Thursday, May 14, 2015

Branded accessories SAMSUNG scratch the screen of flagships

South Korean technology giant Samsung introduced in 2015, just two flagship GALAXY S6 and S6 edge, which, despite the difficulties in Japan, still had to appeal to users. The gadget is already in Russia fell by 26%, which may help him in sales. However, the expensive branded accessories can be disastrous for the latest flagships.


Samsung flagship smartphone of 2015, as it turns out, not only easily broken in the fall, but also actively collect scratch using branded covers Clear View Cover right on the screen. Corning Gorilla Glass 4 was powerless against the Korean accessory. Users with the appropriate accessory flagships complained about this issue in the course of communication at XDA.


The problem occurs when the horizontal movement of the cover – it is a natural movement associated with the construction of the cover leads to scratching, as shown in the photographs shown victims. If the gadget is also compress (for example, carry it in your pocket), the scratches are much deeper, and added to the damaged screen and key on the front of the gadget, which is hidden biometric sensor.


Branded accessories SAMSUNG scratch the screen of flagships


The topic has already chosen ten pages of discussion, indicating that the scale of the problem. It is worth noting that the decision is – you need to invest more and to buy a protective film on the screen, as the cover , designed to protect the display from scratches itself threatens juicy 2K display. What’s funny, one of the victims when contacting Samsung watched employee company GALAXY S6, shrouded in corporate and cover with foil-covered screen.


Contacting a service center buyers are, with varying success, but the problem of determining the mass face. It is possible that Samsung will soon make an official statement on the matter.



Monday, May 11, 2015

Huawei introduced the tablet MediaPad M2

Quiet, calm and especially without advertising your event, the company Huawei, which has recently become very popular, presented its new device. Not so long ago the company showed its flagship R8, and also announced a couple of smartphones – Honor 4C Play and Honor 4X. Today, Huawei has decided to slightly dilute the company their smartphone tablet, and presented MediaPad M2.


The event was held at the new store, Huawei in the French capital, Paris. The new tablet PC from a Chinese company is made of metal. The diagonal of its screen is 8 inches. The device is running a 64-bit chipset Kirin 930 with eight processing cores with a clock speed of 2 GHz. RAM is 2GB, and permanent data storage – 16 GB. Tablet PC display has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.


Huawei introduced the tablet MediaPad M2


Huawei MediaPad M2 is equipped with the main camera, the resolution of the sensor which is 8 MP and a front camera with 2 megapixel sensor. It works under the new operating system Android Lollipop. In addition, the device supports communication standard Cat. 4 LTE. The thickness of the tablet – 7.8 mm, weight – 310 g Battery capacity – 4800 mAh. Price of the device – € 349.


Huawei introduced the tablet MediaPad M2



Leakage press photo of the tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab S2

In the near future, the South Korean company Samsung is going to introduce its new line of tablets Galaxy Tab S2. Until recently, the new devices the company knew very little. One of the latest leaks of information obtained from authoritative blogOnLeaks, informed us that the series devices Galaxy Tab S2 receive the design as in the newest flagship Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. In addition, these tablets will be the thinnest tablet computers on the market – their thickness is reported to be only 5.5 mm. Today the blogOnLeaks shared with us.


Leakage press photo of the tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab S2


With regard to the technical characteristics of the device, there is also something that has become known. Such that Galaxy Tab S2 will be 9.7 and 8 display with resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels (the same as Nexus iPads and 9). The amount of RAM is 3 GB, and the volume of the permanent storage of data will provide the user as much as 32 GB. As for the camera, the device is equipped with 8 megapixel main sensor and front camera with a resolution of 2 MP. As the chipset is expected to deliver 64-bit Exynos processor with eight cores.



Hackers broke APPLE WATCH

April 24 started selling the Apple Watch. The first users, followed by representatives of show business, already use the gadget as well as have access to the app store, and the opportunity to purchase the straps separately. Hackers are not sitting idly by, and one has already been substantially expand the functionality of new products Apple.


