• Built Without Compromise and Less Than an Inch Thin
• Revolutionary Design Borders on Borderless: A 14-inch Screen in a 13-inch Form Factor
• Designed to Help Professionals Power Through Their Day – and Look Good Doing It

Manila, Philippines, February 13, 2012 – Dell today unveiled its XPS 14z laptop, one of the thinnest fully featured 14-inch laptops featuring an internal optical drive and discrete graphics option. The latest in a series of thin-and-powerful solutions from Dell that include thin laptops, desktops and accessories, the XPS 14z delivers performance that impresses and design that inspires. Professionals now can power through their day at work and kick back at night to take advantage of the system’s HD screen to watch movies or video.

A performance laptop that includes all the powerful features professionals want – and helps them look good in the process – the XPS 14z is available with second-generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors, an HD WLED display for great entertainment experiences, a slot-load optical drive and NVIDIA graphics option. The XPS 14z is a sleek laptop with a compact design that measures in at less than an inch thin. The unique design also maximizes screen size, delivering a 14-inch screen in a 13-inch form factor.

The XPS 14z is the latest member of Dell’s portfolio of thin-and-powerful solutions, and the second such solution in the XPS family, joining the successful XPS 15z laptop. Dell’s thin-and-powerful solutions now include the Inspiron 13z laptop, Inspiron 14z laptop, and the Inspiron One all-in-one computer that are ideal solutions for parents and students, as well as the Vostro V131 laptop for small businesses. All solutions are designed to deliver impressive performance in beautiful packages.

Get More: A 14-inch Display in a 13-inch Body

Well-designed and well-built, the XPS 14z is the classic example of style and substance. Customers will get more with this laptop: more screen size, and surprising portability for such a fully-loaded laptop.

The 14-inch HD display easily fits into a 13-inch laptop form factor –while offering 10 percent more viewing area than a 13.3” display. And starting at just 4.36 pounds , less than an inch thin, and up to six hours, 42 minutes of battery life , it also has the easy portability of a 13-inch laptop. The XPS 14z’s uncompromising performance helps busy professionals achieve their personal and professional pursuits – and look good while doing it. The XPS 14z is visually striking, with a slim, yet powerful form synonymous with innovation. Its anodized-aluminum finish is stylish and sophisticated, and the latch-less design is simple, yet elegant.

“The XPS 14z delivers what professionals want – raw power paired with a stunning, sophisticated design that signals ‘I’ve arrived’,” said Chris Papa, Country Manager, Consumer and Small Business, Dell Philippines. “The XPS 14z is specifically engineered to help our customers do more in their personal and professional lives – and it advances our industry-leading vision for thin-and-powerful solutions that deliver performance without compromise.”

“When Dell looks at innovation and product development, we start with the customer. For us, it’s about delivering the right feature-set and design to provide the best user experience for our customers,” said Sam Burd, vice president of Dell’s Consumer and Small/Medium Business product group. “With the XPS 14z, our challenge was to build a laptop that provided customers the performance and portability that they need, with the design and finish they desire.”

Dell XPS laptops also come with the Dell Stage user interface, which offers one-click access to favorite content including music, photos and video. SyncUP powered by Nero can keep content and personal information synched with other Stage-enabled Dell PCs and mobile devices within a home Wi-Fi network.

Detailed Information:

