What better way to start off the new year in gadgets than with product announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas? As CES 2010 kicks off on Thursday, I thought I’d do a little top 10 predictions for 2010 in relation to gadgets and consumer electronics. Of course, this’ll mainly focus on what I’m looking for in my gadgets… But anyway, here are my top ten predictions in relation to tech, for 2010. Touch screens will continue to be all the rage.
10 -USB 3.0 will be slowly introduced… Kinda obvious since there are already motherboards and crap with USB 3.0 out, but I don’t expect USB 3.0 to become fully standard and universal until 2011 at the earliest. It’ll be a niche kind of product at first, and companies will slowly introduce USB 3.0 enabled gadgets. I certainly can’t wait for faster transfer speeds myself! I’m a little tired of waiting half-an-hour to transfer a a few gigs of data to an external hard-drive.
9 – E-Book readers… A fairly large number of them too… I don’t see how this will be a huge market (or even is a huge market), but I can see there can be some innovations to e-book readers, such as the Barns and Noble “Nook”. Amazon’s Kindle will definately be around for a while, but increasing competition in the e-reader market should help see prices drop, and possible media/e-book readers, either as pocketable candy-bar form gadgets, or wi-fi/netbook style tablets.
8 – Creative will either come out with a product for the commercial market containing the hyped-up last year “Zii” chip that will a) be really successful or b) be a complete waste of effort and no-one will buy it. I personally think it is very much about time Creative really showed off to the general consumer public as for what their “Zii” chip is really made of… We’ve already sort of seen the results of the Zii EGG and the recently announced concept “Zii Trinity” phone, but nothing to consumers as of yet…
7 – Google’s Chrome OS won’t be successful. (At least not in the beginning) I do question whether or not Google’s Chrome OS will really be any good… I mean the aim for Chrome’s OS is simple, a quick starting OS on netbooks to access the internet… It is a cheaper option, and as
6 – Sony will release a new generation PSP, possibly running NVIDIA’s Tegra chip. There was an “accidental” leak supposedly suggesting a new generation PSP… If it does come out, I expect it’ll look a lot better than the PSP Go!, which was kinda… fail… and similar to the PSP Go, it won’t use the UMDs. It will probably be that same proprietary Sony memory stick stuff too. It will probably have a touch screen of some sort (resistive) and probably won’t be that much of use. Sony will also probably either make the next PSP super-aweosme, or like the Go, another “fail”.
5 – GPS navigations, will really begin to die out, similar to the current dedicated mp3 player market. Ever since phones, began having mp3 capabilities, and now many having GPS capabilities, these two markets are slowly dying, though GPS will probably die out first, possibly this year too… Comapnies such as TomTom and Garman etc had their share prices fall last year, with thanks to Google. mp3 players may still have an edge, as no phone will be able to carry your entire music library… Hence why the iPod is still super-succesful…
4 – Google Android will continue to expand rapidly, and I would like to see it possibly, catching up very closely, or taking over Windows Mobile, in terms of popularity in mobile operating systems. There are already a fair few Android running hand-held devices around, but some of them still lack the qualities that the other mobile OSs have, especially Apple’s iPhone OS. No doubt we will be seeing a lot more phones running Android, and the newly announced Nexus One “superphone” was released today, and is available for purchase. Other phones such as the XPERIA from Sony should further strengthen Android’s hold in the mobile OS world. Whether it’ll take over iPhone…
3 – 3DTV will be commercially available and be like how HDTVs were around when they first came out… As in, like, how when HDTVs were out, they were on displays at stores all over the place, and only like… “One of my friends have one” and you yourself won’t have one till maybe a few years after they came out… Though, there is an issue with the whole “always wearing glasses” to see 3D that is… Though apparently, some companies will be displaying 3D TVs where you don’t need the glasses? Well, they’re saying, if we’re gonna see that happening, CES is the place.
2 – The Apple Tablet – Just like many of those in the tech world, I belive that Apple will come out with some form of tablet. Whether it be a super-large iPhone of sorts, an e-reader that does media playback, or as a netbook sort of slate device, Apple will release something like that, sometime this year. There has already been many “claims” of leaked specs and pricing, but of course, there is nothing concrete as of yet. Though even if Apple does release an “iTablet”, would you actually buy one? Rumors do have them out as around the US$800/900…
1 – Google will take over the world. Okay, maybe not in 2010… But expect to see A LOT more Google in the world, way more than what you’ve seen so far.
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