Tablet

ViewSonic show­cased a 24-inch Jelly Bean dis­play. Or is it a giant tablet. Reminds me of the 27-inch Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon.

A pre-production Surface Pro was shown. Tom Warren, The Verge:

Surface Pro has a gor­geous 10.6-inch ClearType Full HD Display that out­puts a 1920 x 1080 res­o­lu­tion. I say it’s gor­geous because this dis­play is unprece­dented on this type of device. Text repro­duc­tion and col­ors were spot on and view­ing angles were great for tablet use.

Unprecedented? Yes, unprece­dented. The Surface Pro should be cat­e­go­rized as a full-blown com­puter in slate form, and not like the iPad or Android tablets. Remember the term “tablet PC”? That’s what the Surface Pro is. And as far as I can remem­ber there has not been a tablet PC this small with this many pixels.

Camera

Polaroid is get­ting whipped. Jeff Blagdon at The Verge thought the Polaroid iM1836 mirror-less inter­change­able lens Android cam­era was awful. Now Michael Zhang at PetaPixel thinks it’s “a bit like play­ing with a mid-level smart­phone com­bined with a mid-level air­plane enter­tain­ment system.”

A bit more about that squar­ish Canon N. PetaPixel‘s Michael Zhang:

Unfortunately for Canon, smart­phones DO exist, so the ques­tion will be whether the gen­eral pub­lic is still will­ing to shell out $300 and carry an addi­tional gad­get in order to doc­u­ment their daily lives.

I think the trend is clear: We want to carry one gad­get that can do every­thing. Fortunately a lot of great smart­phones can be that one gad­get. And not so for­tu­nate for Canon these smart­phones take great pho­tos, videos, and are always con­nected. If only Canon made the N an Android cam­era instead…

Notebook

Engadget: Dell XPS 13 had a ter­ri­ble 1366×768 dis­play, now it’s bet­ter with a 1920×1080 LCD sport­ing an improved color gamut of 72%… of? The improved dis­play option will cost an extra US$300. That’s expensive.

Smartphone

Samsung showed off a pro­to­type smart­phone sport­ing a flex­i­ble OLED. Samsung has a name for that curvy OLED: Youm. Terrible name. The flex­ing capa­bil­ity of dis­plays will cer­tainly come in handy for cer­tain appli­ca­tions, but this? I don’t think we have a press­ing need to look at our smart­phones from the side. Samsung thinks it might be good for noti­fi­ca­tions such as text mes­sages and stock tick­ers. I think this is a good exam­ple of a solu­tion search­ing for a problem.

Monitor

LG Display intro­duced a 30-inch 4K LCD mon­i­tor with a 4096×2160 pixel for­mat. That’s four 1024 pixel win­dows on a sin­gle dis­play. I can get used to that.

AIO

The Lenovo ThinkCentre M92z is an all-in-one (AIO) sport­ing a 23-inch IPS LCD with a 1920×1080 pixel for­mat. Touch is optional, but what a touch it is. A spe­cially etched glass is used result­ing in a matte dis­play that’s resis­tant to wear and fin­ger­prints. Soon every­one will be tout­ing how fin­ger­print resis­tant their touch dis­plays are. A good thing.

TV

Sony unveiled a 4K OLED TV. So did Panasonic. Now any­one will­ing to pro­cure a 56-inch 4K OLED TV panel from AUO can, too.