Following In the footsteps of competitor Asus will also Lenovo and Acer, reportedly, tablets with Tegra 3 quadcore on the market. Acer, however, continues to also netbooks, while Samsung is rumored to be considering to stop with the small laptops.
Monday showed that Acer’s new Iconia tablet with a Tegra 2 soc in the pipeline. This would be the manufacturer on the market for cheap tablets, but according to Digitimes, the company is also a model with a Tegra 3 quadcore. This should be in the first quarter of 2012 release and a price of 459 à 599 dollars get. Lenovo would with a similar range.
If Acer indeed with the two tablets on the market, the manufacturer stuck to its strategy of becoming a significant market share in the tablet market to get. Like many other manufacturers, Acer is still not successful on that market, while the group suffer from the emergence of the product category, because it makes it less netbooks sell.
Nevertheless, Acer clinging to netbooks, especially for the emerging markets, says the vice-president of Acer against a re-Digitimes. Especially in India and China would demand the cheap small laptops is still very high. Acer is currently the largest netbookfabrikant in the world; its market share would be in the last quarter, with sales of 1.7 million units to 22 percent.
Samsung would have a market share of around 10 percent, but this manufacturer from South Korea would consider to leave the market. The French site BlogEee claims to be a memo in your hands where it shows. “In line with our new strategy for 2012 we stop with 10.1″products in the first quarter of 2012, and we focus on ultraportables with an 11.6″ and 12″screens, and ultrabooks throughout 2012 be released”, would Samsung in an e-mail to partners can let them know.