It is in the air that Apple will push iPad 3 in March and iPad 4 in October
According to Taiwan “electronic times” report, informed sources, and apple will launch in March this year all the hd iPad 3, and in the October release equipped with killer application of iPad 4.
People familiar with the matter say the iPad 3 will use the QXGA screen, the resolution up to 1536 x 2048, battery life time will also extend, but other configurations may not be able to bring a surprise to the user. But, apple would like to take this opportunity to iPad 2 the price will drop to $399.
IPad 3 and reduction of the iPad 2 will help apple against SONY, MOTOROLA and samsung competition the challenge of rival, the enterprise of the tablet computer price now about $359 or more.
But people familiar with the matter say, because Google may be released in April independent brand tablet computer, and Kindle Fire for the introductory users, so the second quarter competition also will be more intense.
But the real competition will occur in the second half, apple will be in the October launched iPad 4. Almost during the same period, Microsoft (the Po) will also release Windows 8, Intel (the Po) will launch Clover Trail-W platform.
9.7-inch iPad 4 is expected to greatly upgrade to the hardware configuration, and will be integrating a series of killer application, and Android, Wintel and WoA (Windows on ARM) camp competition.
Intel Medfield equipped with Android
Yesterday we had just finished the Medfield Intel processor, today is a reference to ZhenShen flat figure leakage. Further, the editor of Slashgear website is pleased to contend the flat is one of their informant in a friendly but not too ShiHuo (or is a drink score is not clear in the northwest of the southeast Intel employees) hands with 50 dollars for to come here. These pictures are a bit Medfield flat fuzzy, because the informant hands only shooting equipment is a Galaxy S II Epic 4 G Touch.
As we spoke yesterday, this flat-screen deserves to send force of the next generation of chip Intel technology crystallization-the same installation Android operating system, its performance on market basically can despising all dual-core flat. According to the informant said the flat-screen work “bunker”. Although plate quite thin, but component good, no bargain feeling. Boot key in the flat top left corner, volume adjustment on key the right and the left is in the flat earphone interface. Flat miniSD card interface on the right, and flat bottom charging interface, MicroUSB and MiniHDMI interface. Tipster also said that when he got the flat, the above fingerprints and take a long time to piano lacquer face plate notebook, so he guessed the flat glass screen is not final stage.
Intel no official launch Atom tablet computer mean, but anyway, small make up for this Medfield flat the truth means can be pleasantly surprised leakage of graph.
It takes 2.0 years to smash up ARM monopoly for Wintel tablet
The latest news from the foreign media, according to market research firm DisplaySearch) recently released report says the forecast, the Intel processor running Windows operating system in the future Wintel tablet computer in two years’ time there will be a larger development, but two years is still unable to break the monopoly of the ARM tablet PC market, ARM still will be the tablet market leader and occupied a bigger share of the market.
DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim recently released report says, by 2012 the X86 framework processor Windows tablet PC market share is about 1.8%, that is in 2012 for about 100 million sets of the total amount of the tablet computer Wintel tablet computer would hold about 1.8 million sets of scale, most of the Atom processor.
The report says that by 2013 the Wintel tablet computer situation will gradually open, when using Windows 8 operating system Wintel tablet computer will reach 3.1 million units occupied 2.1% of the market share, but in 2013 the global tablet computer the size of the market will reach 148 million units, while the Windows tablet computer most will use Intel Haswell processor, and Intel’s Ultrabook super this also be using the Haswell processor. The ARM architecture are expected this year the tablet computer will achieve 211% growth reached 59.9 million units, and next year will increase to 90 million or more of scale.