all too small considering the size of the unit, and the volume key is not raised enough so it feels a little awkward to press. The plastic flap housing the microSD card slot feels flimsy. The Acer Iconia A500 has a 10.1in LCD with a resolution of 1280x800. Indoors the display produces vibrant colour and crisp text, but its glossy surface makes it very tough to see in direct sunlight, and its viewing angles aren't great. Importantly, the Iconia A500's display is responsive to touch. Acer Iconia Tab A500: Software Along with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Acer Iconia A500 is one of the first tablets to run Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform, which has been specifically designed for tablets. The software is a 'vanilla' version of the Honeycomb OS, although Acer does include a few small hubs to store and sort downloaded apps. These include social, eReading, Game Zone and Multimedia; they are merely a fancy bookshelf background where you can group application shortcuts. Android 3.0 Honeycomb has a completely redesigned interface that aims to take advantage of the larger screen of a tablet. New UI features include an "action bar", a contextual option group displayed at the top of the screen, five customisable home screens with a big emphasis on widgets, a recent apps list for easier multitasking, a redesigned on-screen keyboard, a new browser and improved copy and paste. Most of the changes are positive. The Acer Iconia A500's web browser is slick, fast and displays Flash content, most of the time with minimal delay. It also supports tabbed web browsing and the entire browsing experience is as close as you'll find to a full desktop or notebook computer. The on-screen keyboard is also spacious and comfortable to type on once you get used to its layout. The Android Honeycomb user interface of the Acer Iconia A500, particularly the home screen, looks striking and is easy to use, and the handling of notifications is excellent. The recent apps list also makes flicking back and forth between recently used programs a breeze. We love the flexibility of live widgets, and they are particularly useful on a tablet device with much more screen real estate than a smartphone. We did however notice that flicking between home screens populated with more than three or four widgets does tend to make scrolling jerky. Read PC World's Australia's guide to the best upcoming tablets in 2011 Despite all Android Honeycomb's positive experiences, it is clear the software is still in its infancy, so the overall out-of-the-box experience isn't as slick as it could be. The Iconia A500's browser still automatically switches to mobile versions of many websites (including Facebook) and Flash video performance - a key advantage the device is claimed to hold over the iPad - is hit and miss. Sometimes, the browser would crash trying to load Flash-heavy sites, while other times it would load them almost perfectly. Browsing Twitter, for example, was also clunky at best. A more pressing issue is the lack of third-party apps in the Android market that have been designed with a tablet in mind. Many common apps, including the official Twitter and Facebook apps, have not yet been optimised for the larger screen size the Iconia A500 offers. Default Google apps like Maps, Gmail and YouTube worked excellently, and there are a handful of downloadable apps like Angry Birds and Pulse News Reader that filled the screen perfectly and worked without issues. But many apps in the Android Market simply resize to fit the Iconia A500's screen. This issue will, of course, change over time as the platform evolves and develops, but means the current user experience offered by Android tablets like the Iconia A500 are still very much a work in progress. Acer Iconia Tab A500: Performance and hardware Acer says the Iconia A500 offers a "superb mobile and home entertainment experience". The Iconia A500 supports HD video playback (but not recording), and has an HDMI-out port, so it can be plugged directly into a high-definition television. It also has a full USB port for storing and transferring files; it is currently the only mainstream Android tablet aside from the Motorola Xoom to offer this feature. The Iconia A500 doesn't come preloaded with a file manager but a quick and free download of one from the Android Market (we recommend Astro File Manager) makes it easy to access files on the USB port. Even more convenient is the fact that you can plug in a USB keyboard into the Iconia A500 and use it for text input. The Acer Iconia A500 is powered by a 1GHz nVidia Tegra 2 processor - the same used in the Galaxy Tab 10.1 - and 1GB RAM. The Iconia A500 comes in 16GB and 32GB sizes, and both models come with expandable memory via a microSD card slot. Critically, the tablet felt slick and fast throughout testing. The Acer Iconia A500 has a rear 5Mp camera, and a 2Mp front camera for video calls. Although both take significantly better-quality photos than the iPad 2, the quality of still images and video can't match those captured with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. It's also a shame the Iconia A500 can't record high-definition video. Follow PC World Australia's GoodGearGuide on Twitter: @GoodGearGuide Acer claims the Iconia A500's battery is good for up to 10 hours, but we experienced much less during testing. Although the Iconia A500 often lasted over two days with moderate use, which is a fair result, listening to music and watching videos reduces battery life. 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Remember the Last Big Thing in computing? You'll be forgiven for having forgotten it was the netbook -- a small notebook computer with a slender price tag, about $300. Today, tablets are all the rage, including the iPad from Apple and a host of new entries starting to come from rivals like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Research In Motion and Samsung. But less than two years ago, in 2009, netbooks were seen as the earth-shaking force in the industry, potentially changing the economics of the business and undermining the technology leaders, Intel and Microsoft. 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Yet the torrid growth stalled last year. The extent of the changed fortunes for the product became truly evident recently, when year-end sales tallies were calculated. In the holiday season, for example, retail sales of netbook computers in America fell 38 percent from a year earlier, according to the market research firm NPD. The netbook story, according to industry executives and analysts, offers real-world lessons in technology innovation, business strategy and marketing. To some degree, the new thing -- the iPad -- supplanted the not-so-new thing -- netbooks. Still, analysts say, the tablet effect is only part of the answer. Sales of netbooks, they note, were slowing even before the iPad went on sale in April. And the products themselves are hardly substitutes for each other; one is all no-frills efficiency, the other more an appealing luxury, priced at $500 and up. Instead, it is more likely that makers of netbooks oversold a product that underperformed. In the United States, analysts say, early adopters of new technology helped propel the netbook surge, attracted by the new entrant's feather-light weight and low cost. But early adopter buyers, analysts say, tend to be picky consumers. The netbooks they bought were underpowered PCs that performed sluggishly and could not handle many popular software applications. "The seduction was ultraportable, inexpensive computing, but consumers found there were too many tradeoffs," said A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. "Ultimately, it just fell short." The vision of a very low cost, portable personal computer has been around for decades. But the impetus that prodded the development of today's netbook computers came, as it does so often, from outside the established industry. In this case, it was a nonprofit, One Laptop Per Child, which in 2005 declared its intention to make $100 computers for children in poor countries, without using technology from the industry's dominant chip and software suppliers, Intel and Microsoft. It was a stretch goal, and still is, with the rugged laptops for children costing about $200. But it was an appealing idea that attracted corporate support and a team of scientists, and spurred the industry to rethink its designs and pricing. Intel and Microsoft first resisted the idea of such very inexpensive computing, for the obvious reason that it would potentially put a dent in their profits. But eventually, they embraced the concept, tailored for a broader