At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), innovative new products turn out in great numbers. The announcement of Google and Apple to unveil the Nexus One and tablet PCs on the sidelines of the CES has drawn much attention. As for 3D mobile phones, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Sony, and Dell are gearing up for showcasing their new products. When it comes to mobile gadgets, Google's Android platform definitely takes the centre stage. In addition, whether Dell would bring out tablet PCs equipped with Android platforms is being bandied around.
Foreign newspapers and blogs have already predicted that Dell's new tablet PC would come out with a 5-inch touch screen and wireless Internet access. Whether HTC (a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones), who manufactured Google's Nexus one smartphone, would put on display tablet PCs loaded with Google's Android platform and Qualcomm's Snapdragon is also a matter of great interest. Chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc is to introduce 7-inch touch screen smartbook PCs equipped with Google's Android platform.
The 2009 CES was highlighted by the debut of HDTVs, prophesying an era of 3D; the 2010 CES 3D is expected to wow attendees with more applicable 3D technologies. The organizers of the show will separately open the Experience 3D Tech Zone, where all kinds of products using home 3D technologies will be on view. 3M Company will showcase its 3D film technology, which enables watching 3D images without the aid of 3D goggles. The technology is deemed noteworthy since it allows appreciating 3D images on mobile phones, laptop computers as well as TVs, thereby making 3D more widespread. The 2010 CES will serve as a competition arena for Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, JVC, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp - who are packed up with a legion of 3D display goods.
Ebooks, whose commercial success has been solely attributable to the Amazon Kindle eBook reader, are another draw at the 2010 CES. The eBooks Tech Zone, set up by the CES, will display ebook contents and technologies as well as terminals. It is also interest-provoking whether Amazon Kindle, which has become a byword for ebooks, would be outwitted by some new products at the show. Whether the Que proReader, newly released by Plastic Logic (a spin-off company from Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory) and Taiwanese computer-manufacturer MSI's dual-screen ebook reader would be on display remains to be seen.
