How Android tablets can catch up to the iPad
Expect a lot of Android tablets at the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas to be unveiled this week. For now, sales of Android tablets are well behind the iPad. Here are five ways Android tablets are able to obtain.
Lower prices
Given the dominance iPad in the form of tablets, tablets Android have a price war to start. Samsung Galaxy Tab, for example, is a great tablet, but the original $ 599 price tag was too high --- higher than the entry-level iPad. At this point, the Android compete with IPAD tablets should be beaten.
There is evidence it happened gradually. Samsung Galaxy Tab, for example, has only $ 499 was cut from Verizon. And New York Times reported that a $ 350, 7-inch tablet from a company called Android will Enspert at CES. Catching up will Android tablet makers need to be aggressive in their price reductions.
Ship Honeycomb --- Fast!
Android version 3.0, code-named Honeycomb, will be the first version of Android is specially designed for tablets, although it also runs on smartphones. Among other sizing resolve Honeycomb problem that some applications with tablets. And it makes Android tablets for 10-inch monitors run as IPAD, not the smaller 7-inch them. Google to comb out the door as quickly as possible.
Double click on cameras
Samsung Loss Galaxy were both looking forward and rearward facing camera allows video calls and video conferences. Right now, IPAD not both types of cameras, although it is possible that the next generation of iPads. Regardless, to be successful, Android tablets, two sets of cameras.
Turn up the video
The Times article points out that high-quality video is key to the success of a tablet found that market research shows that
particular, consumers who use tablets for all types of media consumption --- see movies to watch and share photos, play games.
This means that Android tablets are of high quality screens and powerful chips have. You can not save the quality.
Android tablet makers must do more than just faster chips and better screens, though. They need more extras as well. Add HDMI ports would be helpful, for example, and Android tablet makers would do well to emphasize that their pills can run flash videos, something which can not be iPads.
Developers, developers, developers!
The New York Times article points out:
Apple's experience with IPAD has also shown that consumers have a high value on the number and quality of applications. And no matter how well the tablets in Las Vegas look at electronics, will begin to write with the competition to continue as developers to build applications for different devices.
"You can use this device, which is to build big, but it is not enough to say:". OK, you have online, "said Mr. Donovan of comScore" You need the developer.
Donovan is entirely correct. Google does an excellent job of ensuring that the Android app market has been sown, and it should write the same for applications developed for Android tablets. Android tablets should have a natural advantage over the iPad, when it comes to applications --- the freedom to download what you want, instead of Apple said, what can you download and what is not. But to some extent, it's a numbers game, is to ensure that Google has written a lot of tablet-specific applications
