Windows Tablets to Overtake Android, Thanks to Microsoft Office 365

- Alert) and Android devices’ market shares,” Chiou said in a recent article.

Chiou issued his forecasts for Microsoft tablets with Office 365, Android and iPad tablets in a Witsview report titled, “2010-2015 Market Shares of Tablet PC Operating Systems.” WitsView is a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based Trendforce. The predictions come from tracking shipments of PCs and LCD panels.

While Office 365 might give Windows 8-based tablets a competitive edge over Android tablets, it’s not expected to dent Apple’s position as the leader in the tablet segment. The iPad currently accounts for 62 percent of the tablet market share. And by 2015, Chiou expects that number to drop to 59 percent, while it will still remain the most popular tablet by far.

The Android tablet market share, however, will drop from 32 percent to 21 percent, while Windows-based tablets rise to 19 percent.

Even if Google (News

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Website Traffic Shifting to Tablets and Smart Phones

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New Toys from Samsung: The Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Camera, and Windows 8 Tablets and Phone

All in all, Samsung has pulled together a very nice suite of features. But we wonder a great deal about the efficiency of the Note's general size. We've had an original Note in hand for some time, but after the initial deep dive that goes with learning a new device, we haven't exactly put it through any blisteringly detailed use. Our own biggest problem is that it typically falls short in terms of offering enough functionality to make it a device of choice. And it is simply too large to just carry around as a smartphone.

 It will be interesting to see how - or if - sales for the Note II develop. We greatly applaud the "innovation" but we're not convinced the form factor is a winner.

The Galaxy Camera

Samsung next surprised us by debuting a new camera, and specifically an Android-driven camera. The idea of the camera is to marry both video and optical technology with some smartphone capabilities. To date, most smartphones from most vendors (with the possible exception of Nokia) have offered basic camera functionality along with some software capabilities for editing.

Samsung has opted to take a different approach here - start with a very high end camera concept and then add some mobile operating system capabilities to the mix, so that one ends up with a very sophisticated mobile camera. Hence the Samsung Galaxy camera, shown in the accompanying image.



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Nationwide Study Finds Smartphones, Tablets are now Mainstream Devices

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Rebtel Unleashes Mobile VoIP Calls for Android Tablets

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NHL Playoffs Face Off on Verizon Smartphones, Tablets

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Smartphones, Media Tablets Stimulate Tripling of Touch Controller ICs

- Alert) iPhones and iPads, the use of touch screen displays in smartphones and media tablets is booming. As a result, the market for touch controller ICs have  almost tripled in size in less than five years.

A recent study completed by information and analytics provider IHS (News - Alert) iSuppli shows that shipments of touch controller ICs are set to reach 2.4 billion units in 2015, up from 865 million in 2010. The study predicts that this year alone, shipments will surge 28 percent to 1.7 billion units, with strong double-digit growth projected for the next two years before the rate of expansion slows slightly in 2015.

In a statement, said Randy Lawson, principal analyst for display and consumer electronics at HIS, “The expansion in touch controller IC shipments is due to the growing number of devices that employ touch technology.”  

He added, “Apple almost single-handedly ignited the market for touch in 2007 when it introduced the iPhone (News - Alert), which featured a multi-touch screen based on a projected capacitive touch technology. Since the appearance of the iPhone, many other smartphone manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon by deploying sophisticated touch sensors for their products.”

IHS said that touch technology has branched out from being used mainly in mobile handsets to a wide array of consumer electronic items, expanding the aggregate universe of touch applications. Consequently, touch sensors now can be found in tablets, e-readers, all-in one PCs, portable media players, portable navigation devices, flat-panel TVs and monitors, handheld video game players, automotive applications, digital still cameras and digital picture frames.

Together, according to IHS, the number of devices and appliances using some form of touch controller IC is predicted to hit 1.06 billion units this year, nearly double from 514.9 million units only two years ago.

The study also suggests that capacitive touch screens like those first featured by Apple in its products made up 54 percent of the touch market in 2011. And it will remain as the dominant implementation for the space in the years to come, ahead of other touch-sensor technologies like infrared, optical, resistive and surface acoustic wave.

Last year, according to IHS, key suppliers of the touch controller ICs were Atmel Corp., Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Synaptics (News

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