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back welcome back live to the cnet stage at CES 2013 in Las Vegas this is CES in-depth I'm Bridget Carey with my colleague Roger Cheng and for the next 25 minutes or so we'll be diving into the hottest news of the show so far and the big trend word here today aside from TV's always being big as 4k and OLED and we just heard from Panasonic that they've combined the two together they've a 4k OLED this is the one of the first it's a prototype definition this is the TV for you yeah it always has one of the other guy when it comes to TV that's how it works back I Panasonic's been doing a lot at this show I mean we've seen all types of products everything from headphones that have bone conduction so you don't actually stick the music in your ears you stick it on your cheekbones and hear it that way some crazy stuff like that they're taking on roku with a streaming media box they're all over the place it seems it's like they're coming out with guns a-blazing right what it's interesting if you go to the show if you follow show look at the show floor and listen to presentations you'd never know that Panasonic was actually in deep financial trouble yeah they're not doing so good lately I read yeah yeah i mean this this really could end up being the last straw for panasonic i mean at one point CEO even dropped a hint that he might even drop drop the entire consumer business because a lot of its not profitable this is the Consumer Electronics Show sooo you know they thought that's a big deal for them have all these things that are so you so do you think like I guess this is where big hurrah that if it doesn't take then we might not see them again it could very well be yeah that's pretty crazy well I'll have to guess keep watch on that another trend we're seeing this year is NFC and everything just wirelessly connecting to other devices by touch we're sharing all of our media and different ways we've seen once again Panasonic right they had a phone be able to just touch to your TV to be able to send your media that way but Sony had a lot of devices they they want you have your phony remote control which makes a lot more sense if you think about it yeah you're not gonna walk all the way over your TV to tap it every time so nice that's nice thoughtful thing you know it's interesting when NFC first came out it was all about mobile payment it was all about hey you're going to be able to use this at the register and now I'm seeing nothing about payments here yeah well I mean I haven't covered industry for a while I've heard about the mobile payment story for last several years and this year is supposed to be the year mobile payments is what I've heard every year love what every year i think we hear that this so yeah an NFC is sort been hailed as the technology that will will bring mobile payments out there you take your phone you you tapped by the counter the the grocery store boom you're done that hasn't really happened but what we're seeing at this show a lot of different other uses for NFC but the biggest one obviously pairing the devices together it's it's something that makes complete sense for consumers right I mean you just tapping two devices together to kind of bridge them it's just it's instinctive it makes sense and I think we're going away from this whole mobile payment shifted it seems like their shift is more towards pairing the apparent speakers pairing of pairing other accessories so is it gonna save me much time you know compared to when I'm just opening a Bluetooth anyway it's probably not but it's kind of cool I think it does actually cuz blue tooth has always been I mean one of the knocks it's a little cumbersome you know you've got up you got login you got our typing to ID NFC is dead simple you just tap the phone i'll do a speaker remote control TV and boom they're connected you're not to think about it and then you go to someone's house and roll tapping each other's speak yes well i have a party with arose a capping party will be awesome you know i think i think it's probably the one the one home device that you can see people get in their heads around and wanting to understand actually wanting to buy versus you know how payments have been going nowhere right but that'll be interesting to see how that picks up in the consumer space I don't know about you've seen some a lot of quirky gadgets this year loving at all the all the different innovations we've seen and one that has been written about today is something like a Rosie the robot for smokers this is weird it's called the fami bot and I'm pointed up it's the concept of a room aware it just kind of rome's on its own right but it's gonna it's an air purifier that will sense when's the air is impure in a certain corner so if someone's a smoker it's going to go after you I love it I think that's the the best passive-aggressive way of I smell gonna quit because you have a little robot following you everywhere you go but yeah you tried everything else now you can have just just sick this robot on someone but it does a little bit more do it family has a camera in it so the whole monitor and I'll let you know if someone is unexpectedly home and it also plays music it's another bluetooth device the first step of robotic Butler yeah hundred dollars for a robotic Butler that's them that's what the it'll come out in March so you know if if if that's in your price range you know you don't have to worry about you know holiday tipping you know for normal housework yeah yes I guess you could save some money my studio apartment probably couldn't use a robot like that but that would be a pretty pretty much a waste when it comes to these smart devices I mean could you use anything that could help you out in the home I mean I've I know we've seen pool cleaners even here smart pool cleaner smart vacuums because I need to play Angry