Tablet shipments will increase 56 percent this year, with help from the growing popularity of 7-inch tablets, IHS reports. Donna Tam covers Amazon and other fun stuff for CNET News. She is a San ...

The media tablet market is poised for robust growth — driven in large part by the emerging 7.x-inch form factor, according to new figures from IHS iSuppli. Tablet shipments will reach 126.6 million ...

Asus announced two new tablets will join its U.S. arsenal: One is a higher-resolution variant on the recently released Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, while the other is Asus’ long-awaited take on a 7 ...

The tablets are great. They’re larger than a smartphone, but not as dense and clunky as a laptop. The ease of a tablet is truly an appeal, but you have to admit, some are just too big and cumbersome ...

In the age of extra-large smartphones, there’s not much need for a tablet that’s only a little bigger—even if it has a rock-bottom price. In 2022, Amazon’s Fire 7 feels like a tablet from a bygone era ...

Big screen Android tablets with Honeycomb 3.0 were all the rage, while smaller tablets were stuck with older smartphone versions of the OS–until now. The first 7-inch tablet featuring Honeycomb is set ...

At a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif. Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed a slightly upgraded $159 version of the first 7-inch tablet, then wowed the crowd with 7-inch and 8.9 inch ...

Today marks the eighth anniversary of Google releasing the original Nexus 7 tablet and it’s easy to forget the impact that it had on the industry at the time. Sure, many phones today are approaching ...

Back in 2010, Steve Jobs scoffed at the “current crop of seven-inch tablets,” calling them “dead on arrival.” “There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touchscreen ...

About 18 months ago, I was one of the first to write about what I thought Amazon’s business model would be for its tablet that launched last fall. I had heard from my sources in Taiwan that Amazon was ...

Vizio is making a splash with tablets at this year’s CES: After announcing its first Windows 8 device yesterday, today Vizio unveiled a new 10-inch Android tablet powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 4 chip, ...

Microsoft may be entering the 7-inch tablet arena in the near future in an attempt to challenge the likes of the iPad mini, Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD. According to the The Wall Street Journal, the ...