2007IT Wind Direction forecast of digital text

Mobile Storage: GB time is coming. Micro hard disk, flash memory two tiger competition

Indications are that for all digital products, greater capacity will be a common feature of their 2007, MB era has become the past, a comprehensive GB generation is coming.

At the end of 2006, Toshiba launched the 1.8-inch, the world's largest 1OOGB miniature vertical hard drive. It is said that the hard drive will be put into production in January 2007, using the main carrier for MP3 and M P4. In fact, in 2006 we have seen the capacity of 8GB mobile phones, 1GB capacity of the MP3 also continue to appear, and 2007 will be the "expansion" phenomenon to deepen.

In addition to the micro-hard drive, the emergence of high-capacity Flash will become the 2007 digital storage another beautiful scenery. Apple will continue to use flash memory to produce its stylish ipod products, and in view of Intel's strategic layout with the United States, which has been aimed at NAND, plus the 2007, Samsung's 8GB and 16GB NAND spot contracts have broken 10 and 20 dollars respectively, and Samsung, Hy and Toshiba's NAND new manufacturing process in a few months will be mass production, we have reason to believe that large-capacity flash digital prices will fall by more than 20% in 2007. Because the storage part occupies MP3 or m P4 such digital products nearly 50% of the cost, so the micro-hard disk PK Flash will become the 2007 digital product price competition new impetus.

Digital camera: The more The price war burns, the more the digital SLR camera changes the photographic experience

In the 2006, two big events in the digital camera market are definitely worth noting. One is as the field of SLR "Technology pie" Konica Mes can reach out of the imaging field, and then "take the Roll" of Sony to pursue the "copycat" principle, launched its own first digital SLR camera. And the second thing happened at the end of 2006, which is that Nikon launched a D40 digital SLR machine with a price of less than 5000 yuan.

In consequence, Sony's takeover of Konica Mes means that the digital SLR camera market has been put into a tiger, the field of digital SLR in the past by Canon and Nikon turns Republicans the situation is broken, and the latter can be seen as a reaction to the previous incident. The combination of two things, combined with the growth of Olympus, Panasonic and Lycra's 4/3-strong camp, suggests that a "price war" in the 2007-year digital SLR is inevitable, and that digital SLR cameras will quickly become popular products from a quasi high-end product. At the end of 2007, there may be a 3000-dollar, even cheaper, DSLR camera. For many consumers, it will therefore have their own "first" digital SLR camera, so as to obtain a very different from the previous fun of photography.

MP3: Return to listen to the source of the original sound into the biggest hot

Apple ipod shuffle 2, Sony nw-s603f, River S7, these small screens and even no screen MP3 products mark a trend, the U.S., Japan and South Korea MP3 Giants are trying to bring the portability of MP3 Walkman to a new height, in addition MP3 production process, Sound quality and audio playback ability is Japan and South Korea MP3 pursuit of the goal. On the contrary, domestic MP3 front-line manufacturers, such as the Charm clan, New Zealand is likely to continue to be the video function as the main selling point of MP3 products, this is because the big screen or most consumers in China to buy MP3 the most intuitive and most acceptable product form, we do not expect in 2007 this trend will not be too big change. "Outside practice bones skin, inside practice breath", research and development ability decided in 2007 in the end is domestic brand MP3 occupy the mainstream, or foreign brand MP3 expand Power, after all, big screen good to do, core technology difficult to ask.

We predict that MP3 will return to the "Walkman" source in 2007, "sound quality" will be the focus of attention of most consumers, Sony and some Korean MP3 has been to the beat, in the Word-of-mouth occupy the opportunity; but because many domestic manufacturers have not mastered the core technology of MP3 chip, so we still have a long way to go.

Video MP3 won't go away, due to the portability problems caused by its large screen, its attention will gradually become lower, the final video MP3 device will be and DMB/DVB (digital Multimedia broadcasting/digital audio Broadcasting) and other equipment into one, integrated into a more advanced multimedia player for more people acceptable.