13 most anticipated technical new products of 2013

Microsoft Surface Pro

Microsoft already released a hybrid of the tablet and Microsoft Surface RT notebook, but Surface Pro will strongly differ from it. On it the complete version of Windows 8 unlike the predecessor on whom the operating system which supports only touch-applications from Windows Store is installed will be installed. The version of OS in Surface Pro will also support work with programs which are started on Windows 7. The display of the device will have permission of 1920 to 1080 pixels, the Intel processor Core i5 will be installed inside. The cost of the device will be about 900 dollars, it should will appear in the market in January, 2013.

iPad 5

If to trust hearing, production of the new iPad5 tablet can begin in December, 2012, and it will go on sale in 2013. As expected, the fifth version of the tablet from Apple will be thinner previous thanks to new touchscreen technology which is already used in new iPad Mini.

iPhone 6

The release of the 6th version of the Apple smartphone as always is surrounded a set of rumors. It agrees some of them, the device can be issued in June, 2013. Perhaps, in this smartphone operation of the navigation button "home" will be completely changed. Also it is supposed that the device can be equipped with the A6X or A7 processor. Besides, the next version can carry name 5S.

Microsoft Surface Phone

According to the report published by Wall Street Journal, Microsoft conducts negotiations with component manufacturers on release of the smartphone of own design. Such scenario is rather probable taking into account recent entry of corporation into the market of tablets.

Blackberry 10

Are laid great hopes on the new BlackBerry 10 smartphone on rescue of business of Research In Motion (RIM). Official representation of the device should take place on January 30, 2012, and sales should start in the first quarter 2013. It is expected that, as well as iPhone, the new smartphone will have completely touchscreen the interface and also it is equipped with software which will allow to manage personal and corporate data more effectively. Already about 5 thousand alphas of the device are transferred to application developers in order that they started creation of software. The device price is not known so far.

Key Lime Pie

The next iteration of the popular Android operating system from Google can come out on May 15, 2013 and be called Key Lime Pie ("a piece of lemon pie"). So far it is definitely not known in what innovations this version will differ, but users expect optimization of support of video of formats, display of two applications at the same time on one screen, orderings of the interface, the best integration with Google services and increases in efficiency of an expense of a charge of the rechargeable battery.

Access points 802.11ac

New wireless routers with support of standard 802.11ac will allow more than to triple the speed of wireless data transmission so the new technology already received the name Gigabit Wi-fi. Netgear, Asus and Belkin already announced production of similar devices. In 2013 Cisco will begin deliveries of the module for access points of Aironet 3600 which will allow them to support 802.11ac.

Cisco ONE

The strategy of Cisco on creation of programmable networks under the name Cisco Open Network Environment in 2012 developed and should bear fruits in 2013. So, support of Cisco ONE API for products running the IOS, IOS XR and NX-OS operating systems is expected. Like Open Flow and Software Defined Networking as promises Cisco, the innovation will allow to make the solution more flexible, than competitive schemes. Considering influence of Cisco on corporate and operator networks, the value of an innovation can be very considerable.

Talko

Talko is a startup which works on creation of mobile and communication software and applications for Android and iOS of devices. The company already drew to itself attention as its founder is Ray Ozzie, on whose account successful development of Lotus Notes and work as the chief program architect in Microsoft after Bill Gates's leaving from the post. In 2012 the company received $4 million from investors.

Flexible phones

The technology of creation of flexible screens already exists, and in 2013 the first commercial models of smartphones on its basis can enter the market. The flexibility of screens, for example, would allow to reduce damages of devices at their accidental falling and also to introduce some other advantages. However, so far any of large vendors did not declare the plans for release of devices of this kind.

HTC M7

HTC M7 will become significant model in a line of devices of the Asian producer: according to the filtered rumors, the device will have the 5-inch HD screen, the 13-megapixel camera, 2 GB of RAM and the Snapdragon S4 Pro Quadcore processor. It does the device very competitive in the market, the start of sales of the smartphone can take place in March, 2013.

Eta Devices

Doubling of service life of the battery of smartphones can become a reality thanks to developments of Eta Devices founded by two professors of MIT. The technology can become commercial in 2013. Completely the technology is called "asymmetric multilevel outphasing", it allows to lower power consumption of the rechargeable battery as much as possible. Eta Devices is going to support CDMA, GSM and 4G/LTE devices.

OS X 10.9

The next significant release of the operating system for desktops from Apple code-named of Lynx should take place in the summer of 2013. As market observers expect, in new OS can appear many functions which became usual in the mobile operating systems released by corporation. For example, in it can Siri and Maps will appear.