Nokia Lumia 900 CES Preview

Nokia and Windows Phone continue to surge towards rejoining the smartphone elite fleet with their third, latest smartphone; Lumia 900, which has 4G on board for the US market.

The success of the Windows Phone platform is good for the smart phone industry, offering a clear way out from the Android or Apple monopoly for the users. It should be the Nokia's biggest smartphone launch in the country to date. According to one report, Nokia, Microsoft and AT&T will spend roughly $100 million marketing the phone.

Lumia 900, is a smartphone that comes with a 4.3-inch AMLOED display with Cornering Gorilla Glass and Nokia ClearBlack technology. 16GB of internal flash storage, 512MB of RAM, and a single-core 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU mounted on the Qualcomm’s APQ8055 Snapdragon chipset.

Nokia Lumia 900 also have 8MP camera with autofocus, dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss’ lenses. With support for HD 720p video recording and a resolution of 3264×2448 pixels Lumia 900′s optic unit is almost everything you’d want from a phone camera.

It is also pre-loaded with Microsoft’s latest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7.5.


When it comes to connectivity, the high-end smart phone of the Nokia Lumia line-up comes with HSDPA (21 Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76 Mbps), WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1, microUSB v2.0, NFC chip and, of course, 4G LTE support.

According to a leaked roadmap published at BGR, the Lumia 900 will launch on March 18, for $100 with a two-year contract.

LG to unveil 55-inch OLED TV at CES

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Every 10-13 January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the place to be for consumer electronics companies to unveil their upcoming products for the year. This year LG Electronics plans to show the world's largest OLED TV - a 55-inch display that's just 4 mm thin and weighs a mere 7.5 kg.

The new High Definition Television (HDTV) uses advanced OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) technology with "4-Color Pixels and Color Refiner" features that generate natural, accurate colors without jaggies and other imperfections. With the 4-Color Pixels feature, each pixel uses a set of four colors - red, green, blue and white - which expands on the common RGB (red, green, blue) setup.

According to LG, the TV is also 1,000 times faster than the normal LED / LCD tv displays.



The advantages of an OLED television are:

• Light weight & flexible plastic substrates
• Wider viewing angles & improved brightness
• Better power efficiency
• Faster response time

The Korean consumer electronics manufacturer will also unveil its 84-inch Ultra Definition set, which has 8 million pixels at CES.

Hitachi releases 4TB hard drive in Japan

Although microchip giant Intel on Monday have announced that it expects to badly miss their sales forecast for the current quarter caused by lower sales of notebook computers and desktops due to the hard drive shortage caused by the massive floods in Thailand, Hitachi have released their new 4TB Deskstar hard drive for internal and Touro Desk for external use.

Users will get a free 3GB of cloud storage from HitachiBackup.com with every purchase of the Touro Desk external hard drive.

This is the world first commercially available at that storage capacity. Granted it's not the fastest hard drive available by running at 5900 rpm, or what the Hitachi calls "CoolSpin" resulting in the drive having up to 28 percent idle power savings compared to the 7200 rpm drives.

The massive storage of their new 4TB hard drive is sure to please a lot of users with massive files with it's gigantic storage and USB 3.0 capability.

It's currently priced at 26,800 Yen ($345), but currently there's no official announcement from Hitachi for it's international availability and the Thailand floods will likely mean it's very low on stock.

One in Three Internet Users to Use Tablet PC by 2014

According to eMarketer, by the end of this year, it is estimated that 33.7 million people in the United States will be using a tablet pc thanks to the main leader of pc tablet, the Apple iPad.

The growth of tablet users in the last year has been up by over 158% since December of last year, the first iPad was released.

By the end of 2014, it is predicted almost 90 million people will be using a tablet pc. They believe that tablets will eventually be a personal necessity like smart phone these days.

Apple is currently keeping the majority share of the tablet market with HP TouchPad and Kindle ebook reader way behind, eMarketer predicts that the iPad will have a 68% market share.

Women, who happens to have less than 50% of the tablet pc are expected to pull even with men. By the end of 2011, youths under the age of 18 will own 13% of the pc tablet. That will increase to 15.9% in 3 years.

NVIDIA Releases Quad-Core Tegra 3 Processor

NVIDIA have introduced it's long-awaited Tegra 3 processor (Formerly Known As Kal-El), which is the first quad-core mobile processor ever released.

Mainly designed for the pc tablet , latest cell phones and smart phones , the Tegra 3 will purportedly best the processing performance of the older Tegra 2 chip by a factor of five (and graphics by a factor of three, thanks to it's 12-core NVIDIA GeForce GPU with stereo 3D support), all while reducing power consumption by 61%.

Although Tegra 3 is a quad-core chip, there is also a fifth "companion core", which is designed to take over for less-intensive computing tasks, such as listening to audio or web browsing. The technology behind the fifth core is NVIDIA’s Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP).

With the new Tegra 3, users can expect everything on their mobile devices to perform faster and better, including web browsing experience, gaming, streaming video, video edditing and running apps.