Tablets are expected to steal the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, which gets under way January 6 in Las Vegas. Smartphones will continue to demand attention and cutting edge gaming technology always makes waves. But Consumer Electronics Show hype is calling 2011 the year of the tablet, even though the business that began it all–Apple, with its iPad, does not bother to appear.
Beating Consumer Electronics Show 2011 is an Apple goal
CES 2011, depending on previews proliferating on the web, will resemble CES 2010. Last year’s annual technology trade show extravaganza featured the ballyhooed demo of a Microsoft windows tablet that never made it off the ground. The iPad was announced a few weeks later by Apple. Over 12 million iPads have sold since it went to stores in April. Many tablet manufacturers will be introducing devices to get attention as well after CES 2011 starts January 6. The same day, the Mac App Store makes its debut. Many tech pundits expect Steve Jobs will upstage the also-rans at CES 2011 by using the occasion to preview Apple’s iPad 2.
Getting caught up with Apple
Many PC and mobile phone manufacturers can be scrambling to get caught up with Apple at CES 2011. The Galaxy tablet that Samsung says it has already sold 1 million of could be featured. Tablet devices could be unveiled by such brands as Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Dell, Toshiba, Acer, ASUS, and Research in Motion (RIM). The players have some success ahead, analysts suggest, due to the IPad success. Nobody knew that there would be a ton of cheap imitations of what Apple did available on the sector that are all attempting to be the cheapest while Apple does not even have to compete.
Things to show up at CES 2011
Tablets may be the one thing that Consumer Electronics Show 2011 is all about. There can be excitement about the high speed of internet on smartphones too though as it has been promised since Consumer Electronics Show 2010 happened. Android phones for Verizon’s 4G high-speed LTE network could be introduced by Motorola, HTC and others. Internet-connected TVs will even proliferate, also as vehicles and household appliances that access wireless data networks to receive remote commands from their owners.
Information from
Information Week
informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228901670&itc=ref-true
CNN
cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/01/04/ces.expected.trends/index.html?npt=NP1
Wall Street Journal
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110104-706499.html
