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Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011
adeelarshad82 writes "2011 is just around the corner, and with the new year comes expectations. Based on hype and recent announcements, PCMag put together a list of twelve most anticipated tech products of 2011. Some are new, like the technology to bridge Wi-Fi, PowerLine, and Ethernet or the 3D camcorders, which will let you create content for your 3D TV. Others will just carry over from what we anticipated in 2010 but never materialized like iPhone on the Verizon network or Phones with dual core processors."
While I understand that Tablets are going to be the next big thing (according to tech journalists, anyway), is it necessary to have 3 separate categories for the RIM tablet, Honeycomb Tablets, and tablets in general?
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It promises 3D without glasses! That sounds way bigger to me than a slightly better smartphone.
my iphone is my camcorder
history has proved many times that cheap and mobile wins over single use and cool gee whiz tech
Ten most anticipated things -- broken down into 10 pages for your reading convenience.
My one wish for 2011 (early 2011) is webOS on solid and fast hardware. I believe it is the BEST mobile OS but it is REALLY in need of some hardware to support it!
I hope 2011 will bring us the technology to load twelve items on a single page.
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Don't forget about DNF. It's supposed to come out in 2011. This year for sure!
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
I know it doesn't qualify as 'tech', but I thought of this immediately.
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"with an expected release date of 2011"
How long are we going to beat that horse? Does that many people really care? Granted, an iPhone on a non-ATT network is automatically a better iphone, but the bloom is kind of off the iphone rose these days anyway.
And white? jesus christ...if it's black, we want a white one...if it's white, we want a black one.
If this is the exciting tech for 2011, I have to admit - I'm a bit depressed. Luckily, we rarely know at the beginning of the year what'll actually be big the next year. More tablets, gaming phones, and processors really just isn't that exciting, however.
Especially super crappy ad heavy or flash based ones.
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OMFG, I just have to have it in white! When will Steve Jobs figure out how to make white plastic?
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Really why would that be an anticipated product. To the end user it should mean nothing. The only time multiple cores is better is when the power use / price / performance ration of a single core system has reached a maximum for the current capabilities of a single core. In the case of phones usually you are optimizing for performance / power use. I think we can still get more umph out of building a better core than adding more cores at this stage. Unless you scheduling is teh 5ux0r its still just as good a user experience if apps are otherwise properly threaded as N cores for smallish values of N and if apps are not properly threaded its a better experience.
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Huh. They forgot to mention it.
Diablo III
Seriously - I've only really liked a handful of games over the past decade+: StarCraft1, Diablo2, Civ III, UT2004. But I'm really looking forward to Diablo III. I think it will definitely enter my small personal Pantheon of beloved, replayable games.
Hand warmer
lock deicer
car battery charger/jump starter
Hair drier
snow blower
fish finder
microwave oven
humidifier
coffee maker
and built in toilet
I'm anticipating a new technology where a PC Magazine slideshow will finally be able to include captions with its images.
In that bright future, we won't have to speculate regarding what we're looking at.
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Am I the only one looking forward to seeing the first proper Meego Phone? I've been putting off buying my next phone until I can have a play with one.
We have people thinking Microsoft will release desktop windows for ARM.
Lastly we've got colour e-ink finally making it's way on to the scene.
What's on their list? A White iPhone, Tablets and Chrome OS tablets.
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Isn't "hulu for magazines" commonly called 'the world wide web'?
How the article gives somewhat 'honorable mention' to the innovative techs like the 3d camcorder and yet the main presentation ends up being a mishmash of iphone/ipad successors.
So turning a software free market into another Apple walled garden is an advantage? Maybe they should call it "Apple Genuine Advantage."
A huge list of Meh. 80% will be non-starter or failures on Tech Fails of 2011.
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Verizon iPhone, not my thing, but I get it.
Blackberry Playbook, most interesting aspect is blackberry ripped off WebOS gestures/display for multitasking. However, I am generally skeptical that Blackberry can get out of their niche of mostly business only, they spent way too long with a behind-the-curve platform.
Honeycomb, will see, but I don't see how people get excited over a "we'll get it right *this* time" promise.
