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HP’s PC shipments have exceeded Apple in the first quarter this year

By admin, May 2, 2012 1:39 am

May 2 news, according to the latest news from market research firm Canays, HP’s first quarter PC shipments have exceeded Apple and regain market dominance. Because Canalys take the Tablet PC into the PC shipments, in the fourth quarter of iPad last year, ipad shipments reached a record 15 million units, making the Apple exceeded HP and become the world’s largest PC manufacturers. But in the first quarter of 2012, the Apple iPad shipments are only 11.8 million units, so the PC total volume is only 15.8 million units which ranked in the second place.

Lenovo was ranked third with an increase of 50%. Acer and Dell is still among the list of the top five PC vendors, but the year shipment volume decline. The overall global PC market shipments grew 21 percent to 107 million units. It is noteworthy that, although the Tablet PC market, an increase of 200 percent of desktop and notebook market grew by 11% and 8%, but the netbook market fell 34%, which is also in the field for the sixth consecutive quarter decline.

Canalys analyst Tom Evans said: the majority of the leading PC manufacturers have adopted the possible measures to offset the decline Internet Tablet PC business growth. Samsung and Lenovo’s continued ability to grow more superior, Asus was doing very well. The challenge is to compete with Apple and Amazon, to compete for more market share. At present, only the Samsung Tablet PC single-season shipments to keep more than one million units. ”

From a global point of view, the Tablet PC in the first quarter accounted for 19% of the global PC shipments, a substantial increase compared to 7 percent a year ago, but less than 22 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. Internet from two years ago, 13% fell to 5%.

The release of Microsoft Windows will become an important turning point in the second half of this year. This will cause many consumers to a new PC purchase plan be postponed until the fourth quarter. But then, the price of the thin and light notebooks will be close to a mainstream price, tablet PCs equipped with Windows operating system will also be listed. Windows 8 Can I get a positive response in a variety of PC products will be a key factor. If we can achieve, PC manufacturers in 2013, prospects can be expected.

LG has released Optimus True HD LTE smartphone in Germany

By admin, April 28, 2012 3:09 am

April 28 news, LG launched a variety of configuration and excellent smartphone this year, such as four-core processor LG the Optimus 4X HD, as well as 3D smartphone LG Optimus 3D Max. Today, LG officially released Optimus True HD LTE smartphone in Germany and the configuration is also very good.

LG Optimus True HD LTE is a candy bar touch screen mobile phone, it can be said as the LG Optimus LTE P936 customized version which also used 4.5-inch IPS touch screen, resolution of 720 × 1280 pixels,1.5 GHz and dual-core processor, and with 1GB of RAM. The phone run Android 2.3 operating system, and will soon upgrade to the latest Android 4.0 system version.

In addition, LG Optimus True HD LTE smartphone has a 1.3 megapixel front camera, and 8 million pixels to meet the needs of the user’s daily life entertainment, the shipment data and sale price of this phone has yet not confirmed.

Rumor: the thickness of iPhone 5 will drop 20%

By admin, April 28, 2012 3:07 am

April 28 news, according to foreign media reports, Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek released a investor report said that, by the chip maker and the technology industry supply chain companies in the first quarter earnings found that Apple will introduce the next-generation iPhone, the iPhone 5 and iTV products in the coming weeks and months.

MiseK come to the conclusion through the study of individual company earnings:

iPhone 5 will thinner than iPhone 4S, using a 4-inch screen. Misek said in a report, “We believe that the Apple display supplier Taiwan TPK TPK has hinted in the earnings release, a big customer is leaving the company’s technology, alluding to the iPhone 5 listed the company’s market share may will decline. “Misek believes that the iPhone will be the iPhone 4S thin 20%, and 4-inch display. Misek expected, the iPhone will be 5 in the third quarter of this year, mass production, production may be 50 million to 60 million.

Misek believe that Apple released iPhone will be in September or October this year. He pointed out that the iPhone listed will not bring a substantial upgrade to Apple’s performance, investors should not be overly nervous and we expected, Apple’s third quarter iPhone sales will be 15 million, the iPhone family of products, seasonal sales of 40 million. in addition, the iPhone family of products will reach 50 million sales in the fourth quarter from September this year, Apple’s global total number of iPhone users will be more than 175 million. assume that the iPhone update period is 2 years , then there will be nearly 20 million iPhone users to replace a new phone. “Misek also think that, other mobile operators to start selling the iPhone will greatly promote the sales of the iPhone.

Misek also thinks that Apple will launch iOS6 operating system and the latest version of iCloud in the Worldwide Developers Conference held in June this year. The analyst believes that the synchronization feature of Apple’s service will reach the same level with Google Drive, “Based on our coding and development work, we believe that iOS6 will focus on video” he said.

Samsung just released 7 series laptops in Canada’s official website

By admin, April 27, 2012 4:20 am

April 27 news, there are many manufacturers updating its laptop configuration to Ivy Bridge currently and Samsung is one of them. In Canada’s official website, Samsung has just released two equipped with quad-core processor of Ivy Bridge 7-Series laptops, the 17-inch version used a 3615QM Corei7-processor, 1GB NVIDIA GT640M graphics. But we have not seen it appear in other sales sites, retail stores, and the exact price of this laptop is still unclear.

Another 17-inch version of the Samsung laptop directly released in Samsung’s official site. It also uses the 2.3GHz i7-3615QM processor, the GeForce 650M graphics card, memory up to 8GB, and equipped with a 1TB hard drive. 17.3-inch screen resolution is 1920×1080 with anti-reflective function, and also has the JBL speakers. Interfaces with HDMI output, three USB3.0 interface, a standard USB interface, a card reader, equipped with a Blu-ray. The prices of this laptop is also has not been released.

Kindle Fire has occupied 54% share in the US Android tablet market in February

By admin, April 27, 2012 4:19 am

April 27, according to the latest report, the Internet traffic monitoring firm comScore said that Amazon Kindle Fire in February this year in the U.S. Android Tablet PC market share reached 54.4% which ranked first.

Samsung Galaxy Tab ranked second which only have 15.4% market share. Android Tablet PC share of the other manufacturers are not more than 10%, Motorola Mobile Xoom came in third with share of 7 percent and the Sony Tablet S share is only 0.7%.

Compared to December 2011 data, the Kindle Fire share almost doubled, while the share of other manufacturers products are shrinking. The researchers did not explain the reason for the change of the share of products, but the sales price of $ 199 should be the determining factor of consumer preference for the Kindle Fire. Amazon Tablet PC is now directly compete with the price of the Apple iPad.

The result is rather embarrassing for Google, the Kindle Fire with Android’s success, but the device and not the official Google interface and allows profitable Google Google Play shops and other services. The rumors that Google will launch with the same price of the Kindle Fire Nexus Tablet PC to contend with Amazon.

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