Armed with information from Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, TheStreet.com has boldly declared that the yet-to-be-announced Apple tablet will be headed to America’s largest carrier, Verizon Wireless. The report claims that in selecting Qualcomm as one of the tablet’s chip manufacturers Apple has unintentionally confirmed that tablet will be dancing, possibly exclusively, with Big Red. Analysts estimate that Verizon will subsidize about $200 of the Tablet’s price and require a two-year data service plan of around $60 a month. Apple is expected to sell the iTablet for around $800 without a subsidy. It also may come with some sort of “dock” that will provide physical keyboard connectivity and charging. Gigaom.com also added a few extra tablet tidbits from Kumar:
- ARM Cortex (8) processor, licensed from Samsung
- Samsung will be one of the suppliers of flash memory
- Apple will enhance the video and graphic capabilities of the Cortex with the help of semiconductor company PA Semi
1/21/2010 12:51:00 PM
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Flash an exotic prototype, then—Presto!—get people to buy your more boring stuff. That kind of thinking still rules at most electronics companies. Apple under Steve Jobs only shows off actual products. The difference? Apple's arcane secret to success.
A specter harrows the consumer electronics industry: malaise. Like washed-up Catskill magicians unable to let go of old routines while a brash upstart steals their audience, nearly every maker of consumer electronics in the world clings to a quaint song-and-dance about prototypes.
"Here is your possible future," they bark, flourishing the latest conceptual product from the lab. "Now watch us make it disappear!"
Apple's chief magician knows better, pulling solid objects out of the aether; products you can actually buy.
1/21/2010 12:48:00 PM
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As breathtakingly bad as the picture is, what we're looking at here could very well be the first shot of HTC's upcoming Bravo in the wild -- the industrial design lines up nicely with what we've seen in the company's leaked roadmap, anyway, and that funky little optical pad in the center perfectly matches the component that you can clearly see on the Legend render. It's said to be "near identical" to the Nexus One -- which makes sense considering that we thought the Nexus One was the Bravo for a while -- so the big draws here would have to be the removal of the trackball (we're not complaining) and the Sense UI covering up Android 2.1's default look. If 3 Sweden knew what it was talking about, this thing could be on shelves this quarter... so watch your back, MOTOROI.
1/21/2010 12:34:00 AM
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LG's X300 laptop may have largely avoided comparisons to a certain other thin-and-light when it was announced at CES earlier this month, but it looks like LG is intent on driving that point home regardless. As you can see for yourself in the promo video after the break, not only has LG carried on the oft-imitated manila envelope motif, but it tops things off with a just slightly off "la la la" refrain for good measure. All of which might have earned LG a few points for boldness if this were a parody ad released a few years ago but, sadly, this is 2010, and this ad is all too real.
1/21/2010 12:33:00 AM
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The long wait is finally over. 2AM’s much anticipated mini album has been released and it’s awesome. The mini album consists of 6 tracks and the two standouts are tracks 죽어도 못 보내 / Even if I die, I can’t let you go which is a sappy ballad and To Her which features Chansung of 2PM.
Check out some of the tracks below, thanks to Kvanne for the tip!