Tokyo: Japan's Sony Corp lowered its sales target for digital cameras to 1.3 trillion yen ($12.7 billion) for the fiscal year to end-March 2015, from a previous estimate of 1.5 trillion yen.
Sony also cut its sales target for smartphones and tablets to 1.5 trillion yen in its 2014 fiscal year from an earlier outlook of 1.8 trillion yen.
Sony, which expects smartphone sales to rise by more than a quarter to 42 million in the current year to end-March, is battling with China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp and South Korea's LG Electronics for third place in the $225 billion global market behind Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc.
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12:49 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Kobian has unveiled its new tablet, dubbed the Mercury mTab7G. The tablet has a thickness of 10.8 mm, weighs in at 300 g and supports both 2G and 3G connectivity. Much like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, the mTAB7G allows voice calling through the SIM cards. The tablet comes with a handsfree headset with an inbuilt mic, thus allowing users to use the tablet as their primary mobile...
03:37 PM, May 20, 2013
Mumbai: Looks like Windows 8 will soon be gracing displays smaller than 10 inches. Earlier this month, Acer's 8.1-inch tablet running Windows 8 appeared on Amazon, increasing speculation that devices competing with the iPad mini and Nexus 7 will soon be out in various markets. Of course, that Amazon listing disappeared as soon as it came and then Denis Kutnikov, of Acer Russia said that such a tablet would be...
04:39 PM, May 19, 2013
Pune: Aiming to become one of India's top three handset vendors, Chinese telecom major ZTE announced a tie-up with city-based firm Calyx to launch its smartphones in the domestic market. ZTE, which supplies handsets to Indian handset-makers such as Micromax and Karbonn and telecom operators Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular, has set a target of selling one million smartphones in the first year. "With our foray into the open handset...
11:44 AM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Just days after learning that Notion Ink is working on the second-generation Adam tablet, specs of the device have been revealed in a somewhat official manner. At the recent National Technology Day Awards, specs and features of Adam II tablet were revealed and Engadget has got hold of the brochure presented by Notion Ink. The tablet will be priced at Rs 12,000, but no date has been announced for...
02:29 PM, May 13, 2013
Mumbai: Remember Notion Ink, the Bangalore-based startup that came into the limelight with the Android tablet, Adam? Well, looks like the company is back after a long hiatus and silence. The company has changed its homepage to a banner which reads "Busy creating. Coming back soon." And now a report states that Notion Ink is going to launch the Adam II next month, with a unique design that has two...
11:42 AM, May 11, 2013
California: Intel Corp on Monday unveiled the most extensive overhaul of its Atom mobile processors, with improved performance that the PC chipmaker expects will help it challenge Qualcomm in smartphones and tablets. The new microarchitecture, code-named Silvermont, will be a key building block in upcoming Intel chips for mobile gadgets, microservers and car entertainment systems, Chief Product Officer Dadi Perlmutter told reporters at an event on Monday. "We have not...
10:18 AM, May 07, 2013
Seattle: Microsoft Corp has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in the six months since launch, roughly in line with the previous version, but wants to combat sputtering interest in its flagship software with a substantial update to make it easier to use, and compatible with smaller tablets. Windows 8 is the first Microsoft operating system primarily designed for touch commands, but it has failed to capture consumers' imaginations or...
10:08 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Zync is further boosting its Android tablet offering with the launch of its Quad 10.1 tablet. The company had recently launched three smaller tablets - Dual 7.0, Quad 8.0 and Quad 9.7. The Zync Quad 10.1 tablet runs on Android 4,1 Jelly Bean and has a 10-inch screen with 1920x1200 pixel full HD resolution. The Quad 10.1 is priced at Rs 14,990. The tablet is powered by a...
01:22 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: We have been hearing for a long time that Microsoft is working on a 7-inch Surface tablet and now a new report from Digitimes has to say that the company may unveil the next-gen Surface tablets in June at its Build Developer Conference. The second-generation Surface devices reportedly will feature 7- to 9-inch displays to meet the rising demand for smaller tablet devices, claims the report. The report...