commercial market. Intel deftly coined the term "netbook," as a new category of "companion PCs" segregated from its more profitable notebook PC business. Both Intel and Microsoft created lower-cost offerings -- Intel's stripped-down Atom processor, introduced in 2008, and Microsoft's expanded menu of software versions at varying prices. One result was a sharp drop in the price of notebook computers, also known as laptop computers. In 2005, notebooks on average cost roughly $1,000. Today, the average price is about $465 (that excludes Apple's higher-priced notebooks, which account for about 5 percent of the market worldwide). "We had an impact across the broader industry by helping drive prices way down," said Mary Lou Jepsen, former chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child. "We showed that innovation can come up from the bottom." For the most part, analysts say, netbooks enlarged the computer market rather than eating into sales of conventional notebooks. And the industry leaders, Intel and Microsoft, succeeded in adapting to the netbook challenge, assimilating it and containing it, preserving their lucrative profits. The PC powers, said Bob O'Donnell, an analyst at IDC, were "deathly afraid of the cannibalization of the regular notebook market, but it really didn't happen." While sales are slowing, the netbook business is far from dead. The market research firm IDC predicts that worldwide sales will fall in 2011 by about 7 percent, but that would still be 32.9 million netbooks. They account for roughly 10 percent of the total PC market. But the engine of growth for netbooks, the technology enthusiasts, analysts say, disappeared. Ryan Champlin, vice president for operations at Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, considered buying a netbook and tried out a few owned by colleagues. But Mr. Champlin, who has a conventional notebook and a smartphone, decided against the purchase, seeing it as an underpowered PC. Six months ago, though, he did buy an iPad because, he says, it provides a different computing experience. "I turn on my iPad and my e-mail is just there, no waiting for a PC to boot up," said Mr. Champlin, who uses the tablet for e-mail, Web browsing, watching movies and playing the popular game Angry Birds. Netbooks continue to enjoy brisk sales in cost-conscious markets, including China and Latin America, and in sales to schools, which want an affordable way to equip students with computers. Companies are pursuing new netbook technology and software support, and industry executives say those advances could reinvigorate the category. The AppUp online store from Intel, which offers software downloads for programs that run on Intel chips, last month added a netbook version of Angry Birds. Intel keeps improving its Atom chips for netbooks. The Fusion chip sets from Advanced Micro Devices, introduced in January, promise to bring sophisticated graphics-processing to the netbook market. Indeed, A.M.D. executives say the time has come to bury the name "netbook." "The marketing no longer needs to suggest 'buyer beware,' " said John Taylor, director of product marketing at A.M.D. In the future, Mr. Taylor says, most PC sales will be machines costing $200 to $500, notebooks of varied sizes and designs, that deliver impressive performance, low energy consumption and 10 hours or more of battery life. Does that mean $1,000 notebooks become extinct? Not at all, Mr. Taylor replied. But the more costly machines, he said, will have to move to new horizons of computing. Artificial intelligence features like computers that understand speech, gestures and facial expressions, he said, may become part of everyday computing. You talk to your computer, or direct it with hand gestures, while making coffee in the morning, for example.

