Title:
All Eyes Were on Tablets at CES in Las Vegas
Description: This is
a VOA Special English Technology Report.
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Tablet computers were the stars of this year's
Consumer Electronics Show. The international
gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the world's
biggest technology trade show. Companies launched
more than eighty handheld computers similar to the
popular Apple iPad. Tara Dunion from the Consumer
Electronics Association is a spokeswoman for the
show which ended January ninth. She said twenty
eleven is going to be the year of the tablet. There
are going to be many different kinds of products
available. Examples include a new Wi-Fi version of
the Galaxy Tab made by Samsung of South Korea. The
Taiwanese company Asus announced four new tablets
for this year. One of them can connect to a keyboard
to make it more like a laptop computer. Another has
a keyboard that slides out.Both of these tablets use
Google's new Android Honeycomb operating system.
Motorola, based in the United States, also
demonstrated that system on its new Xoom
tablet.Reporter Arash Aalaei from VOA's Persian News
Network was at the show. He says more and more
companies are offering 3-D images on devices like
tablets and notebook computers. There are 3-D Blu-ray
players, cameras, camcorders and printers. He looked
at the newest three-dimensional televisions,
including some that require no special eyewear. He
said Toshiba introduced a new line of televisions
that enable users to watch 3-D without wearing the
glasses.Arash Aalaei also looked at some of the
different products marketed as green technology at
the show. He said many companies are selling
products that run on solar energy or wind energy to
recharge cell phones or other small devices.And,
speaking of phones, Tara Dunion says smartphones
keep getting smarter. She said "super phones" have
fourth-generation chips in them that permit
immediate access to videos and photos. Popular
products at the Consumer Electronics Show also
included Internet TVs and devices to stream video
onto existing high-definition sets. More than one
hundred twenty thousand people attended the show.One
big announcement involved the British company ARM
and the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Microsoft said the next version of Windows will work
on devices that use ARM processors. For VOA Special
English, I'm Alex Villarreal.
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