Gadgetory

tablets we even talked about them in a while and there's a reason for that you don't need any research to know that tablets flag behind smartphones substantially just look at the people around you IDC predicts will end 2014 with 1.2 billion smartphones shipped almost 20 percent more than the year before compare those numbers to tablets slated to move only about 250 million units in the year about a fifth of the smartphone sales and declining in 2014 for the first time Best Buy CEO Hubert Jolie recently said that tablet sales at his stores were collapsing and you hear anecdotally from many consumers that they find that the older tablet they bought a number of years ago it's still good enough I almost never hear them say that about their smartphone so in light of all this manufacturers are of course doing what they can to spike a market a large market but one that seems to have crested here are some which you should watch for starting with tablets depending on the size and who's counting these little big screen devices can count as tablets or phones either way they are arguably the hottest thing going right now at least related to tablets convertibility a lot of users have realized in the last couple of years that having a smartphone a notebook and a tablet is a device to many the phone is supremely portable and applicable the notebook is the most powerful so convertible tablets seem to have found some traction being the most positionable pretty tough road this was a big gotcha for a lot of early tablet buyers who realize now a tablet is not a thinner skinnier laptop it's got less power it has less applicability it runs less powerful software so now we're finding that there's a one-off out there with Microsoft Surface pro 3 which is the only one that's really trying to say a tablet can be a full pc replacement there alone in this one and having a pretty tough road display quality this one tends to have good traction in the tablet market because it's a big enough screen where you can really show off and be wowed by and appreciate the improvement in the display technology brighter better color a finer dot pitch more than HD resolution these really pop on a tablet it's kind of hard to appreciate them on a phone finally there's the very pedestrian sounding keyboard quality but goto big conference or a huge classroom today well you used to see a sea of notebooks a few years ago you're likely seeing a sea of tablets today with keyboards attached if you really want to get into your tablet and do some kind of work having an excellent quality keyboard is essential