Korea Pavilion information in CES 2012

General Information : http://www.kotrala.com/2012-international-ces/

You could refer every fundamental information from participants to products at Korea Pavilion Directory : http://issuu.com/kotrala/docs/ces_2012______final20111126/7

4K UD(Ultra Definition)TV

In 2012 CES, mostly consumer product makers bring their UDTV which has 4 times resolution of present HD class in 1920 x 1080. However, even though if we hand-in this crazy expensive TV, we got to invest our effort to seek proper video contents around us. Unfortunately, we just have countable my tows and fingers experimental video samples through internet. The easiest way to get is Youtube, like this http://youtu.be/N0m1XmvBey8

And also you see more several with keyword "4k video" on it. But, once you would try to playback, it makes you to discourage at once about your PC. Nevertheless, you are able to collect some of original 4K resolution video files on your surfing like this.
http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-155857.html

Or by chance if you like k-pop, it's worth to see this, SNSD(Girls generation)'s 4K video file

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5O55TMOO6WXDRSPZ6M7BU7AASAMQJQ6Z

(Girls.Generation.Genie.4in1.200907.HDTV.x264.2160p.60fps.DTSES.6.1ch.mkv)

That's it? Fortunately we have one more option to enjoy this crazy 4K, that is 4K video camcoder. JVC is going to bring its 4K capability camcoder in CES 2012.
http://www.askthecameraman.net/News/JVC_displays_4k_Camcorder_at_CES/

Now, do we made an excuse to gush our money on it?

Samsung's 82 inch UD panel in 2008

LG's 84 inch 4K UDTV in CES 2012

Google TV alliance which is said by Google

• LG - We’re thrilled to welcome global consumer electronics leader LG to the Google TV family. LG will showcase a new line of TVs powered by Google TV running on their own L9 chipset at CES.

• Marvell - Also new to the Google TV family this year is Marvell, an innovative worldwide leader in chipsets. Marvell will be showcasing a new generation of Google TV solutions which will help bring more products across more price points to consumers.

• MediaTek - We’re also excited to partner with MediaTek, the leading Taiwanese chipset designer. MediaTek chipsets will power yet another wave of Google TV devices.

• Samsung - We’re excited to work closely with Samsung to bring Google-TV powered Samsung devices to market in 2012.

• Sony - We’re happy to build on our partnership with Sony. At CES, Sony will unveil new devices for the US and plans to offer Google TV powered products in several countries around the world in 2012.

• Vizio - Last year we announced our partnership with Vizio at CES. This year we’re excited to join Vizio as they hold private demos at CES showcasing their new line of Google TV-powered products.

Copied from http://googletv.blogspot.com/

[Comment by savememory] Logitech was a core alliance last year, but as I know they are no longer to be a participant in this alliance.

ICS 4.0.3 port on Galaxy S :: Still on going

A few groups is releasing trial version of ICS on Galaxy S which was given up by manufacturer. Here is Onecosmic's release.

- What works now-

Hardware Acceleration

RIL(Radio Interface Link = Calls / Text / Data)

Audio

Touch

WiFi

Storage (Internal & External SD)

Android Market access

Contacts sync

Calendar sync

Camera (Video recording & pictures)

Panorama mode

Face Unlock

GPS

Bluetooth

Wired tethering

FM Radio

Wireless tethering

You can find more detail at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398223

[Tip] Avoiding to give away credit card information to use Kindle Fire

Q: When I try to buy a apps, even free ones, my Kindle Fire requests to register a credit card information.

A: Give it away or give up apps :) Just kidding.
A blogger recommends to use dummy credit card information like followed by link.
http://www.dragonblogger.com/setup-kindle-fire-kids/


I don't like this behave of Kindle Fire.

LG's 5 inch hybrid would be 'Prada Note'

Updated news arrived.

LG's 5 inch hybrid smartphone will be 'Prada Note' tentatively. The expected unveiling will be 1Q of this year and start to produce in mass from next month. This Prada Note is supposed to has mostly similar specification of Prada 3.0 except for display size to 5 inch. In rumor LG has developed Prada Note and Prada 3.0 concurrently. But its plan was block by Prada. "To deploy Prada Note, LG should pay $6 per unit to Prada because Prada Note is totally different device from Prada 3.0", said Prada and eventually they looks to get compromise each other.

