• Samsung Announces 2560 x 1600 Pixel at 300 dpi Display for Tablets

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    At the SID Display Week 2011 International Symposium, Samsung will demonstrate the first 10.1-inch display with 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution made for tablets. It offers an “ultra-high resolution”, LCD at 300dpi. According to Samsung’s press release, The prototype demonstration marks the first time this resolution has been available for the tablet market in the popular – 10.1-inch – format, rivaling the highest resolution smartphone displays now on the market.

    The display also relies on the PenTile technology, developed by Nouvoyance, which allows for 40% less power consumption and two-thirds number of subpixels.

    Because tablets are regularly used for viewing rich-colored images, the 10.1-inch 300 dpi display is ideal for applications that require extraordinary image and text clarity such as browsing the web and viewing high-definition movies, or reading books and spreadsheets.

    In order to develop tablets with the form and function that consumers demand, a design engineer ultimately has to determine how to get the highest resolution display possible, while still fitting within the overall power budget for their design”

    “Samsung’s PenTile display technology is the only display technology that operates at 40 percent less power yet provides twice that of Full HD-viewing performance for consumers compared to legacy RGB stripe LCDs. There is no other commercial display technology on the market today that offers this high of a resolution and pixel density in a 10.1-inch size display,” said Dr. Sungtae Shin, Senior VP of Samsung Electronics.

    Definitely this announcement opens the door to the possibility of having a “Retina Display” on Apple’s iPad which sports a 9.7-inch Samsung panel at 1024 x 768 pixel. Is this technology able to fit a double resolution 2048 x 1536 pixel for next iPads?

    Samsung expects to have commercial availability of this technology for tablet applications later this year.

  • At Google I/O, Everybody Uses Mac Notebooks, Including Google

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    At Google I/O you would see journalists, bloggers, guests , Google engineers, audience members and everybody seem enjoying a taste of Apple Mac Notebooks and gears! Thanks to the glowing Apple logo who brought the attention.

    [Images courtesy 9to5google]

  • Google Launches Streaming Cloud Service ‘Music Beta by Google’

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    Google debuted its own streaming music service at its I/O developer conference Today morning. The service dubbed “Music Beta by Google,” will act as a “digital locker,” where users are able to store their music in the cloud instead of on their local hard drives or mobile devices.

    After uploading your existing music library to a remote server, you’ll be able to stream your music to your Android phone or web-connected PC. As long as you’re connected to the internet, you’ll be able to access your music wherever you go. You’ll be able to add up to 20k songs, and it’s free while its in beta mode.

    “We’ve been in negotiations with the industry for a different set of features, with mixed results,” she told Billboard the night before the announcement was made. “[But] a couple of major labels were less focused on innovation and more on demanding unreasonable and unsustainable business terms.”

    According to sources familiar with the matter, Google had hoped to let users “beam” their digital music collections into a cloud-based locker system by recognizing the files and mirroring them in the cloud. Google has a reputation for getting what it wants, but instead, due to a breakdown in negotiations with major labels Sony Music and Universal Music Group, Music Beta by Google reportedly lacks label licensing for its Music Beta service.

    As we posted before, he service is currently invite only, with priority given to those attending Google I/O as well as those who own Motorola’s Xoom tablet. Registration can be found at Google.music.com.

  • Google To Announce Music Cloud Service At Google I/O Conference Today

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    It seems as though Google is going to launch Google Music today at it’s annual Google I/O developer conference. and why Google rushed it out is only to beat Apple and keep up with Amazon Cloud Service.

    Google will be taking the same approach to streaming music as Amazon. This means that they will not have a master copy, but rather they will have the user upload their library. AKA, Google has no licenses with the record labels.

    Google’s service is rumored to be flash only, so no iOS devices or Android devices running anything lower than 2.2. would run it. Google is going to launch this as an invite-only beta for Google I/O attendees, Motorola Xoom owners, as well as people who want to sign up for a beta. remember, No “official” announcement has been made yet.

    We will wait now for Apple to launch their licensed, and more secure, cloud that is rumored to also have video, photos, contacts, calendars, etc. which expected to be shown off at WWDC 2011 on June 6th!