Birds on my vacuum cleaner President Reagan cleaner usually a big hit with the home pets I'm sure yeah well um you know I mean what else have you seen and anything else on the show that you seem no more and more health devices every year I'm not sure how do people are actually wanting to check their blood pressure but it's cool that you can and there are more choices for it yeah perhaps that's getting the price down I don't about you and it comes to health devices what maybe you actually want Oh track I mean I care to know if I have a pulse that's good to know but you still have a pulse you know but I check every 15 minutes really but I kind of get it I mean especially stuff like the field band and Fitbit I mean some of these workouts oh yeah I mean it does it motivate you anymore what I found is it motivates for a little while than your natural well my natural a TD tendencies I just it just sort of becomes less interesting to me unless gimmicky and so I stopped using it basically really yeah although the FuelBand I loved because because it's on your wrist whenever I'm drinking beer I'm actually working out it tells me I'm burning fuel burning Nike Fuel see there you go positive reinforced all the room face you feel good about yourself yeah you know I would like something to actually yeah motivate me because you unless your friends are on the gamification of all this yes people are pushing apps for gamification I'm curious just if I have any friend of actually would be on it otherwise it's just one I think that I'm not motivating myself as it is that's I think the key is getting your friends on it and I'm sure that's what Nike wants here with the field band but it doesn't work as well unless it there's a social element there like if you all your friends are on fifth bitter or the FuelBand you guys are comparing competing I think it could work it works really well in it said there's something I kind of keep you in the game as opposed to just sort of do it yourself there's still ultimately I mean you're still exercising it's all about self motivation right what about the laziness factor of now Fitbit put in on your wrist instead of having to be on your hip and then taking off to go to sleep on your wrist and this so maybe everyone's just going to have a wristband I mean is that where we're going you think no seems like it easier than having the pedometer because especially as a woman where am I gonna put on my dress it's also you can't really look yeah yeah the pedometers are cheaper though okay we gotta we have to squeeze in a quick break and be back with our special guest samsung's david steele stick around welcome back to CES in depth I'm Bridget Carey with Roger Cheng and joining us on the cnet stage is David steel with Samsung and you brought some goodies with us so yeah well goodies so what we have here okay so this is the first one this is the samsung galaxy note 10.1 it launched last year but this brand new here at CS is with embedded 4G LTE with verizon wireless oh so for the first time we're going to get some 4G LTE on varieties that outside yep so now you can take it around with you you've got access through the 4g LTE network obviously it's a it's a great tablet but the key feature on this galaxy note 10.1 is the s-pen I think it's hidden back over here right on cue how would you snacks right yeah and this is really coming out of a sense of how do we make all of our products more intuitive easier to use so in this case having a pen where you can enter through the handwriting it's very easy to manipulate and it's also a feature that we came out last year with the Samsung right on cue samsung galaxy note this is a no 2 and the same thing about just having this S Pen pull out so being on different devices it's yeah I'm a big fan of having that penny embedded in the actual device because how many times you know lose I said that stylist is with you yeah well just leave it out in the green room okay now this is definitely a popular one with the galaxy I love it oh it's always so so beautiful you guys are good at that oh and what else do you got yeah what are you out here so this is one of a new laptops here at the show this is a series series 7 ultra so this one the using Windows 8 so you have all the advantages of touch screen touch 880 life touch is very important I mean we see displays now on so many different devices all the way from smartphones tablets PCs obviously so I'm curious though especially smart yes I need I definitely need to tap my refrigerator three or four times a day random just for kicks just for kicks if I had touched me I probably would but I want to ask about the touch screen it's I mean it's it's cool but what do you hear from consumers about whether or not they want this and especially I'm assuming there's an added cost to having a touch screen a giant touchscreen display like this what exactly is the demand for touchscreen so touch screen we see really becoming very common across a whole series of devices because it's so easy for consumers to use I think so many consumers with smartphones have got used to touch screen right it's something they're very familiar with so on the pc environment again having it there is something very familiar it's very comfortable try to make it more intuitive and that's something we've done also on a smart TV interface this year trying to get as we make devices smarter more complicated put more functions and features in how do we still think hard about how to make them easy to use gotcha and it's a window it's obviously Windows 8 computer wanted to ask you ma'am so far and he's early goings but how is windows 8 doing so for samsung we're doing very well in the pc market i mean i can't talk about windows as a whole really right thank you for buying 10 so we're doing well we were the fastest-growing pc brand in the US last year we think p windows 8 brings a lot