How the Tablet Makers Should Thank Their Users Now

The tablet is growing to be the next big thing in the world of communication devices, and while many are buying the tablet on mere face value, there is still the market that believes in cheap communication, where the tablets are not so popular. While the tablet is extremely useful and has a number of applications and services that make life easier for the user, not many are comfortable with the amount of money that they would need to pay each month for using these applications, or being online. Here are three ways how the tablet manufacturers can thank buyers right now.

Offer Free GPRS:

The best thing about the tablet is that it offers a never before chance to browse the Internet on a mobile platform. With a large screen, better keyboards and support to newer features, the Tablet may be the best mobile internet device right now. However, for the casual mobile internet user, the price of the GPRS connection per month might be a bit expensive.

Therefore, tablet users should look at offering free GPRS services for a few weeks or months, before the users can get hooked up to the idea of mobile internet on their Tablet.

Offer Free Apps:

While most tablet making companies offer many apps, not all of them are useful and even worthy of making a list of apps. If the tablet makers would offer some of the more popular apps for free for a while, the popularity of apps and that particular app would certainly rise, and add to the already burgeoning market of tablets and palmtops. Apart from apps, the tablet makers can even put in some free games that would be worthy of play - that will definitely get the younger generation interested in tablets.

Lower the Prices:

The price of a tablet is high, but not exorbitant. However, for a new gadget in the market, the price is not something that anyone would pay for, so the tablet makers should work towards lowering the prices of the gadget, and make it all the more viable for the people who intend to buy them. With the lowered prices, there will be a lot of buzz in the market, and it will herald an opportunity for the lesser budget tablets to make an entry into the market.

These are the three ways in which the tablet makers can thank their users right now.

Apple Unveils iPad 2 - Should You Care?

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That Apple had a revision of its iPad line of Tablet computers ready to go wasn't a particular surprise, although the exact details of what they were going to release wasn't known until they announced it late last week. It's not, despite anything that Apple might say, a revolution in tablet computing, and much more an evolution of the concept, adding a faster processor -- a similar step to what you'd see in laptop computers, and even Apple itself did the same thing the week before with its Macbook Pro line -- inbuilt cameras for Apple's Facetime video calling solution and an overall thinner and lighter body.

Sight unseen, I'd have to say that if you've already got an iPad, this is a pretty easy iteration to skip. Sure, it's faster, but the only other major new technology feature is the inbuilt camera, and the utility of these on tablets is questionable at best. It's also worth noting that last year's iPads -- still very capable machines -- are being sold out all across the land at what amounts to fire sale prices. For the capability you get, last year's iPad at this year's fire sale prices might just be the tablet bargain of the year.

At the same time as Apple's unveiling the iPad 2, its competitors are lining up competing tablets at a fair pace. Blackberry has its Playbook due out before the middle of the year, Motorola has the Android-inspired Xoom tablet, Viewsonic has the Viewpad 10s already out on store shelves and Samsung's taking a bet both ways. There's an upcoming iteration of its Galaxy Tab Android-based tablet due out in a 10" form factor, similar to the iPad, as well as the 7 Series "Sliding" tablet, which runs full Windows 7. It's a "Sliding" tablet because behind the screen lies a full keyboard and trackpad, so you can fairly quickly convert it from a straight up touch-based machine to a small notebook. Touch on Windows 7 has been one of those features that's been baked in from the start, but not all that well set. Most Windows 7 applications simply aren't built with touch in mind, so while it works, it's never -- to date -- worked well. Having had a brief review session with the 7 Series, it might just be the tablet to break this particular curse, with more than a passing effort put into providing it with useful touch-based applications.

If touch-based computing makes sense for you -- whether you're looking at it from a pure consumer web-and-video style "consumption" model, or even as a portable productivity tool -- it's going to be an interesting year. As it stands, Apple's decision to not radically tinker with the iPad 2 leaves the field quite open to competitors, and it could be worth waiting to see what comes to market, and at what price point before committing yourself.

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Article Submitted On: March 06, 2011