If they were going to say 'tablets', they could've skipped Blackberry and Honeycomb. I personally still don't get the tablet fuss and wonder if it is destined to be a dead fad. I would be more excited over phones with glasses display and 'Kinect' like controls, though I really like tactile feedback. Done right that gives 'bigger' personal experience with increased convenience and privacy.
ChromeOS, I view as a dead-end. They should have focused more on enriched Android as a common platform. I don't think Google's name will salvage a concept even more limited than the Linux-only netbook attempts that did not do so well in the market.
Dual-core phones, I wouldn't mind *but* I don't know the power draw difference expected. Memory has hurt my experience more than processor.
Mac app store, please don't be *eager* for that. Why seek more and more ongoing draconian control over the product you purchase?
Google TV falls under the Honeycomb category, "this time it will be better" with no substantive evidence is not the makings of interesting news. Generically saying improved internet enabled TV, maybe. I personally treat my display as a dumb display and prefer the 'smarts' to be small, relatively inexpensive changeable parts.
Hulu for magazines. I think a magazine company might dream of a day where the magazine model dominates, but I just don't see that happening. A web presence in which articles are published as they are ready (not waiting for the next publish date) and adaptive formatting is well-established means e-magazines don't make a whole lot of sense.
Sure, Intel and AMD tech refreshes belong there.
I suspect the playstation phone will be more n-gage than DS. Nintendo 3DS is probably a more 'sure thing' for this sort of slot.
Will see if the net neutrality stuff has any impact. Most commentary I saw was that it was enough to give some annoyance to carriers, but not enough teeth to actually do anything.
I would be willing to be wowed by a second-chance WebOS set of devices. I loved so much about the Pre (WebOS, plug-free 'dock' that can be detected by software, remarkably malleable to consumer manipulation with blessing of vendor). If they did have a portrait slider & keyboardless phone to flesh out their portfolio, that could be exciting. Too bad I don't have hopes of more than just Android and iPhone long term in the mobile market.
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Some newer 3D TVs support Skype video calling (with their own USB camera attached). IE: Samsung UN55C8000.
What I would like to see is some support for 3D skype video on these 3D enabled TVs.
With a little be of hacking I sure someone would quickly offer live interactive 3D porn on some of these 50+ inch 3D displays. Almost like leaving your mom's basement!
I think Touchstone is a fantastic thing to have baked into your platform strategy, *particularly* with the exposition feature opened up to third-party stuff.
It's the only platform I see that is feasible to build a blind-dock automotive application. Bluetooth pairs with stereo system, and GPS/Internet radio app auto-start when user just slaps the phone in the vicinity of a car-mounted touchstone. iPhone comes closest, but their docking is generally clumsy in cars (most of the time a cable coming out clumsily somewhere, best case a headunit that still requires relatively precise guidance to get in right.
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What's cuming to your local store in 2011?
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I, for one, will be over the moon when halographs come out; www.lucid-code.com/Halographs. Apparently, "It's like getting a personal visit from God."
The most anticipated product of tech for 2011, IMHO, is this "open democracy" and "open society" thingie.
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yeah yeah, I can get a 3G dongle; that's another device (to lose), another line (to pay for), and it only works for my laptop, not my iPod Touch.
All the wags who have told me about various inexpensive smartphones that I can tether with -- don't bother telling me again. The truth is, I don't want a smart phone AND an iPod Touch. My Moto RAZR is the perfect size. All the smartphones are bigger. Do not want.
Most of the time I don't carry my iPod and/or don't want to carry my laptop---
But when I do, I want to be able to use the internet on them with the one device I'm already carrying with me -- my phone.
And those deck-of-cards-size myfi devices are nearly as bad as a 3G dongle -- did I already mention that they're as big as a deck of cards?
Why not just get an iPhone and ditch the iPod you ask? Obviously it's on AT&T, another thing I do not want.
Maybe when I can get a myfi device that's no bigger than a gumstix that might be good enough, although the iPod is still too big---
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3D Camcorders? Fuji has had the FinePix REAL 3D W1 and now W3 out for 18 months. And it works nicely with the Sony 3D Bravia TVs and presumably the others. It does still and video and does it pretty well. How did PCMag miss it?
