Compare that to just 38% from Dell, 38% from Samsung, 31% from Motorola, 31% from HP, 24% from RIM, and 21% from Barnes and Noble. What’s crazy is that all of these other companies already have tablets out there, whereas Amazon is only rumored to be working on something. Not surprisingly, the iPad is still the tablet of choice for the general masses, but price would give Amazon a leg up.

If an Android tablet had similar features as the base model $499 iPad, 79% of people would for less than $250. The tipping point seems to be around the $300 price point, as that’s where 48% of people would choose the cheaper (Amazon) Android tab over Apple’s offering. Indeed, 48% of those who responded said that low price was the “most important” feature when buying their next tablet.

There are already some $300 tablets out there, but it’s not really until you get in the $399 range that you find suitable competitors like the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. If Amazon were able to get even less horsepower but at the $299 price point, it could have a real winner. The question is whether it would cannibalize sales of the Kindle.

Disclaimer: The source of the surveyed consumers is not known and whether or not they were Amazon customers or a study conducted on behalf of Amazon is also not known.

Source: Retrovo

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If you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t have an iPhone. But if you have an iPhone, you don’t have 4G. Amazing? Not really, but its true.

A new study has been released by Retrevo that suggests, “a third of iPhone owners mistakenly think their phones have 4G.” A full 34 per cent of iPhone users polled thought they had a cell phone with 4G connectivity. Why the confusion? Maybe it has something to do with the “4″ in the iPhone 4. Not to mention that Apple targets the general populace, which is generally not as knowledgable about gadgets and technology. They buy an iPhone because it’s an iPhone.

I’m certainly not saying all iPhone owners are ignorant. It’s also not isolated to iEnthusiasts. RIM doesn’t have a 4G smartphone, but a sizable percentage of BlackBerry users thought they had 4G. The only people who might be right about having 4G are the Android owners. It all leads back to the marketing deception of 4G.

Interestingly enough, 40 per cent of those polled said they’d buy the next iPhone even if it doesn’t have 4G. This could also be because 30 per cent of respondents feel 4G is too expensive and 22 per cent think 4G isn’t worth the cost. We who live on the bleeding edge of tech are anxious to get into the 4G fray, but the overall adoption by the mainstream user is going to take some time. After all, the majority of cell phone users are still on feature phones and not smartphones.

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