back to article Time to bag a tablet bargain this Chrimbo – Brit stocks are high

British retailers will be looking to clear a tablet glut this Chrimbo, and falling sales prices and cooling consumer interest in slabs will mean they’ll need to shift more to stand still. According to Gartner, 83 million fewer slabs will be sold this year worldwide, with consumers sweating their assets for longer, renewed …

  1. James 51

    Will amazon allow the instant video app to work on any of them?

    1. BinkyTheMagicPaperclip Silver badge

      use a Windows tablet?

      Windows Bay Trail tablets, yes, because it's real Windows 8.1 on an Intel processor. Typically the screen resolution is 800p landscape, though

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Buy one after xmas, that's when they'll be trying to shift all the unsold stock at bargain prices.

  3. mrweekender
    Devil

    The CBI?

    Would this be the same CBI who have been whining like little girls about the holiday entitlement pay and how it's going to shutdown every business in the UK? The same CBI who appear to have no interest in workers rights whatsoever and are attempting to manipulate the system to ensure British Businesses don't have to pay employees what they're entitled to? It's their report? Sorry but there's a possible information integrity issue here, even if it is about tablet sales. I mean it's not like the CBI have anything to gain by manipulating sales figures have they...

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