Amazon captured a significant proportion of the Android tablet market with the Kindle Fire, largely thanks to its cheap selling price. There’s still sadly no word on an Australian launch date — although that hasn’t stopped some importing them — but the current crop of rumours suggest that the Kindle fire may be getting bigger and/or cheaper.
The HTC One X is a great phone, but one that you can currently only get on Optus or Vodafone’s networks. Its Telstra LTE equivalent, the One XL was originally tipped to follow shortly after the One X’s launch, but it looks like we might have to wait a while longer.
It’s been widely tipped that a variety of vendors will offer wltrabooks in the latter half of the year with much lower price points, in order to compete with Apple’s Macbook Air — at the moment there’s mostly price parity. The latest rumour suggests that one of those competitors might be Apple itself.
Not as in “a handset” but as in “the whole Australian part of the company”. It’s being rumoured that Vodafone is up for sale, although the telco itself is denying the rumours.
Just a few weeks ago we heard rumours that Google was plotting a pay TV service set to launch this year, and now a Wall Street Journal report has surfaced, suggesting that Intel is also planning to launch a web-based TV service in 2012.
The latest rumour to do the rounds surrounding Nokia’s will-they-won’t-they tablet? We’ll see it in the last quarter of the year, but Nokia’s playing it extremely cautious when it comes to production numbers, meaning it’ll either take no risks on WOA tablets, or sell out in seconds.
The rumour mills are churning away trying to sort out exactly what the iPad 3 that everyone assumes will be unveiled on Thursday morning (Australian time) will be like. It’s now suggested that it’ll be joined by a revised fully covering Smart Cover as well.
It’s not even clear if Google will get directly into the Android tablet business — although its ownership of Motorola kind of makes the point moot. Still, the latest rumour doing the rounds suggests that the maker of a $US199 Google-branded tablet will be Asus.
The iPad 3 rumours keep coming thick and fast. Multiple sources are saying the 7th of March will be the unveiling date, and now the Wall Street Journal is indicating that the iPad 3 will be LTE-capable.
