CES 2013 The tech that's razzle-dazzling the crowds in Las Vegas
1. Nvidia's Project Shield
CES occasionally surprises you and Nvidia's planned entry into mobile gaming with Project Shield
has certainly raised a few (thousand) eyebrows. At first glance, it
looks suspiciously like a PC gamepad glued to a 5-inch smartphone. But
that's exactly what makes it so exciting.
This device runs the
Android OS and so it can access any game on the Google Play store.
Better still, it can stream games from any PC equipped with Nvidia's
GeForce GTX 650 or from a laptop packing a GTX 660M GPU. The multi-touch
display boasts an HD resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, while inside
beats the 72-core heart of a new Tegra 4 SoC, which is six times
speedier than the excellent Tegra 3.
2. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
And while we're talking mobile processors, Nvidia's Tegra 4 isn't the
only new chip on the block. Samsung pointed us at its forthcoming 8-core
Exynos 5 Octa, featuring the ARM A-15; while Intel introduced Bay Trail, its next-generation, 22nm quad-core Atom tablet platform. Not to be outdone, Qualcomm unveiled its 4K-capable Snapdragon 800
chips, which feature a quartet of Krait 400 cores and an improved
Adreno 330 GPU. Thinking about buying a new phone or a tablet? We'd wait
a while if we were you.
3. Sony Xperia Z
While most mobile manufacturers save their big smartphone launches for
Mobile World Congress in February, Alcatel outed the 6.45mm-thick One Touch Idol Ultra, ZTE unveiled the Grand S and Huawei debuted its first Windows handset, the Ascend W1. All good phones. But not a patch on the waterproof Sony Xperia Z, which features a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm APQ8064 processor, a 5-inch 1080 x 1920 pixel Reality Display and a 13MP camera.
4. Samsung Youm
When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, its icon-based OS and 3.5-inch
touchscreen revolutionised the smartphone. Five years on, we're still
waiting for the next big leap forward in mobile design. Perhaps the Samsung Youm
will enable the phones of 2014-2015 to make another leap. This OLED
display uses thin plastic instead of glass, making the screen pliable,
bendable and almost unbreakable.
5. Panasonic 56-inch 4K OLED TV
CES 2013
isn't just a celebration of the world's newest, biggest, smallest,
fastest and curviest gadgetry. In among the smart TVs and booming home
theatre systems, past legions of skinny laptops and squads of digital
cameras, you can spot the technology that will shape the year ahead.
At CES 2012,
the show was dominated by Windows 8 Ultrabooks, 3D OLED TVs, Android
tablets, 4G LTE and quad-core processors. A year on, things have
changed. Here's our pick of the best gadgets and tech of CES 2013.
1. Nvidia's Project Shield
CES occasionally surprises you and Nvidia's planned entry into mobile gaming with Project Shield
has certainly raised a few (thousand) eyebrows. At first glance, it
looks suspiciously like a PC gamepad glued to a 5-inch smartphone. But
that's exactly what makes it so exciting.
This device runs the
Android OS and so it can access any game on the Google Play store.
Better still, it can stream games from any PC equipped with Nvidia's
GeForce GTX 650 or from a laptop packing a GTX 660M GPU. The multi-touch
display boasts an HD resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, while inside
beats the 72-core heart of a new Tegra 4 SoC, which is six times
speedier than the excellent Tegra 3.
2. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
And
while we're talking mobile processors, Nvidia's Tegra 4 isn't the only
new chip on the block. Samsung pointed us at its forthcoming 8-core Exynos 5 Octa, featuring the ARM A-15; while Intel introduced Bay Trail, its next-generation, 22nm quad-core Atom tablet platform. Not to be outdone, Qualcomm unveiled its 4K-capable Snapdragon 800
chips, which feature a quartet of Krait 400 cores and an improved
Adreno 330 GPU. Thinking about buying a new phone or a tablet? We'd wait
a while if we were you.
3. Sony Xperia Z
While
most mobile manufacturers save their big smartphone launches for Mobile
World Congress in February, Alcatel outed the 6.45mm-thick One Touch Idol Ultra, ZTE unveiled the Grand S and Huawei debuted its first Windows handset, the Ascend W1. All good phones. But not a patch on the waterproof Sony Xperia Z, which features a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm APQ8064 processor, a 5-inch 1080 x 1920 pixel Reality Display and a 13MP camera.
4. Samsung Youm
When
Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, its icon-based OS and 3.5-inch
touchscreen revolutionised the smartphone. Five years on, we're still
waiting for the next big leap forward in mobile design. Perhaps the Samsung Youm
will enable the phones of 2014-2015 to make another leap. This OLED
display uses thin plastic instead of glass, making the screen pliable,
bendable and almost unbreakable.
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