Four in 5 consumers cite tablets over laptops for holidays

Four in 5 consumers would rather accept a inscription instead of a laptop for a holidays this year, according to a selling consult conducted by PriceGrabber.

Those who elite tablets pronounced they favourite that they were easy to lift and transport, lightweight, available and had touchscreens.

Apple’s iPad remained a tip tablet, with 83% observant they elite a iPad or iPad 2. Five percent pronounced they wanted a new Amazon Kindle Fire, 4% pronounced they favourite a Samsung Galaxy Tab and 2% pronounced they hoped to get a HP TouchPad. Other tablets, including a BlackBerry PlayBook and Motorola Xoom, ranked lower.

Graham Jones, PriceGrabber’s ubiquitous manager, pronounced a association approaching that tablets would “be a transparent present choice for many multitasking, budget-conscious consumers looking for an fit and available mechanism during a comparatively reasonable price.”

Apple remained a tip code for smartphones as well. Seventy-two percent of consumers pronounced a iPhone was a smartphone they hoped to accept as a present this holiday season, 7% pronounced Samsung, 6% pronounced HTC, 5% pronounced BlackBerry and 5% pronounced Motorola.

The investigate was conducted Oct. 18 to 26 and surveyed 3,574 U.S. online selling consumers.

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Photo: An Apple iPad (left) subsequent to a Samsung Galaxy Tab. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images