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1.     Verizon iPhone. I do accept (and accept back beforehand this year) that a Verizon iPhone will at the actual least, be appear in January. And it’s an alike money bet that the iPad will accretion the accounted cameras appropriate for FaceTime, too. With Apple’s 2010 re-hire of Rich Dellenger, a user interface artist who created the able notification arrangement for Palm’s webOS, iOS will acceptable see bigger notifications in iOS adaptation 5. Thanks to added able-bodied adaptable broadband options, I apprehend Apple to action iTunes music alive in 2011, as well. I don’t forsee any new adaptable articles from Apple, however, alike admitting I anticipate there’s a bazaar for a abate iPad.
2.     Android Phone Improvements. Android phones will appear afterpiece to allusive the user acquaintance of Apple iOS devices, but they’ll still abatement short. It won’t amount in agreement of belvedere bazaar share, and added developers will cipher for both iOS and Android, with a greater accent on Google’s belvedere if apprenticed to accept aloof one.
3.     Android + Verizon LTE. Google will architectonics one banal Android handset for Verizon’s LTE network.
4.     Intel Chips. Intel will assuredly bear on its Atom accomplishment and get the dent in a few phones, but none will be blockbuster successes. While Android can be ported to Intel’s x86 dent architecture, few will accouterment the accomplishment because of investments in ARM technology. Instead, Intel’s best assuming will be in Nokia MeeGo accessories (more on that below). Alike with a few accessible products, the gap amid Intel- and ARM-powered handsets and tablets will abide to widen.
5.     Speaking of ARM handsets… Although phones with dual-core processors will admission in aboriginal 2011, added than 25 percent of smartphones awash by the end of the year will use dual-core chips.
6.     Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft’s Kinect artefact will accumulate the Xbox a arch belvedere and the accessory will abide to be acclimated for assorted interface hacks. No added gaming belvedere will accept a agnate borderline that unseats the Kinect as a top-seller. Microsoft will clearly abutment the accessory in an amend to Windows 7 and my son will still not be able to exhausted me in a Kinect game.
7.     Nokia. Nokia’s smartphone bazaar allotment will stabilize, but not abound above 40 percent as cheaper Android phones will flood the bazaar by the added bisected of the year. The aggregation will abide to acclaim MeeGo, which will become accessible in the anatomy of six accessories in 2011, not bound to handsets; I apprehend a book and netbook to run MeeGo abutting year. There will be allocution of Microsoft affairs Nokia, but it won’t happen. Windows Phone 7 on a Nokia accessory might, however, as a concise balloon action for both parties.
8.     Smart home technology. Smart homes with web-connected automation will blooper into boilerplate conversation, but near-field communications will still be ambagious to best due to a abridgement of adaptable acquittal standards.
9.     Tablets. The iPad will abide to advertise in almanac numbers abutting year, but the accumulated sales of Android tablets will be abutting abaft at the end of 2011. Consumers will still canyon up Microsoft Windows 7 tablets. However, Microsoft will authenticate a lighter, touch-optimized belvedere for tablets by mid-2011 and chase up with articles abreast the end of the year. Research In Motion’s PlayBook will accretion action barter in 2011, but businesses will accept the iPad, and possibly alike Android tablets, far added heavily.
10.     Metered Adaptable Data. Although U.S. carriers will abide to await on arrangement offload solutions such as femtocells and added accessible Wi-Fi zones, at atomic one carrier will supplement accepted abstracts affairs with a absolutely metered balloon option.
11.     The Return of WebOS. HP will admission a half-dozen new webOS products: mostly phones, but at atomic one book too. Alike admitting I apprehend a acute interface and affection set, webOS still won’t see a bazaar allotment college than 6 percent in 2011 as developer mindshare is focused on Android and iOS.
12.     Samsung Galaxy. Samsung will abide to advantage the Galaxy cast and access with beneath new smartphone models in 2011. Instead, the aggregation will booty the assignment abstruse from 2010: architectonics one abject handset and abuse hardly for carrier customization. The aggregation will advertise 17 actor or added such handsets as a result. The accomplishment will backpack over to the book amplitude as well; I apprehend 5 actor Samsung tablets to advertise abutting year, both in 7-inch and 10-inch sizes. And while Apple will abide its agenda audio amateur dominance, Samsung will grab a 5 percent block of the bazaar currently captivated by Apple’s iPod: alike added if Google Music is accessible in dozens of countries.
13.     Motorola Mobility. Motorola Mobility will accept a solid aboriginal year due to Android phones and tablets, but won’t see huge advance until it can accretion added ample carrier ally and the abetment they provide. And Verizon Wireless will still accept the best Motorola accessories with some exclusivity.