The last day of the tablet HP TouchPad has to

Today  will be the last day of Hewlett-Packard (HP) TouchPad tablet sold for $ 99 and 149 USD.
According to a statement posted on HP's internal web TechCrunch technology, HP will end the short lifetime of the TouchPad tablet by "discharge" on eBay for $ 99 USD and 149 USD equivalent the 16 GB version and 32 GB today.
Previously, HP had some indication as to stop selling TouchPad: providing employees before the company sold on eBay, refreshing all units TouchPad tablet.
TouchPad runs on WebOS operating system, which HP launched in August this year - two months after the hardware WebOS closed. The price of this device appears to be $ 99.99, by HP and retailers like Best Buy distribution.
Specifications of the TouchPad include multi-touch screen 9.7-inch with a resolution of 1024 x 768, dual-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 1.2 GHz speed, the HP operating system WebOS , a 1.3 megapixel front camera, and speaker of the Beats Audio (manufacturer of audio equipment HP has been known to buy back this year).
The market tablets began to flourish at the end of this year. Forecast in 2012, a series of new products, high profile, good design will be announced. In addition, the status of "knock out" of the old type tablets have difficulty competing issues such as the HP TouchPad is also understandable.

When iPad 3 launch, Apple will do with iPad 2?

If recent rumors about plans for the Apple tablet is true, the iPad 3rd generation (tentatively called iPad 3) will appear during May 2-4/2012. And when the iPad 3 appear, what will happen with iPad 2?

The report indicates that, iPad 3 is a significant upgrade compared to the iPad 2, in which the most significant upgrade is a screen-quality 2048 x 1536 pixel display. So with iPad 2, Apple will continue to sell or wiped their products.
Currently, Apple no longer sell their iPad early, although the products are refurbished rest is being made available at the Apple Store online store of the company. But if keeping iPad 2, sold at cheaper prices, it can be a smart business move.
Landscape tablet has changed dramatically since the iPad 2 launched in January 3 / 2011 with the arrival of the 7 inch tablet, especially when Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire $ 200 capital to promote period expectations of consumers for a cheap tablet. Although Kindle Fire lacks the features, power and sophistication of the iPad 2 has a starting price of 500 USD but for many people, it's good enough for basic tasks such as reading, browsing and viewing video .
And if the Kindle Fire is not enough to lower the price expectations of consumers, the tablet Novo7 7 inch size running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich from China is expected to cost 100 USD appears in the U.S. next year will open trust New fun.
iPad 2 with 9.7 inch screen bigger than the Kindle Fire and Novo7. However, price cuts will help iPad 2 to compete better in 2012 by another competitor Android has a similar screen size is the Asus Eee Pad Transformer equipped with 10.1 inch screen has been sold at Best Buy 300 USD.

Will adopt the strategy as the iPhone?

Apple can make the decision to copy the strategy that the company is applying for the iPhone smartphone market tablet, an attractive approach for the buyers not willing to pay 500 USD or more for the iPad. Such as it will sell for $ 299 iPad 2, while more advanced iPad 3 will be sold for 499 USD.
Apple currently sells three generations of the iPhone. With a service contract two years, the price of the iPhone 3G will be "free" iPhone 4 is 99 USD while the iPhone 4S is 199 USD (16 GB), 299 USD (32 GB) or 399 USD (64 GB).

Clearly, a cheaper iPhone would be a strategy to help Apple get the attention of consumers. Keeping iPad 2 around a price reduction may help Apple maintain or at least slow the market is dominated by the other tablet. Of course, the Apple iPad market share will decrease as more and more competitors appeared in 2012 and beyond.

Coby will release five Android 4.0 tablet at CES 2012

Coby Electronics has announced to introduce its new 5 tablet at CES 2012 held in early April 1 / 2012. All of them will run on Google's latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Coby's tablet series includes MID7042 code version 7 inch, 8 inch MID8042 code, code MID9042 9 inch, 9.7 inch and 10 inch MID9742 code MID1042 code.
Ministry 5 tablet are similar in configuration to the ARM Cortex A8 processor speed of 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, capacitive touch screen, memory card slot supports up to 32 GB capacity and can output of video signals at 1080p.
With the launch of this tablet 5 Coby is a manufacturer of the first tablet running Android 4.0 released in quarter 1 / 2012. We do not have any information on any of the 5 tablet disclosed. But hope that this tablet will be affordable by Coby is a manufacturer of low-cost devices.