During the second quarter of 2013, tablet sales slowed, reported IDC. IDC offers a few explanations.
World wide tablet sales were up almost 60% over last year, however the second quarter were down 10% lower than the first quarter. IDC believes that the market slowed because there was not a a new iPad released and Apple fans were waiting for the next iPad.
By the fourth quarter, IDC by expects new products from Apple, Amazon, and others to drive impressive growth in the market.
Asus announced two new budget priced tablets at Computex that have more features than the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD at lower prices.
The news release states "The ASUS MeMO Pad HD 7 is an incredible value 7-inch tablet with an MSRP of US$129 for 8GB capacity and US$149 for 16GB." Unfortunately the $129 model will be sold in emerging countries, only.
Asus revealed the its next generation PadFone at Mobile World Congress, the PadFone Infinity that connects to a 10.1" 
Infinity Station/tablet with extra battery life.
Asus claims that keeping all you apps and data on the phone, there's no need to sync data to a tablet.
When you are looking for great deals you have to read the fine print and then you will be amazed at what you'll find. Today, scanning newspaper ads we found some great heretofore unseen deals on the Asus Transformer Pad 16GB and 32GB models.
Everybody loves a quad-core powerhouse tablet especially ones which you snap a keyboard onto and turn into a netbook for an additional $149.99.
Office Depot is taking $100 off the Asus TransformerPad TF300 in blue with 32GB of store reducing the final price to $299 Yup that's close to $300 for a ten inch tablet, a fine deal if you like a big powerhouse tablet, that's cheaper than the highly coveted Asus Transformer Prime from last year. Sold online for in store pick-up, the offer is only valid through 11/24/2012. Other colors are not discounted as much.
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