At this time concrete information on the launch date of the MacBook 15-inch Ultra Thin Laptop is pure speculation. While information has been leaked that the laptop may be launched by the second quarter of next year, the MacBook 15-inch Ultra Thin Laptop is still a work in progress. Leaked information indicates Apple is working fast and furious to get this product off the ground. To be competitive in the industry, it would be a big boost in revenue to hit the market with this incredibly thin and amazing laptop.

The iPad is loved by many. Unfortunately, many people missed having a traditional keyboard and laptop set up. The MacBook 15-inch Ultra Thin Laptop will provide a tablet feel but with a keyboard. Details are scarce; however, predictions indicate it may be shipped in March. Only time will tell if this will become a reality.

It is expected the MacBook Ultra Thin will provide consumers with an ultra light and ultra thin laptop that is perfect for people who cannot bare to leave home without their digital equipment. Computers are only second to cell phones as the most popular mobile accessories.

The price tag and features of the MacBook Ultra Thin remain under wraps at this time; however, it is expected to be a hit. Computer and cell phone technology continues to develop at a rapid pace. Many exciting products such as 4G unlocked cell phones, cell phone accessories and computers will flood the market in the next few months. The MacBook 15-inch Ultra Thin Laptop will cause quite a buzz and will likely top the list of “must have” products.

The rumors of the release of the MacBook 15-inch Ultra Thin Laptop will continue. Undoubtedly, more information may be leaked in the near future. It is simply too difficult to keep such an exciting product under lock and key.

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Gavin Kim, Vice President of Samsung, announced his departure to head up Microsoft’s Windows phone product management team. As of September, Microsoft’s market share in the cell phone industry dropped to 5.6%. Luring Gavin Kim may be part of Microsoft’s plan to attempt to boost its market share in this competitive industry.

On Monday, November 7, 2011, Microsoft hosted a smart phone party in Manhattan. A six-story replica of a Windows Phone was erected in one of the most congested intersections in the world. Along with bands and dancers, Microsoft was determined to make a statement that the Windows Phone and mobile accessories are here to stay.

According to an exclusive interview with BGR, Gavin Kim, outgoing Samsung cell phone executive, indicated his primary responsibility is to build consumer confidence in the Windows Phone platform, and to win over cell phone, developers, manufactures, and carriers. Considering the Windows Phone market share dropped from 5.8% to 5.6%, Gavin Kim has much work to do.

The Windows Phone is available through a few popular carriers. In addition, a handful of unlocked cell phones are available along with a host of cell phone accessories. However, consumers have not warmed up to the Windows Phone platform. This may be due to an unwillingness to change platforms or consumers may simply not like the Windows Phone platform.

Convincing consumers to switch to a Windows Phone may be one of the toughest challenges Gavin Kim will face in his new role at Microsoft. While Microsoft refuses to accept defeat with its smart phone platform, only time will tell if Gavin Kim can successfully revitalize the Windows Phone.

Currently Microsoft has collaborated with T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. In the next several months, marketing efforts will increase as Microsoft announces new carrier partnerships and new cell phones. Gavin Kim will need to roll up his sleeves and get to work on what seems an insurmountable task.

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With release of the iPhone 4S by Apple out of the way, it has made room for speculations of the next version of the Apple iPhone 5. The question needs to be asked why Apple decided to launch what is seen as an interim phone instead of the highly anticipated iPhone 5?

It appears that Apple had two teams working on two separate iPhones. The iPhone 4S team had a mandate to improve on the existing SIM Free iPhone 4 to make it faster and better bring it up to par with the other smart phones in the marketplace.

At the same time it is rumored that Steve Jobs was heading up the development team for the iPhone 5 and that because of delays that occurred in February they realize that the release of a new phone was not possible in time for the holiday season. As a result, they decided to release the iPhone 4S as their product for the holidays.

From an industry perspective the recent release of the iPhone 4S was seen as a negative one as the phone lacks many of the standard features now being introduced by other manufacturers. That said however, the sales figures for the iPhone 4S release are quite impressive and clearly shows that Apple has a huge following of supporters for anything they decide to release.

Since Apple had the development of two phones in progress over the last few months, there is speculation that the iPhone 5 will be released earlier than is typical for Apple phone. The iPhone 5 can be expected to hit the stores as early as the summer of 2012 which equates to a mere nine months between releases. Apple has never done this in the past but there is no reason to believe that this is not a good move sales of the iPhone 4S are fantastic and the anticipation of the iPhone 5 has been around for quite some time.

