Apple is preparing ultra-thin 15-inch MacBook Pro

Analysts say the success of "ultrabook" - a new class of portable computers - they must not only catch up on the price of laptops MacBook Air, but also become much cheaper than the latter. Acer, Toshiba and other manufacturers can not fit a first modification of "ultrathin" laptops, not on Mac OS X in frame $ 999, and Intel, going at the head of this line gives the plans for 2012: notebook chips Ivy Bridge should not cost more than the 699 of dollars.

In the summer there were rumors that Apple plans to introduce a super-slim laptop with a screen diagonal of 15 inches, and now the Japanese resource Macotakara citing an anonymous insider said that Americans already have a prototype of such a computer.

According to the site, which calls its MacBook Air, Apple refuses to use the computers drives and optical drives. Model with hyperfine body can become a member of this family. But on the other hand, it may well be a MacBook Pro.

Which processor will form the basis of this laptop is not reported. Since the MacBook Pro family slightly renewed recently, Apple may be reasonable to wait for the 22-nanometer processors Intel Ivy Bridge, to provide next-generation MacBook Pro. The release of these chips is scheduled for spring 2012.

New smartphones Samsung will be with flexible displays

Response to the demonstrations at the show Nokia World 2011 Finnish new futuristic smart phone Samsung has become a statement of intent to begin selling phones with flexible screens in 2012. According to the Korean vendor in the future, similar screens will appear on tablets and other mobile devices.

"We are going to introduce a flexible display in 2012, the year, we hope that in the first half - said company spokesman Robert Yee. - Most likely, they will use to smartphones. "

Previously, Samsung has already demonstrated a flexible OLED-display are placed in a rigid body, which retained their curved. Technology OLED implies that every point on the screen itself emits color. Such displays are easier to produce in a flexible way than the usual LCD-screens, which require backlighting.

Samsung on the III quarter of 2011 came in first place in the world in sales of smartphones. During this period the company sold 27.8 million smartphones, that 23.8% of world market sales of these devices. Particularly popular model has won the Galaxy S II on the platform of Google Android, which is sold worldwide in quantities of more than 10 million units within five months of sales.

By the way, the Nokia with a flexible body already exists in the form of the finished prototype . Nokia Kinetic Device not managed by the usual nowadays touch screen, and strain through a device - it can be bent in the vertical and horizontal directions, or using twisting motions. For example, tilting back the upper left corner of the phone you move to the next item. Bent to my phone - zoom in, tilting in the opposite direction - is reduced. But it is unclear how it is convenient and necessary to all users.