Lenovo, known for computers that fall into the realm of solid-and-businesslike rather than sleek-and-sexy, has pleasantly surprised tech industry reviewers with the 12.5-inch-screen IdeaPad U260. This ultra-mobile small business notebook lists for about $1,000 (but at the time of writing is available for $900). This is a notebook computer for busy, on-the-go small business owners and road warrior executives, not for power users. It’s main virtues are portability and good looks, which are definitely important if you carry your laptop everywhere and routinely use it in client meetings. 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Vital Small Business Notebook Statistics Before we get into what the various reviewers have to report, let's start with what's under the U260's hood. Here's a rundown of its crucial specifications: Processor: 1.33GHz Intel Core i5 U470 Screen: 12.5 in. diagonal (1366 x 768 pixels) Memory: 4GB of 1,066MHz DDR3 RAM Hard drive: 320GB (5,400rpm) Graphics: Intel GMA HD Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) Dimensions: 12.5 x 8.0 x 0.7 in. Weight (with AC adapter): 3.5 lbs. Battery: 4-cell Li-Polymer (4 hours) Small Business Notebook Reviews: Group Consensus Our reviewers are unanimous on a couple of points: the U260 looks fabulous, but blows it on battery life. Most of them also praised the small business notebook's ergonomics. Some reviewers are less enthusiastic about performance, although an ultraportable is not the type of small business computer you expect to be a hot machine. All of the experts condemn the IdeaPad U260's short battery life. A Beautiful Design in a Small Business Notebook Everybody is ecstatic about the magnesium-aluminum alloy top and base, in mocha brown or clementine orange (the chassis includes some plastic too). They also love the leather-like palm rest, the smooth, glass touchpad, and the super-thin styling and detailing that gives the U260 the look and feel of a leather portfolio. “We mean this with no disrespect to Lenovo, but when you first lay eyes (or hands) on the incredibly attractive IdeaPad U260, it's pretty hard to believe that it was made by the company,” said Engadget’s Joanna Stern, alluding to Lenovo’s reputation for clunky-looking designs. She even admits to having “a real crush on the U260's bronzish, mocha exterior…” Laptop magazine’s reviewer sounds a similar note. “The IdeaPad U260 has the kind of flair we wish ThinkPads had,” Kenneth Butler says, referring to Lenovo’s mainstream business laptop line. Butler adds that the design “lends the notebook a sense of smooth, minimal professionalism…” Lenovo receives a backhanded compliment on the U260’s looks from ZDNet reviewer James Kendrick. “It’s not often you can call a notebook ‘sexy,’and never one by Lenovo," he writes. “But it’s an adequate description of the IdeaPad U260. The U260 is the thinnest and lightest Windows notebook I have used, and the bronze casing looks and feels nice.” CNet’s Scott Stein makes the inevitable comparison to Apple’s MacBook Air, but implies that the Lenovo notebook holds its own, being “thin, light, and very easy on the eye…” He also praises the U260 for “beautifully textured surfaces, a great keyboard, and other quality finishing touches…” “There are two kinds of laptops,” writes MobileTechReviewer editor Lisa Gade, “Those dedicated to function and those dedicated to form (rarer). The Lenovo IdeaPad U260 is in the latter camp... To see it is to love it, much like Apple's notebooks.” Rating Laptop Ergonomics Some reviewers aren't quite as crazy about the ergonomics -- keyboard, touchpad, screen, etc. -- although CNet’s Stein judges the keyboard-touchpad combination “better than any other ultraportable outside of the MacBook Air,” and Gade says they are “ergonomic delights.” Kendrick, at ZDNet, referred to the keyboard as “a typically good Lenovo keyboard…,” also noting that it's spill resistant and that it "breathes," letting air in to the chassis to help with cooling. “The U260 doesn’t run hot as a result, even being so thin.” (Others commend the U260’s relatively cool running temperatures as well.) Kendrick also praises the touchpad, and adds, “Working with the U260 is simply a delight, it feels great in the hand and the light weight makes it the notebook to grab for quick sessions.” Engadget’s Stern likes the feel of the keyboard but complains about undersize Shift, Tabs and Caps Lock keys that slows touch typing. She likes the touchpad better, noting it “receives our highest stamp of approval. The smooth surface, which feels similar to a piece of sea glass, was incredibly soft on our index finger and just let the cursor glide along.” Laptop’s Butler also dislikes the too-small special keys, but writes, “…we still found them easy to find by feel.” He too likes the touchpad, but notes that “…multitouch gestures such as pinch-to-zoom felt somewhat sluggish.”

