iPhone 6 will raise screen size close to 5 inches, says analyst

Apple's iPhone 6 will jump in screen size to almost 5 inches from the current 4 inches. At least, that's the claim from Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White.

After meeting recently with an Apple supplier, White expressed confidence that a new big-screen iPhone will emerge next year, as reported by Boy Genius Report.

"Our meeting with a tech supply chain vendor highlighted a bigger iPhone is in the works, and our contact expects a launch in the 2Q:14/3Q:14 time frame," White said in an investors note released on Thursday.
"Nearly a year ago, our research in Asia uncovered early stage work on a larger iPhone, and we indicated in our Apple initiation report dated 9/4/13 that 'a larger screen size on the iPhone is possible in 2014 that could approach 5 inches.' Given today's meeting, we are confident that a larger iPhone (approximately five inches) will become a reality in 2014."

White's prediction follows a similar claim from Jefferies analyst Peter Misek that the iPhone 6 will sport a 4.8-inch screen. Misek's forecast followed a meeting between him and Apple suppliers in Asia.
DisplaySearch analyst David Hsieh also is eyeing a larger screen for next year's iPhone, specifically one that's 4.7 inches.

Other reports have suggested even bigger screen sizes for a future iPhone, anywhere from 5.7 inches to 6 inches.

Apple has lost a large chunk of market share to the Android world, which offers a huge array of big-screened smartphones. Some rival phones are growing in size to 5.5 inches and even 6 inches. But Apple is unlikely to go that large, so a size somewhat under 5 inches sounds feasible. Apple could also offer a couple of different sizes to hedge its bets.

In his report, White also chimed in with some interesting thoughts on an Apple smartwatch. The analyst's contact at the Apple supplier described an iWatch as "much more than an extension of your iPhone but as a multi-purpose gateway in allowing consumers to control their home (i.e., heating/cooling, lights, audio, video, etc.)."

White expects Apple to launch its iWatch before the end of 2014.

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HP no longer playing by Microsoft, Intel rules, exec says

A Hewlett-Packard vice president had a lot to say about alternatives to Microsoft and Intel during a meeting of financial analysts Wednesday. And HP CEO Meg Whitman had some pretty provocative comments of her own.

The shift to non-Windows products at the world's largest PC maker is happening against a backdrop of a shrinking "Wintel" (Microsoft-Intel) PC market.

IDC reported this week that worldwide PC shipments in the third quarter of 2013 contracted 7.6 percent year-to-year. 

"The market is changing more today than it has in the past 30 odd years I've been in the industry," Dion Weisler, executive vice president of printing and personal systems at HP, said at the company's Securities Analyst meeting in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday. He continued:

In the past, if you had the Wintel playback and played by the Wintel playbook you could pretty much predict your results. You just needed to run a little faster than the other guy. Everything was pretty predictable...[But] we're in a new world now with multiple operating systems, new architectures, new silicon, new graphics, new subsystems.

Whitman had some tough words of her own for Microsoft and Intel. 

HP's traditional highly-profitable markets face significant disruption. In personal systems...Wintel-based devices are being aggressively displaced by ARM-based PCs and mobile devices running competing operating systems...current, long-term HP partners, like Intel and Microsoft, are increasingly becoming outright competitors.

The push into non-Windows markets is being driven by places like China. "In China there are more tablets sold than [in] the United States. Guess what? Most of those are not on the Windows operating system," Weisler said. 

HP is focused on four OSes now: Microsoft, Android, Chrome, and Ubuntu, he added.

"Chrome and Android represent $46 billion of opportunity and is growing at 12 percent," Weisler said.

As an example, Weisler brandished the new Chromebook 11 jointly developed with Google.

And it's not just Chrome and Android. He talked about a major a new contract in India for systems running on Ubuntu. 

HP is not giving up on the PC market, of course. The market is still a $170 billion global market, he said. But it's declining.

"The traditional PC market declined faster than we thought it would," Weisler said.

He did cite opportunities, even in the shrinking Windows-Intel market. They include all-in-ones, workstations, and thin clients.

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Google Nexus 5, Android KitKat rumors point to Oct. 15 launch

The Google Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 KitKat are less than a week away, according to new rumors. Word on the street is that the new phone and next Android update explode onto the scene together on October 15 -- next Tuesday.

That date comes from whispers around the campfire at Google Launchpad, a fortnight-long event run by the Big G for helping startups to develop their business.

At the event, developers have been served lashings of Key Lime Pie -- the planned name for the next update -- and Kit Kat bars -- which lent their name to the update at the last minute. 

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Orientation Sensors in Windows 8 PCs will drive mega accuracy

Microsoft is focusing on the development of effective support of orientation systems for their Windows 8 devices. It’s become even more complex than just using the sensors to read raw data. Fortunately, Microsoft could involve other platforms to fix these issues. The main challenge is orientation of devices when it comes to construct a completely fluid interface. The device orientation data will provide myriad benefits to mapping, augmented reality, gaming, and various other applications. However, the sensors may reduce the performance when Microsoft prepares Windows 8 to run in Tablet platform.

Sensors could be used by Microsoft Sensor Fusion is an approach calling by Microsoft in order to combine 3 different sensors. First of all, accelerometer is employed to measure the actual position of device according to the three axes of gravity. Next up, a digital compass, and magnetometer, is used to measure the strength of magnetic field along three different axes. With these two sensors employed in a device, one can enjoy 2D & 3D 6-axis motion gaming with various 3D applications.

The third but most vital type of sensor is gyroscope, which is used in portable devices for over past couple of years. Along the 3 axes, it detects rotation of your device. In fact, gyroscope is used to get smoothest and best data orientation on a portable device and to refine magnetometers and accelerometers signals. As an outcome, it becomes 9-axis sensor fusion for Windows 8.
Other rivals of Microsoft which are employing sensors The earlier android phones had used only accelerometer and magnetometer. Hence, they cannot give absolute orientation of the data. Nowadays, some expensive gadgets also employ gyroscope apart from other two sensors to mitigate inherent noise as well as providing accuracy in orientation data. With TouchWiz, Samsung uses gyroscopes extensively on their devices as compared to other OEMs.
Over the years Apple is also adding various sensors in its devices and also integrating them differently from Microsoft. For example, iPhone 3GS came with magnetometer inside and iPhone 4 was launched with gyroscope. In the API based iOS devices, apps are designed to work with these three sensors to accurate data of orientation.
Bottom Line The higher quality and accuracy in orientation data makes application more sensitive and responsive to react according to natural movements in much better way. Hence, Microsoft is not alone in the market which is upgrading its products with three most powerful sensors.

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