• Thin laptop PC (0.9”/23mm) with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium; anodized aluminum and magnesium alloy palmrest in dark gray
• 2nd-generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 Dual Core processor choices
• Standard HD (720p) WLED with TrueLife and edge-to-edge glass (1366×768)
• Fast NVIDIA graphics option including NVIDIA Optimus technology: (NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M with 1GB graphics memory)
• 4GB dual channel DDR3 up to 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz memory options
• Fast 7200RPM hard disk storage, from 500GB up to 750GB; 256GB SSD drive option
• Built-in Slot load DVD +/- RW (reads & writes to CD/DVD)
• Backlit, spill-resistant Chiclet keyboard
• Built-in Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 802.11 A/G/N and Bluetooth 3.0 wireless connectivity
• Intel Wireless Display-ready
• Up to six hours, 42 minutes of battery life with 8-cell battery
• USB 3.0 (1), USB 2.0 (1), HDMI 1.4 (1), RJ-45 (1), Mini Display-Port and microphone/audio connectors
• Built-in 1.3MP HD Webcam with dual array digital microphones and stereo speakers
• Next generation Dell Stage software for fast, easy access to content like music, videos and photos
• Dimensions: Height: 0.9” (23mm) / Width: 13.19” (335mm) / Depth 9.21” (234mm); Weight: starting at 4.36lbs (1.98 kg)

Availability and Pricing:

The XPS 14z laptop is available today in select retail stores nationwide at a starting price of Php 65,150.00 (with Intel Core i5) and Php 69,590.00 (with Intel Core i7).

Key Links:

Image Gallery: XPS 14z
You Tube: XPS 14z product video

About Dell

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Contact Information

Media Contacts:
Charlz Adano
Dell Philippines
+632-706-8026
charlz_adano@dellteam.com

Angie Limbaco
First Tier Branding Solutions Inc.
+632-812-5764
angie.limbaco@firsttierbrands.com

To determine whether downloading is safe, regardless of whether it’s a ringtone or an application, is not an easy task. Simply because even the websites designed for those with high incomes can put someone at risk, which means computer viruses can come from everywhere. There is no such thing as absolute safety and absolute lack of risk. So the best that you can do is to look for the less threatening ones. The key word there is less.

So what’s the first step? If you are a newbie you have a tendency to rely so much on thinking, to be overly analytical. Not that you should stop using your brain, but the real secret is to use your feeling. If you feel there is something wrong with the website, the application for instance is impossibly cheap or perhaps some of the contents look as though they are just stolen from other websites, then you should give up the idea of downloading a ringtone from that website.

At this point, a question arises: Why would some people make you transfer ringtones from their website? It should be understood that legitimate ringtone sellers pay private sector taxes. Aside from the fact that phony sites are violating laws, they are putting your good name at risk. Once you get identified as an accomplice, you are likely to get punished too. In addition to that, ringtones downloaded from bogus websites are almost always misbehaving, and if that happens there’s no one you can ask for help.

In cases where ringtones are given away, be cautious over the possibility of being a victim of tracking cookies. A tracking cookie on the computer system means someone can look into your data without you knowing it. Imagine what would happen if somebody’s financial data is available for public view.

To be sure that the website is clean, check it on the internet. Simply enter texts in a search engine like, “problems with (plus the name of the ringtone or the website)” or “ringtone bogus sites (plus the name of the ringtone).”

As stated previously, the cost will help you determine whether the ringtone is safe or not. Although some of the websites share them for free, the average price for each ringtone is about $3; if you like to get unlimited downloads it will cost you about $15 for six months. For one year you will have to spend around $25. If you come across a website that sells ringtones for a cheaper price, you should be alarmed.

When the next generation iPhone entered the market, enthusiasts cannot help feeling excited. Not only because they want to try out some of the games, but they also want to see which of the two leading brands has the upper hand when it comes to Operating System and processor. It is rumored that Apple built iPhone5 with the best parts in the industry. Perhaps the reason being that smart phone war is likely to happen. But the conflict is not limited between brands. It has spilled over into the minds of users.

The rage between two camps is evident on the internet. One group would talk disparagingly about the other group. iPhone5 enthusiasts would claim that their chosen brand is the only one on the market that could provide the same entertainment experience as Xperia Play.

But the latter is not convinced, saying that it is impossible to achieve amazing heights of fun with non-gaming physical buttons. In fact, Xperia Play attributes much of its success as a premier gaming and mobile console to its knobs, with which a lot of customers are fascinated.