 


Developer Comex some effort and hacked Apple Watch, which allowed to run on smart watches the company from Cupertino does that and shows a video. Apparently, the use of a miniature screen smart watches with Google homepage is not so convenient, as we would expect.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXUNf1DvCOA


Video shows the familiar for iOS 8 context menu, which indirectly confirms earlier on the information of dependent Watch OS, but only rebuilt version of the mobile operating system Apple, familiar to us from iPhone and iPad.


The most important in this hack is not the fact launch the browser, and the ability to run on smart watches arbitrary code. This means that soon we can see the Jailbreak for Apple Watch. However, Comex promises to share its decision, so that all stakeholders will likely have to find a way to break yourself.


Possibility Jailbreak implies not only limited functionality, which allowed the company itself, but also the potential launch virtually any application, even with the deepest level of tolerance. The main question is, whether you take someone for the work quite seriously, or it will remain a single attempt, and successful path.








Sunday, May 10, 2015

Americans can buy from NOKIA ONE OF THE MAIN ASSETS

US search service, a call and pay a taxi or private drivers, according to The New York Times, Nokia Here is willing to buy for $ 3 billion. However, interest in the asset and the largest exhibit automobile giants Germany (Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW), as well as Chinese search engine Baidu.


Currently, the most popular in the US geo-services is Google Maps, however, outside of America is somewhat different. For example, a navigation system developed by the largest Finnish electronics manufacturer, is set to 80% of car GPS.


Currently, the disposition is: Google Maps uses a billion users around the world, Here – ten times less. However, the Google product is preferably selected owners of smartphones and Nokia Here – car owners.


Uber idea to acquire Nokia Here – provide a reliable connection between the driver and passenger. The German automaker is pursuing some other goal – the development of autonomous vehicles; Experts note that the use of the product for Google this is associated with considerable difficulties. In addition, automobile giants will earn revenue from licensing fees from companies that want to use Nokia Here as an alternative to Google Maps, and other geo-services.


Americans can buy from NOKIA ONE OF THE MAIN ASSETS


Today Uber has positioned itself on the market not only as the creator of the application to call a taxi, but as a logistics company. The ambitions of its owners grow and multi-million dollar deal, the date of the conclusion of which is to predict no one can, talks about the importance of mapping services. They need not only drivers, but also logistics giants like Amazon and FedEx, which offer track the movement of goods on real maps. Startups in particular, Airbnb, also see a map service a necessary tool for business development.


Recall that in March bought Uber deCarta, software company, founded more than a decade ago in San Jose, California, in April – a few dozen engineers hired to develop a mapping software.



SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 5 AND NOTE EDGE 2: Disclosure SPECIFICATIONS PHABLET

SamMobile released information about the new flagship PHABLET Samsung Galaxy Note 5 as well as the mysterious mobile Project Zen, which had previously been only fragmentary information. Perhaps the new gadgets will strengthen the position of Samsung, which is going through hard times.


Recall exactly a month ago appeared information that in the Galaxy Note 5 will be installed Super AMOLED screen with a diagonal of 5.8-5.9 inches and a resolution of 4K (3840 × 2160 pixels). However SamMobile notes that this is – just one of the options; there is a possibility that the new PHABLET receive 2K screen resolution of 2560 × 1440 pixels, which essentially reduce its price, but also seriously reduce the attractiveness of the gadget.


In all likelihood, Galaxy Note 5 is built on the company’s processor Samsung Exynos 7422; chip recall, combines the computing core and a permanent memory, graphics engine and a modem. There is information that the Korean giant is now testing and version of Exynos 7430 for the Galaxy Note 5, but the rumors about his possible commercial use is not officially confirmed.


Project Zen – a mobile device with a curved, which will replace the PHABLET Galaxy Note Edge. Most likely, it will be installed Super AMOLED-display with a diagonal of 4.5-5.5 inches, which is bent on either side of the body, as in the Galaxy S6 Edge. The heart of the system will be a 6-core processor Snapdragon 808. In addition, PHABLET will be installed 16 GB non-volatile memory and two cameras: the main resolution of 16 megapixels and 8 megapixels in the front for spectacular self. In addition, the gadget will support corporate samsungovskoe pen S Pen.