In the world of smart phones we are seeing more and more importance being put on this suite of software included with the release of smart phones. The manufacturers are in many ways emulating each other to come up with a standard set of features that a consumer can come to expect no matter what phone or platform they decide to go with. In this case, the Samsung ChatON messaging service has been released worldwide and is available on all of their SIM Free phones such as SIM Free Samsung Infuse 4G no matter what platform is used as the operating system.

The best way to easily describe the service is to put it in comparison with some of the more well-known services similar to this one. In this case think of the Samsung ChatON messaging service as being their version of Blackberry BBM or the Apple iMessage service. The unique thing about the Samsung service is that it is independent of the operating system meaning you can download it from the Samsung app marketplace or Android app store.

The Samsung On messaging service is currently available now and you can easily download it for your phone and get going right away. In the future this service will be installed automatically across all SIM Free Samsung phones such as SIM Free Samsung Nexus S. As of the press release Samsung has stated that the service will be installed on the Samsung Bada smart phones.

We said it before and this release further confirms the realities of the industry. Everyone from manufacturers to software developers will be creating like services that more or less provide the same functionality for consumers no matter what smart phones they are carrying. Consider this encouraging news and get excited over the next 6 to 12 months as we will continue to see innovation push the envelope of features and provide us with an enjoyable experience our cell phones.

Over the past few years Google has been making several attempts to capture market share within the social networking industry. They released a handful of applications designed to try and gain some traction against the mighty Facebook. Tough task considering the sheer size of Facebook, but nonetheless important as the ability to do so clearly will provide an environment to push Google products.

On Friday, Google announced that it will be shutting down its Google Buzz service to focus exclusively on their new Google+ service. For those of you that don’t know, Google+ is an environment that allows you to create circles of friends in a private environment to share information similar to Facebook.

Initial reports of the recent launch have shown that Google has perhaps figured out the magic formula to creating an effective social networking environment. This release solidifies that as they now want to focus majority of their efforts on the Google+ platform.

Google Buzz was their attempt to try and merge e-mail, twitter, and Facebook like features into one simple environment. The problem was that the execution was poor and the service was more of a headache as opposed to a value added feature to the average user. Many of the key complaints were that Google Buzz automatically was added to Gmail accounts taking up valuable space and the attention span from users who only wanted to do e-mail. The implementation was taken straight out of the Facebook playbook and that they try to impose a new service without the consent of the user.

It will be interesting to see how the Google plus service further grows to become a legitimate competitor to Facebook. Many industry experts think it is too late, but anyone can do it is most probably Google as they are one of the few companies that have an existing user base to build a platform on.

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Skype is a very well known VoIP application that allows mobile phone users such as SIM Free Dell Venue Pro to make phone calls over the Internet. For years they have controlled the market and are seen as the leader in the industry far ahead of any of its competitors.

Over the past few months we are seeing many of the major online companies make significant investments into areas of technology that are expected to be driving forces. Microsoft has recently announced that it has completed its purchase of Skype.

With Microsoft and the Windows phone operating system such as SIM Free HTC 7 Surround, recently launched, it is clear that they are positioning themselves to try and make a significant dent into the market share of the smart phone industry. The purchase of Skype is clearly an effort to solidify this goal by having both the user base as well as the technology that allows them to integrate the value of VoIP into their operating system Microsoft Windows phone.

The purchase price for Skype is reported to be $8.5 billion which is an awful lot of money for any company including the major ones online. The purchase price as well as timing of this announcement makes it clear to everyone that Microsoft truly intends to try and take over the industry. This coupled with some of their other partnerships recently released show that competitors need to take notice and try to combat Microsoft’s efforts by building out technology and partnerships in a similar fashion.

As a company, Skype will continue to pretty much operate under its own umbrella. All of its worldwide offices will remain separate from Microsoft and operate as usual. It will probably remain the case for the foreseeable future until Skype begins to be fully integrated into Microsoft’s plans for both the members and the technology. Will be interesting to see how this purchase affects the overall marketplace.

In the news over the past few weeks has been word that Microsoft is getting out of the music hardware business with the announcement that they will no longer the creating hardware for the Microsoft Zune. Shortly thereafter, we were told that the information posted on their website was false and that there are no plans on getting out of the business anytime soon.

Fast-forward a couple of weeks, and Microsoft once again has put up a notice that they will be discontinuing the hardware for the Microsoft Zune. This time however it appears that it’s official and effective immediately.

We are not surprised by this decision as there has been a very clear line drawn in the sand between the hardware and software aspects of the music industry. The major players are defined on the hardware side where Apple and Android have captured the space and are leading the way in terms of technology and features for mobile phones such as SIM Free Samsung Infuse 4G.

