Televisions, 'ultrabooks' and Microsoft's farewell protagonists of the CE

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Televisions thinner and with better resolution and the new generation of laptops,ultrabooks, will star in the biggest electronics fair in the world, the ConsumerElectronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, which opens on Monday with the departure of Microsoft giant.

2012 and has been baptized by many analysts as the year of OLED and AMOLED systems, the promising display technology that stomps for years, but that seems tobe consolidated in this CES with the launch of large-format displays, such as 55-inchLG has already announced.

The high costs were not viable yet the success of this revolution in home entertainment, enabling ultrathin TVs produce the characteristic intensity of the color representation that makes them so appealing and certainly caught the attention ofthose attending this CES to be held until Friday 13 in Las Vegas (Nevada).

The process improvements, developing new applications and the possible announcement of the expected Google TV makes the concept of televisionconnected to one of the topics that will be talking about in this show that threatens toconvert the traditional television with new incentives as 3D images without glassesand control through gestures and voice.

Ultralight notebooks

Ultralight and the latest processors to provide the same functionality as a desktop,the 'ultrabook' are the industry's response to Apple's MacBook Air and seem to have found the keys needed to address the popularity of the tablets.

Precisely tablets, great stars of CES 2011, Las Vegas again this time accompaniedby the latest operating system from Google, the Android Ice Cream Sandwich, andthe unprecedented developments Windows 8.

Forecasts aside, if something will be remembered this year's CES is the announced departure of Microsoft, which for the last time in 2012 will occupy one of the most comprehensive and personalize the show opened with a speech by the president of the company Steve Ballmer, who in recent years had become one of the unmissable event.

Due to the proximity of Christmas releases CES, Microsoft announced a few months in 2013 will not participate in the show, but their presence this year will come loaded with new features such as in previous editions, with more details of the operating system Windows 8, the introduction of new phones equipped with Windows phone and wireless and portable 4G and LTE with software.

Although the main event of the phone, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​is just around the corner, it is expected that manufacturers try to stay ahead ofcompetition with the introduction of new bets.

The launch of an Intel-LG or the presentation of a new Xperia range by Sony Ericsson are some of the likely repeated announcements by the specialized media.

New consoles

The consoles will also seek headlines in Las Vegas at the hands of Sony PlayStation and PS Vita, new games and features to Kinect, the motion sensor controller-freeXbox and the innovative Wii U, which makes the concept of dual screen gaming a reality thanks to his command with a tablet.

The latest in home automation, home applications of renewable energy, attempts by manufacturers to upgrade cameras facing the onslaught of the phones with photographic devices, appliances and electric cars will be other players in this CES.

The organizers of the fair, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) estimates that more than 140,000 people visit the more than 167,000 square meters of exhibition, which stands as the CES this year more sustainable and eco-friendly place to date.