CES 2013 - in a nutshell (Ashan Fernando -Mashdroid magazine )
Okay folks, it's the end of another Consumer Electronics
Show. We were a bit disappointed this time because we didn't see any worthy
device or gadget from serious contenders except Sony. Instead ,the stage was
occupied by emerging players like Huwawei, ZTE and Alcatel and less known names
like Archos and Vizio.
Well quite the most important device was Xperia Z, (along with
Xperia ZL) of Sony. It packed a 1080p display of 441 PPI with a Snapdragon S4
pro chip clocked at 1.5 GHz inside, delivering the Android 4.1 for the run, and
was built waterproof! Good job Sony.
It was NVidia that made the other huge impact with their latest Tegra 4 SoC, which packs a
72core GPU paired with four Cortex A15 cores, and of course Project Shield, an
Android gaming console that packs this chip set under the hood.
Huwawei, on the other hand had some nice devices up their
sleeve to show, of which, Ascend D2 with the now standard 5 inch 1080p display
and the giant 6.1 inch Ascend Mate were serious competitors in the Android
realm, while their first Windows phone 8 running Ascend W1 was also in a side
for a watch.
ZTE Grand S too packed some beastly specs, a 1.7GHz
Snapdragon S4 pro and a 441ppi 5inch display, with jelly beans to chew them
all.
Well Alcatel seriously had done a great job with dozens of
One touch smart phones and tablets, of course you have come across them in
previous pages.
We didn't see a device from Samsung but they had a little
surprise for us with their 8 core Exynos 5 beast and the demonstration of
foldable display.
Qualcomm announced the new series of their chip sets, namely
Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, and 800, leaving from their S series nomenclature.
Vizio had a couple of cool devices, a true Nexus 7
competitor and the latest Tegra 4 SoC packing 10 inch tablet with 2560×1600
resolution, which will definitely give Nexus 10 a run for its money. Archos
also showed a series of beautiful slates, one with the new iPad's resolution,
yes, really worth trying one out!
Other than the devices we had some nice Android powered
Ovens and Refrigerators that expand the mighty hand of the world's most popular
mobile OS.
Well that's it for this year's CES guys. Quite disappointed?
Not really though. True we didn't see anything from HTC and much from other
Android behemoths, but this CES, in my opinion, was a brilliant playground for
the emerging names in the industry.
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