Acer Liquid Glow smartphone has been released in MWC 2012

March 1, 2012 5:00 am

March 1 news, according to the latest news, in addition to a high-end Acer Cloud Mobile phones, Acer also introduced the new Android4.0 cell phone product – Acer Liquid Glow.

Acer Liquid Glow used the  flow concept in the designed which has a beautiful shape. We can see from its official site, the Acer Liquid Glow has black, white, pink three colors at least.

Compared to Cloud Mobile, this Acer Liquid Glow configuration is a little low. It used 3.7-inch screen, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM7227A chipset, supported by 512MB of RAM and 1GBROM, support for WCDMA networks and up to 32GB microSD card expansion.

The most noteworthy is that this machine will use Android4.0 system, if the smartphone have a smooth experience and perfect shape, this Acer Liquid Glow will be very popular.

Toshiba will launch Excite LE which can be called the thinnest Tablet PC

March 1, 2012 4:57 am

March 1 news, according to foreign media reports, the Toshiba will launch Excite LE Tablet PC next week, and said the Excite LE can be called the thinnest tablet.

Toshiba Excite LE has used 10.1-inch screen, thickness of 0.3 inches and weighs 1.18 pounds. Samsung Galaxy Tab screen is the same size but the thickness is 0.38 inches, weighs 1.3 pounds, Apple iPad 2 screen size of 9.7 inches, 0.34 inches thick, and weighs 1.33 pounds.

Toshiba Excite LE 16GB version priced at $ 529.99, 32GB version priced at $ 599.99. Compared with the Apple iPad 2, the high price of Apple iPad 2 16GB version is priced at $ 499. Apple has announced that next week will release the iPad Tablet PC.

Toshiba spokesman did not confirm the sale of Excite LE plans outside the United States, but said the same range of products, visit other countries.

Toshiba said that the LE of Excite Andrews 3.2 system will be upgraded this spring for Andrews 4.0 system, built-in TI’s dual-core OMAP 4430 processor. Excite LE is equipped with front and rear camera, USB and HDMI interface. Currently, Toshiba has released Android tablet which with 7 inches and 10 inches version.

IBM announced quantum computer research has made a major breakthrough

February 29, 2012 5:22 am

February 29 news, according to foreign media reports, IBM Research scientists at the department announced that IBM has newly developed a device, can reach the minimum standard of “practical quantum computer”. However, some programs are still to be improved.

IBM scientists said they achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing, which means that the realization of quantum computers is not impossible, but need a step by step.

It is reported that this technological breakthrough allows scientists to reduce the data error rate in the preliminary calculations, at the same time maintain the integrity of the quantum mechanical properties of the quantum bits.

American Physical Society meeting held on February 28, the IBM team shows their quantum computing research progress, Matthias Stevens, Matthias Steffen, who led the team of IBM quantum computers, a statement said, is about to display their research results the results will show the world of quantum computing can develop scalable technology, the technology has far exceeded the ability of today’s supercomputers.

Poor performance is the main reason for consumers to give up netbook

February 29, 2012 5:20 am

February 29 news, netbooks has been released as early as in 2007,it is specifically designed for surfing the Internet, online content consumption, and flexible office. The netbok is popular in the group who frequently travel, focusing on the convenience. Then the Asus, HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo, all manufacturers have joined the battle for the netbook. The hottest period of the netbook market is in 2008 and 2009 that the market share has up to 20% ~ 25% in the mobile notebook.

But this did not last long, the netbook market gradually turns cold. With the rapid development of mobile market, the rise of smart phones, tablet PCs make the netbook gradually disappearing. The market research firm IDC analysts believe that the beginning in 2010, netbook sales began to decline in the United States. Today, in addition to Latin America, netbook sales in most countries stop growing, but growth was mainly concentrated in developing countries. Netbook sales in the world in the past two years show a gradual downward trend, and this trend is still deteriorating.

Fewer and fewer new models have come out from netbooks, the launch time is getting longer and longer. Dell all stop selling netbook, HP seems to the only existing maker that still launch netbook for education market. ASUS is still adhere to the final position, and sell a variety of netbooks.In the fourth quarter of last year, the global netbook shipments is 6.3 million, down 29 percent. From Microsoft’s report also showed that a year ago,netbook still occupy about 8% in the PC market, and now only 2%.

Netbooks being marginalized, on the one hand is their functional defects. Many consumers believe that the netbook does not have a Tablet PC lightweight feature, the appearance is not enough fashion which doomed it become a transitional product.

As for the performance, function deficiencies were the main reason for consumers to give up the netbook. Reflect from some consumers, long use of the netbook will make the eyes tired, the keyboard size is not very suitable for men, as well as short standby time and a lot of heat. Many users complain that: “Although the netbook is cheap, compared to traditional laptops, the performance has really a huge difference”.

In addition,ipad alternatives is a fierce competition. Over the past few years, the PC industry is facing the biggest challenge is the tablet PCs, especially iPad which almost monopoly the market, which makes the traditional PC market development difficult. IPad best-selling make the netbook lost all the market at present.

Not only the iPad, a lot of smartphones processor speed and memory bandwidth are more and move closer to the notebook, part of the smart phone’s performance is sufficient to match the current mainstream netbook, but also with the convenience and functionality.

Samsung displayed Galaxy Tab 2 and Galaxy Beam projector phone in the MWC

February 28, 2012 4:36 am

February 28 news, Samsung has just released a new product Tablet PC and mobile phone at the MWC 2012.The Tablet PC is Galaxy Tab 2 and the mobile phone is the Galaxy Beam. Samsung really displayed a new Tablet PC Galaxy Note 10.1 in the MWC, and different with the previous rumors, this tablet screen size is 10.1 inch and has a stylus: S-Pen.

As for the appearance, Galaxy Note 10.1 has not much different with Galaxy Tab 2, but the software it is equipped with a S-Pen, supporting applications such as handwritten memorandum S Note, and it presets PhotoShop Touch version which users only need to hold down the stylus button, and then double-click the screen, the S-Note will be able to start for a quick record.

The parameters are as follows:

1.4GHz dual-core Exynos processor; 10.1-inch screen, a resolution of 1280 x 800; rear camera 3 megapixel front camera 2 million pixels; equipped with Android 4.0, and TouchWiz interface; equipped with S-Pen supporting applications, such as S Note The, PhotoShop Touch. Before unknown Galaxy Note 10.1 of the price, but do not expect.

The difference between the two tablet PCs are:

Former 7-inch screen size, resolution 600 x 1024; the latter 10.1-inch screen size, resolution 1280 x 800; the former measurements are 193.7 x 122.4 x 10.5 mm; the latter is 256.6 x 175.3 x 9.7 mm; former weight was 345 g; the latter is 588 g; former battery capacity of 4000 mAh; which the battery capacity of 7000 mAh.

In addition to the Tablet PC, Samsung also released a new mobile phone the Galaxy Beam. This is a mobile phone comes with a mini-projector, projection resolution of 640 x 360, brightness of 15 lumens. Due to the existence of the projector, the Galaxy Beam, body thickness of 12.5 mm, and therefore able to accommodate a larger battery which up to 2000 mAh. In the case of a fully charged, the phone can continue the projector three hours, Samsung said.

Leaving aside the projection function, the hardware configuration is usually: 1 Ghz with dual-core processors; Android 2.3 and 4-inch screen (resolution of 800 x 480).

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