Lenovo, known for computers that fall into the realm of solid-and-businesslike rather than sleek-and-sexy, has pleasantly surprised tech industry reviewers with the 12.5-inch-screen IdeaPad U260. This ultra-mobile small business notebook lists for about $1,000 (but at the time of writing is available for $900). This is a notebook computer for busy, on-the-go small business owners and road warrior executives, not for power users. It’s main virtues are portability and good looks, which are definitely important if you carry your laptop everywhere and routinely use it in client meetings. 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Vital Small Business Notebook Statistics Before we get into what the various reviewers have to report, let's start with what's under the U260's hood. Here's a rundown of its crucial specifications: Processor: 1.33GHz Intel Core i5 U470 Screen: 12.5 in. diagonal (1366 x 768 pixels) Memory: 4GB of 1,066MHz DDR3 RAM Hard drive: 320GB (5,400rpm) Graphics: Intel GMA HD Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) Dimensions: 12.5 x 8.0 x 0.7 in. Weight (with AC adapter): 3.5 lbs. Battery: 4-cell Li-Polymer (4 hours) Small Business Notebook Reviews: Group Consensus Our reviewers are unanimous on a couple of points: the U260 looks fabulous, but blows it on battery life. Most of them also praised the small business notebook's ergonomics. Some reviewers are less enthusiastic about performance, although an ultraportable is not the type of small business computer you expect to be a hot machine. All of the experts condemn the IdeaPad U260's short battery life. A Beautiful Design in a Small Business Notebook Everybody is ecstatic about the magnesium-aluminum alloy top and base, in mocha brown or clementine orange (the chassis includes some plastic too). They also love the leather-like palm rest, the smooth, glass touchpad, and the super-thin styling and detailing that gives the U260 the look and feel of a leather portfolio. “We mean this with no disrespect to Lenovo, but when you first lay eyes (or hands) on the incredibly attractive IdeaPad U260, it's pretty hard to believe that it was made by the company,” said Engadget’s Joanna Stern, alluding to Lenovo’s reputation for clunky-looking designs. She even admits to having “a real crush on the U260's bronzish, mocha exterior…” Laptop magazine’s reviewer sounds a similar note. “The IdeaPad U260 has the kind of flair we wish ThinkPads had,” Kenneth Butler says, referring to Lenovo’s mainstream business laptop line. Butler adds that the design “lends the notebook a sense of smooth, minimal professionalism…” Lenovo receives a backhanded compliment on the U260’s looks from ZDNet reviewer James Kendrick. “It’s not often you can call a notebook ‘sexy,’and never one by Lenovo," he writes. “But it’s an adequate description of the IdeaPad U260. The U260 is the thinnest and lightest Windows notebook I have used, and the bronze casing looks and feels nice.” CNet’s Scott Stein makes the inevitable comparison to Apple’s MacBook Air, but implies that the Lenovo notebook holds its own, being “thin, light, and very easy on the eye…” He also praises the U260 for “beautifully textured surfaces, a great keyboard, and other quality finishing touches…” “There are two kinds of laptops,” writes MobileTechReviewer editor Lisa Gade, “Those dedicated to function and those dedicated to form (rarer). The Lenovo IdeaPad U260 is in the latter camp... To see it is to love it, much like Apple's notebooks.” Rating Laptop Ergonomics Some reviewers aren't quite as crazy about the ergonomics -- keyboard, touchpad, screen, etc. -- although CNet’s Stein judges the keyboard-touchpad combination “better than any other ultraportable outside of the MacBook Air,” and Gade says they are “ergonomic delights.” Kendrick, at ZDNet, referred to the keyboard as “a typically good Lenovo keyboard…,” also noting that it's spill resistant and that it "breathes," letting air in to the chassis to help with cooling. “The U260 doesn’t run hot as a result, even being so thin.” (Others commend the U260’s relatively cool running temperatures as well.) Kendrick also praises the touchpad, and adds, “Working with the U260 is simply a delight, it feels great in the hand and the light weight makes it the notebook to grab for quick sessions.” Engadget’s Stern likes the feel of the keyboard but complains about undersize Shift, Tabs and Caps Lock keys that slows touch typing. She likes the touchpad better, noting it “receives our highest stamp of approval. The smooth surface, which feels similar to a piece of sea glass, was incredibly soft on our index finger and just let the cursor glide along.” Laptop’s Butler also dislikes the too-small special keys, but writes, “…we still found them easy to find by feel.” He too likes the touchpad, but notes that “…multitouch gestures such as pinch-to-zoom felt somewhat sluggish.”

