Apple has applied the wedge-shaped design patent for MacBook Air
April 27 news, Apple has applied the wedge-shaped design patent for MacBook Air laptops,and the paten has just won approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent relates to portable computing with the wedge-shaped design of the device, and connected by a hinge and the bottom of the top cover. Apple claims that this design will have a help for the overall feel of the product, portability and durability.There is also high-speed memory card and other interface designed specifically for the shape.
Apple will often apply for patents for its various products, even including the design of retail. While the company does not often use the patent against the opponent, but launched a patent war in the mobile market. The industry believes that Apple may With this latest patent fight against the emerging Ultrabook.
In addition, Apple still apply for and 9 with the MacBook Air-related patents. If successful these patents, Apple can take to force super pole this frame. In addition, Apple has also submitted an adjustment to the brightness of the OLED screen patent. Apple's iPhone, iPad, and MacBook have a backlit LCD screen, rather than the OLED screen. The OLED screen is not backlit, so the brightness is more difficult to adjust, but Apple is by unique technical adjustments such brightness of the screen.
The first BlackBerry 10 mobile phone will be listed in October this year
April 26 news, according to U.S. tech report, the first BlackBerry 10 mobile phone will be for sale in October this year which had been postponed for several times.
The informed sources said that the first BlackBerry phone will equip with large touch screen and the Querty keyboard which may be launched in the first half of 2013. RIM will also invested heavily funds for BlackBerry 10 in marketing.
The above news is same with Thorsten Heins, RIM's new CEO position, said earlier that the BlackBerry 10 equipment will be launched in the second half of 2012.
Intel is expected to become the smartphone chip maker within five years
April 26 morning news, Intel is expected to become an important participant in the smartphone chip market in the next five years. In the past 10 years, Intel has many attempts and all have failed to succeed in this market.
Intel CFO Stacy Smith said: "Intel is not satisfied as a small company in the market, which is the shipments reached the one billion, and it is a great opportunity for us."
Intel announced that the company's smart phone chip has got 5 customers, the first Intel chip mobile phone products market in India. Intel hopes that the continuation of the advantages of the PC market to the smart phone market.
Smith said this week's product launch means that Intel eventually this market. He said: "A week ago, our market share is 0. This week we started, because the first phone to start selling."
The mobile phone chip business will not bring substantial contribution to the 2012 performance of Intel, but Smith is expected that the business this time next year will be given "meaningful sales. He said: "Five years later, we hope to gain market share." However, Smith declined to predict the specific data.
India Lava International is the first company to launch of Intel chips, mobile phones, which is a model XOLO X900 Android phone. Intel announced in February this year, cooperation with Lava, adding that Lava will launch mobile phones and tablet computers using Intel processors. Orange, Motorola Mobile, Lenovo and ZTE also plans to introduce Intel's mobile processors. Intel had also announced cooperation with Nokia and LG Electronics, but the two companies have not yet launched mobile phone products with Intel processors.
Qualcomm is the world's largest manufacturers of baseband processor, but also the production of the application processor. Other participants in this market include Texas Instruments and Nvidia. In addition, Apple to design the application processor by Samsung electronics contract. Intel's chips, including the application and baseband processors.
According to IDC, the 2012 global handset shipments are expected to be 1.7 billion, an increase of 8.2%. Smartphone shipments grew nearly 34 percent. This growth rate is much higher than the PC market, while the latter is still the main source of revenue for Intel. According to Gartner, worldwide PC shipments this year will be an increase of 4.4 percent, to 368 million units.
Intel: Ultrabook market share may reach 40% in the end of this year
April 25 news, from the second quarter this year, many laptop brand plants all launched their own Ultrabook, according to Taiwan media reports, Intel CEO Paul Otellini still remained a optimistic mind for the Ultrabook market, he said the market share of Ultrabook is expected to reach 40% in the end of this year.
Intel has released its second quarter operating results, revenues have grew 5.4% than the first quarter which is better than the level of previous years, but also more optimistic than the market expected. Industry analyst said that mainly because Intel will release Ivy Bridge new products in the second quarter.
Although the market hold a wait-and-see attitude to this year Ultrabook sales, the expected penetration rate is only about 10% to 15%, however, Intel is actively assist the supply chain to reduce the Ultrabook cost structure, including pushing the high fiberglass chassis, as well as standardized battery cells, coupled with major brands and foundries in the R & D efforts, the industry is expected this year, you can see the $ 699 the Ultrabook come out, will help to boost the Ultrabook sales and to drive the Ultrabook stocks.
Sony’s new VAIO E Series notebooks have got full new upgrade
April 25 news, with the release of the Intel processor, the major manufacturers all are upgrading their products. Sony's new VAIO E Series 14P notebook also got a new upgrade which includes Ivy Bridge processor chip, high-resolution screen and a new HD7000 series graphics cards.
According to the latest news from Sony Australian, this notebook chip update from Intel Core i3 to Ivy Bridge Core i7-3612QM, the 14-inch screen resolution increase from 1366 x 768 to 1600x 900 and the graphics will be upgraded to a AMD Radeon HD 7670M and Intel HD Graphics 4000 which.
A feature of this notebook is support gesture function which is similar with the similar Kinect: when in the use of IE9 and Windows Media Player, users can control the forward, backward or to the choice of music through gestures.
But unfortunately, this hardware upgrade will only appear on the black and white VAIO E Series 14P notebook, pink products have been excluded which could lead to a lot of women like pink user frustration. The current price of this notebook in Australia is 1500 Australian dollars.