Q3 Smartphone sales up 16% Year on Year

[Mummelmann]

UshiotheOmega said:

Mummelmann said:
How are tablets doing? They were heavily down in Nordic regions last year and laptops up again by a similar margin.

Terribly "Tablet Shipments Decline -12.6% in the Third Quarter" http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25989015

So the trend continues. I never saw the use for tablets, guess the rest of the world is coming around to the same conclusion, I don't really see many people carrying them any longer.
Between owning a laptop and a smartphone, I just can't see a single reason for owning a tablet.
That said, I'm pretty keen on getting a Kindle for e-books, they're better suited for reading than tablets and much, much cheaper (and I don't have a lot of space for books at my place).