Samsung ATIV Q specifications

Heard about the Samsung ATIV Q? Well lemme gist you. The ATIV Q looks to be the first oversized tablet likely to make a lasting impact. Its screen is 13.3″ on the diagonal, its resolution designated “qHD+,” or 3200×1800, for a pixel density of 275ppi. That doesn’t quite reach the 300ppi density of Samsung’s Nexus 10 tablet, but it beats out Apple’s current-generation, 264ppi iPad, and it leaves the Microsoft Surface Pro‘s 208ppi in the dust. The ATIV Q’s display also features exceedingly bright performance; Samsung didn’t give a figure in nits, but it did make a point of citing the unit’s 178-degree viewing angle. But the Haswell-powered ATIV Q is more than just a jumbo-tablet. Given its brand name, it’s no surprise that it runs Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform; but it is a surprise to learn what else it packs under the hood: a full version of Android 4.2. And that Android build runs alongside Windows; there’s no reboot required to transition between operating systems. A simple flick and a tap delivers a user to and from Windows and Android, and users can even pin Android apps directly to the Windows 8 Start screen. What’s more: though the ATIV Q lacks Samsung’s now iconic Note branding, it does feature an S Pen stylus with docking silo, alongside a display digitizer allowing for 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity. And while it’s a bit on the pudgy side at 13.9mm thick and 1.29kg in mass, there’s a good reason for that: the ATIV Q is not a pure tablet, but a convertible, with a full physical keyboard hiding beneath the display.

That keyboard is mated to an articulated hinge that allows for the display to be levitated horizontally above the keys or flipped facing away from the base for presentations (both orientations look awkward but will probably come in handy), or used in the more conventional ultrabook-style arrangement for typing, swiping, or drawing with the S Pen. We’ll have some more thoughts on the design from our hands-on demo time, but Samsung made a point of calling out the device’s magnesium construction at the announcement – a casing material we’ve lauded before. The company is also citing up to 9 hours of battery life for its new Frankenstein jumbo-tablet/convertible hybrid, which makes us wonder how it’ll differentiate itself from the ultrabooks that were announced alongside it.Think about it: this is an Android/Windows 8 convertible with full keyboard and S Pen, with a magnesium frame and a reconfigurable screen, packing a 13″ display and a battery that lasts 9 hours. If that doesn’t sizzle your bacon even just a little, you should probably get your pulse checked. Because the ATIV Q is the epitome of a tablet geek’s dream device.

Intelligent 4.7 inch windows 8 phone: runs the same operating system as your computer

Intelligent: runs the same operating system as your laptop

A small 4.7 inch device running windows 8 and capable of  replacing your computer. Well . . .Remember i-mate? The company used to make aluminum-clad, fairly compact smartphones in the dawn days of Windows Mobile, harking back to the early 2000s even.

Then its partnership with HTC fell flat, board members were accused of fraud, and we haven't seen anything from it for a few years already, just knew it relocated to Redmond, WA. That's until Microsoft came out with Windows 8. Although it said its new touch-oriented OS is not to be shoehorned in a phone, at least not yet, as it is not optimized for the smaller screens, i-mate went ahead and did just that.

The first phone running Windows 8 (not WP8) is apparently going by the clever codename Intelegent, and will be sold later this year at a $750 price point without any carrier subsidies, with GSM and CDMA radios inside.

With a 4.7" 1280x768 pixels HD screen, Intel Atom processor inside, 2 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, and an 8 MP camera, it will certainly be a very interesting proposition, be it only to see how i-mate solved the puzzle to fit the Win 8 interface on display of this size. Well, tiles are tiles, we guess, and Win 8 certainly supports that resolution, plus a 3000 mAh battery is going to back up the show, so endurance should be on par with modern smartphones, considering the frugal Atom CPU, which Intel said it provided know-how for when i-mate approached it 18 months ago. The CEO Morrison claims 10 hours of talk time and 6 hours of video playback, which is about the smartphone norm these days.

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They did have to build their own cellular connectivity interface, complete with a dialer and backend APIs, as Win 8 isn't meant for phone calls, so they get routed through the Lync communication software, but the system i-mate built goes around the wake-up times needs of the full desktop OS, and takes just 45 milliseconds to respond and pick up an incoming call.

Another interesting detail, however, is that the Intelegent will have a docking system, similar to the Asus Padfone franchise, with a tablet screen option to which the phone can beam videos wirelessly, for example. That whole kit is expected to cost $1600, but hasn't been demonstrated in the videos the company showed. Now all that is left is for i-mate to iron out the kinks and put the Intelegent on sale for a pretty interesting experiment. Its CEO Jim Morrison thinks that with the upcoming Windows Blue update, which is scaled for smaller screens, the task will be even easier.

source: PCWorld