Both have announced some high-end models that can easily compete with the very best in the industry, and they should be cheap too.
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The machines the company will introduce are high-end models designed to appeal to serious users rather than the consumer market and come with price tags to match.
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Flash-forward several years, however, and we're to the point where many won't even consider less than a 4-inch screen, and the once-unfathomable 5-inch display is quickly becoming the de facto standard for high-end models.
For portable computing, Fujitsu's brought the Lifebook AH Series of 15.6-inch PCs, with Core i7-3632QM processors, 8GB memory and Full HD IPS touchscreens on the high-end models, along with niceties like Pioneer speakers and Blu-ray drives.
While there are certainly some high-end models, such as the new phone-tablet hybrid Samsung Galaxy Note, Android also runs on cheaper, less-advanced phones and on discount carriers instead of the handful of Apple-approved networks that the iPhone can access.
Nokia managed to more than quadruple its Windows Phone sales y-o-y banking, on the launch of just a couple of high-end Lumia models, the 920 and the 820.
Even so the last year has been tumultuous for HTC as rivals--including China's E28 and Samsung Electronics at the low-end, and Apple at the high-end--have launched snazzy models.
Ford Motor hopes to win the race for the high-end market by adding two models next summer to the three in its popular F-150 series.
In Tokyo, Boston and Amsterdam Goodbaby has 16 engineers, designers and market researchers toiling away to produce new models of high-end strollers for brands such as Silver Cross, Quinny and Maxi-Cosi.
Already the best-selling premium wireless headset company, two new models expand Turtle Beach's high-end for wireless gaming.
"Despite tough competition in stores and courtrooms, Samsung continued to deliver numerous hit models, from the high-end Galaxy Note2 phablet to the mass-market Galaxy Y, " wrote Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, in a press release.
As for AIO models, Fujitsu's FH Series hits the high-end of its line with 2.40 GHz Intel Core i7 processors, 8GB memory and 1920 x 1080 touchscreen panels for the 23-inch models, and a non-touchscreen panel with the same resolution on the 21.5-inch offerings.
Splitting that line into high- and low- end products, rather than simply cutting the price of older models creates new risks, even as it reduces the risk Apple runs by building such an enormous business around a single product.
This is the higher-end of the two new HD DVD Toshiba models, and gets high marks for its improvements on the previous model, with faster loading times, 1080p support, a smaller form factor, and a much-improved chipset for upscaling standard-definition DVDs (the HD-A2 lacks 1080p and the improved upscaling chip).
Up first is the high-end LED 8000 series, comprised of 46-, 55-, 60- and 65-inch models.
Under the hood, these machines will all have quad-core processors, with most models giving you a choice between an Intel Core i7 CPU and AMD's high-end A10 chip.
The Liquid's just now starting to make the rounds at retail, but the VP of its Asian handset biz says that it has "five or six" additional models on tap for early 2010 that'll run the gamut from low- to high-end.
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