How tablets will Look Like in 2012

Bangalore: Tablets are the most welcomed tech gadgets in the market attracting users with its great features. Tablets undergo radical transformation every year with new add–on features. As the New Year is just a few days away, the leading tech giants are all set to hit the tablet market with new upgrades, raising the expectation bar of the tech geeks much higher.

Lighter and Thinner Tablets

In the coming year, users can expect tablets becoming even lighter and thinner than they are presently. The shift has already begun for 10 inch class tablets as 1.2 to 1.3 pound-tablets are coming out as the new normal weight (down from 1.5 to 1.6 pounds in 2011), and 0.3 to 0.4 inch is becoming the new standard in thickness (down from 0.5 inch). These numbers will still edge lower once the Android manufacturers get to know what design leader Apple has in store for its iPad 3, which is widely expected to appear sometime in the first quarter of 2012. Manufacturers will likely turn their attention to the important details like display quality, text rendering, speakers, infrared ports for using a tablet as a remote control to reach the end users.

Soon a wide array of screen sizes can be seen from 7 inches to 10.1 inches simply because consumers have not yet shown enough of a preference to eliminate some of the middle sizes. There will be prices slashing down, especially models like the Amazon Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet that sells for 10,438. It is expected that the prices for tablets using Nvidia's Tegra 3 system on a chip will drop to 15,681 by mid-2012.