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By contrast, the forecast from the research firm projects that mobile phone shipments will increase by 3.7 percent, with volume reaching more than 1.8 million units. Tablet devices are also expected to grow 53.4 percent in 2013, with shipments reaching 184 million units.The district has collected all but about 300 tablets for sale. Staff members have disabled those 300 tablets. On Friday, the district put out another request for parents and students to return the tablets back to school.
Lower priced devices, especially those in the burgeoning 7-inch category, will drive much of the growth in the tablet sector. Gartner’s research surveys have found that consumers prefer smaller form factors for content consumption, including watching videos and playing games. The study, which was conducted in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, the US and Japan, confirmed that smaller appears to be better when it comes to consumer tablets.
The survey found that the average size of the portable devices ranged from 8.3 inches to 9.5 inches, and that 47 percent of the 21,500 consumers surveyed owned a tablet that was 8-inches or less.“While consumers will be bombarded with ads for the new ultramobile devices, we expect their attention to be grabbed but not necessarily their money,” said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. “Continuing on the trend we saw last year, we expect this holiday season to be all about smaller tablets as even the long-term holiday favorite — the smartphone — loses its appeal.”
The research firm also noted that there is much in the way of transition, both in the components going into the devices and the operating systems. Gartner noted that cheap tablets for kids will remain the leading smartphone operating system and will account for 38 percent of all shipments in 2013, while Windows OS devices – including smartphones, tablets and notably PCs – are expected to see an overall decline of 4.3 percent this year.dt52SFs2
“Although the preference is for dedicated devices, we see the opportunity for hybrid ultramobile to marry the functionality of a PC and the form factor of the tablet. Users that have to balance work and play will find that the advantage of buying and carrying one device outweighs the compromise in the full experience that single devices can deliver, Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner, said in a statement. “Users who are not limited by their disposable income will likely have a basic tablet as a companion device to their ultramobile on which most of their consumption activities will take place.”
“tablets on sale are a maturing market,” said Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in San Francisco. “It will be difficult for Apple to move the needle on new tablet sales, as the strongest growth is coming from emerging markets where customers are more price sensitive.”
Apple saw its share of the tablet market contract to 32 per cent in the second quarter from 60 per cent a year earlier, according to researcher IDC. While iPad sales more than doubled every quarter since the 2010 debut, growth of the devices hasn’t topped 66 per cent since mid-2012.There could be an announcement as early as this week about what is going to happen next with the tablet program. District officials say they want all new tablets and a reassurance that the problems are corrected.