Tablets to outbid growth of laptops this year

Even as laptop and notebooks sales are soaring high in the domestic market, the tablets have come into the forefront poised to outbid the growth of the laptop segment in the next 2 years.

As per CyberMedia Research ending June 2011, sales of the Tablets in the domestic market alone have touched 1.58 lakh units.

For the retailers as well as the distributors, tablet is poised as the device for convergence with most of them agreeing that the real fight is between the smartphone and the tablet. The decision for opting for mobility business with Blackberry Enterprise Solutions as well as the Playbook helped Ingram Micro boost its revenues even as the share of telecom products in its portfolio decreased by 12% last FY.

For Redington too, non-IT business contributed to about 18% of its pie primarily on account of the contribution made by Apple and Blackberry with the distributor taking a leap forward in helping its partners in setting up Blackberry zones.

The same is the case for most of the retail counters in the country. As an example, Eastern Logica Infoway, one of the largest retailers in the country is reportedly have sold out nearly the entire stock during the festive season.

"So far, the response I have recived for the Samsung Galaxy Tabs have been very convincing; people are opting to buy it not just because of the form and price factor, but I believe that it must be doing some value addition for the buyers; or else why would they buy it?", echoed Gaurav Goel, managing director, Eastern Logica Infoway.