Samsung Ultrabooks are worth the premium price tag

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Samsung reckons its Ultrabooks justify the hefty price tags they carry, even if the competition is cheaper.

Speaking to LaptopMag, Won Park, vice president of sales and marketing at Samsung, said the firm believes consumers will happily pay more for the right features, even though Ultrabook prices have reportedly taken a dip in recent times.

Park does admit “it’s kind of an audacious move to go beyond the Ultrabook in terms of price”, but Samsung clearly has confidence in its range of thin and lights, and the aggressive pricing strategy it has implemented.

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According to Samsung’s senior vice president of PC sales and marketing Sungwon Song, the company is asking itself, “How can we deliver a product to consumers that they’ll be proud to show off in public?”

Song goes on to explain that Samsung thinks it beats the competition when it comes to the design and manufacturing process, resulting in more expensive Ultrabooks.

All said and done, we were impressed with the Samsung Series 9ultrabook when we reviewed it, even if it does carry an eye-watering price tag.

Some believe the Ultrabook is nothing more than a fad which will fade in time in much the same way as netbooks fell away, only to open the door to tablet boom we see before us today.

 

Samsung to bring more RAM to every mobile

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Samsung is about to help the whole of the mobile market, as it readies a new memory chip for handsets.

Not only is Samsung responsible for the likes of the Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note and most recently the Galaxy S3, it also produces a wide array of components which are used by all mobile manufacturers.

Its latest development is 4 gigabit 20 nanometer low power DDR2 memory. For those of you lost in the gobbledygook, it means Samsung is producing a 2GB RAM chip for mobile phones.

More speed, less power, smaller size

To date, most next-generation handsets sport 1GB of RAM, including the Galaxy S3 and HTC One X, although you’ll only find 512MB in the iPhone 4S and Nokia Lumia 900.

What will this extra memory give us? Well the latest crop of handsets, with their quad-core processors, are lightening quick, but Samsung claims it “will help the market to deliver advanced devices that are faster, lighter and provide longer battery life than today’s mobile devices.”

The new chip is reportedly 20% thinner than previous 2GB offerings, which will allow handset manufacturers to continue producing incredibly slender devices, able slide into the skinniest of jeans with ease.

Samsung predicts the new memory will begin to ship later this year, which means we could see handsets sporting the new RAM by Christmas, but 2013 is really the time when this technology will be fully implemented.

iPhone 5 will have 4-inch screen

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The Wall Street Journal has just published a pretty long article about the iPhone 5. And if you’ve been following previous reports that WSJ published just when rumors of new iPhone has started, you might believe this new one about the iPhone 5. According to WSJ, the next iPhone will have a 4-inch screen.
The report said that this decision to depart from the 3.5-inch screen size of previous iPhones is being made to address the threat posed by popular smartphones today which all have screen size bigger than the current iPhone. In case you’re not aware, Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has a huge 4.8-inch display.

As a proof of this move, WSJ cited people familiar to the matter saying that Apple has already ordered screens from its Asian suppliers.Also, Apple is currently working with various screen makers including LG Display, Sharp and Japan Display.
With those said, and if you believe the credibility of the Wall Street Journal, it’s probably time to start anticipating for a bigger iPhone 5.

Intel Windows 8 tablets to hit retail stores in November

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The first wave of Intel-based Windows 8 tablets are expected to land in retail stores in November, a source familiar with device makers’ plans told CNET.

“The schedule is tight,” said the source. “Looking at what Windows is trying to achieve not only with a new OS, but a new OS that needs to run four to five architectures — three ARM, Intel, and AMD,” according to the source.

And don’t expect just tablets. “More than 50 percent” of the “more than a dozen” designs will be hybrids, aka convertibles, the source said. Those designs combine aspects of a traditional physical keyboard-based laptop and tablet.

All the devices described by the source will tap Intel’s upcoming “Clover Trail” Atom chip. Clover Trail is Intel’s first dual-core Atom design based on its 32-nanometer process technology. (The single core version of this chip powers a phone from India-based Lava and is slated for phones from Lenovo, Orange, and Motorola, among others.)

Hybrid Windows 8 designs based on the higher-performance Ivy Bridge processor are also expected but the source did not address that market segment specifically.

Windows 8, like Windows 7 before it, will be powered by chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and will be able to run older, so-called “legacy” applications.

A separate release from Microsoft, Windows RT, will land on devices powered by ARM chip suppliers Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments. RT will not run older Windows applications.

The sources added that Intel has a chip called “Bay Trail” in the works — the company’s future 22-nanometer follow-up to Clover Trail.

“It is a gigantic performer, with similar battery life to Clover Trail. It will also have a lot of security features built in and Infineon [3G/4G] silicon inside,” the source said.

Bay Trail would use Intel’s own graphics tech, not Imagination’s.

 

Link : http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57433269-92/intel-windows-8-tablets-to-hit-retail-stores-in-november/

Apple to Release Thinner MacBook Pro at WWDC

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Bloomberg confirms a report from earlier today that Apple is preparing to release thinner MacBook Pro models with Retina displays.

The models are to be released at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11 and will also include flash memory to “cut startup times and extend battery life”. The report is likely a “controlled leak”, something that Apple PR has been known to do in the past to share product details.

Apple Inc. is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel Corp., people with knowledge of the plans said.

The MacBook Pro machines, to be unveiled at Apple’s annual developers conference starting June 11, also will feature high- definition screens like those on the iPhone and iPad, as well as flash memory to cut startup times and extend battery life, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans haven’t been made public.

The MacBook Pro lineup was last updated in October of 2011, though it hasn’t had a substantial redesign since 2008.

Bloomberg also suggested that Apple will announce the launch date of the OS X Mountain Lion release that Apple previewed earlier this year.

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