Xperia Play followers added that although iPhone5 is incredible when it came out with a touchscreen and an A5 chip, that doesn’t make the device qualified for gaming, because with constant rubbing of finger across the monitor there is a tendency to mess up the game. All these, however, remain a theory until Apple’s newest smart phone arrives. Experts and gaming gurus cannot come to a verdict yet.

They have to experience first what it feels like to kill the enemies in games like Guerilla Bob and Nova 2. They say these games, among other things, are difficult to play on a touchscreen smart phone. But gamers know that there is still a hint of satisfaction, and they want to be sure of how much it would be with iPhone5. Although deep inside they know playing without knobs and joysticks is somewhat incomplete, because some of the cheats lie in them.

Sony might have dug up a treasure in Xperia Play with its remarkable design both inside and out, but Apple has earned its reputation as the world’s overall leading brand. And that means there is always something to be excited about, something that other brands have not achieved, something that could make others obsolete.

Obviously, that is an attempt to rival iPhone’s bigger computer display. But Samsung is not the only one copying designs. HTC Sensation has also done its fair share of “misdeed,” by making more user-friendly cell phone displays available to the public. iPhone competitors think that they will succeed where iPhone fails.

But it doesn’t seem that way especially when it comes to 3D screen. When the creators of LG Optimus and HTC EVO 3D offered a three-dimensional display they thought that they had taken a step ahead of iPhone. Later on however they realized that there’s not enough content in three-dimensional form to fill their devices. In addition to that 3D screen users complain about the feeling of vertigo after using their cell phones for about half an hour.

If there’s anything iPhone should improve it should be the camera. While many users are still fascinated about its five megapixel camera, it remains inferior to its rivals. Other smartphones take pride in eight-megapixel camera. Everyone should understand that eight-megapixel camera can do far better than five-megapixel camera. The images are clearer and sharper. But this is not a reason for iPhone fans to be upset. Rumor has it that iPhone5 will be using Sony’s 8.1 megapixel Exmor R sensor.

Everyone in the industry is looking for fast dual-core processors. But Apple made it already for you. In fact, fans of iPhone2 – the first device upon which the speedy processor A5 chipset was used – could testify to its incredible performance. Imagine how much better it would be when the next generation of iPhone comes out. Connoisseurs of this brand say that people should get excited about gaming and video streaming, because aside from the amazing chipset onboard it will also have HDTV high definition video modes.

When it comes to memory, however, iPhone5 is not ready for micro SD support, meaning there will be no flash card upon which you can store data. But Apple feels there is a need for data storage, so they built the next iPhone with the capacity to save data up to 64GB.

If you think about it, you will see that that’s a lot of data, considering the amount of weight that would be removed. Yes, iPhone5 will be thinner than any of its previous versions. Some experts say that the reason behind it is to make Samsung’s assertion over Galaxy S2 as the world’s thinnest mobile phone wrong. Whatever the reason is iPhone5 holds promise of being incredibly slick, perhaps to suit the most demanding taste of cell phone buyers.

It’s September already and iPhone5 may come at any time now. Surely, it will not have everything that we need and everything that we want on a smart phone but it will definitely have the features that will make us happy.

When we think of sitting on the toilet we think of reading newspapers, magazines and graphic novels. It’s a human activity that has been going on since time immemorial. “To push” while going through some reading materials is probably one of life’s best moments. The toilet in your house in all likelihood is one of the cleanest places you know and you probably think that you deserve some moments there, which will be best spent if you have The Shining or Harry Potter or Batman Year One or any reading material that you want to go over.

But let’s face it we don’t want to have any physical contact with any of these books or magazines that just came out of the toilet because we are afraid of the bacteria in stool, urine and all that. And yet we don’t care if we touch the same tablet used by other family members who just came out of the toilet.

A study done by Staples Advantage suggests that at least 35 percent of tablet users bring the device into the toilet. Out of 200, 70 tablet users confirmed that one of the reasons why they bought an iPad is that they can carry it around wherever they go including restaurants, parks, and transport stations. Perhaps this is what they call, “One medium killing another.”

