Best in show: 6 gadgets that defined event

January 14, 2012 at 12:00a.m.

AP Technology Writer

LAS VEGAS

Cheaper tablets, thinner laptops and an array of sleeker TVs stood out at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More than 140,000 people attended this week.

Here are some of the more significant gadgets that shined at CES:

Cheaper tablets: The industry’s enthusiasm for tablets was tempered this year compared with last, when many manufacturers thought they could capitalize on the iPad’s success with their own models based on Google Inc.’s Android software.

Nokia Lumia 900: The world’s largest phone maker, Finland’s Nokia Corp., is offering smartphones that run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone software. The Lumia 900 is its first such phone for the AT&T network, and the first Nokia phone to use AT&T’s faster wireless “LTE” network.

Lenovo K800: Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, says a new line of chips is ready for smartphone use, and Lenovo Corp. of China is the first to take them up on it, with a smartphone to be sold in China in the second quarter.

OLED TVs: LG and Samsung showed off 55-inch TVs with screens made from organic light-emitting diodes rather than the standard liquid crystals or plasma cells, and said they’ll be on sale this year.

Ultrabooks: Intel created the “ultrabook” as a marketing term for thin, light and powerful laptop computers. There were scores of models at the show.

Canon G1 X: The Japanese camera maker revealed a compact camera that pushes into professional camera territory. Its G line of relatively large compact cameras has been popular among enthusiasts, and the G1 X extends the range by including an image sensor that’s more than six times larger than other models in the range. Sensor size is the most important factor for a camera’s image quality.