Top tablet functions are email, personal information management, multimedia consumption: survey

WITH THE TABLET market finally gaining mass market appeal, new research from In-Stat says that the top three ranked uses for future tablet owners are email, personal information management, and multimedia consumption (audio, video and gaming).The report U.S. Consumers' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the Emerging Tablet Market cites a survey that yielded 1,132 responses, of which 13.2% of respondents currently own a tablet, and includes data relating to current tablet usage, as well as purchaser criteria and expectations of future tablet owners. “Last year’s small crop of tablets was being touted as potential e-readers; a way to compete against the...