And it helps bolster my growing belief that the Wii U tablet controller is anything but a gimmick.
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Walk to living room, pick up Wii U tablet controller.
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Nintendo's Wii U tablet controller thankfully streamlines that process in a small, but tremendously meaningful way: during initial console setup, you're prompted to sync your television and the tablet controller, allowing the tablet itself to control the TV's power, volume, channels, and input directly.
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Players shoot their way through a gory post-apocalyptic landscape with the help of the new Wii U's tablet-controller hybrid, called the GamePad, whose onboard screen and buttons can be manipulated to act as a sonar device to find oncoming bad guys, among other things.
Dividing 42 by 119, Android really had closer to 35% of the U.S. tablet market.
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It found that among the 16 million U.S. tablet owners, 42% owned an Android tablet.
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Meanwhile, Forrester Research today said it expects Apple to take 80% of the U.S. tablet market in 2011.
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The study, which polled 1, 011 U.S. tablet users in June, found that typing large documents (more than 500 words) was the chief frustration among respondents, netting a 44% response.
The thing is, a great deal of the cost of each Wii U is going to the tablet-controller.
In the case of Wii U, its strength is certainly the tablet-style controller, and Ubisoft has released a new video for its exclusive Wii U title ZombiU showcasing how the developers are doing precisely that.
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The Wii U has a touch-screen tablet controller called GamePad and a TV-watching feature called TVii.
Last fall, Nintendo started selling the Wii U, which comes with a tablet-like controller called the GamePad.
Chitika Insights sampled tens of millions of U.S. and Canadian tablet ad impressions from March 15th to 21st.
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It predicts small gains in page volume through 2015, even in the U.S. market where tablet alternatives are having the most impact.
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Last fall, Nintendo launched the next generation of gaming consoles with the Wii U, which comes with a tablet-like controller called the GamePad.
He added that one of the biggest challenges facing tablet makers in the U.S. is how best to sell the devices when they don't control the stores.
Instead of a hand-sized game pad studded with joysticks and buttons, or the motion sensitive wand used on the Wii, the Wii U is controlled essentially by a tablet computer.
What is interesting is that iPads generate 80% of tablet Internet traffic in the U.S. and Canada per Chitika Insights.
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The Pew report, Future of Mobile News, pointed out that 22% of U.S. adults own a tablet and 64% of tablet owners get news on the device.
It was so intent on stopping its sale to Europe that in the same week the tablet became available in the U.K., Apple filed a 44-page complaint to a German court last week.
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In that way, the launch of the new iPad seems poised to stave off competition from Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro tablet, due February 9 in the U.S. and Canada.
In September, the Korean electronics giant said its Galaxy Tab tablet would be available at the four largest U.S. carriers before the end of the year.
Modern Media Holdings, which partners with Bloomberg L.P. to publish a Chinese-language edition of Bloomberg Businessweek in China, said yesterday it has reached an agreement with the U.S. media giant to develop mobile and tablet products in addition to its print version.
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By offering the same functionality to anyone with a Windows-powered phone or tablet, Microsoft takes away one of the Wii U s unique selling points.
In earnest, Iwata offered up a smattering of additional details on the Wii U, with a finalized layout for the system's tablet-esque controller, the introduction of Miiverse social functionality and the promise of a bit of mobile device compatibility.
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It s a simple idea but one with major repercussions: Nintendo s Wii U game console features a touch-sensitive controller rather like a tablet computer.
Samsung, which counts Apple as the biggest customer of its components, faces a possible sales ban in the U.S. for some of its smartphones and its Galaxy tablet.
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The Wii U is an interesting point here because it is balancing expectations of a tablet, portable device and game controller all in one.
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The top five tablet activities, based on a survey of users in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, are checking email (81 percent), reading the news (69 percent), checking the weather forecast (63 percent), social networking (62 percent) and gaming (60 percent).
Every PC maker (HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba), every mobile phone producer (Samsung, LG, Nokia, Research In Motion, Sony Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE), every Asian network builder (Acer, Asus) and even the second largest seller of TV sets in the U.S. (Vizio) are planning to unveil new tablet models in 2011.
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