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2012/01/lg-jumps-into-5-inch-class-hybrid.html

LG dives into 5 inch class hybrid smartphone

Jan. 5th, "LG is developing 5 inch class smartphone now." said anonymous person of LG. Its 5 inch class hybrid smartphone which is expected to rolls out in the first half of this year will be LTE version and a flagship model with the best specification. Eventually, hybrid smartphone might be a mainstream in Korea with existing 5 inch hybrids like as Galaxy Note and Vega #5 of Pentech(www.pentech.com/english). Accordingly the applications which is for large display and stylus pen are expected to gush in the market.

Vega number 5, Pentech

[Updated Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2012/01/lgs-5-inch-hybrid-would-be-prada-note.html

Cool stuff :: USB Wall plate charger

RCA's USB wall plugged-in charger won one of 2012 Innovation Honoree of CES 2012.

rear side view

Model code : WP2UWR (MSRP:$19.99)

Product page : http://rcaaudiovideo.com/power/chargingstations/?sku=WP2UWR

Looking it at Amazon

The web site says that this charger designated and optimized for smartphones and iPad especially. For a while like we hide bunch of wires for home audio system under floor and wall, this looks make us again to hook it up. But I wonder if it could be fit firmly at any outlet as plugs in an out. Anyway further I am drawing a funny picture that real whole USB network at home.

DocsPal :: jack-of-all-trades for file

They explain about themselves like this in its web site (http://www.docspal.com/)


DocsPal is a free online file converter that supports all kind of documents, video, audio, images, e-books and archives like microsoft word (doc, docx), powerpoint (ppt, pptx), excel (xls, xlsx), open office documents (odp, odt, ods), pdf, djvu, postscript; avi, mpeg, mkv, mp4, mov, flv, wmv, as well as video for iPhone, iPad, iPod, HTC, PSP, BlackBerry; mp3, wav, wma, aac, ac3, flac; chm, fb2, jpeg 2000 (jp2), png, photoshop documents (psd), tiff; 7z, jar, rar, zip and many others. Moreover, it offers an online viewer that allows you to view documents and images online directly in your browser, without having to install anything else.

Screenshot of DocsPal

LG could be a reference maker with Intel's Medfield, But....

What is this? Intel's embarrassing or LG's decision mistake after kicking Andy Rubin of Android?

Reportedly from Korea Times, even declining official confirmation, last Friday a top executive of LG said "LG Electronics will produce Intel's first Android smarthpones that use Intel's own mobile platform. The device will be shown at the CES". In addition "Personally, I doubt that LG Electronics will release phones running on Android software based on any Intel platform. It's quite possible for LG to push Intel's reference mobiles but with huge subsidies from Intel for promotion." said another LG executive, asking not to be identified. He added that the Intel phone will be on shelves from March at the earliest.

known as Intel's first smartphone with Medfield

Original copy : http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2011/12/133_101910.html

SKT announced 100Mbps wireless service

The 100Mbps network speed enables smartphone to download HD class video of 2.4GB within just 10 seconds. Jan. 4th, SKT(http://www.sktelecom.com/) announced its technology, 'Heterogeneous Network Integration Solution' which combines cellular network (3G, LTE) and WiFi for single connection, has developed and will start this service in 2Q of this year. In this service, 3G user will experience LTE like speed and also LTE user could enjoys LTE-advance class. The present smartphone is able to select single network alternatively between cellular network and WiFi, but in this new service the smartphone can connect with both networks concurrently and transfer the data with its speed respectively. SKT will launch maximumly 60Mbps of 3G+WiFi in 2Q, then achieve 100Mbps of LTE+WiFi in next year. SKT will open and introduce this technology in MWC 2012 and try to make it a international standard.

[Comment by savememory]

The first speed goal of SKT, 60Mbps at WiFi+3G, seems to be bubble in reality. In real situation WiFi speed could be measured around 16~18Mbps and 2Mbps for 3G. Accordingly we might experience around 20Mbps at 3G service with this technology. However, it must be fantastic in LTE+WiFi which will be achieved around 80~90Mbps caused by leverage of WiFi.

