Android Tablets will maintain competitive edge with niche application

Since most LCD Panel and Flat screen manufacturers are located in China, Taiwan and Korea, the expertise and knowledge in this technology has given major manufacturer of computer to develop high end resolution flat panel technology, where Apple took the lead and managed to develop and contract its iPad and iPhone technology to major contract manufacturing companies especially in China and breakthrough to launch its product in a short time with large quantities that took the world by storm .

Such Major contracting facilities in China has also supported many sub- contractors , who build-up to hundreds of companies whom offered sub manufacturing for component parts or services like software integration to final end product to be assembled by the Bigger Manufacturing plant . Such Manufacturing concept and Business models therefore facilitate a powerful manufacturing base for Touch Tablets in China .

As the market evolves, Many smaller Companies in China , start to come out with their own design and experiment with many New iPad-similar products. Although Apple's iPad has defined the tablet marketplace, there is a lot of room for niche markets under the tablet user application umbrella and as the market is still in the growing stage there are still plenty of rooms for new models from different manufacturers.

With the introduction of the Androids from Google whom offer Open License application , the manufacturing companies suddenly diverts from the normal Windows CE or Linux , and starts to focus very much on Androids Operating system , and the technologies catches up so fast that there are now more than 30 models of Touch tablets from different manufacturers ,mostly from China using androids platforms as their operating system.

That kicks off a new competition, and created specifically a New range of product called the Androids Touch tablet .

Based on recent Smartphone sales results in the US , Androids based smartphone 's sales has recently overtook iPhone in the smartphone sector, the androids application may pickup further also in the Touch tablet sector and capture a major share of the market from iPad .

Unlike the major big manufacturers like Apple ,HP ,Lenovo, Samsung , Acer , whom has capacity to produce large quantities of ten of thousands per production , their sales strategy will be to work with major telcos on selling with cellular contract, and so far it has level the majors player at a higher price level compared to the China-made Androids Touch tablets. This trend will stay for the next 5 years , as Big players may on catch up with marketing effort and smaller factories are also not limited by telcos to come out with Newer models design and wider range of application as the Android Marketing is blasting at high speed with new development every week and is very popular .

Therefore the smaller touch tablets manufacturers who has capacity of not more than 500 units per production typically will focus on Direct selling through Online Ecommerce store or through their smaller Sales Network as they also have to be real competitive in order to survive and will also be more creative to come up with special application to create a niche market of their own , and this trends is starting with many Androids tablets focusing on application like ebook reading , children audio ebook, digital media player with HD video , android market device for games , video , software application ,GPS Map locator, dictionary cum translator and many others.

Integration of such Mobile internet device with Smartphone will be possible in near future and it can even be integrated as part of your office equipment or home office , as HP is the first Company to incorporate their Mobile Tablet device to be supplied with the office jet Printer ( Hp Photosmart estation ) as a remote control for the printer, when the HP MID remote tablet can be used for social Networking purpose for sharing of picture , or managing of data or document , and print on demand specifically when the Unit is plug to the printer for processing of important print data or pictures.The Mobile Internet device has even become for effective as a carrier for information and social networking purpose

HP Photosmart eStation

One such niche application has typically felt the sudden attention , typically for the ebook reading sector .Similar in the background story , ebook Readers has as many as 30 different models from different manufacturer .A detailed comparison list is available at Ebook reader comparision List (Androids Touch tablets works similar as another e-reader device able to read books , informational articles, e-zines, and novels in ibook format and provide also the ability to do efficient web browsing in full colour with capacity to view videos in different format , play music , sending and receiving email and even social networking

As such ,traditional ebook reader which mostly focus on their reading features, like having exclusive audio reader or handwriting features built-in with e-ink reading enhancement tools ,DRM protection has felt the immerse pressure. Such eReader devices mostly come with Black /white screen but lacks the features of playing Movies and web browsing features thus failing to attract the younger generation readers .

Beside Tech savvies has preference for MID as most of them are priced within USD 250-00 with colour screen or even Wifi-3G features and further able to do both colour ebook and e-magazine reading

Kindle

Traditional eReader devices like the Kindle from Amazon has felt such effect from this new competition that will cause eReader devices to be sold for much less than they currently are today . Analyst has predicted a good Kindle type eReader should cost less than US 180 ,and Amazon has started to offer with this price range for their New Model ,with Koboreader also selling at USD 145-00 at several online store .

Tech consumers will surely benefits from this competition as it will bring forth also many more Books made available for download at several eBook downloadable services such as Google ,Borders.com and many ebook sites and to suit different devices , many ebook formats will be easily made available in Multiple format for the same content or ebooks at most major downloadable service platform . Even gadget similar to iphone and smartphone are able to download ebooks .The choice of eReading device will therefore increases in near future

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