Study: 4 million tablets will be sold in 2010

Let it be said, after the wave of netbooks, what are the tablets which should give a new breath to blow the computer market. From HP Archos through Apple, Asus and Lenovo all seem to want to revive the deceased so his Tablet PC. A week after Apple's announcement, the analyst firm ABI Research has released its sales estimates on this new segment.

According to analysts, in 2010 and it will sell 4 million tablets. However, this is not the most impressive figure as always by these experts, in 2015 we should reach the threshold of 57 million units sold each year. "The Apple iPad is not the first media tablet," said analyst Jeff Orr before adding: "but it helps better define this new category of devices."

With a touch screen between 5 and 11 inches, the tablet today shipped a Wi-Fi and is moving toward multimedia use. It "will not replace the laptop, the netbook and mobile phone but will remain an additional product or luxury," says Orr. For comparison, the same firm explained that in 2009 it had sold 35 million netbooks to the world, a figure expected to rise to 139 million units sold in total in 2013.