Elonex PLC, a British computer hardware manufacturer and related IT services provider, has recently released an eTouch Blade 1043ET tablet, a 3G-supporting device powered with Android 2.2, but little did many Android developers know that the company was about to introduce the next model to compete with the Apple’s iPad 2 so soon. It is a pretty much full package of all the necessary features for quite a reasonable price.

First, the Amazon Appstore was confronting the Apple App Store with its similar name, and now it’s introducing a brand new promotion method.

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated, а Taiwan-based computer manufacturer, has officially shared information regarding the new Eee Pad MeMo tablet.

HTC Corporation, the Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones, has decided to launch a tablet, too. HTC Flyer is the newly released gadget that is, honestly speaking, a little bit underdeveloped to be competitive.

And off they go! Another drastic improvement is awaiting Apple’s iPhone and iPad in the future.

The fourth-generation devices will most likely be armed with a dual-core graphics chip SGX543MP2, which is said to be four times more powerful than the currently used SGX535.

Each year hundreds of prognosticators make forecasts concerning every little thing. In technology world there appear the best and the worst gadgets, trends, projects, software, the top fives, tens, dozens and hundreds of this and that.

Looks like iPads have faced their killer.

Samsung has officially sold a million Galaxy Tabs. Just a couple of weeks ago they were boasting about having sold the whole 600'000 of them which was a true manifest of Galaxies being the most popular Android tablet in the market. And all of a sudden, two weeks later Samsung celebrates the first million of devices sold around the world! Considering the fact that they were aiming to hit that target by the end of the year, that's quite an underestimation of one's potential.

This year Apple delivered one of the most fabulous gadgets common users can dream of. But that was just the beginning as iPad is the first in a long line of the likes. At the moment Apple is quite confidently occupying the top position at the nascent tablet market and is hardly to welcome any competition. Nevertheless, multiple competitors are coming, eager to get their own piece of the pie and a share in enormous profits Apple is enjoying.

Although the Korean company Mintpass seems to have delayed the launch of the 7-inch Android tablet they promised in 2009, still they have already delivered another offspring for general release in 2011. The 2.86-inc touchscreen PMP and WiFi internet mintpad tablet finally got the status of the general novelty. The recurrent Korean smart thing has internal storage of 4GB, a microSD card slot, a 1.3 megapixel camera, video, audio and picture playback and an e-book reader. With this model users can enjoy audio playback for 30 hours or watch a video for 5 hours. This up-to-date media player together with some other new releases may mean the whole trend in tablet industry.

The release of the iPad has definitely opened a new page in consumer technology development and has shaken lots of gadget positions at the market which have been enjoying their stability for quite a while. Tablets, in general, have had a serious impact on the netbook sales, decreasing them significantly. It is quite understandable, instead of buying a clumsy light version of the notebook with limited capabilities one can switch to a posh and stylish tablet and keep to the fashion. Moreover iPad developershave already supplied consumers with a range of apps, some of them being extremely efficient, others — a complete waste of time and money as well as developers’ efforts.