At the be­gin­ning of the year, there was a round-up of the 12 most-an­tic­i­pat­ed tech prod­ucts of 2011. Well, the year's more than half over and many of those prod­ucts have come out al­ready. We had the Black­Ber­ry Play­book, Nin­ten­do 3DS, Chrome OS note­books, Mo­toro­la Xoom, HP Touch­Pad, and iPad 2, to name some of the high-pro­file launch­es we've seen in 2011. So what's left?

Ap­ple's next-gen Mac­Book

The new Mac­Book Airs with up­dat­ed In­tel Sandy Bridge proces­sors and Core i se­ries proces­sors are due to hit the mar­ket along with OS X Li­on. The new Airs are ru­moured to fea­ture a high-speed Thun­der­bolt port and per­haps a light­ed key­board while re­tain­ing the same de­sign.

Sam­sung Nexus Prime

Ru­mour has it that the Sam­sung Nexus Prime, due out late this year, will be the first smart­phone to run An­droid Ice Cream Sand­wich (An­droid 4.0)."Keep­ing with oth­er Pure Google ex­pe­ri­ence smart­phones, the Nexus Prime is ex­pect­ed to be de­void of any car­ri­er cus­tomi­sa­tion or pre­loaded ap­pli­ca­tions."

Next-gen Kin­dle

Will Ama­zon put out a touch-screen Kin­dle? Or will it re­lease an even more af­ford­able non-touch mod­el to fol­low up on the suc­cess of the Kin­dle 3? Spec­u­la­tion is heat­ing up as we head in­to Au­gust, which is when Ama­zon re­vealed the Kin­dle 3 last year.

Next-gen iPod Touch

It doesn't seem like there's much more that Ap­ple can do with the iPod Touch, but there's talk of an added 3G op­tion and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a jum­bo Touch that might al­so qual­i­fy as an iPad Mi­ni.

PlaySta­tion Vi­ta

Sony's next portable gam­ing con­sole, the PlaySta­tion Vi­ta, ups the ante in terms of graph­ics and fea­tures.Due to hit this year, the Vi­ta has built-in Wi-Fi, dual joy­sticks, mul­ti-touch five-inch OLED screen, front and rear touch pads, and front and rear cam­eras.

An­droid tablets

Ru­mour has it that Ama­zon will be re­leas­ing two new An­droid tablets by year's end. The small­er mod­el may have a sev­en-inch screen and be some­thing along the lines of the Nook Colour but fea­ture a more pow­er­ful proces­sor. A larg­er ten-inch mod­el will al­leged­ly be de­signed to com­pete with the iPad.

iPhone 5

Will the iPhone 5 have an all-new de­sign or sim­ply re­tain the iPhone 4's chas­sis and of­fer such up­grades as a faster A5 proces­sor and im­proved cam­era? And will it be a true 4G phone? At this point, no one knows for sure but all signs point to a fall re­lease date for the next-gen­er­a­tion iPhone, what­ev­er it's called. (CNet)