So the picture of a husband reading the newspaper in bed also went through some changes. This time instead of thumbing through the pages of the newspaper, the husband is now sliding his finger across the screen activating buttons. Around 75 percent of tablet users admit this is true.

With all these changes, the question arises as to whether this is good or bad. Perhaps the answer lies in the totality of the situation. Studies suggest that about 80 percent of those who traded print media for digital media said that they have a better lifestyle. It is reported that tablets contribute a lot to carrying out more tasks correctly at great speed. It turns out that tablet users – those who have their gadgets wherever they go – are more prolific. They are more informed with a vast knowledge of everything in a click (or slide) of a button.

When asked why they buy tablets, customers, who are also businessmen, say they want to keep tabs on their clients with this modern device. Which means the device is no longer dispensable. Its function goes beyond entertainment. It is now a necessity, something that the user has to carry even in private moments.

A study conducted by Ericsson Consumer Lab showed that 35 percent of iPhone users check their cell phone first before they get out of bed. Surely they are becoming too attached to their cell phone. The same goes for tablet users. It seems like nothing is keeping them away from using their slate. Not even terrifying bacteria from the toilet.

A few years from now, people will become increasingly more techie and tablets will be part of their daily living as if they couldn’t get through a day without playing with their electronic gadgets, much less going into the toilet without them.

]]> http://www.cellphonetablet.com/tablets-2/tablet-in-the-toilet/feed/ 0 http://www.cellphonetablet.com/tablets-2/tablets-that-pose-threat-to-ipad2/ http://www.cellphonetablet.com/tablets-2/tablets-that-pose-threat-to-ipad2/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:14:18 +0000 TechiMod http://www.cellphonetablet.com/?p=63 Continue reading →]]> With a steady increase in market share, there is no doubt that iPad is currently the reigning champion of the best tablet in the industry. In the eyes of the consumer, all its special features are unmatched. It’s thinner, lighter, has superfast graphics, and the most advanced mobile operating system.

At one point this is true. Until other manufacturers came out with their versions of hybrid tablets, devices that boast equally superb features such as multitasking, high-definition flash video and HD cameras.

They hold promise as the next gadget of the decade with their unique ability to combine Windows 7 with an Intel Atom processor, or put nVidia’s Tegra 2 chip and Android together. We looked through the stores and found the top five tablets that would wage war on the reigning iPad.

• HP Slate. First off, experts don’t call it a tablet. They say slate PC fits this strong contender better, at least until the manufacturer comes up with an official name. But whatever its name, its specs are more important – an 8.9-inch multitouch screen with Windows 7 operating system that can serve as a foundation for hardware-accelerated Flash video playback. It gets along with Amazon Kindle, so if you are into blogging or you simply love to read books or newspaper or any digital media anytime, anywhere this is for you.

• Fusion Garage JooJoo. This was known as the CrunchPad. For some reason the name’s changed to something cool. But it’s not just the name to be excited about. The customized interface run by Ubuntu, the 12 inch multitouch display and the high definition flash player support are just a few of the best treats with this device.

• Dell Mini 5. This is one of the tablets Dell worked on. It is more capable of being moved readily with its ultra-small dimension. It is so small you can put it in your pocket. But its display and applications should not be undervalued. It is one of the few tablets with large displays and can make phone calls. Its phoning ability is complemented by a front-facing camera so that vide chat is possible. Aside from phoning ability and video cam, Dell Mini 5 boasts color options, speedy 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, and voice recognition, so users would be able to translate their speech into texts.

• Lenovo IdeaPad U1. This is not the typical tablet that people know. It is a tablet that can be converted into a laptop with 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo SU4100 chip. To be able to use it as a laptop, just slide it into the notebook-laptop keyboard and just in seconds you can use it as if you’re using a regular laptop. What is more amazing about this tablet is that when you snap it into the keyboard it automatically switches its operating system from Linux running on Snapdragon processor to Windows 7 running on Intel-based processor. If you snap it while in the middle of opening web pages, the process still continues. Pretty amazing!