It is expected that the new PHABLET bring Samsung at IFA 2015, which will be held 4-9 September in Berlin, although at the April press conference, the company no word about this has not mentioned. Not according to the Korean manufacturer and the timing of the presentation of Galaxy Note Edge 2.








Friday, May 8, 2015

10 NEW PRODUCTS, WHICH WILL SHOW THE GOOGLE ON THE MAIN EVENT OF THE YEAR

Google is actively preparing for the main event of the year – the conference Google I / O 2015. This event is always accompanied not only announcements that are important for developers, but also for consumers. According to tradition, a few weeks before the event Google announced the schedule section with a brief description on the basis of which there are several important announcements that await us in the developers conference.


  1. Android M

The new version of the system, the full name of which is not mentioned (Muffin? Mars? M & M’s?), Was mentioned in the description of one of the sessions. Google later removed from the session schedule at all, relegating to dinner three hours.However, the information has already been submitted, and we expect the announcement of Android M during the keynote address, the beginning of which falls on May 28 19:30 Moscow time.


  1. New portable device

In the section of Google ATAP it stated that the company will introduce wearable Soup, and in the description contains the phrase “will carry the socks” with a note: “We mean it more literally than you might think.” Smart shoes? Or does it wear? The last, by the way, do not be surprised – such device does not only have, but even sold .


  1. Voice control applications

According to another section, the search giant is going to offer developers a new technology that enables you to control applications without touching the screen, using only voice. They promise an easy adaptation process applications. Given the presence of a very high quality of recognition even in Russian, this feature can touch us much earlier than the different payment systems.


  1. Earth in real time

This section is much more hints that we can see its name, rather than description. Google promises to make “the next step in satellite images”, and section name gives a hint that the search giant wants to roll out the ability to obtain images in real time.


  1. Virtual Reality

10 NEW PRODUCTS, WHICH WILL SHOW THE GOOGLE ON THE MAIN EVENT OF THE YEAR


Several sessions are dedicated to virtual reality, which once again confirms the previously encountered rumors about Android VR.Even Google itself has recently added fuel to the fire – in late 2014, Google has invested 542 million dollars in start-up Magic Leap, working on augmented reality glasses, and their technology has recently been demonstrated in a fantastic video . Breakthrough is not expected, but the Google can get something sensible. We are waiting.


  1. “Next”

Google announces “new technology to find and communicate with devices located nearby.” How it will be implemented this feature, we learn at the presentation itself, and while it can be assumed that it is for the future of these technologies and tourism advertising in physical stores.


  1. Material Design

Despite the enthusiastic reception of the new philosophy of the interface, the developers were quite sluggish when it went on the transition to Material Design. Google wants to push everyone to redesign and several sections devoted to it, where will talk about the need for simplicity and integration. Maybe this will help speed up the process a little “materialization” of third-party software.


  1. multiscreen games

Manufacturer systematically increasing its ecosystem of gadgets and offers more opportunities to the various devices. Now Google wants to improve the technology to display different information on several device, for example, the dashboard display on the smartphone screen and the view from the vehicle on the display of the TV (promise simple adaptation of existing projects).Technology works in Google Cast. It may be announced Chromecast 2.


  1. Nest

Google bought the company-developer of thermostats Nest more than a year ago, but so far from home automation companies from Mountain View is in the pre-conception state. The session is dedicated to make the house more “intelligent.” Perspective direction where there is more and more high-tech companies, Google, it seems, is not going to lose too.


  1. Google Cloud Messaging 3.0

The new platform, as usual, the “faster, higher, stronger.” It promises a simple job with a platform for messengers and notices. Will the real benefit to consumers, see, but the unstoppable flow of notifications need finer management, definitely. Especially with the advent of smart watches and fans to write messages in instant messengers, consisting of a single word.


In addition to these innovations, we almost certainly will be pleased with the new gadgets, it may even be cheaper Nexus line of devices . What do you expect from Google I / O 2015?