CES 2010: The winning technologies and the tech future!!!

The CES 2010 has ended on a happy note. The final day is over, marks the end of an event which showed great promise for everyone. As CES 2010 concludes, an analysis of the technology which has the potential to impact us and if the companies have their way, will impact us....for the readers of this blog!!! How?

3D Technology:

3D seems to be the biggest gainer of this event. Whether we like it or not, it is going to creep into our lives sooner or later. 3D had a ubiquitous presence in this event, which ranged from 3D Projectors to 3D HD TV’s. The three major Television manufacturers-Sony, Samsung and Panasonic are working on 3D HD TVs like never before. While Sony and Samsung unveiled their 3D OLED televisions, which addressed the problem of low brightness in 3D television, Panasonic also made its presence felt by launching the worlds largest 3D HD TV standing tall with a 152 inch screen. Panasonic also released a full HD 3D camera. Though it has a price tag ($21,000) which ensures that the common photographer is not able to buy it, we are still happy to see it coming in the market. LG also launched the world’s first full HD 3D projector that projects a single image instead of separate image for left and right. It also saw the launch of various 3D Blu-Ray players by Sony and LG. It also marked the launch of the first player with a Hard Disk Drive from LG-The BD590. 3D technology awed the consumers at the event, and with the tech world support, it is likely to go a long way-and finally into our living rooms.



Tablet and Ultra compact notebooks:

Its been raining tablets at CES 2010. We finally saw the unveiling of the much awaited and hyped HP (and Microsoft) tablet, though only for a very short time. nVidia was also ready with its fully 4G enabled internet tablet. Designed by ICD, it comes with Verizon and Motorola 4G.Dell also showcased its concept tablet, named ‘Streak’ running on the Android platform. Nokia also announced that it would launch five to ten tablets based on Tegra 2. The slimmest just got slimmer when Sony and MSI showcased their new laptop range. MSI launched the X slim notebook range which has all necessary features at a fractional size. Sony also launched the P series of notebooks which are slimmer than the traditional laptops that people carry around. Tablets are all set to make the computer more portable than ever before and give an all new meaning to ‘compact’.



E-Book Readers:

Though not a very popular category, it also had its share of limelight in this CES. It was started by Samsung which unveiled two new E-book readers with a 6 inch and a 10 inch display. Both of them ship with a stylus to scribble on the device while you read it. Spring also showed some innovation by adding a second, colored screen for web access, to its E-book reader. Plastic Logic also showed an E-book which was for “Mobile Professionals.” This is still a category which has been dominated by the Amazon Kindle for long, and the entry of giants in this market benefits the consumer by competitive prices and greater variety.



CES 2010 had a lot for the common consumer as we saw a shift in the products price tag. These technologies are most likely to influence us in some way or the other. We may eventually end up watching 3D Soccer matches, while browsing internet on our tablet while the E-book reader loads our favorite book.

Source: Digit

NOKIA - INTEL Collaboration!!!

Fellows - This is an interesting tech news that I have come across!!! Check it out and have an idea of the future!

Nokia and Intel recently announced a "long-term relationship" of mutual benefit which in the least stands to bring in a new wave of ultra-portable, mobile enabled, internet capable devices.

While Nokia had shown interest in the netbook arena some time ago, this "relationship" stands for much more, as in Intel's own terms, they plan to "develop a new class of
Intel® Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous Internet connectivity".

With a partnership like this the sky is the limit...Perhaps Intel's Moorestown devices could be the child of this relationship! Intel already has Atom, which is rather successful in some of the most compact computers available today and Intel's code-name Lincroft chipset is suggestive of even smaller devices with lower power requirements.

Mobile phones even today offer nothing close to the experience we get from a "proper" computer. Even the lowliest of Netbooks today can challenge perhaps the best of mobile phones, with an operating system like windows or Linux, you can get much further than what you possibly could in a mobile device. With this coming fusion though, we might as well see something which lie in between. Mobile phones, MIDs, or even portable media devices which offer close to as much power as an full computer.

This unison transcends even the bonds of hardware, as Nokia and Intel have plans for collaboration around the open source spheres of Linux. The Intel supported Moblin platform which is optimized for use in ultra mobile computers with the Atom processor and Nokia's Maemo platform which runs its N810 Internet tablet are both based on Linux and they plan to foster better compatibility between these platforms for an even better mobile experience.

As said by Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Corporation senior vice president and general manager, Ultra Mobility Group, "This Intel and Nokia collaboration unites and focuses many of the brightest computing and communications minds in the world, and will ultimately deliver open and standards-based technologies, which history shows drive rapid innovation, adoption and consumer choice. With the convergence of the Internet and mobility as the team's only barrier, I can only imagine the innovation that will come out of our unique relationship with Nokia. The possibilities are endless."
Intel and Nokia have both showcased their rather bold visions of the future of portable devices!!!