Posted on 10/27/2009 9:53:03 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Netbook gravy train starts to slow as euphoria fades
Netbook shipments have started cooling after witnessing an explosive surge since late last year as customers started realizing its limits and looking for portable and affordable alternatives for full-size laptops.
According to Xia Li, vice-president of Lenovo Group, growth in netbook sales during the second half of this year has slowed as consumers have started becoming more rational in their purchases.
"Netbook sales surged in the past as consumers bought the product as gifts or as first laptops," he said. But with consumers starting to realize the limits of the products, the growth has started to slow, Xia said.
He expected the growth would decline back to the industry average of accounting for 20 percent of the overall PC market in China.
Designed to perform basic tasks like word processing, netbooks have received a good response from consumers all over the world. Ever since Taiwanese firm Asus launched its first netbook Eee PC in 2007, the product has became the market engine of the world's PC industry that was severely impacted by the economic slowdown.
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Let's add this new smartphone into the (becoming very confusing mix):
Droid smartphone unveiled by Motorola, Verizon
Another way to browse the internet.....
I have an older model Android phone. My screen is a little smaller and I don’t have a physical keyboard but I can surf and post with it pretty easily.
That phone looks great but I’m not sure how well it would fit in my jeans.
Some designer will soon have jeans with bigger pockets...available.
Are those the jeans that hang down your butt? I’ll just have to make do with a smaller phone.
LOL.
Ah, the Sidekick. :’) Since MS took a big dump all over Sidekick user data a couple weeks back, there could be some decent crossover market. :’)
A netbook and a bluetooth serial adapter are the ticket for working on routers and switches in a crowded wiring closet.
I like the way the Lenovo doesn’t have that shelf below the keyboard, but that screen is analogous to the LCD screen Apple intro’d for the IIc (it can be seen, probably for the only time on full-motion video, in the movie 2010), full width but not tall enough. One would probably get used to it of course.
That first one looks a lot like the newest Nokia internet tablet. I have one of the early ones and it is a decent little surfer, but a pain to input text with. Just to put in your pocket and connect to whatever wifi you can find, though, it is nice.
I live in a rural area, though. Wish there was more wifi around here!
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