What Android will bring us in 2013

Now that the year ends, along with the recaps of the best of 2012, the forecasts of what 2013 will bring us. For any reader who follows technology information with a certain frequency, it is more or less easy to diagnose what trends we are facing, although always, of course, there will be a certain surprise factor that no expert could foresee. We present the highlights of one of these "predictions", the work of one of the analysts of CNET, which pretty much sums up, in our opinion, what we can expect to bring us Android in 2013.

The phablets will reign. This statement will hardly surprise anyone at this point. The Galaxy Note 2 has sold 5 million units and practically all large companies already have their own phablet, or one under construction: HTC have the Deluxe, LG el Optimus Vu 2, Sony will launch soon the Xperia Z, Huawei will present in 2013 one with a 6.1-inch screen, and up to Nokia it is said that he has one in the oven. Even the industry leader will grow remarkably in the next generation: the Galaxy Note 3 it could have a 6.3-inch screen. It is not only, furthermore, that there are more and more phablets in the market, but in most cases they are among the best devices that companies offer, they are at the forefront in technical specifications and are becoming the benchmarks of the advances that must be expected for the rest of smartphones.

Goodbye to dual-core processors. If 2012 has been the year of the revolution in the image quality of mobile devices, it seems that 2013 will be with respect to the power of the equipment. Although there are still many dual-core processors that still offer more than decent performance, since the advent of quad-core processors from Nvidia y Qualcomm, it is clear that these are the new standard. If right now the best devices have processors of at least 1,5 GHzAccording to experts' estimates, by the end of next year, several devices will mount chips with a power of 2 GHz. So far, we have recently learned as will be the new Integra 4 and the data is quite spectacular.

The take-off of the low-cost sector. Already in 2012 manufacturers low-cost Tablets and smartphones have gained a lot of prominence, and you can even think that in recent times the quality-price ratio has improved even more in this sector of the market than among high-end devices. In the field of tablets, for example, there are manufacturers such as Ainol o bq that they are presenting devices with prices around 150 euros that are quite close to the quality even of heavily subsidized devices, as is the case of the range Nexus o Kindle. We already informed you a few days ago, of some Insights who predicted that in the next year tablets with prices below 150 dollars will proliferate.

Android will conquer new territories. We are not referring to new geographic domains because, obviously, there is little left to Android to conquer in this sense. However, the mobile operating system of Google has the potential to expand into many more fields than the tablets y smartphones and, surely, we will have more and more examples in the next year. there is already Android cameras (the camera Samsung Galaxy) and we have projects underway to produce Android game consoles (OUYA), but there is already much talk about the possibilities of introducing Android in various household appliances and, according to the latest news, Samsung, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), y Google they are already preparing for the battle for dominance of smart homes. In any case, even in the tablet sector that we are dealing with here, an expansion of its use is to be expected in areas so far relatively infrequent, for example, in cars.

The Nexus family will continue to grow. This is one of the safest bets possible, because Google You will inevitably have to recycle at least some of your devices, given the speed with which production cycles are consumed in the mobile device sector. In addition to recent rumors about the mysterious X-phone and X-tablet in which Google will work with Motorola, as far as tablets are concerned, in recent days speculation about new low-cost models de Nexus 7 have soared, although there have also been more surprising leaks, such as the possibility of versions with Intel processors. we hope that Google, in any case, in addition to new members for the range Nexus, start the year by solving the stock problems suffered by the current ones, so that the Nexus 4 and 10GB Nexus 16 can reach all users who are aware of them.

Key Lime Pie. If you had to play money for any of these options, the safest thing would probably be, in any case, to bet on Key Lime Pie. Even though the confidence that the drawings of an employee of Google could be their confirmation was excessive, they have already appeared benchmarks devices under test with this version and LG has confirmed that the next Optimus G, which we will meet in the middle of next year, will work with her. Although we do not know what news it will bring us regarding Android 4.2., it is quite certain that Google will not let 2013 go by without bringing us Android 5.0.

Source: Cnet.