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There are whispers going around that Panasonic will be showing off their thinnest as well as lightest 20” 4K tablet right before IFA 2013 kicks off. Apparently, this super high resolution slate device will be one of the stars of Panasonic’s presentation that will be entitled “A Better Life, A Better World,” the tablet remains a long way off from a commercial release of any kind. After the September 4th event in Berlin, the Panasonic 20” 4K tablet will be paraded at the IFA 2013 show for all and sundry to ogle over.

I guess you can more or less call this particular device a concept at the moment, and when you take into consideration the 20” viewing real estate with a resolution count of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, it ends up as a pixel density of 220ppi. This particular device was first heard of in January, where it apparently ran on Windows 8 with an Intel processor running underneath the hood. It remains to be seen whether the folks over at Panasonic have changed the hardware configuration so that it will be powered by Android instead. That is not out of the question since Android was used by Panasonic before, so we’re waiting with bated breath. [Translated Page]

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Panasonic has announced a new speakerboard that it is touting as an alternative to sound bars, two of which were just introduced by LG last month. The SC-HTE80 Speakerboard is a no-nonsense looking device, being little more than a dark rectangle with a simple, mostly invisible screen. Panasonic promises that it offers strong bass, however. […]

Though Panasonic’s Let’s Note laptops are only sold in Japan, it’s nice to know how the other half lives, isn’t it? The company just updated three models in the lineup, including the 12.1-inch SX and NX, along with the flagship 14-inch LX. Panasonic claims the latter is now the world’s lightest 14-inch notebook at 1.14kg (about 2.5 pounds), provided it’s equipped with a 256GB SSD and lightweight batteries. Despite that lack of heft, it still manages to pack an Intel Core-i7 CPU, a 1,600 x 900 display, 4GB of RAM, and an 11-hour battery into the boxy case. The 12.1-inch SX and NX are similarly spec’d, but have a Core-i5 processor option as well (the NX can only be had with a Core-i5). Those models will power along for 15 hours with the lightest batteries, while also tipping the scales at around 2.5 pounds. While excellent, that’s still far from the 1.9 pound. 13-inch Inhon Blade carbon — and let’s not even discuss thinness. Pricing and availability have yet to be disclosed.

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Source: Panasonic Japan (translated)

A move has been made between Panasonic and QNX Software Systems Limited this week in which in-car infotainment systems will be launched throughout the world in coming years. Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America is letting it be known that the QNX CAR platform will be hitting North America, Europe, and Japan in a collaborative […]

Earlier this month, we brought you word that NEC has decided to quit the highly competitive market for good, although they will continue to have their interests represented in the tablet world. It seems that fellow Japanese company, Panasonic, too, has decided to take a bow out of the smartphone market – and this bit of information is said to have come from telling a Japanese operator that they will no longer roll out handsets for them.

What you see above is a prototype of the smartphone that Panasonic did pin some hopes on to perform a reversal of its fortunes in the smartphone market, but alas, it failed to materialized. NTT Docomo was informed by Panasonic that the latter will no longer supply them with smartphones from this winter onwards, and considering how NTT Docomo happens to be the country’s largest mobile operator, in addition to being the only channel that one is able to obtain Panasonic smartphones, this does sound as though it is a death knell for Panasonic. Goodbye Panasonic, we hardly knew ye – at least from the smartphone perspective.

Panasonic Quits The Smartphone Market original content from Ubergizmo.