As the stimulation effect of economic resurgence fades away and there is stronger impact from tablet computer in 2011, the sales volume of global notebook computer is predicted to experience a sharp decline in growth margin in 2011 against 2010. The shipment of iPad approximated 14.79 million in 2010, and it is estimated to reach 37.60 million in 2011, a substantial growth of 1.54 folds from the previous year. 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As for other online shops like Android Market, it is still difficult to find one that can compete with Apples iTunes. So, over 80% tablet computer market this year will still be dominated by Apple iPad. Promisingly, the shipment of non-iPad tablet computers in 2011 will reach around 7 million, accounting for roughly 16% of the total tablet PC shipment. The rise of tablet computers has significantly seized the market shares from netbook whose sales dramatically shrank from 32.80 million in 2009 to 26.20 million in 2010 and will fall further in the future. Over 95% notebook computers worldwide are made by Taiwanese OEMs. Quanta powerfully regained the No.1 position from Compal in 2010 since Acer, the largest client of Compal, performed poorly in quarter 4 with grave inventory. Wistron also failed to meet the shipment objective in 2010, because its parent company Acer delivered more orders to Compal. With the focus on quality instead of quantity, Inventec invariably hovered at the low level and rejected the low-price orders of HP. Hon Hai took on the explosive momentum due to the fact that it was willing to accept the ultra low price offered by HP and ASUS deliberately reduced the reliance on Pegatron. Flextronics head-hunted all around in order to make certain breakthroughs in notebook OEM, nevertheless, in view of the experience, Flextronics could only resort to low price, so HP naturally became its exclusive client. The separation between Pegatron and ASUS would bring the shrinking orders from ASUS. Notebook computer OEM field is characterized by fierce competition and the gross margin of the OEMs is usually between 3%-5%. Consequently, the OEMs are trying hard to reduce the notebook OEM proportion so as to raise the gross margin; while EMS companies, especially Hon Hai and Flextronics, are doing their utmost to enhance the ratio of notebook OEM business which is the only field where they can achieve the substantial increase in their operating income. Moreover, EMS companies would like to accept despite the low gross margin merely for the sake of the experience in notebook OEM; while the traditional notebook OEMs dare to refuse the low price. HP is cleverest at profiting from the competition among notebook OEMs. Nowadays, none but Flextronics and Hon Hai care for the orders of HP, and Quanta only takes the high-end notebook computer orders of HP. It seems a tidal wave of westward march of the notebook computer industry is staged since HP moved its manufacturing plant to Chongqing. However, the shipment still relies on the delivery to such seaport cities as Shanghai and Shenzhen, and the slightly lower labor cost in the west than that in the east cannot make up the logistics cost caused by the longer-distance transportation. As a result, Yangtze River Delta remains the logistics base of 80% notebooks worldwide, and Chongqing is simply a standby for the moment. As for the supply of notebook computer components, the majority of components except memory, CPU, panel, and HDD can be independently produced by Taiwan manufacturers with increasingly high self-sufficiency rate

As the stimulation effect of economic resurgence fades away and there is stronger impact from tablet computer in 2011, the sales volume of global notebook computer is predicted to experience a sharp decline in growth margin in 2011 against 2010. The shipment of iPad approximated 14.79 million in 2010, and it is estimated to reach 37.60 million in 2011, a substantial growth of 1.54 folds from the previous year. The success of iPad lies in that its app store iTunes provides over 300 thousand kinds of application programs, and meanwhile, Apple develops such services as e-books and online videos & audios through the cooperation with newspapers and media so that iPad has triumphantly attracted the consumers. korean touch phone with wifi mid 1024 android 2.2 price 3g wi fi 7 inch touch screen google android gps ZOHO W709TV Dual Cards Quad Band TV Touch Screen Cell Phone Black mens barbwired wedding rings i9 tv wifi quad band dual cards wifi analog tv java compass touch screen cell phone Egltel V300 Dual Cards Dual Band FM Arabic Keyboard Cell Phone s22 android E5 TV Quad Band Tri sim Cards Analog TV Java QWERTY Keyboard Cell Phone(Red) 2.5 Inch TFT LCD Display DIY Design Digital Video Recorder HAIPAD MID701 Android 2.1 Tablet 7.0 Inch Touch Screen Telechips TCC8902 256M RAM with Wi-Fi/ Webcam Big Ballast,12V-35W 7 inch screen dimensions N87 Quad Band Dual Cards with Analog TV Java FM Touch Screen Cell Phone(Black) E77+ Dual Cards Quad Band TV FM Cell Phone hl-8747gb (opel insignia) diesel time 9330 Green Soft Cloth Case Bag for Panda Pad M001/M002 7 Inch MID GPS Dreambox 500C (cable??