Andrews how products occupied the tablet PC market

The first Android tablet Motorola Xoom, released in February 2011, it is not a large smartphone. Xoom was the first (and only) run Android 3.1 "Honeycomb" System devices. In accordance with Google's idea, "honeycomb" system should be a division of mobile phone and tablet PC products.

Unfortunately ineffective.

Although the configuration of the excellent hardware, but friendly enough Xoom features, too expensive, sold Bug, and run slowly. For anyone who wants to say goodbye to iPad, Android tablet into the circle of users, Xoom is a disappointing product.

In addition, when the market has not Which Android app optimized specifically for the Tablet PC to do. Although Apple continue to encourage developers to build applications designed specifically for the iPad (last count earlier this year is 375,000 models, and growing), but the Xoom and other "honeycomb" product can only rely on the application of the smart phone settings , its effect on the big screen is very bad.

Eventually, Google and Android manufacturing partners launched a synchronized action. Google released the Android 4.0 system, "ice cream sandwich", the system is absorbed from the 2.3 "Gingerbread" to 3.1 "Honeycomb" and the best features, and the interface, performance, functionality has been further polished, make an outstanding Android tablets become possible. Began to appear on the market a number of good quality Tablet PC, the most famous is the Asus released in the summer of 2012, running Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" system and Samsung Nexus 7 launch in the fall of Nexus 10.

Android tablet manufacturers also realize that they can beat Apple on price to $ 199 attacks cheap iPad (such as the Amazon Kindle Fire, and ASUS / Google's Nexus 7). With an excellent variety of Tablet PC running Android, Samsung began frantically launch a series of "Tab" or "Note" named products.

The result? Android Tablet PC has become a people acceptable price, really want to buy the product. Since Apple still insist on smart phones and the iPad retain a certain profit margin, giving the left a broad An Zhuoqie into the market opportunities, from low-end tablet worst performance to Google last week announced a new Nexus 7, there various Android products appear.