Lower average selling prices (ASPs), a wide range of new product offerings, and increased holiday spending all acted as catalysts to push the already climbing tablet market to record levels.

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Possible new product announcements range from its own smartphone to a new search engine to some sort of new streaming service, according to techiebuzzie.com.

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Seddon Atkinson is making a new product range that it had hoped to sell across Europe and thus build up its scale of operation.

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It blamed the cost of developing its new tablet-format Blackberry, as well as a migration of consumers towards cheaper handsets in its product range.

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