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"Apple have held the new iPad 2024 event and there’s quite a bit to unpack. From a new iPad Pro (which we knew was on its way) to the new iPad Air. It looks like predictions were right regarding the Apple Pencil, as well with a new and more advanced version launching alongside. There’s also a cheaper entry point into iPad, with the previous design now being discontinued. For the most part nothing has radically changed on the new iPads. They don’t fold, they're not transparent like sci-fi movies keep teasing, but they are improved, especially the Pro, so let's dive in."
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A new AI Pin has just hit the market “to solve problems that don’t really exist” and in some reviewers words. The release of the new device has caused some ripples on the internet, but not in the way you would expect. The reviews have not been stellar, and one reviewer in particular is being accused of potentially sinking the new startup based on his criticism. His YouTube video titled “The worst product I have ever reviewed”, but what is the Humane AI Pin, and what are the reasons for this?
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BeValued Market Info April 2024
This is a time of year where we start to see things filtering out from Apple, and whilst there has been nothing big so far, other than the US launch of Vision Pro, they have just updated the MacBook Air line of laptops.
The couple of older M2 equipped MacBook Air’s still remain in the range as a cheaper alternative, but Apple have introduced new models equipped with the M3 chips. The new Mac with M3 is going to be 1.3x faster than the M1 equipped models and 13x more than previous Intel-based models, according to Apple. A recap on the M3; it features an 8-core CPU, and 10-core GPU with this offering a 60% improvement in games over the M1 models, and supports ray- tracing. M3 also features a 16- core Neural Engine. Models can still be configured with up to 24GB of unified memory.
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Market Info March 2024
Legendary Swedish camera maker, Hasselblad, known for their very high priced cameras and lenses, as well as
providing the cameras that NASA used to take pictures from space and on the moon. The famous picture ‘Earthrise’ taken in 1968 was captured with a Hasselblad and still looks incredible to this day! Well, they are back and they have a new camera that caters for both the new, but also the old, so lets take a look.
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BeValued Market Info February 2024
"Almost right after CES wrapped, Samsung held their Unpacked 2024 event to launch their latest Galaxy smartphones to market; the S24 Ultra, S24+ and S24.
On the surface the biggest change, like the iPhone 15 Pro, is that Samsung have opted for Titanium to construct their latest top of the range model. Their reasoning for this change being its increased durability over aluminium. The use of titanium has allowed Samsung to slim down the device whilst making it more damage resistant than the previous S23. Samsung have also gotten rid of the curved edges to the screen in favour of a flat screen design. The S24 Ultra still has a slight curve whilst the S24 Plus and S24 have got completely flat screens".
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Market Info January 2024 - Issue 2
"A new year always begins with tech companies descending on Las Vegas for CES; the world’s largest show for all the new technology that we will see in the year and beyond.
It’s probably not a surprise but AI is everywhere at this year’s show. From cars with ChatGPT integration, devices that use your phone apps for you, televisions utilising AI to improve picture quality, AI powered grills and even AI powered toothbrushes, companies are betting everything on AI."
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Market Info January 2024
"Another product launch from drone manufacturer DJI occurred in November, in the form of their small Pocket line
of vlogging cameras.
The new Osmo Pocket 3 includes a number of improvements over the previous model, the most obvious being the much larger 2.0-inch OLED screen that can also rotate between portrait and landscape formats. Its resolution has also been increased to 314x556 with a brightness of 700 nits. An almost 50% improvement on the previous model."
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Market Info December 2023
"Stating that it was Nintendo that paved the way, Valve have just announced the new Steam Deck OLED, which also contains a number of other improvements alongside the larger 7.4-inch display (the original was 7-inch). This new display is reported to be stunning, offering an improved refresh rate of up to 90Hz, a 110% DCI-P3 colour gamut and a peak brightness of 1,000 nits for HDR content. SteamOS has been improved with how it handles the user adjustable frame-rate limiter."
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Market Info - November 2023 - Extra
"Apple’s latest event announced new MacBook Pro’s, and new iMac’s which are all powered by their new M3 processors; the first processors built on the 3nm process used in personal computers. The M3 chips feature a brand new GPU architecture, a faster CPU and Neural engine and support for even more unified memory."
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Market Info November 2023
"We’ve had Apple, Samsung, Microsoft all hold their major product events this year and this week was Google’s turn to announce what they have coming up to bolster their already pretty healthy lineup. They focused on the core products in the relatively short one hour presentation. Two Google Pixel 8 phones, the new Google Pixel Watch 2 and the Google Pixel Buds Pro."
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Market Info October 2023
"Microsoft have just held a Surface event announcing new hardware and it’s vision for AI with Copilot launching in the next Windows 11 update. This event was not hosted by Chief Product Officer Panos Panay who has been the lead on the Surface product lineup for many years, and many would say the individual responsible for it’s success. In a surprise announcement a few days back he is leaving Microsoft for Amazon where is going to be overseeing Amazon’s product range."
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"Apple’s long awaited iPhone 2023 event has been and gone and there were not a huge amount of surprises. We got some better watches, improved iPhones and the shift to USB-C for iPhone (and AirPods Pro) has finally happened, and along with it some tangible improvements for iPhone. This change may not have happened had the EU not intervened by requiring all smartphones and electronic devices to have USB-C ports by the end of 2024."
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Market Info September 2023
"The latest graphics card generation has been a big disappointment for gamers with prices hiked by both NVIDIA and AMD, and whilst NVIDIA have fleshed out their range more so than AMD with mid-range cards, the prices have still been higher than the previous generation. The previous generation have also stuck around and where they were once tricky to obtain, that’s now not the case."
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Market Info August 2023
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