Flurry: Santa crammed more tablets than smartphones into Christmas stockings

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Assuming you were a non-naughty-lister who didn't get the proverbial coal lump, it looks like that gift under the tree was more likely a tablet than a phone this Noël, according toFlurry. The analytics outfit said that just over half of December 25th activations were slates, and we can't imagine too many gift-getters letting their new devices simlessly fester in a box over the big day. Overall activations more than doubled from last Christmas, and were up 332 percent on that single day from the first 20 days of December, combined. As might be expected (http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/apple-ipad-sales-100-million/), Apple came up big with iPad sales, butFlurry said that Amazon was also a winner with its 7-inch Kindle Fire HD (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/06/kindle-fire-hd-7-inch-hands-on/) tab, showing a "several thousand percent" increase over baseline activations. None of this likely comes as a huge shock to our readers, who rather overwhelmingly (http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/21/google-corporate-gift-poll/) said that they'd rather have a Nexus 7 (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-review/) tablet than a pricier RAZR M (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/motorola-droid-razr-m-announced/)as a gift if they toiled at Google.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/28/more-tablets-than-smartphones-activated-christmas/