Now 3D video and still packed in with my iPhone 5 or next-gen Android, that would be handy because it is always there. :-)
One thing we can be sure of is that a Verizon iPhone won't look like the one in their picture. What were they thinking putting a Verizon label on the phone itself?
This list be used by posting it in December 2011 by just changing anticipated with overhyped.
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Now that is going to be a killer app, if you will.
That will be the tipping point (sorry, Sony) when 3D will really take off, thanks to the boost Nintendo gave it on the handhelds.
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"Some are new, like the technology to bridge Wi-Fi, PowerLine, and Ethernet"
Yea, sorry, we've had that for quite some time in software (tomato, DD-WRT, etc.) so a hardware version isn't unexpected, new, or really that anticipated.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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From what Ive read seems like studios are dropping 3D releases of some movies due to the lower turnouts for 3D movies the last year. I am one of them people, avatar 3d was cool, but once movies like step-up 3D came out, it officially went from a technology back to a fad. Since I dont often sit and watch a movies in its entirety at home 3d glasses would be a pain. Put them on, take them off goto the kitchen, put them back on, them them off to look up someone on imdb, put them on, take them off let the cat in/out.......
Anything that makes you look like a dork will never take off.
3D glasses are a pain in the ass if you have real glasses, and you look like a dork.
..don't panic
There's already a handwarming app.
With dual cores it will just have to add that many more digits to the pi computation I guess.
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Blackberry Playbook, most interesting aspect is blackberry ripped off WebOS gestures/display for multitasking. However, I am generally skeptical that Blackberry can get out of their niche of mostly business only, they spent way too long with a behind-the-curve platform.
One of the more interesting things about it is that you develop on it using Adobe Air, instead of the traditional Blackberry SDK.
It'll be interesting to see if they manage a wave of developer support.
Mac app store, please don't be *eager* for that. Why seek more and more ongoing draconian control over the product you purchase?
But that's not what it's about. It's about a curated set of software that is all updated more automatically than current software. What's wrong with that?
Apple knows it's a computer, you can always get software from other sources and I don't see them changing that.
And the flip side of the Mac App Store, is the Cydia Mac App Store which I am actually pretty excited about.
Sure, Intel and AMD tech refreshes belong there.
Come on, who is excited about processor refreshes at this point? I lump this with dual-core phones in things that few people will really be interested in for their own sake.
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I can't believe the droves of geeks orbiting the /slashdot cyberverse did NOT MENTION IPv6!!
Ok, not anticipated but something dreaded and inevitable. Any and all products, hardware or software, needed to make IPv6 work across the board will be an inescapable necessity. Latest projection (10 min ago) indicates the last few unassigned bits of IPv4 address space will be gone before February is out.
See here: http://inetcore.com/project/ipv4ec/index_en.html
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1927208&cid=34718828 and from you posts history I see there are actually 2 clones here yours clone52431 (1805862) and yours clone53421 (1310749). Smells of dishonest trollery to me.
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I hang up phone and am very embarrass. My friend also he is very embarrass. I am guilt and feel very stupid. I wonder, why do I gay with man? But I continue because when it spurt it feel very good in American ass.
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Haven't we have enough "next big things" (that often weren't so hot after all... with tiny screens to squint at, etc.), already?
Let's focus a moment on UK's freezing weather, AU's flooding in Queensland, & USA's Eastern Seaboard - to name a few spots with "Climate Change" screaming at us...
Let's push for & (and, when we get the happy chance to...) ...buy Electric Cars in 2011 or ASAP.
Bumper-Sticker Idea: " Next year in an All Electric car! "
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....I wish they wouldn't bother with this guff.
After a single paragraph (and an 'Skip-this-ad'), we're treated to several blurry tablets, a couple of phones, a game-phone and a building, based on a slideshow with no text that reloads every page (meaning it's not really a slideshow).
I didn't realise PCMag had the cheek to make copy out of techno-fap material - but more worrying is the issue of Slashdot then linking to it as if it's worth reading.
I know it's NYE, but really guys if there's no news, don't bother with filler.