No body would believe that android phones can conquer iPhone in such a short time. Just in the north America , the market share has been taken by android which has been updated from the early 1.0 version to the 2.3 version and also the latest android 3.0 honey com. The war between apple and android has just started.
Has anyone ever predicted that the infotmic pad would the second just after the the Ipad at amzone? Let just put aside those pads brands on the edge, infotmic, via, all these manufactures have produced separated millions of pads, we can make the conclusion that low price might be the key to compete with ipad since people are not rich enough to buy an high-priced ipad.
Many professional guys consider the Samsung Galaxy TAB a failure, they just sold 2 million pieces, witch is a great deficit with the advertising expenditure. But when it comes into 2011, more and more people began to have a Galaxy as a second big cell phone, they seems used comfortably. It’s not only more portable then 10inches ones, but also convenient to connect network. Up to now, 7 inches Galaxy TAB is considered as the best mobile internet terminal for business use. Compared with 10inches panel or smaller mobile phone, 7inches screen is the most convenient for Chinese input with holding this screen by two hands to finish inputting. But it’s a pity that Samsung Galaxy TAB is stop production, which lead to price declining to about ￥3200，equals about $ 487. The 7inches screen and conversation function will be the most competitive parts of Galaxy TAB to compete with ipad.
The price of LePad is ￥2499 without bonus gift bag when it firstly come into the market. And it has a not bad market response. The price of Ipad with necessary accessories is not cheap even its unit price is acceptable. If you only focus on watching videos with the panel, LePad is better than Ipad by the personal usage. There are several reasons support for the video function of LePad, such as 1280*800 resolution 10 inches screen is more suitable for movies, flash-supporting can satisfy your require for videos on majority video website in mainland China, 8 hours duration of battery is enough for several movies playing, Chinese input system and handwriting function is more suitable for Chinese people, external keyboard can also be used as bracket incase of inadaption of soft keyboard. It can be inferred from the above things that lenovo is try hard with localization of LePad. The Le OS system which optimized by Android is the most convenient and suitable system for local use in my opinion. In particular, The video effect is more acceptable by elders than Ipad.
Because of the diversity of brands and enterprises which located among different centuries and areas, diversity and user group can surpass Ipad which only has uniformed allocation of software and hardware. Localization is well-founded, for example, families in mainland china will prefer using ADSL router with in-built WIFI to using the specialized WIFI router. It is a key point to make one brand adapt to the local environment. Just as I said before, the handwriting system is specialized for mainland people which other part the shortage of Apple products. The flash-support system is also adopted according to the mainland video website.
In conclusion, Android panel is just started, there are still gaps compared with Ipad which had came into market one year ago. But the diversity of characteristic apps will narrow the gaps, with the speedy promotion of Android, Android panel will surpass Apple Ipad in the following two years as I think just as Android phones did.
