I’m enjoy­ing CES from the com­fort of my desk. No fly­ing, get­ting in a shut­tle, check­ing in at an expen­sive hotel, wait­ing in lines, using dirty bath­rooms, and buy­ing over-priced food. Instead of post­ing dozens of indi­vid­ual posts I’ve culled here a list of inter­est­ing display-centric news com­ing out of Las Vegas on the first day of CES 2013.

The Verge: Intel announced 4th gen­er­a­tion Core proces­sors, code­named Haswell, good for all-day com­put­ing, but to use those power-sipping CPUs a touch screen and WiDi wire­less dis­play tech­nolo­gies are manda­tory. WinTel is back, to push Windows 8 hard. I won­der what Apple will do with this requirement.

Smartphone

BGR: The Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra is the world’s thinnest smart­phone, for now, sport­ing a svelte pro­file of 6.45 mm. That’s 15% thin­ner than the 7.6-mm iPhone 5. The Jelly Bean smart­phone fea­tures a 4.7-inch HD AMOLED display.

Huawei: The Huawei Ascend Mate may be the world’s largest smart­phone with a 6.1-inch LCD, but sport­ing a ho-hum 1280×720 pixel format.

The Verge: Vizio is re-entering the smart­phone mar­ket with its VIA Phones. One is a 5-inch sport­ing 1920×1080 and the other is a 4.7-inch 1280×720. Both sport Jelly Bean, and both are geared for the Chinese market.

The Verge: The flag­ship Sony Xperia Z is a 5-inch 1920×1080 LCD Jelly Bean smart­phone that’s IP55 and IP57 dust and water resis­tant. Looks good except for the power button.

Camera

DPReview: Fujifilm X100S is the updated X100. The ‘S’ is for speed thanks to a faster EXR II proces­sor. Fujifilm claims the X100S sports the world’s fastest AF. Priced at US$1299 and avail­able in March.

The Verge: The Polaroid iM1836 is a mirror-less inter­change­able lens Android cam­era, and it’s awful. US$349, but maybe not cheap enough.

Engadget: The Canon PowerShot N is a tiny squar­ish point-and-shoot, but what’s the point if you’re always tot­ing a smartphone.

TV

Engadget: The LG 55-inch OLED TV has been priced at US$12,000 and will be avail­able in March. The 84-inch 4K TV is avail­able now for US$19,999.99 (Source: The Verge)

The Verge: The Sharp 60-inch ICC Purios is a 4K LCD TV will be avail­able in Summer 2013 for about US$31,000.

Panasonic is focused on mak­ing blacks blacker on its plasma TVs. There’s no OLED or 4K LCD.

Gizmodo: Vizio announced its XVT series of 4K LCD TVs and comes in 55-, 65-, and 70-inch sizes.

Forbes: Samsung show­cased its 4K LCD TVs in six sizes: 60, 65, 75, 85, 95, and 110 inches. But no men­tion of its F9500 55-inch OLED TV’s pric­ing or availability.

The Verge: Sony unveiled a 56-inch 4K OLED TV pro­to­type. Commercially avail­able 4Ks were LCDs in two sizes: 55 and 65 inches (Source: <a http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34451_1-57562620/sony-ces-press-conference-heavy-on-4k-tvs-oled-plus-an-actual-phone/">c|net).

Tablet

Acer announced its Iconia B1-A71 7-inch 1024×600 Jelly Bean tablet with a price around US$150.

Mobile Industry News: The Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon is a 27-inch tablet. John Gruber says it best: “This is nuts.”