Of course, cell phones play an important role in our daily existence, but they sometimes become annoying when used in public places where people need to be quiet, and this is where the problem starts. When people lose control of themselves, using mobile phones even if it’s not needed, digital devices take over. To put it differently, it’s a matter of habit and social behavior.

“Connecting people” may be true at one point especially if one is in solitude and has no other means to socialize. But if you think about it, using cell phones as a customary habit only leaves people more isolated. We cannot deny that these modern gizmos enable us to talk or see families and friends from afar, but then let’s face it there is no genuine warmth. Perhaps the only thing that gets stronger here is the human dependence on mobile phones among other things.

As the cell phone people continue using their gadgets in public places, they are unconsciously ignoring their brothers and sisters who run into them each day. The sad thing about it is that usual cell phone conversations has little or no sense at all. Only a few people can find meaning in, “Let’s keep talking on the phone. It’s cool.”

This is not an essay to preach anyone’s gospel but it’s important to create a healthy culture for the next generation since unnecessary cell phone use is being learned on a very large scale, and it is alarming. The most feasible approach to deal with it is to prohibit the use of wireless telephone in public places or private properties built for commercial use. Therefore, these places or properties especially those in hospitality industry have the power to impose unnecessary cell phone use.

To determine whether cell phone use in public places is justifiable or not is not that easy. Cell phone use in public places in emergency situations should be taken into account, which is perfectly fine. What makes the critics angry is the fact that these wireless telecommunication devices are sometimes negatively abused. The possibility to use a cell phone in public places during an emergency is low. At one point, the casual use of cell phone deserves some credit, because cell phone manufacturers and dealers are obviously profit oriented. They don’t care whether the culture is falling apart as long as revenues are coming.

In the end, however, blame is not exclusive to manufacturers and it is impossible to limit phone calls to emergency cases. Because the state of emergency or productivity is relative. What is productive to us may not be productive to others and vice versa.

In today’s business world, it is practically impossible to survive with an ordinary cell phone. Yes your cell phone can make and receive calls and texts messages, but that’s not enough to perform what seems to be a day-to-day monumental trading tasks. Whatever your business may be, you will do better if you have a smartphone, such as Android, BlackBerry and iPhone.

Here’s the general idea of why you ought to use a business smartphone:

You Can Save Time. Work from the industry where you belong doesn’t stop when you leave the office. While you are asleep your competitor may be working his way to moving ahead of you. Or something bad happened to the goods you are expecting while you are away from your working desk. Competition is alive 24-seven. Hence the bulk email messages the next day. Good thing there’s a smartphone to help you deal with all this. With this amazing device, you can reply to email messages even though you are away from your computer. By the time you arrive in the office you have already done something.

You Please More Customers. Because you have surplus time, you can easily perform twice as much work. Applications like Dropbox or Sugarsync allows the user to carry around the data he needs – photos, videos, memos and all that — without his computer. One click and voila you can share the files with anyone or work on them anytime you feel like doing it.

You Can Travel Better. Paper. That’s what makes the travel bag heavy. With Android or Blackberry or iPhone there’s no need for tons and tons of paper. Files are saved as PDFs, so documents look exactly the same as the real thing. You can always pull them out when they are needed.

You Are Able to Take Care of the Planet. Less paper means more trees in our surroundings.

You Could Bill a Customer Faster. While there are different types of business applications on the internet, you can avail yourself of the ones that will allow you to send electronic invoices by your smartphone. Studies suggest that the sooner the billing statement arrives the quicker the payment is done.

You Can Work Anytime Anywhere. A smartphone can function as a portable mini computer that will enable the user to do anything he can do in the actual office such as typing, writing, photo sharing and all that. The genius of a smarthphone lies in its amazing power to make practically everything convenient for the modern business people.

