The Upcoming Amazon Kindle fire 2nd-generation is now just months away from production and could launch in Q2 of this year. Besides sporting a larger than expected 10-inch display instead of an 8.9-inch screen, this tablet is expected to have NVIDIA quad-core Tegra 3 under the hood. As you know by now, the Amazon Kindle Fire launched last November in time for the holiday season and quickly had Amazon as the number 2 position among global tablet vendors.

Amazon has yet to announce this tablet, but on Thursday, Amazon had placed an order for chassis from the Catcher Technologies plant in Taizhou, China. We take this with the usual grain of salt, including the estimate that Catcher gross margin will be 40% on the order. If true, this could be the signal to expect a new tablet to start undergoing production within the next few months.

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Samsung was working on a 11.6-inch tablet. The Samsung GALAXY Tab 11.6 was supposed to launch last month, according to the story, and would be Samsung first model to be shipped with Android 4.0.3 already installed. Now here is where things get interesting. On Samsung web site is an advertisement for the Samsung Exynos 5 processor and it shows someone using an unnamed Samsung tablet. Could this be the Samsung GALAXY Tab 11.6?

On first inspection, it looks like the Samsung GALAXY Tab 2 10.1, except for the speaker grill (look at the photo above) and the coloring which are both different than what appears on a rendering of the sequel to the Korean manufacturer 10.1 inch model. And the biggest clue of all is that the ad is for the very same 2GHz Samsung Exynos 5250 that is supposed to be under the hood of the GALAXY Tab 11.6.

Other specs include the 11.6-inch display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 to match the new iPad retina display ppi. We still have no confirmation when samsung will show us this tablet. but as more reports coimng in about a New samsung tablet, we can expect this very soon.

Samsung is rolling out a new software update for the US Wi-Fi only version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Unfortunately, Ice Cream Sandwich is not included in the mix - rather this is a maintenance update that will fix some of the known bugs, while also improving the overall performance of the tablet.

The build number HTJ85B.UEKMP P7510UEKMP fixes email attachment issues, rotation issues, Wi-Fi reconnect issues, system file force close issues, while also improving power consumption.

Asus is still struggling with the Transformer prime pre-orders, The demand on the Prime tablet is on increase everyday and Asus cannot full-fill all consuers pre-orders as the device is selling like crazy , So they made this announcement for their customers:

"Just to keep you all up to date on stock of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime - It is still landing weekly and in increasing numbers. The majority of our resellers have now fulfilled their back orders so more free stock should be available soon. Please check with your preferred reseller as to how they are allocating their units and how best to get your hands on one."

Good sales of Amazon Kindle Fire tablet led to significant gains for Google Android operating system in tablet market share during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to new data from mobile analytics firm Flurry.

Flurry, which purports to measure application sessions on more than 90 percent of all Android devices, found that Android tablets gained 10 percent share from Q4 2010 to Q4 2011 and now represent 39 percent of the overall tablet market.

The Kindle Fire, which only just debuted this past November, has managed to best Samsung Galaxy Tab in terms of application session usage. The Kindle Fire already represents 35.7 percent of total Android tablet application sessions, while the Galaxy Tab has been reduced to just 35.6 percent, according to Flurry data that accounts for most of January 2012.