Consumer Electronics Show In Las Vegas: Recent Trends
A number of recent devices in consumer electronics appeared at Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas.
A popular Asus Eee Pad Transformer now includes Prime model that has quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and IPS screen. Interestingly enough, this is the first commercial device on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
CES 2012 showed the thinnest smart phone Ascend P1 S from Huawei. Ascend P1 S is less than 7 millimeters and includes Cortext-A9 processor of 1.5 gigahertz. The device is also equipped with Super AMOLED display and SGX 540 graphical accelerator.
Samsung presented ultra-portative notebook of series 9. As a matter of fact, it is not ultrabook but a portative premium level laptop with Intel Core i5/i7, 8 gigabytes of memory and SSD drive with 128 gigabytes. The primary difference between a new 9 series and Samsung ultrabooks ULTRA is just 2 seconds taken to wake up from the sleep mode.
Android devices are turning into a hot decision on big screens as LG demonstrated in its new Google TV. A new Magic Remote Qwerty makes this TV very comfortable to use . It is almost guaranteed that new Google TV from LG will substantially outperform other TVs in the area of communicating with friends while searching for new content.
Although Nokia has been losing its market share for quite a long time it has somewhat improved its position because of a number of joint projects with Microsoft. The Finnish company offered Nokia Lumina 900 using Windows Phone 7.5. A phone enthusiast can save her text on 16 gigabytes of built-in memory or utilize the cloud service SkyDrive .
OLPC offered a tablet OX 3.0 that may fit ideally the poor in African or Asian countries. OX 3.0 has a processor consuming only 2 watts of energy that can be generated using a dynamo.
Sharp which is a key sponsor of upcoming Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland offered a TV that would mystify everybody including football fans. Sharp AQUOS has as much as 80 inches of the screen which is twice the area of a usual 55-inch plasma television set.
The latest Dell XPS 14z may look more like a 13-inch gadget and weighs about 4 pounds. XPS 14z from Dell utilizes Intel Wireless Display technology with a battery life of 7 hours.
Steve Jobs favorite Apple iPod should prepare to unfriendly invasion by Sony Walkman Z on Android. This multimedia device runs on Android 2.3 and has 4.3-inch screen. Nvidia Tegra 2 with 1 gigahertz and 512 of memory suggest a good alternative.
Asus new Rampage IV formula is the new motherboard in the Republic of Gamers series. It uses Intel X79 chipset with audio processor SupremeFX III and a function GameFirst that utilizes computer resources to game even in server mode . This motherboard is available with Battlefield 3 game for about 400 dollars .
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