On the software side of things it is still a relatively wide open market. With the launch of Microsoft Windows Phone, they are set to try to make a significant dent in the operating system space. As a result, they are focusing all of their efforts on the software side of their business in an attempt to get major distribution across its own platform as well as the other majors. Since all platforms support third-party applications, you can be reasonably sure that we will see the Microsoft Zune service available on all the major platforms including iTunes for SIM Free iPhone 4 and Android marketplace.

Microsoft has enjoyed quite a good run with the Microsoft Zune and we are quite shocked on how long they have been able to effectively stay in the hardware side of the business. This announcement was inevitable and we have to applaud Microsoft for making this decision at a time where it’s important to focus and scale in the areas of their strengths.

This has been a recurring theme in industry of late where certain online properties are getting information leaks that in effect promote a new phone that’s going to be release to the marketplace shortly. In this case the Nokia 800 Windows powered phone such as SIM Free Dell Venue Pro ads are popping up online.

Based on the ad, the specifications of the phone are not 100% clear but there are a few things that we were able to gather. First off is the phone appears to have an 8 megapixel camera and the design is stylish and trendy available in multiple colors. When comparing the phone to other releases by Nokia we can help to hope that the Nokia 800 will be available in the aluminum unibody design similar to the Nokia N8.

The latest buzz within the industry is that Microsoft will play a major role in the operating system market share landscape. This type of leak is typical and not surprising since many want to build buzz around upcoming phones. We set up before; Microsoft will be able to capture a good portion of the low to medium and smart phone such as SIM Free HTC 7 Surround. With their existing distribution in place for low-end phones, they simply have to upgrade the operating system of these releases to include the Microsoft Windows phone operating system.

In the coming weeks Nokia world is taking place which will surely include the release of the Nokia 800 as well as other phones set to be introduced for the holiday season. Many of these types of releases have recently hit the newswire, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out and who comes out on top for the holiday season. It is our belief that Microsoft and their Windows phone operating system across multiple manufacturers will result in a significant market.

Apple this week has released a MicroUSB to 30 pin adapter in their UK online store. It is believed that Apple released the adapter to conform to the laws and regulations imposed by the UK government that mandates all cell phones  such as SIM free iPhone 4 to be charged via MicroUSB interface.

This raises the question of why Apple continues to release devices requiring a special adapter in order to charge or interface with a computer. With so much change going on in the industry, the one thing we should come to expect is that all devices are both powered and charged by a universal device which in this case is MicroUSB.

The answer to this question goes way back to the days of the Macintosh versus PC battle. Back then, Apple wanted to keep control of the hardware and software used for their computers. This made way for what is now known as the PC which is nothing more than a universal set of hardware that can be used by any software company.

Can Apple run into the same problem again for something as small as their adapters? Probably not, but it gives us good insight into how they fundamentally think about their products and the amount of control they want to have all the way through. This issue is also prevalent when speaking about iTunes and the way in which they distribute music and media content. Everything has to go through them but they’ve done a good job at keeping third-party developers and hardware partners happy. Not that this is a big deal but we hope Apple takes the plunge and joins the universal standards when it comes to charging your mobile phone such as SIM free Samsung Nexus S and interfacing with your computer. Personally, we are tired of carrying around multiple cables for the multiple devices we own, standardize already!

With everything in the news of late being about Apple, we wanted to mix it up a little bit and present to you a new device from Samsung. The Samsung Nexus Prime is the latest from the manufacturer that is set to be the flagship product Google will support and promote. The phone is set to be launched during the upcoming Samsung press conference but we managed to get a sneak peek of the phone and some of its specifications.

Specs of the Samsung Nexus Prime have not been 100% confirmed. Based on what’s available online, it appears that the screen is going to be 4.6 inches and use super AMOLED HD resolution that results in 720p quality. This equates to a pixel density of 320 PPI which is more than enough for the human eye.

The hardware on the phone seems to have undergone some radical changes as well. There are virtually no buttons on the face of the phone as all navigation will be managed by the software and the touch screen capabilities of the Samsung Nexus Prime. This design is based on the fact that Android Ice Cream operating system uses the honeycomb as the base for its functionality. As a result, very little navigation is needed using the physical hardware buttons typically found on phones.

This is yet another case of why Apple needed to release something significant into the marketplace. It is clear that competitors are catching up as we are seeing more and more apple-like devices being launched by several manufacturers. If this phone is anything like the SIM Free Samsung Galaxy S II, you can be sure that it will receive rave reviews and possibly become Samsungs most popular phone given that it will be launched during the holidays.