04:43 PM, May 02, 2013
New York: Microsoft is seeing slow sales of a version of Windows designed for thin and light tablets, even as the tablet market as a whole is growing, a research firm reported Wednesday. Researchers at IDC said manufacturers shipped 2,00,000 tablets running Windows RT, the special version of Windows for iPad-style tablets, in the January to March period. That's down from about 900,000 shipped in the fourth quarter. Microsoft Corp....
11:23 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Datawind, the maker of low-cost Aakash tablets, said it has shipped to the government all the 1 lakh units completing the deal after almost two-and-a-half years that was marred by glitches. Datawind had won the contract to supply 1 lakh unit of Aakash tablets priced at USD 49.98 apiece in 2011, translated into a price of Rs 2,276 at that time. "We have supplied all units of Aakash...
11:16 AM, May 02, 2013
San Francisco: Global tablet shipments more than doubled in the first quarter and while Apple remained the top seller, Asian manufacturers making low-end gadgets accounted for a major chunk of the growth, according to a report. Tablet shipments reached 49.2 million units in the January-to-March period, 142.4 per cent more than in the same quarter in 2012, market research firm IDC said on Wednesday. Apple's iPads accounted for 19.5 million...
10:34 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen. The Samsung Galaxy Note 510 tablet is now up for pre-order on the Samsung India e-store. The tablet is priced at Rs 30,900. Originally, the device was unveiled at the MWC 2013 as the Galaxy Note 8.0. Samsung is not calling the tablet "Galaxy...
02:48 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Unveiled at MWC 2013, Asus has finally launched the much-awaited Asus Fonepad in India at a price of Rs 15,999. We got to play with a unit for a week before the launch and weren't disappointed. The device comes in two colours and our review unit was Titanium Gray. Fonepad - as the name itself suggests - includes calling capabilities and is not to be confused with the...
01:11 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Asus has launched its much-awaited 7-inch Fonepad in India at Rs 15,999. The 7-inch tablet incorporates 3G mobile data with full telephony support. It has a SIM card slot and a microSD card slot. Neatly tailored, much of its functionalities are hidden away out of the sight. Weighing 340g, the tablet is moderately light in weight. The tablet has a 7-inch WXGA LED Backlight IPS panel (10 finger...
12:51 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Unveiled at the MWC 2013, Asus is all set to launch the 7-inch FonePad in India today. This 7-inch tablet incorporates 3G mobile data with full telephony support. The tablet has a 7-inch WXGA LED Backlight IPS panel (10 finger multi-touch) with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels. It is powered by an Intel Atom Z2420 processor clocked at 1.2GHz and 1GB RAM. The company is highly expected to...
08:51 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Bangalore: Microsoft is developing a new lineup of Surface tablets, including a 7-inch version expected to go into mass production later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the company's plans. Microsoft executives felt they needed to keep pace with the growing popularity of smaller tablets like Google's 7-inch Nexus and the 7.9-inch iPad Mini introduced by Apple last October, one person told the paper. Microsoft...
12:29 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Mumbai: Citing sources close to Taiwan-based supply chain companies, a DigiTimes report states that the production of the upcoming fifth-generation iPad will begin in July-August 2013. The source, however, said that the "yield rates" for important parts of the 9.7-inch tablet, especially the touch panels, could be "a major concern for smooth production." The sources said the iPad 5 will be thinner and lighter than the iPad 4 and is...
02:56 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New York: Consumers are multitasking and using other electronic devices such as phones and tablets while they watch television, according to a survey released on Monday. The online poll of 3,501 consumers in France, Brazil, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States showed that an overwhelming majority, 90 per cent, said they watched some video content over the Internet, with the tablet seeing the biggest increase. "Consumers can't...
09:52 AM, Apr 09, 2013