Nothing what you can droid with your Kindle Fire

To fully use all of the features of your Kindle Fire, you must register it to your Amazon account. this phrase was cited from the first line in page 6 of Kindle Fire User's Guide. Let me recall at first why we are enthusiastic about iPad and Androids even they ask us for locking their cages. Frankly, in my personality I don't like Apple's closed strategy as much as their innovative and stunning philosophy yet. But Surely we know well there will be a obvious benefit in return even we become a hostage by Apple or Google. Even we realize they are foxy T-rex, we expect surely they, not a grocery merchant, give us music, film, book, new paper, video, map and tons bunch of garbage but useful. Now returning to the Kindle Fire, who is Amazon? What they allow us to act in their brand new opened walled garden, Kindle Fire? Definitely nothing to Kindle and Kindle Touch. Still they sell books, games with colored icons and allow us to play in its garden of web through Amazon's bouncers. This noble taste of Amazon has reflected to technical specification of Kindle Fire exactly and stays at e-book reader era wearing a tablet mask. There is nothing except for color LCD disaply on Android operating system at $200. No camera, no GPS, no SD slot, no HDMI, no bluetooth, no MIC and even no rooting. The Android without those functional parts should be named as antidroid. At the end of last year, the Apps of Android was published over 60 thousand but we find just around 1800 Apps in Amazon Apps market now. Last holiday season Amazon sold 4 million units of Kindle Fire in December and I wish the users who bought this tablet satisfy its cost effectiveness and usability as it is.

[Relevant Post]
http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-give-up-gps-for-your-tablet.html
http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/tablet-comparison-ipad-galaxy-kindle.html

OCS9, Windows 7 Slate, Hardware review

Now OCS9, low cost Windows 7 Slate, is in the middle of its first launching and we could find some review posts by early users and expect to see more details day to day. In general OCS9 looks to be improved in many points from hardware, software, and especially it looks have a fundamental limit which is based on Windows 7 as a tablet.  Here is pretty well-made review report post with translated by Google.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ko&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalstory.net%2F80149571554

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/search/label/ocs9

335ppi HD & USB OTG smartphone - TAKE HD by KT Tech

KT Tech (http://www.kttech.co.kr/company/en/main.asp) rolls out its brand new flagship smartphone, TAKE HD (model code KM-S300, tentatively known as sipderphone) which has most sharpness of 335ppi, 4.5 inch display. Especially TAKE HD employs USB OTG which allows to read USB thumb drive and inter connect with other USB OTG devices up to 4 gears. TAKE HD employs the upgraded proprietary UI, dual screen and dual web browser. Retail price is KRW792,000 ($689) without contract.

Typical hardware features

- 1.5GHz Dual core processor

- Android 2.3.4 Ginger bread
- 4.5 inch, 1280*800 LCD

- WiFi Direct for peer to peer connection

- 802.11 a/b/g/n, 2.4GHz/5GHz Dual Band

- DDR2 1GB RAM

- 16GB Built-in Flash

- micro SD card slot

- Built-in NFC

- USB OTG

- micro HDMI
- Sennheiser Earphone (Free)
- Gamepad (Free for limited promo time)

Model : Lunch Gamepad

Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (HID profile)

Battery : AAA x 2 (lifetime : 48hr in use, 15 days for standby)

As a reference, PPI information of devices

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/search/label/km-s300
[Updated Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2012/01/take-hd-sipderphone-km-s300-mouse.html

Samsung opened SDK 3.0 beta for its SmartTV

Samsung just is going to open its new version of SDK for its SmartTV in Jan. 5th. This brand new version improves the inter-connection between SmartTV and mobile device and also embeds App advertise and online shopping, payment capability. Company says that this online shopping, payment and advertising capabilities lead developers business model strongly to make eco system on SmartTV. In addition, SDK 3.0 supports diverse input devices like as USB mouse, keyboard and game controller.

Samsung SmartTV SDK version 3.0 link :

Ratchet Effect on smartphone market

The ratchet effect, tendency of people to be influenced by the previous highest (or best) level of a factor. People who has experienced LTE, 5 inch class smartphones denies to return to the 3G, smaller LCD.

Many users of Galaxy Note in Korea say that since they experienced 5.3 inch large display on their smartphone, the smaller LCD of others make people to feel ill at ease. 

In addition, once people purchase LTE smartphone, it affects to neighbors to have LTE. We could suppose easily that mostly smartphone usage concentrates in web browsing and multimedia consuming which depend on network speed deeply. Actually iPhone4S in Korea is struggling against LTE and larger display and finally Korean carriers drop the price to blow away their iPhone4S stock unprecedentedly. This market situation might be influenced by Korean leading makers against mighty Apple and just in time iPhone4S of Apple gave a time slot to be attacked. That's why we are looking forward how next iPhone5 comes to us.