‰ Tuner final fantasyx cheap tidus wig Black Butler Cosplay ZOHO W5230 Dual SIM Card Dual Standby Cell Phone WIFI JAVA TV RMVB Unlocked White Color LCD wireless kits china free shipping shop cheap phone tungsten carbide couple's ring-usa retailers ceramic wedding bands for men 8 inch android bmw e39 gps xblade xr1 tungsten michael jackson ring portable black circular dvd player h9 cell phone X7+ Quad Band Dual Cards with Wifi Analog TV Java Touch Screen Cell Phone tft android 2.1 I2000 Quad Band Dual Cards with Java Touch Screen Cell Phone mp4 china cxtel g pad g10 e900 tablet review Starry Sky Cosplay sciphone i68 4g a3000 android mickey mouse mp3 In January 2011, nearly one hundred types of tablet computers were showcased on CES; however, the tablet computer that has market positioning distinguished from iPad can be the winners of the tablet market. As for other online shops like Android Market, it is still difficult to find one that can compete with Apples iTunes. So, over 80% tablet computer market this year will still be dominated by Apple iPad. Promisingly, the shipment of non-iPad tablet computers in 2011 will reach around 7 million, accounting for roughly 16% of the total tablet PC shipment. The rise of tablet computers has significantly seized the market shares from netbook whose sales dramatically shrank from 32.80 million in 2009 to 26.20 million in 2010 and will fall further in the future. Over 95% notebook computers worldwide are made by Taiwanese OEMs. Quanta powerfully regained the No.1 position from Compal in 2010 since Acer, the largest client of Compal, performed poorly in quarter 4 with grave inventory. Wistron also failed to meet the shipment objective in 2010, because its parent company Acer delivered more orders to Compal. With the focus on quality instead of quantity, Inventec invariably hovered at the low level and rejected the low-price orders of HP. Hon Hai took on the explosive momentum due to the fact that it was willing to accept the ultra low price offered by HP and ASUS deliberately reduced the reliance on Pegatron. Flextronics head-hunted all around in order to make certain breakthroughs in notebook OEM, nevertheless, in view of the experience, Flextronics could only resort to low price, so HP naturally became its exclusive client. The separation between Pegatron and ASUS would bring the shrinking orders from ASUS. Notebook computer OEM field is characterized by fierce competition and the gross margin of the OEMs is usually between 3%-5%. Consequently, the OEMs are trying hard to reduce the notebook OEM proportion so as to raise the gross margin; while EMS companies, especially Hon Hai and Flextronics, are doing their utmost to enhance the ratio of notebook OEM business which is the only field where they can achieve the substantial increase in their operating income. Moreover, EMS companies would like to accept despite the low gross margin merely for the sake of the experience in notebook OEM; while the traditional notebook OEMs dare to refuse the low price. HP is cleverest at profiting from the competition among notebook OEMs. Nowadays, none but Flextronics and Hon Hai care for the orders of HP, and Quanta only takes the high-end notebook computer orders of HP. It seems a tidal wave of westward march of the notebook computer industry is staged since HP moved its manufacturing plant to Chongqing. However, the shipment still relies on the delivery to such seaport cities as Shanghai and Shenzhen, and the slightly lower labor cost in the west than that in the east cannot make up the logistics cost caused by the longer-distance transportation. As a result, Yangtze River Delta remains the logistics base of 80% notebooks worldwide, and Chongqing is simply a standby for the moment. As for the supply of notebook computer components, the majority of components except memory, CPU, panel, and HDD can be independently produced by Taiwan manufacturers with increasingly high self-sufficiency rate