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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...