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Asus rocks the tablet boat

2012-01-11
it's Wednesday January 11 2012 day to the consumer electronics show at the Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Bridget Carey and things are in full swing here at the sea dead stage we've seen quite a few trending themes at the show from Smart TVs 3d printers health monitoring gadgets and certainly we've had our fill of ultrabooks so of course it's time to get loaded so how does four course for the price of two sound and vidya na sous showed off a quad-core tegra 3 base 7-inch tablet that only cost two hundred and fifty dollars it's the asus memo 370 T it's got 1 gig of ram 16 gigs of storage micro HDMI and micro USB ports a micro SD card reader and an eight megapixel camera a quality tablet in the price range of it kindle and nook ereader is sure to shake things up a bit intel is making a big push into the smartphone and tablet game this year the chip maker is showing off the first intel-powered windows 8 tablets it's also unveiled the first intel-powered smartphone by Lenovo the k800 due out in the second quarter expect to see more Adam powered mobile devices down the road as Motorola said it will use Intel ships in its future smartphones and tablets Polaroid has introduced the first Android camera it sounds cool but we're not quite sure who will go after this kind of device it's the SC 1630 and has the look of a phone but has a 16 megapixel sensor and a three-time zoom lens it can also directly upload to facebook twitter and tumblr with Wi-Fi and there's the option to pave more for a cellular connection for uploading it also has onboard editing face detection and a microSD card slot there's no price announced yet but it will be available sometime this year Vegas has plenty of magic but have you heard of the invisible dbr trick samsung and directv announced box lyst multi-room DVR system the recorded programs can stream between rooms all through samsung's new line of Smart TVs sorry dish I know you had a kangaroo for your multi room system but having no box seems like a more an option and this is the year the Ultrabook here at CES we've been overloaded with ultrabook announcements and a few more have been promoted yesterday dell announced its high and XPS 13 weighing in at less than three pounds it's between six millimeters and 18 millimeters thick also newcomer in Han from Taiwan showed off a carbon fiber in book which pretty much looks like an 11 inch ripoff of the macbook air so those are your headlines for today and be sure to stay tuned all week as we bring you live coverage from the show floor today we announce our best of CES award finalists I'm Bridget Carey for cnet and thanks for watching
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