Android Tab Users Only Interested In WiFi Survey

Posted by paul on Sunday Dec 18, 2011

Weight might be an issue for Android tablet owners nevertheless they won’t be exactly carting them away and off to work day in day out.

That is the results from a study on the usage and expectancies of tablets by Connected Intelligence conducted at the beginning of 2011.

The study found that many Android tablet owners were either operating them at home, or in recreational areas like cafes, restaurants and cafes and not taking them for the bus, on business trips or to the board room.

As a result the following things will be on the average Android tablets buyer’s wish list:

WiFi connectability
Webpage loading time
Processing times
Screen resolution
Media formats
Storage capacity
Physical design

What’s missing from that list are items like battery life, 3G connectivity and weight to some degree.

3G connectivity was the very least desired out of all the Android tablet features with just 40% of users looking for, and purchasing GSM capable and 3G Android tablets.

Researches attributed this to a number of factors: the cost of data, the proliferation of free WiFi spots and the location where the devices will be used.

Increasing Data Cost
While you can find unlimited data plans in Europe and also the UK this is by no means a worldwide phenomenon. US Android tablet users have to live with paying up to 80 dollars a month for just 10GB of data while NZ iPhone and Android tablet users will be looking at paying 50 NZD a month for 3GB of bandwidth.

Smart phone owners will wear increased data charges since the phone is an essential tool within their daily life. Tablet owners, who use their devices mainly for recreational purposes won’t, specially in today’s tight financial circumstances.

The Proliferation Of Free WiFi Spots
A growing number of free WiFi spots have cropped up all over the world. It’s almost harder to discover a restaurant, cafe or motel which doesn’t have WiFi now. Many cities are also opening up city-wide WiFi connections to get visitors and young professionals.

Android tablets Owners Use Habits

Tablet owners tend to use their devices in the home rather than on the go. They read books, investigate net, watch movies and play games.

The reasons for this could be due to the dimensions of the devices, they are less portable compared to the phone, this could also be because it is replacing devices which were normally used while at home (items like portable gaming devices, books, magazines)

There are several messages that can be taken away by Android tablet retailers and eBay sellers from this article.

The first is that considerations like weight, connectivity and life cycle of battery might not be the deal breakers when it comes to sourcing tablets. Instead, considerations like price, responsiveness, useability and memory are usually more important.

The second is that marketing tablets to commuters may well not get nearly as many sales as marketing the crooks to homebodies.

3G doesn’t interest the couch potato generation. And they’re the Android tablet seller’s market currently.

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Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich Will Get More Version Flavors

Posted by paul on Tuesday Dec 13, 2011

Users are adopting Android faster than ever .

Less than 2 months have passed since the official launch of the Ice Cream Sandwich Android build (Android 4.0) but developers have already brought out a few telephones running the updated version with independent developers placing it onto their own telephones and several big-name Android ROMS being on the edge of an Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) compatible upgrade.

Samsung Universe S and the recently-released Samsung Nexus were just a couple of the smart telephones released with the updated Android O. S with reviewers raving about how nice the new operating system looked and how well it worked.

One reviewer went as far as pronouncing that Ice Cream Sandwich brought in lots of the cohesiveness that IOS fans felt the Android OS lacked.

“Ice Cream Sandwich also has a more unvarying classy theme, too. It’s not quite as overbearing as the Tron-like hologram effect of Android Honeycomb, but it looks swish all of the same,”Know Your Mobile

The major Android ROMs have also been eager to get updated Android Ice Cream Sandwich ROM versions out.

Cyanogen is busy working on Cyanogen nine, which they assert will have the updated O. S in late December 2011 or early Jan 2012. The updated trendy Miui ROM for Android smartphones and Android-based tablets was also due to come out round the same time.

Other ROMs and developers are abuzz with the launch of the Android Ice Cream Sandwich with almost all of the developers who take part on the XDA forums either installing it or brooding about installing it.

This is helped by the low requirements for Ice Cream Sandwich.

While it’s unknown if phones with less than 300MB RAM and processors slower than 800MHz will be in a position to handle the new operating system Google engineers claim Android 4.0 will be in a position to work on most phones already capable of running the Android O. S.

This probably means that anybody and each one can port Android 4 onto their telephone regardless of whether they’ve an starter level Android phone worth 70-100 or a power-house Android smartphone with more processing power than the average PC.

This is exciting news for China and wholesale Android telephone makers who should be in a position to offer more Android smart telephones at lower costs, which offer a better user experience. This is regardless of whether they are making Qwerty Android telephones candybar Android phones with number pads or a straight touchscreen Android phone.

Vengeance might be a dish served cold and it appears it is the same for creativity. The Android Ice Cream Sandwich update will be the Android version that may see Android continue to steal Apple’s thunder.

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