When HP launched WebOS TouchPad tablet in January 2009 — alongside Veer phone and Pre 3 — it made a lasting impression on the market that while it is in competitive form already it will soon develop into something far more superior to iPad. In fact, even at this early stage WebOS can win in competion with anything in the industry whether it’s RIM’s BlackBerry, PlayBook or Android tablets.

That’s because the creators of WebOS Touchpad are fully aware of what the other devices offer. Practically all of them fall short on multitasking, which is where the main strength of Web OS Touchpad resides. Working at several tasks simultaneously was not a thing for iPad. Only until the iPhone with built-in multitasking feature came out when iPad inherited the same feature.

Designed with a card-based system, the Touchpad can switch from one application to another. All applications on Touchpad are built to perform multiple tasks at the same time. You don’t have to worry about unifinished email. You can always pick up the conversation from where you left it off. But the most incredible thing about Touchpad is that the user will not miss a thing without getting interrupted. The card-based system will keep him informed.

Compared with Touchpad, iPad requires the user to pass through a narrow space somewhere at the bottom of the screen before he gains multitasking support. And even if he did, he could not expect all applications to be running at the same time because they are not designed to be so. As for notifications, iPad needs to improve on that facility. Each notification shows up on top of every application that is currently running. It is functional at one point but most of the time it comes across as rather annoying — especially if the user is busy with Angry Birds.

The card-based system and the notification facility are just a fraction of the whole level of convenience that Touchpad offers. The facility to delete multiple email messages at one time, to set the virtual keyboard to a bigger or smaller dimension and to replay flash files on websites are a few to be excited about especially if you learn that replaying flash contents on websites is something you don’t experience on iPad.

iPad remains inferior to Touchpad when it comes to messaging. The HP masterpiece enables the user to receive and send messages without the hassle of swinging into another application. The trick is that the creators combine the functionality of messaging with another application so that the user can save time and energy. The same concept is applied in photo app, which is integrated both with Facebook and Flickr.

Touchpad is also known for its ability to make video calls with HP Pre 3. It surprises even the experts, who waited for the same performance between Apple masterpieces such iPad 2 and iPhone 4.

Twenty years ago, we learned how the computer system works. It functions with files, folders, memory and all that. There’s no doubt, it affects how we perceive something vague, something we don’t see. In an age wherein cellphones have become part of our existence, we start to realize that there is a new way to explore the limitless magic of web. That includes the map.

For those who are in a constant search for information, map is a necessity. Even before the internet age, map plays an important role in our lives. Today, the modern cellphone enables not just the user to find his way to his destination but also those with whom he is connected to find his location. But technology has a price. People don’t want others to know where they are all the time. It’s an issue of privacy. When others use your cell phone they can get access to lots of information about you.

Latitude, among other things, is an amazing feature of android cell phones. It is a free Google application that allows the user to connect with families or friends and find their sites. It gives both relief and yes danger. Imagine a gazillion people using Google. Imagine how many people out there can dig into a person’s account. Imagine the possibility of unauthorized sharing of information. The people who can break into a person’s account can make a mess of his personal info. Or use the same set of information to harm him.

It all started in the 80’s when Apple and Microsoft adopted windows, icons, menus and pointer or what they call the WIMP interface. It made the computer system more user friendly. Because of this, the word “personal” in personal computer is aptly used. The creators of this interface admit that they feel the same thing about the modern wireless telecommunication device.

It should be clear that cell phone mapping is not just about location and all that. Today, we can avail of smartphones that offer amazing android applications to help the user move around the globe. G1, for instance, has the ability to show three dimensional images of a particular surrounding.

For starters, the images being shown on android cell phones are just photos of the surrounding area put together so that the user would know how big or small the place is, complete with depth, width and height. Soon, however, in the future, cell phones would offer more sophisticated mapping features. The kind that would confuse people as to which one is reality and which one is just imagination.