Engadget Publishes CE Timeline with its 2011 Year in Review
By Rob Scott
January 4, 2012
January 4, 2012
- The team at Engadget has compiled an interesting list and summary of key events regarding CE devices and services from the past year.
- “In an industry that changes minute by minute, a year’s worth of news is a lot to digest. We combed our archives in an attempt to drown out the noise and came up with a short list of the stories that made 2011,” explains the post.
- Product highlights include: Verizon iPhone 4 launch shatters records (February 4), Apple announces the $499 iPad 2 with 1GHz dual-core A5 chip (March 2), Nintendo introduces Wii U at E3 (June 7), Sony’s NEX-7 becomes first APS-C camera with a 24.3 megapixel sensor (August 24), Amazon launches $199 Kindle Fire (September 28), Apple’s iPhone 4S introduces Siri voice command (October 4) and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime with Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich is the first-ever quad-core tablet (November 9).
- Additional news highlights: IBM’s million-dollar Watson competes with humans on “Jeopardy” (February 16), Microsoft announces plans to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion (May 10), NFC-based mobile payment system Google Wallet is introduced (May 26), Steve Jobs outlines iCloud and iTunes Match at WWDC (June 6), Google+ sparks social network competition (June 28), Netflix announces it will split its service in two with DVD-only and streaming-only plans (July 12), the world mourns the loss of Steve Jobs (October 5) and Adobe says it will axe Flash Player for mobile and “aggressively contribute” to HTML5 (November 9).
- Check out the post for the complete timeline.
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