of great features again experience from smartphones and tablets now into the pc environment design is becoming more of a feature of PCs we see the consumerization of the workplace to bring your own device obviously happening on smartphones and tablets but also could everyone's looking for an easier experience for the pc at work so again we can see the benefits of touch and the windows 8 functionality you know obviously TVs tend to be the star of CES and you guys brought a couple whoppers out for the show on right here though no not too big little too big to roll out on the stage but I you know everyone's talking about Ultra HD 4k not exactly in your basic consumer price range you know and I want to know from from your perspective when it comes to televisions what do you see as being the more popular feature that we're going to be getting sooner and wanting to you know get in our TVs next year a little more practical than maybe taking out a car loan for for our big 4k TV that we're supplying you a new home to fit the sense of 110 inch HDTV the new features are gonna be seen that probably more of us will be able to be affording and checking out in the next line of TVs yeah so suddenly in the short term it's going to be a lot about smart TVs more than sixty percent of a large screen TVs now being internet-connected so the TV is really an Internet device or appliance in the home and then we see all the different applications and services that come from that we're showing a new recommendation engine at this year's show that will help you what's a watch when I don't know well it will it will help you find content that you're interested in for broadcast TV it will link to all your other devices like smartphones and tablets so you can get access to content that store their videos you've taken or photos that you've shot and social media because TV is still a Leanback experience you want to look at the big screen TV but you want the lots about social media at the same time right everyone's always connected so many people are multitasking so smart TV is really going to be the focus I think for the next few years and then we'll see technologies like LED will see you HD as well starting to grow okay it's very cool very cool and what you were talking about with with getting content um you know between the TV be able to search for that what was that new technology you guys the software was new focus yeah I was like a search function with what yeah how's it explain how that works on its supposed to cross different devices beyond district TV right it's called single search yeah so more and more consumers are looking for you know one device to connect to other devices and you can either do that device to device or you can do it through the cloud through a service but what we're putting in a new Smart TV lineup is a way of searching content that stored on other devices that are connected wirelessly to that TV so it's a way if you do have like photos you've taken on your smartphone or you've got images on your tablet you can connect to those and very easily view those on the TV so trying to connect devices that's going to be a big trend for us in 2013 obviously we've got all of these different screens how can you link them together Joe I wanted to ask about that the phenomenon of this staggie I know we're trying to turn your toes here it's not no stacking of the you know watching a TV and playing with your tablet what would fund is a lot of people what I do at least i'm usually searching for stuff on that TV usually whether it's X Factor I'm looking at the bio the singer they're not that I watch X Factor but what exactly is Samsung doing what's the thinking therefore for how you sort of better bridge that the information gap from the tablet to the TV's you're like a way to actually get some that information automatically fed into the tablet or yes so one example of it is the remote control I mean we've already seen lots of apps on smartphones and tablets that connect as a remote controlled some of them are quite smart right meaning you can actually see some previews things like that we also have second screen content and increasingly now working with content producers who actually want to produce content for multiple screens so that their programming to a TV together with a connected tablet and everybody working specifically with you guys yeah we sponsored in the New York television festival a contest among producers to actually come up with TV content on multiple screens oh so as more of these screens get connected game games are a fantastic example right you could be sitting there with your smartphone this is your your hand of cards and on the TV is like the dealer's deck or never for everyone to see so this multi-screen environment is one that now content producers can program to and we can connect the devices you know I know the big problem a lot of us have is that we have video that's you know in the cable box but it's also on netflix and hulu and searching through that I mean is this something that you guys are looking into being the answer i need to news way to stop opening up a different app each time i want to search for something yeah so more and more we're getting there suddenly as the iap eyes are opened up and then we work with third-parties we have a very big program on our Smart TV platform to partner with third parties for that most consumers do have preferred services that they'll watch video content through but you know we have that way that you can see you know here are the different services that you can use to access that particular content so really making it easier taking advantage of touch screens and then really the smarts in the TV when we talk about smart TV you should get some benefit from it I could always use a little to be a little more smarter every day right well thank you so much mr. Steele I appreciate it