OmniVision Almost Confirms 8-Megapixel Camera in Next iPhone

In their quarterly results call, OmniVision almost confirmed that the next generation iPhone would have an 8-megapixel back camera. While talking about their plans for coming months, OmniVision executives revealed that they are transitioning much of their smartphone image sensor production capacity to 8-megapixel, as they were seeing strong orders from key customers in the smartphone market.
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Businessweek Reveals Some New Details About Apple's Upcoming Online Music Service

Businessweek has posted an article titled “Apple’s deals may transform digital music”, in which they reveal some new details about Apple’s upcoming online music service. Businessweek’s Brad Stone and Andy Fixmer wrote the following about the music service deal:
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Google Wallet App Enables Consumer to Tap, Pay and Save with Their Phone (Hands-on Video Added)

At an event today, Google, Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint announced and demonstrated Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet so you can tap, pay and save money and time while you shop. For businesses, Google Wallet is an opportunity to strengthen customer relationships by offering a faster, easier shopping experience with relevant deals, promotions and loyalty rewards.
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Hasselblad Launches First 200-Megapixel Camera H4D-200MS

After careful testing for stability and color accuracy, the H4D-200MS - first announced at Photokina last September - is now available. Based on the H4D-50MS platform, the new camera is capable of creating 200 megapixel files for the ultimate in resolution.
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Sony S Series and F Series Get Second Generation Intel Core i7 Update

Sony updated their S series and F series laptops with second generation Intel Core i7 processors and new graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA. The top-of-the-line S series laptop gets 2.7GHz dual core Intel Core i7 processor, 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6630 hybrid graphics, 13.3-inch 1366 x 768 display, backlit keyboard, WiFi, Bluetooth and the usual set of ports. Options include higher resolution (1,600 x 900) display, up to 8GB memory, Blu-ray drive, and external sheet battery.
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Official Announcement and Reviews of Dell XPS 15z

Dell today introduced the XPS 15z laptop, the thinnest 15-inch Windows laptop on the market. Dell says that the XPS 15z is first in a series of new thin and ultra powerful products the company will introduce this year. Main features of the new XPS 15z are:
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Microsoft Previews Windows Phone 7.1 ‘Mango’ Update

Microsoft today previewed the next release of Windows Phone, codenamed “Mango”. According to Microsoft, Mango will bring more than 500 new features to Windows Phone 7 customers for free. Some of the main features of Windows Phone 7.1 update are:
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More iPhone 5 Rumors: Smaller and Thinner, Maybe with Curved Front Glass

Next generation iPhone rumor season is in full swing now and everyday we are getting some new iPhone 5 related news/rumor. Today there were three main iPhone 5 related news. Lets start with the most credible one, as it comes directly from France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard. In an interview with All Thing D, Richard told Ina Fried next iPhone would be smaller and thinner. For a question about their work with Apple on smaller SIM cards, he said:
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AMD Introduces Embedded G-Series APUs for Fanless Designs

AMD today announced immediate availability of two new AMD Embedded G-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) with thermal design power (TDP) ratings of 5.5 and 6.4 watts, up to a 39 percent power savings compared to earlier versions. The very low power consumption and small 361mm² package is ideal for compact, fanless embedded systems like digital signage, kiosks, mobile industrial devices and many of the new emerging industry-standard small form factors such as Qseven.
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Apple Rumors: Next Gen iPhone Orders Placed, iPad 3 in September

Last month, we were the first to report that Apple will start production + shipping of next generation iPhone 5 this summer, while every other news site and blog was reporting that iPhone 5 was delayed. Now many tech websites are reporting that Apple will start production of iPhone 5 soon and will ship it by September. Even the highly unreliable analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray now says that Apple has placed orders for new equipment to iPhone manufacturing equipment supplier, which means Apple is setting up the production lines.
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Intel Plans to Add Three New ULV Processors Ideal for MacBook Air Update to Sandy Bridge Lineup

Intel plans to add three new Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) processors including Core i5-2557M, Core i7-2637M and Core i72677M to Sandy Bridge mobile CPU lineup. CPU-World posted on their website:
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New Sensor Technologies will Make Smartphones Smarter

Smartphones already use sensors like gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer to gauge orientation, direction and location of the handset. However, STMicroelectronics’ general manager of the MEMS division, Benedetto Vigna says it is just the beginning. In an interview with NY Times, he talked about future of sensors and how they will change the way we use/interact with smartphones.
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Verizon’s CFO Talks About Next Gen iPhone

Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo talked about next generation iPhone at Reuters Global Technology Summit. He said that when the next iPhone model launches, Verizon would be able to offer it at the same time as AT&T because the new iPhone will have multimode chipset that will support both CDMA and GSM networks.
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Logitech Launches iPad and Android Tablet Accessories Lineup

Today Logitech unveiled a line of iPad and Android-based tablet accessories. The new lineup includes a wide range of accessories — from keyboards to speakers.
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Sharp Develops World’s First Super Hi-Vision (7,680 x 4,320) 85-inch Direct –View LCD

If you are not happy with 1080p HDTVs and think that even 4K is slightly below par. You will be extremely happy to know that Sharp has partnered up with NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) to develop world’s first 85-inch direct-view LCD that is compatible with Super Hi-Vision (8K), a next generation television broadcast format.
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Apple Cloud Music Service Coming Soon, Deals with Music Labels Almost Finalized

After Amazon and Google went over the head of music labels to launch their cloud music service, the labels are now bending backward to sign a deal with Apple to set an example for rest of the industry. CNET is reporting that Apple is close to announcing cloud music service. Greg Sandoval posted on CNET:
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Some Interesting Display Technologies Highlighted at SID 2011

Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are catching everyone’s attention and it was amply highlighted at this year’s SID (Society of Information Display). Some of the most interesting display products showcased at SID were aimed at mobile devices. Toshiba’s 4-inch 367ppi (pixel per inch) LCD display took the pixel density crown, but there were other very impressive IPS LCD panels from LG, Quantum Dot film from Nanosys and Pentile technology based displays from Samsung.
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Is Toshiba’s New 4-inch 720p, 367ppi LCD Display Coming to iPhone 5?

Till now iPhone 4 has lead the pixel density war with its 327ppi (pixel per inch) Retina display. However, that is going to change now as Toshiba showcased a 367ppi display for smartphones at SID 2011. The new display is not only higher in pixel density, but also better in color reproduction (at NTSC 72%) with higher contrast ratio (1000:1) than the iPhone’s Retina display. And Toshiba claims that they can further improve the display by increasing the color gamut to 92% of NTSC and contrast ratio to 1,500:1.
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iPhone’s Retina Display Wins Display of the Year and iPad Wins Display Application of the Year Awards at SID 2011

The Society for Information Displays (SID) today announced its selections for the 2011 Display of the Year Awards (DYAs). The prestigious annual awards honor the products judged by the international DYA committee to exhibit the greatest degree of technical innovation, commercial significance and likely social impact, among other factors.
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NVIDIA Introduces GeForce GTX 560 GPU

NVIDIA today introduced the GeForce GTX 560 GPU, the latest addition to the company’s Fermi architecture-based product family, which brings amazing performance and enhanced features such as NVIDIA PhysX, 3D Vision, SLI and Surround technologies to PC games. The new graphics card will allow full HD 1080p playback with all the advance game play features.
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