The document provides a top 10 list of tablet PC manufacturers:
1. Apple is ranked first due to launching the successful iPad in 2010 and selling over 15 million iPad 2's.
2. Samsung is ranked second for becoming the world's largest electronics company in 2010 and launching its Galaxy Tab tablet which uses the Android operating system.
3. HP produces a line of tablet PCs and launched its first TouchSmart series in 2007 which was introduced by Bill Gates.
2. TOSHIBA (10)
Toshiba:
Toshiba Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo of
Japan, is a Japanese multinational company.
Toshiba produces customer’s products and
electronic devices like TV and laptop.
There are Toshiba-made Semiconductors in the list
of Top 20 Semiconductors of the world.
Toshiba makes tablet PC named Toshiba Thrive.
It is a 10.1” tablet computer which runs by the 3.1
Honeycomb.
3. HTC (9)
HTC:
HTC Corporation, formerly High Tech Corporation is
mainly a Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer.
Mainly it made smartphones on Windows Mobile OS.
But recently as from 2010 it started to manufacture
smartphones using Android OS. In 2011 at the
Mobile World Congress HTC announced its first
tablet PC HTC Flyer.
It will release in the second quarter of this year. It will
run with the Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread).
4. LG (8)
LG:
LG is a popular company in recent TV market. In
early 90’s, formerly known as Goldster, it produced
low-budget electronic products.
Goldster was a Korean electronics manufacturer
starter in 1958. In 1995 it changed into LG
Electronics.
The first tablet developed by LG is the G-Slate. It
was released in March 2011.
This device also runs by the Android 3.0
Honeycomb.
5. SONY (7)
Sony:
Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational
conglomerate corporation which is commonly
referred as Sony.
Its headquarters is in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Among
the world’s largest media conglomerate, it is fifth
(FY2010).
Sony Corporation is divided in some sectors.
They are Sony Corporation, Sony Computer
Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony
Financial Holdings and others.
Sony first launched tablet PCs Sony S1 in April 2011.
It runs by the Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
6. ACER (6)
Acer:
Acer Incorporated is a multinational IT and electronics
corporation. It has its headquarters in Xizhi, New Taipei
City, Taiwan.
Acer produces products like desktops, laptops, tablet
computers, servers, personal digital assistants, storage
device, smartphones and displays.
All of the Acer products are made by the original
equipment manufacturers.
In 2010 Acer first presented its tablet series PCs. Acer
first launched tablet PC Iconia Tab in April 2011.
This Iconia series is very popular among the tablet PCs.
7. MOTOroLA (5)
Motorola:
Motorola mainly known as a mobile phone
manufacturer launched its first tablet PC on january
5, 2011.
It runs by the Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Xoom went
through FCC on February 10, 2011.
The 3G version of Xoom was launched on February
24, 2011 and Wi-Fi version was launched on March
27, 2011. Among the first 6 weeks of release, about
100,000 Xoom was sold.
Recently there is a rumor that Xoom2 will soon be
8. BLACK BERRY (4)
BlackBerry:
BlackBerry is very popular for its smartphones.
BlackBerry also launched tablet PC.
On 19 April, 2011 this company released its fast
tablet PC PlayBook, putting it in the direct
competition with the iPad and iPad 2.
It also announced a new operating system-
BlackBerry Tablet OS. About 50,000 PlayBook was
sold on the first day of launch. During the end of May,
500,000 PlayBooks was sold.
9. HEWLETT-PACKARD (3)
HP:
Hewlett-Packard Company, most commonly referred as
HP, is American multinational IT Corporation.
Its headquarters is in California, USA. At first this
company was started in garage of Palo Alto by Dave
Packard and Bill Hewlett with an initial investment of
$538 which is now world’s one of largest IT companies.
HP is mainly specialized in manufacturing and
developing computers, networking hardware, data
storage, delivering services and designing software. HP
produced a line of tablet PCs.
In 2007 HP launched its first TouchSmart series tablet
PCs which was introduced by Bill Gates.
10. SAMSUNG (2nd)
Samsung:
Samsung Electronics became world’s biggest electronic
company in the year of 2010 with the revenue of $133.78
billion.
Its headquarters is in Samsung Town, Seoul, South
Korea. It is a flagship subsidiary of Samsung Group.
It has sales networks and assembly plants in 65
countries of the world.
On the year 2009, surpassing HP, it became world’s
largest IT manufacturer. Samsung launched its tablet PC
galaxy Tab in 2010.
It uses Android operating system.
11. APPLE (1st)
Apple:
Apple was established on 1976 in California and
incorporated on 1977.
Before the year 2007 its name was Apple Computer Inc.
On January 9 of that year, the word “Computer” was
removed.
It has the most valuable technologies and is under the
Microsoft Company.
Apple launched the first tablet iPad in 2010.
Among the first 80 days of its release, 3 million iPad was
sold.
In March 2011 iPad 2 was released. More than 15 million
iPad 2 is sold, which is more than all other tablet PCs