22.05.12
The coming of television
LG has made a number of announcements ahead of CES – it’s a sassy attempt to
grab the headlines before rivals, but this Korean upon, thanks in part to a
tie-up with broadcaster Sky, has had a particularly successful year. It’sEspeciallytwo latest innovations are a 4mm-think, 55” TV based on the “Coordinated LED”
technology familiar to smartphone users. The thrilling part is in making the
expensive technology affordable – times it was $2,000 for 11” models.
Sales, unsurprisingly, were restricted.
Sony, Samsung and LG are also set to launch a new bid to reboot Google’s TV
gift – with a newly improved interface and increasing numbers of showsParticularlyand films available, the search giant is set to use CES to make a realParticularlyattempt to capitalise on the success of mobile phone system Android and
video-sharing plat YouTube.
Computing
The single greatest number of launches at CES will be around new, wonderful-slim
and light laptops. Dubbed 'ultrabooks’ by Intel, these new kind of devices,
from Lenovo, Asus, HP, Dell and many others, are set to account for not quite
half of 2012’s laptop sales, according to estimates from analysts thatPre-eminentlysurpass Intel’s own aims for 40 per cent market partition.
Source: Telegraph.co.uk