Sunday, February 13, 2011

PC end of an era from the Tablet PC and smart phone challenges

 Augustine Wong Ho Ming
Economic Observer Online news more and more people are using smart phones and tablet PCs.

just after New Year in his hometown, back to Shenzhen Wang prepare to buy a tablet PC recently, he took a fancy to foreign brands of the French company's digital products manufacturer ARCHOS ARCHOS (Archos) 101, Android's

As the machine uses, Wang outspoken Road, hopes the gap in the daily work, pay no attention to the leadership to be more comfortable, feel free to read novels movies, play games, take-anywhere full-time speculation.

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for him, day after day, 19-inch front office PC computer screen, back to home on the TV drama 17-inch laptop screen, mouse click repeatedly day operations that he had tired of boring, and supervisors under the vigilant eyes are so lazy Wang did not dare use the office computer at work not Tablet PC is not just to address the issue.

corner of the machine on the desk, the boss can not see the place, steal their play alone Lele, and office computer while the page remains the state of communication with customers, even if the leadership of eyes swept and no trace could be found; rest day, the good days of the night hiding in the warm blanket with a touch screen to watch movies, enjoy

However, Wang concerns or their own low-end machine phone, popular smart phone last year, almost everyone of his colleagues a series of intelligent machines iPhone is not new out of the iPhone4, is iPhone3, look at this trend and this year he also wants to buy iPhone. If you can buy a portable tablet PC, then buy the phone features and heavy.

Wang hesitated at first to buy iPhone Tablet PC or smartphone to buy the first time, accompanied by the PC for many years of his life seems to have already been swept into the dusty corners, has become obsolete products.

these changes are of more and more and more in various kinds of

IDC2 from market research firm's report dated 7 May, last year's fourth quarter smartphone shipments for the first time over the PC.

the fourth quarter of last year, the global smart phone shipments over 100 million units, reaching 100.9 million units, compared with the 53.9 million units in 2009 increased 87.2%. By 2010, global PC shipments in the fourth quarter as the 92.1 million units.

IDC Earlier a report that Apple iPad tablet PCs such as the rise of the negative impact on PC sales, while sales of smart phones to benefit from lower prices. Currently, the market price of 100 dollars or so many of the new smart phones.

growth rate for the Tablet PC, IDC data show that in 2010 Tablet PC shipments reached 17 million units by 2011 as more and more technology companies began to launch their own tablet PC products will be sold 162% than last year, and 2012, Tablet PC shipments worldwide will reach 70.8 million units of terror.

IDC forecast, the third computer technology wave into the mainstream in 2011, smart phones and tablet PCs will replace the war the rule of PC location. By then, the world's 2.1 billion people half of regular Internet use of non-PC devices will be networked.

Citigroup research report also shows that more sophisticated Tablet PC the function of cultural and real-time PC buyers and quickly lost love. And Tablet PC functions more closely in the coming years is expected to PC, gradually attract consumers adhere to the PC, then replace the PC shipments substantially, especially in small notebooks.

smart phones and tablet PCs continue to divert the trend of erosion of the traditional PC market has long been nailed, the former champion PC era is over.

for these changes, PC makers also sees clearly, the world's top four PC makers - Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell and Lenovo have all entered the smart phone market.

HP announced last April to 1.2 billion acquisition of Palm after the mobile phone companies, made no secret of its smart phones and tablet PCs into the intention. February 10, HP out of his own achievements, introduced the first Tablet PC TouchPad and two new smart phones.

Lenovo to push smart phones last year,

Dell, Samsung, Toshiba, Asus and other PC makers have launched early this year their new flat-panel products, and even traditional phone companies Nokia, Motorola and RIM (Blackberry) is also eager to enter the touch-screen area.

RIM has launched its BlackBerry in September last year, Tablet PC Playbook, plans to market in early 2011. Motorola is at the CES show introduced a tablet PC Motorola XOOM, will be held Feb. 24 listing.

into computers to do phone sales tablet computers, tablet PCs do sell the phone, a smart phone, tablet PCs, the traditional PC melee will inevitably be staged in 2011.

However, interest on the Tablet PC is not only manufacturers who are interested in software development enterprise.

from the latest news with the foreign media, said the world's largest developer of mobile Internet browser Opera, said recently that the company's Tablet PC browser market for the relevant product deployment has started, the company will fully to enter the Tablet PC browser market, at the upcoming Mobile World Congress Mobile World Congress 2011 on which the company will introduce new Apple iPad tablet version of Opera Mini browser.

Opera that Apple iPad is the most popular flat-panel computer products, Apple iPad developed for the new version of Opera Mini browser will be the companies to enter the Tablet PC market is a good beginning.

for the flat heat, the portal site Yahoo jealous.

2 11 May, Yahoo has released for Android iPad and Tablet PC news reader application Livestand. The application of the first half of 2011 to meet with consumers, the price is not clear. Publishers can use to complete its content distribution Livestand once and deploy to the most popular Tablet PC device. The advertisers can create personalized brand experience, in the Tablet PC display on interactive advertising.

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