Digital camera has been influenced negatively by Smartphone

Camera manufacturers hope reverse entry-level digital camera landslide trends, and in smart phones and the process of competition must keep the profits. Entry-level digital cameras in the entire camera market share is the largest. Apple and nokia (the Po), and other cell phone manufacturers have dramatically in the intelligent mobile phone camera performance, so the camera manufacturers plan for digital camera to join more features, such as through the television and computer direct broadcast pictures, etc.

Samsung electronics, senior vice President of the red Sullivan–arrived (Reid Sullivan) said: “all manufacturers, including samsung electronics, have to concentrate on the camera’s value orientation, and how to realize the camera, and the difference of the smart phone.” Samsung electronics will be posted on the CES 8 of digital camera, the camera will support wireless photo transmission etc. Function.

The NPD group analysts Leeds ยท card ting (Liz Cutting) says, because the development of smart phones, portable digital camera received great impact. And the intelligent mobile phone already to film the high resolution photos and video. Relative to the digital cameras, smart phones can help users to more easily will upload photos to Facebook and Flikcr website, etc.

Card ting, said: “the best equipment is that when you meet deserves the pictures of the moment, you take it on equipment.” Therefore, the camera manufacturers “need to make improvement, against smart phones”. So far, nikon, Canon, SONY, Eastman kodak and samsung electronics are shaky.

The NPD group last month, according to figures released in November 2011, the United States entry-level retail sales of camera year-on-year drop 17% to 12 million units. But the NPD group is not releasing revenue data. Entry-level digital camera sales from 2009 to landslide, when taking pictures mobile phone in af and zoom function has made a great progress.

According to the NPD group of data, American consumers use the smart phone last year took pictures of 27%, compared with 17% in 2010, and through the portable digital camera photographs from 52% in 2010 to 44%.

ThinkPad ultrabook will be exhibited on CES2012

As one of the largest contingent CES 2012, Intel to promote the super this (Ultrabook) products, much attention will have more than 50 new products on display at CES, industry circulated that includes the ThinkPad brand super this product.

ThinkPad super the will to 11.6 inches design, belong to the ThinkPad X series products, the specific models is unclear. Although in CES 2012 show, but ThinkPad super should have will not immediately put on sale, this product is the most likely way with Microsoft listed Windows 8 and Intel Ivy Bridge processor synchronous appear. The specific time about expected in June 2012, the product price at about $800.

This is the super Intel is trying hard to promote the new PC products, and guide the traditional notebook computer to mobile intelligent device gets close, have awaken speed, high portability, long life, the characteristics of mobile Internet age with intelligent equipment needs. It is not difficult to find that, the concept and the super series product design ThinkPad X idea quite close, ThinkPad and super this may very well be a pair of a match made in heaven.

Says in addition to plans to release super this outside, rumors ThinkPad will also develop a product called ThinkPad X1 hybrid, this product has more than 10 hours of life, the most important is it not to pick up Microsoft Windows operating system, but Google’s Android operating system, use of Intel Ivy Bridge processor or Intel is research and development of a new generation of mobile processor Medfield, so far this product experiment significance than market significance.

It was just salable Macbook Air that made the sale of iPad fall off

The latest news from the foreign media display, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu of investment report released recently, from the news of the global supply chain that apple’s iPhone sales of smart phones series amazing, in addition to release the near iPhone 4 S beyond sellers, the old one of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3 GS also is to force.

In the quarter was only half a month ends, Shaw Wu will apple iPhone for smart phones expected from 26 million of sales before the ascent to 28 million, at the same time, the report concluded that apple Mac sales will also be more than 5 million sets of the expected before and in the quarter of 5.2 million units high.

Compared to the apple iPad Shaw Wu this quarter sales forecasts the cut, from the 15 million Taiwan cut before to 13.5 million units, and the apple iPad tablet computer sales is the main reason for the decline not because competitors amazon launched for $199 tablet computer Kindle Fire, but because apple Macbook Air, a subsidiary of ultra-thin this sales too good, as a full-featured notebook computer products Macbook Air can provide users with more more powerful function applications, and the Macbook Air is also portable.

From the data before to see apple Macbook Air so far have dominated apple laptop computer shipments of the proportion of the total 28%, and because in the end of last year the Macbook Air the new design is equipped with more excellent solid-state hard disk so in performance in the more obvious ascending, and apple is Intel Ultrabook stimulating is also set to launch in the next 15 inch version of the Macbook Air ultra-thin this.

The report argues that although the 13.5 million sets of iPad sales have less than expected, but the third quarter of 11.2 million compared to a sales are still have large ascension, and in the present circumstances only by the iPad 2 still cannot save iPad sales rise weak, analysis think apple only released as soon as possible iPad 3 to solve iPad current marketing bottlenecks.