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Most Use Tablets To Read Email, News, Weather
- IT News Online, Friday, July 6, 2012 3 AM
According to a new survey by Gartner Inc., people have quickly begun using media tablets for daily personal activities and the main activities moving from PCs to media tablets are checking email (81% of respondents), reading the news (69%), checking the weather forecast (63%), social networking (62%) and gaming (60%). Gartner conducted the study at the end of 2011 in the U.S., U.K. and Australia to gain a better understanding of how early adopters of media tablets were using personal connected devices. The survey was run as an online seven-day diary.
